Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A navigator
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[25] Even in agriculture, etc. -- _Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent_.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844
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I am a little surprised at his brother, who is a seaman, having a propensity to divinity, and wonder you object to it; the church navigant would be an extension of its power.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Deinde multùm inter rapidam insaniam Nili et reciprocos fluctus volutati, tandem tenuissimos canales tenent, per quos angusta rupium effugiunt: et cum toto flumine effusi navigium ruens manu temperant, magnoque spectantium metu in caput nixi, cum jam adploraveris, mersosque atque obrutos tantâ mole credideris, longè ab eo in quem ceciderant loco navigant, tormenti modo missi.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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La confrontation qui se poursuit entre une petite bande de pirates somaliens dans un canot de sauvetage et un destroyer américain, lequel est rejoint par d'autres navires de guerre et des avions, fait suite à la tentative avortée de s'emparer du Maersk Alabama, un cargo de 17 000 tonnes navigant sous pavillon américain.
unknown title 2009
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TWpi fa - f «Qaidam fecundis navigant ventis pii »
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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