Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Roman general and political leader. With Caesar and Crassus he formed a ruling triumvirate (60–53) but was later defeated by Caesar and murdered in Egypt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pamper.
- Bulging or sagging in a dangerous degree: said of a floor in a burning building; also, applied to ice when it is in a similar dangerous condition from thawing, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun informal The city of
Portsmouth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base
- noun Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)
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Friday, April 17, 2009 at 3: 18 p.m. POMPEY (AP) -- An 18-year-old man has admitted breaking into a Pompey hunter's home and helping steal his collection of big-game animal pelts, including a rare polar bear skin rug.
NBC3 - Local News 2009
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Pompey is afterwards dismayed to attend to which a Roman in actuality is in a field, which troops avocation "Can from a path of Egypt's widow pluck/The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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-- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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-- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Pompey is afterwards dismayed to attend to which a Roman in actuality is in a field, which troops avocation "Can from a path of Egypt's widow pluck/The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Actually Caecilius was a real person who lived in Pompey and the remains of his house are in all the tourist brochures - hence his inclusion in the CLC.
Schoolboy Latin Not a sheep 2008
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"He's extremely happy that coach (Tony) Dungy and Bill Polian expressed that they wanted to have him back and we wanted to get it done," said Kevin Pompey, Brock's agent.
USATODAY.com - Brock signs five-year deal to stay with Colts 2006
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Clark cut his name on this rock, which is not so far from the railway station they call Pompey's
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Emerson Hough 1890
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I called Pompey's attention to the subject, and he — he agreed with me.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840
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At once I called Pompey's attention to the subject, and he -- he agreed with me.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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