Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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backare .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection obsolete Stand back! give place! — a
cant word of theElizabethan writers, probably inridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge ofLatin which he did not possess.
Etymologies
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back and Latin -āre.
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Examples
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At tibi prima, puer, nullo munuscula cultu errantis hederas passim cum baccare tellus mixtaque ridenti colocasia fundet acantho.
'Unto you a child is born' Vergil 1912
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Aut, fi ultra placitum laudarit, baccare frontem Cingite, ne vati noceat mala lingua futuro.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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