Etymologies
- From the Latin vorāgō ("abyss"); compare vorage. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Non procul ab insulis Hebridibus, Islandia, &c. ex parte Boreali, est maris qu鎑am miranda vorago, in quam � remotis partibus omnes vndique fluctus marini tanquam ex condicto fluunt, & recurrunt, qui in secreta natur� penetralia se ibi transfundentes, quasi in Abyssum vorantur.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Qui, inquit, naturam tanti incendij contemplari cupiunt, & ob id ad montem propius accedunt, eos vna aliqua vorago viuos absorbet &c. Qu� res, vt dixi, nostr� genti est ignota prorsus.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Et tumidos tumid� vos superastis aqu� Qu鄊 bene totius raptores orbis auaros, Hausit inexhausti iusta vorago maris!”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Qui, inquit, naturam tanti incendij contemplari cupiunt, & ob id ad montem propius accedunt, eos vna aliqua vorago viuos absorbet &c. Quæ res, vt dixi, nostræ genti est ignota prorsus.”
“Flumina quin etiam latis currentia rivis occasus habuere suos: aut illa vorago derepta in praeceps fatali condidit ore aut occulta fluunt tectis adoperta cavernis atque inopinatos referunt procul edita cursus'; and Sen. _N. Q._ iii.”
“Flaunders and of the lowe countries thereabouts was drenched and lost; 'and Lambard goes on to quote Hector Boethius to the effect that' this place, being sometyme in the possession of the Earl Godwin, was then first violently overwhelmed with a light sande, wherewith it not only remayneth covered ever since, but is become withal (_Navium gurges et vorago_) a most dreadful gulfe and shippe-swallower. ”
“Boreali, est maris quædam miranda vorago, in quam à remotis partibus omnes vndique fluctus marini tanquam ex condicto fluunt, & recurrunt, qui in secreta naturæ penetralia se ibi transfundentes, quasi in Abyssum vorantur.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
“[125] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. iii., ix.: “is erit Apronius ille; qui, ut ipse non solum vita, sed etiam corpore atque ore significat, immensa aliqua vorago est ac gurges vitiorum turpitudinumque omnium.”
“[125] In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib. iii., ix.: "is erit Apronius ille; qui, ut ipse non solum vita, sed etiam corpore atque ore significat, immensa aliqua vorago est ac gurges vitiorum turpitudinumque omnium.”
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phrontistery-v
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vulviform, vulvar, vulturine, vulpine, vulpicide, vulpecular, vulnerose, vulsella, vulnerary, vulnerate, vulgus, vulgo and 396 more...
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kickassery
words that kick ass, in the non-literal sense
keraunophilia, vituperative, archnemesis, megafauna, Brontotherium, haruspex, vainglory, immanent, tarasque, aurochs, fraktur, photophore and 75 more...
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New and Thrilling
punaluan, ontic, arcadia, punctilio, nescience, misprision, episteme, hieratic, rebarbative, vaticinate, isopsephy, imbrication and 59 more...
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whichbe Gulf; chasm; abyss. (from Phrontistery) May 24, 2008