Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Be silent.
- noun An obsolete variant of
tasse for tasset.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See
Illust. (6), undercross , n. - noun See
tasse .
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- noun Alternative form of
tasse .
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Examples
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Obedient to his master’s mandate, the falconer was collecting his discouraged followers, and whispering into their ears — “Away, away — tace is Latin for a candle — never mind the good
The Abbot 2008
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But mum for that — tace, as I said before, is Latin for a candle.
The Abbot 2008
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Perhaps conincidentally, the ground tace passes through Tsugaru Strait, minimizing the possibility of falling onto any land mass, and avoid the Japanese main island Honshu, had the rocket failed in the middle of its trajectory.
Calculating Taepodong-2's range, charting its planned path Sun Bin 2006
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Perhaps conincidentally, the ground tace passes through Tsugaru Strait, minimizing the possibility of falling onto any land mass, and avoid the Japanese main island Honshu, had the rocket failed in the middle of its trajectory.
Archive 2006-08-01 Sun Bin 2006
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He might have confirmed the relation between dumbness and darkness from the acutest metaphysician among poets, in Dante's _ove il sol tace_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Istactenus tibi, Lyde, libertas datast (168) orationis. satis est. sequere hac me ac tace.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Ergo dies aderat Parcarum conditus albo uellere, quo Stellae Violentillaeque professus25 clamaretur hymen. cedant curaeque metusque, cessent mendaces obliqui carminis astus, fama tace: subiit leges et frena momordit ille solutus amor: consumpta est fabula uulgi, et narrata diu uiderunt oscula ciues.
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"You name plime and tace -- I mean time and place, and we'll be there, you bet!" declared Harry.
Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905
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[551] A pleasant study, in poetic use of imagery and phrase, is the gradation from the bare and grand Lucretian simplicity of _silentia noctis_, through the "favour and prettiness" (slightly tautological though) of the Virgilian _tacitae per amica silentia lunae_, to the recovery and intensifying of magnificence in _dove il sol tace_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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I am in the law, you know, and tace is the Latin for a candle, 'answered the gentleman.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
chained_bear commented on the word tace
"Davidge, who was quicker than his shipmate, murmured 'Tace is the Latin for a candlestick, old fellow.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 45
March 10, 2008