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  • noun A typographical error. The word tupo is self-referencing: it is an intentionally erroneous transcription of the abbreviation typo for the noun phrase typographical error.

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Examples

  • Plato (Crit. 107 c.) calls it "indistinct and deceptive." cf.Ar. Eth.Nic. i. 3, 4, "pachulos kai en tupo."

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • But though not exhaustive (for what could be that?), they give us on a smaller scale, hos en tupo, the grander and more recurring features of that life; are not fragmentary, fortuitously strung together; but have a completeness, a many-sidedness, being probably selected for this very cause; here, perhaps, being the reason why

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Meantime, in the absence of such an investigation, pursued upon a scale of suitable proportions, what if we should sketch a rapid outline [Greek Text: os en tupo pexilabeln] of its _elements_, (to speak by a metaphor borrowed from practical astronomy) -- _i.e. _ of the principal and most conspicuous points which its path would traverse?

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Until then, tupo tupo … I’m frustrated and sounding like a fool.

    siwezi kusema kiswahili, damnit... jen 2005

  • Until then, tupo tupo … I’m frustrated and sounding like a fool.

    Archive 2005-09-01 jen 2005

  • ; [Greek: ide palin Iêsous, ouchì huios anthrôpou alla huios tou theou, tupo de en sarki phanerôtheis]).

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

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