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Non fuit vasti spatium per orbis sanctior quisquam genitus Iohanne, qui nefas saecli meruit lavantem tingere limphis.
Archive 2008-06-01 bls 2008
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Christum sacri baptismatis merebatur tingere lymphis.
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Christum sacri baptismatis merebatur tingere lymphis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Me uero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, accipiant caelique uias et sidera monstrent, 20 defectus solis uarios lunaeque labores; unde tremor terris, qua ui maria alta tumescant obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant, quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles hiberni, uel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
'God made the country but man made the town' Vergil 1912
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The adage alluded to is, _The cat loves fish, but dares not wet her feet, Catus amat pisces, sed men vult tingere plantas_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Baptista Christum sacri baptismatis merebatur tingere lymphis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Middle English, from Latin tinctura act of dyeing, from tinctus, past participle of tingere to tinge
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Archilochum tegit haec pars littoris: ille Camoenas Vipereo coepit tingere felle truces,
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[from Latin tinctūra a dyeing, from tingere to dye]
Word of the Day 2009
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[from Latin tinctūra a dyeing, from tingere to dye]
Word of the Day 2009
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