dependances

TV and Videogames, especially MMOs, do not form any biological dependances that result in physical withdrawal, unlike certain medications and narcotics, but they most certainly do form compulsive acts.

The air that we breathe 2008

Do you your self but observe, & you'l quickly see that a lying-in requireth so much trimming, that she hath really care enough upon her! the Child-bed linnen alone, is a thing that would make ones head full of dizziness, it consists of so many sorts of knick-knacks; I will not so much as name all the other jinkombobs that are dependances to it.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Its office, according to the ordinary mode of treating the subject, is to trace language to its origin, not for the purpose of determining and fixing grammatical associations and dependances, such as the agreement, government, and mutual relations of words, but in order to analyze combinations with a view to develop the first principles of the language, and arrive at the primitive meaning of words.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Conjunctions are those parts of language, which, by joining sentences in different ways, mark the connexions and various dependances of human thought.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Now, it is presumed, that no one who has paid critical attention to the subject, will contend, that the original import of single words, has any relation to the syntactical dependances and connexions of words in general; -- to gain a knowledge of which, is the leading object of the student in grammar.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Before what commonly passes for a philosophical manner of developing the language can successfully be made the medium through which it can be comprehended, in all its present combinations, relations, and dependances, it must undergo a thorough retrogressive change, in all those combinations, relations, and dependances, even to the last letter of the alphabet.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

He shall endevour to be familiarly acquainted with the customes, with the meanes, with the state, with the dependances and alliances of all Princes; they are things soone and pleasant to be learned, and most profitable to be knowne.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

From whence also arise feuds, and perpetual animosities, over most of the counties and corporations, while gentlemen of worth, spirit, and ancient estates and dependances, see themselves overpowered in their own neighbourhood by the drunkness and bribery, of their competitors.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

The relations between husband and wife, and parents and children, have assumed another character, by which the bonds of affection and mutual dependances are drawn more closely together; and

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

The Roman emperors, the popes, while they were of any importance, the German emperors till they became hereditary in practice, the kings of Poland, the Deys of the Ottoman dependances.

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