Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In zoology and anatomy, same as juncture, 2.

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  • noun anatomy joint, juncture

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Examples

  • And here I hasten to confess that ample use has been made of the three versions above noted, the whole being blended by a callida junctura into a homogeneous mass.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And in his later writings generally we further remark a decline of style, and of dramatic power; the characters excite little or no interest, and the digressions are apt to overlay the main thesis; there is not the ‘callida junctura’ of an artistic whole.

    The Statesman 2006

  • Hence there are several new beginnings and resumptions and formal or artificial connections; we miss the ‘callida junctura’ of the earlier dialogues.

    Timaeus 2006

  • Scott, Lane and Payne, “the whole being blended by a callida junctura into a homogeneous mass.”

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • Homeric ballads, as they are sometimes called, which related the wrath of Achilles, with all its direful consequences, were so far superior to the rest of the poetic cycle, as to admit no rivalry, — it is still surprising, that throughout the whole poem the callida junctura should never betray the workmanship of an

    The Odyssey of Homer 2003

  • Felicissimus tamen sermo est, cui et rectus ordo, et apta junctura, et cum his numerus opportunè cadens contingit.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • All who would not make this confession are recommended to avoid (unless in some really new or perverted application—notum si callida verbum reddiderit junctura novum) such things as:

    Quotation, &c. 1908

  • He admits having made ample use of the three principal versions that preceded his, namely, those of Jonathan Scott, Lane and Payne, "the whole being blended by a callida junctura into a homogeneous mass."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • Scott, Lane and Payne, "the whole being blended by a callida junctura into a homogeneous mass."

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • The Franciscan biographer's purpose was not historic; chronological indications are given in profusion; what he seeks is the _apta junctura_.

    Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

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