Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A supposed new metal announced by Bergman, in 1781, as obtained from cold-short iron. It turned out to be merely iron phosphide.

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Examples

  • Conditor alme siderum is an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.

    The Advent Office, Part I bls 2008

  • The Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood provides an mp3 of the beautiful Conditor alme siderum; following is the Latin and one translation from CPDL, which notes that:

    Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008

  • The Lutheran Liturgical Prayer Brotherhood provides an mp3 of the beautiful Conditor alme siderum; following is the Latin and one translation from CPDL, which notes that:

    The Advent Office, Part I bls 2008

  • Conditor alme siderum is an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.

    Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008

  • Ptolomaeus centiloquio, et quadripartito tribuit omnium melancholicorum symptoma siderum influentis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Miror et stupeo cum coelum aspicio et pulchritudinem siderum, angelorum, &c. et quis digne laudet quod an nobis viget, corpus tam pulchrum, frontem pulchram, nares, genas, oculos, in ellectum, omnia pulchra; si sic in creaturis laboramus; quid in ipso deo?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • How comes, or wherefore is this temeraria siderum dispositio, this rash placing of stars, or as Epicurus will, fortuita, or accidental?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • These secondary causes hence derived, are commonly so powerful, that (as [1324] Wolfius holds) saepe mutant decreta siderum, they do often alter the primary causes, and decrees of the heavens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Insinuant se melancholicorum penetralibus, intus ibique considunt et deliciantur tanquam in regione clarissimorum siderum, coguntque animum furere.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Arte Medica. accedunt ad has causas affectiones siderum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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