vilis

Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain.

Walking 1969

Hence, too, apparently, the Latin word vilis and our vile; also villain.

Walking 1914

Hence, too, apparently, the Latin word vilis and our vile; also villain.

Walking [1862] 1909

Hence, too, the Latin word vilis and our vile, also villain.

Walking 1862

Millies potius moriturum (si quis sibi mente constaret) quam tam vilis et aerumnosi victus communionem habere.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

By the way, still writing as one of a certain age, I am sure we were taught at school that the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned was a base canard (or anas vilis) promulgated by Suetonius to butter up Hadrian by dissing his predecessors, as Nero was at Antium (literally alibi) at the time.

Fiddling while Rome burned 2006

Quanta ergo cum reverentia, quanto timore, quanta illuc humilitate accedere debet, ` a palude sua procedens et repens ranuncula vilis?

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

It means also, in A. - S., _equus vilis_, a horse that is worn out or

Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

All received without charge daily food: barley or oaten bread and water, or sometimes milk cibus sit vilis et vespertinus -- a plain meal, once a day, in the afternoon.

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

He frowns, for he does not understand, and yet he feels a strange power in this mean and despised man, _vilis et despectus_; he makes a real but futile effort to comprehend, and now I see in this pope, who lived upon lemons, [11] something that recalls another choice mind, theocratic like his own, sacrificed like him to his work: Calvin.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893