Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, as near as practicable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A rule for construing written instruments so as to conform as nearly to the intention of the parties as is consistent with law.
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- noun
cypress
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible
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Examples
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We went up this creek for a short distance and then struck into the woods and encamped among a cluster of the firs which the Canadians term cypres
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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Others defend these types of arrangements, called cypres awards.
Proposed Facebook Settlement Comes Under Fire Nathan Koppel 2010
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Others defend these types of arrangements, called cypres awards.
Proposed Facebook Settlement Comes Under Fire Nathan Koppel 2010
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Essai de monographie de Cupressus dupreziana, cypres endemique du Tassili des Ajjer (Sahara central).
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Not sure about their final conclusion :-P And the cypres do look like the one on the "Cypres card" from Airtec.
Returning from Oslo magnio 2006
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For thei trowed, that the body of Crist scholde have stonken; therfore thei made that pece, that went from the erthe upward, of cypres: for it is welle smellynge; so that the smelle of his body scholde not greve men, that wenten forby.
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For thei trowed, that the body of Crist scholde have stonken; therfore thei made that pece, that went from the erthe upward, of cypres: for it is welle smellynge; so that the smelle of his body scholde not greve men, that wenten forby.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ils vont deux a deux entre les cypres et les myrtes noirs et chacun a son esclave pour le soigner.
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877
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Salome, vous connaissez mes paons blancs, mes beaux paons blancs, qui se promenent dans le jardin entre les myrtes et les grands cypres.
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877
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The erbes that be bitter & well smelli {n} ge is good to be layde amo {n} ge suche clothes/as the baye leuis, cypres wode.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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