Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects.
- noun In conchology, the typical genus of Selenitidæ.
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Examples
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The respective qualities of the delights of adulterous and of conjugial love, may be elucidated by a comparison with houses: the delights of adulterous love by comparison with a house whose walls glitter outwardly like sea shells, or like transparent stones, called selenites, of a gold color; whereas in the apartments within the walls, are all kinds of filth and nastiness: but the delights of conjugial love may be compared to a house, the walls of which are refulgent as with sterling gold, and the apartments within are resplendent as with cabinets full of various precious stones.
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It ware buskins of brass, and its thick neck was circled with a circle of selenites.
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It ware buskins of brass, and its thick neck was circled with a circle of selenites.
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From a flat Earth hanging in space, one could actually reach a nearby moon via a chariot drawn by swans, and stand a good chance of finding selenites there.
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Nevertheless certain it is that antiquity used it before glass was known, under the name of _selenites_.
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This analogy is certainly not due to chance; it rather confirms the opinion which I have put forward in connection with my researches on the selenites, on certain chloro-platinates and chloro-platinites, etc., that the elements of the rare earths form a series of quadrivalent metals.
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Nevertheless certain it is that antiquity used it before glass was known, under the name of selenites.
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J'ai des selenites qui changent quand la lune change et deviennent pales quand elles voient le soleil.
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It ware buskins of brass, and its thick neck was circled with a circle of selenites.
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The gypseous caverns glitter with crystallized selenites.
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