Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
pellure .
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Examples
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When none of these precedent remedies will avail, it will not be amiss, which Savanarola and Aelian Montaltus so much commend, clavum clavo pellere, [3458] to drive out one passion with another, or by some contrary passion, as they do bleeding at nose by letting blood in the arm, to expel one fear with another, one grief with another.
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Both words are rooted in the Latin pellere, “to drive.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Both words are rooted in the Latin pellere, “to drive.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Both words are rooted in the Latin pellere, “to drive.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Both words are rooted in the Latin pellere, “to drive.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts -- nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Ovid, _Fasti_, vi. 129 and 165, "Sic fatus spinam, quae tristes pellere posset A foribus nexas, haec erat alba, dedit."
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Eqmtm fubjugalem & tritnrantem fiatim/ο-• ras pellere.
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Curtus eatenus ut fit Equus; (s) nc, pellere Mufcas Dum vult, collutulet SciTorcm.
Symbolographia, sive, De arte symbolica : sermones septem Schalckh, J. C., 18th cent 1701
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Hebraor. lib*2. cap,22, undeex communiRab. binorum fententia, pellere licet Sabbathum adliberan - das animas, ade6 ut quipromptusfitviolareSabbathnm profaluteanimarum, laudemmereatur.
Nicolai Myleri ab Ehrenbach Metrologia. Hoc est, de jure statuendi de mensuris, ponderibus & moletrinis. Ubi in specie quoque. De lapide terminali & torculis, tam privatis quam publicis ac bannalibus, singularia quaedam & non vulgaria exhibentur & variae quaestiones explicantur. Tractatus practicus. In quo quicquid vulgari aut exotica lingua traditum, in linguam latinam transversum est Myler von Ehrenbach, Johann Nikolaus, 1610-1677 1683
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