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- adjective Characteristic of a
cellar ;musty ,gloomy , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Grease is a concrete oil formed in the interstices of the cellary tissue.
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In his monotonous sing-song Viridus named these people: Under lock and key in the King's cellary house, five from Stamford that had heard
Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906
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Then we were led through a mysterious network of narrow passages and vaulted rooms, all lit with electric lamps, and striking cold and cellary.
Everyman's Land 1889
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Grease is a concrete oil formed in the interstices of the cellary tissue.
The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790
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A power this, which is not only founded in reafon, and ne - ceflarily connedted with every other diftinguifhing excellence of human nature; but is eflentially oe - cellary to qualify mankind for the right difcharge of every duty in focial life.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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Life is a principle, a capacity ne - cellary for enjoyments of any kind.
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Liberty is their Cry, a Glorious Topick indeed when it is not abus'd; but it has ever been made the Stalking-Horfe to all De - figns, and drefs'd up in as various fhapes as the Witt and Cunning of Defigning Perfons found nc - cellary and convenient to their Ends and Purpo - fes; 'tis an Argument very fpecious and plaufible,
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He was hanging back among the wine bottles in Irene’s wine cellar or do you call the tunnel where they let the wine sit a cellary?
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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He was hanging back among the wine bottles in Irene’s wine cellar or do you call the tunnel where they let the wine sit a cellary?
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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She looked not only authoritative; people often do that with us; she looked authorized; she had been empowered by the vested rights and interests to look so her whole life; one could not be mistaken in her, any more than in the black trees and their electric-green buds in the high-fenced square, or in the vast, high, heavy, handsome houses where, in the cellary or sepulchral cold, she would presently resume the rheumatic pangs of which the comparative warmth of the outer air had momentarily relieved her stately bulk.
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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