Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
teratology .
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Examples
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ERATOCARCINOMA is a cancer that derives its name from the Greek word terat, meaning "monster."
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Ipfe labore manum duro terat; ipfe feracis Ilgat humo plantas, et amicos inriget imbris.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Magna comitis temeritas niagnum quoque invenlt periculum V nec. eRijn ignorare po - terat inviflim fe Regiy a quo nuper defciyifiet» proinde mortem effugere non pofle.
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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Poftquara antem Romam ille revcr - terat, fi quidem petiturus triumphum eflet » extra urbem, cum liftoribus, & fafcibus, iif.
Antiqvitatvm romanarvm epitome: ad vsvm seminari neapolit Salvatore Aula 1773
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- praeftitutum tempus e Sara Ifaaco more prorfus infolito femel iterumqtie promiftum, quod quidera eius pofteris ludaeis, qui de Abrahamo parente non optimo iure in hoc etiam iurgio plus femel gloriati, erant, - non raagno in pretio effe po - terat, prdine pergo ad loh.
Ioh. Aspontani ad Rud. Plimmelium de deitate Iesu Christi [microform] : epistolae quatuor Aspontanus, Joh 1789
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I. li p. 84«) i but fach Wat the ignorance wf the Weft, that hat amhaiTador?, in public difcoorfe, might boldly narrate, da viftoriit, qoaa adrerfut ex« terat bellando gentea Cttlitua fberat aflecucut.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ... 1788
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Aierni} Nuoc Pefcaslm flu» terat illa eriam perdoci ad dte - men, locu* fum oftium verfus Btruriam?
Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782
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