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- noun rare Alternative spelling of
plinth .
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Examples
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The corners of which triangle did iumpe with the sides, and lymbus of the subiacent plynth or round stone.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Let vs returne then to the huge Pyramides, standing vpon a strong and sound plynth or foure square foote, fourteene paces in heigth, and in length sixe furlongs, which was the foundation and bottom of the weightie pyramides, which I perswaded my selfe was not brought from any other place, but euen with plaine labour and workemanship hewen out of the selfe same mountaines, and reduced to this figure and proportion in his owne proper place.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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