Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
lituus .
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- noun Plural form of
lituus .
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Examples
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He could show the litui with their carved clarions -- the twisted cornua -- the tuba, a trumpet so long and taper, -- the concha wound by
A Love Story A Bushman
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Delmatico peperit triumpho. iam nunc minaci murmure cornuum perstringis auris, iam litui strepunt,
Pollio Horace 1912
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The word is used, though it is hardly fitting; what the people heard when they came forth was rather an uproar of trumpets and the shriller litui so delightful to the soldiers.
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Si is, qui in integrum res - litui potest, abstinuerit hsereditate, an, quamyis potest in integrum res - titui, potest admitti constitutio, et bonorum addictio fieri?
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Itaque ad hzceiie (pondeiiKe - lim, G ex «quo diiceptatur, & non beUicauia qux* litui.
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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