Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation of vertebræ; division into segments resembling those of the vertebral column.
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Examples
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At first we see the vertebration in the hinder region of the skull very clearly.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Beyond, (assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all penetrating Religiousness.
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Thus most of the "animal organs" take part in this vertebration.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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This segmentation of the muscles was the momentous historical process with which vertebration, and the development of the vertebrate stem, began.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Beyond, (assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all penetrating Religiousness.
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(assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all-penetrating Religiousness.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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