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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a division of the Triassic rocks in the Mediterranean province, as recognized by Austrian geologists. It lies above the Scythian series, which is the lowest member of this formation, and below the Tirolian.
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Certainly Dr. Gebhardt, whose only recorded medical achievement is the highly un - Hippocratic feat of deliberately infecting Polish girls with gas gangrene at Ravensbrück, was no man for the valetu - dinarian.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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* 'However tlisagreeable, "f says he, *' itmay be to a man, who is, perhaps, more than any other, anhabitu - dinarian, it is not pleasant to me to give up Marino; it is still less pleasant to me to give up my library; but it is least of all pleasant to absent myself from that sphere of public life, where my endeavours may possibly be of some
Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont Hardy, Francis, 1751-1812 1812
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