Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small drop; specifically, in entomology, a small gutta or spot of color.
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Examples
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Quòd si quis ex hac glacie magnam partem ceperit, eámque vasi ant scrinio inclusam, quàm diligentissimè asseruarit, illa tempore glaciei, quæ circum insulam est, degelantis, euanescit, vt neque minima eius particula vel guttula aquæ reperiatur.
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Qu騞 si quis ex hac glacie magnam partem ceperit, e醡que vasi ant scrinio inclusam, qu鄊 diligentissim� asseruarit, illa tempore glaciei, qu� circum insulam est, degelantis, euanescit, vt neque minima eius particula vel guttula aqu� reperiatur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The fresh-water form of _A. guttula_ has a vacuole, otherwise
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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In one of the Decretals of Clement VI., called "Extravagants," it is asserted that "one drop of Christ's blood [una guttula sanguinis] being sufficient to redeem the whole human race, the remaining quantity which was shed in the garden and on the cross was left as a legacy to the Church, to be a treasure whence indulgences were to be drawn and administered by the Roman pontiffs."
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Quòd si quis ex hac glacie magnam partem ceperit, eámque vasi ant scrinio inclusam, quàm diligentissimè asseruarit, illa tempore glaciei, quæ circum insulam est, degelantis, euanescit, vt neque minima eius particula vel guttula aquæ reperiatur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In magnis quidem princeps exemplum inteftinorum eft, inqui - bus de fluida maffa ciborum, etiam in febriente homine, qui nihil non fluidum per os admiflt, ad finem laxiorum inteftinorum, ne guttula per arium amiffa, nihil fupereft, pra»ter duriflima, lapidum pene fimilia fcybala.
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Cruor ille delicatus et regius, qui de innocentis Agni corpore lacerato fissoque scaturiit, cuius cruoris una guttula propter dignitatem Hostiae mille mundos redimere potuisset, nihil humano genet profecit, nisi "mediator Dei et hominum (1 Tim ii. 5), homo Christus Iesus mortem quoque secundam (Apoc.ii. 11)," mortem animae, mortem gratiae, peccati solius et exsecrabilis blasphemiae sociam, pertulisset?
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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