Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A doer; one who does anything, good or bad.
- noun In mathematics, a variable of a quantic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
- noun One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
- noun The multiplier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who
does something; adoer ; anagent . - noun One of the
variables of aquantic as distinguished from acoefficient . - noun A
multiplier .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Theologiam accedunt, non ut rem divinam, sed ut suam facient; non ad Ecclesiae bonum promovendum, sed expilandum; quaerentes, quod
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De Comania autem insultum facient in terras superius annotatas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Si male pugnant occidentur ab eis: Si autem bene, ipsos cum promissis adulationibus tenent: et etiam vt ab ipsis non fugiant promittunt eis quod facient eos dominos magnos et post hoc quando securi esse possunt de ipsis, vt non redeant, faciunt eos infoelicissimos seruos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Erit sane, quum viderit ipse quod non sit puer, morietur, et descendere facient servi tui canitiem servi tui patris nostri cum colore ad sepulcrum.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Similiter hæredes regis Scotiæ & baronum & hominum suorum homagium & ligiantiam facient hæredibus domini regis contra omnem hominem.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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'Nil erit ulterius, quod nostris moribus addat posteritas; eadem facient cupientque minores, omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Londoniensis Concilii foeminas suas tenuerunt vel alins duxcrunt, si amplius missam celebrare voluerint, eas a se omnino sic facient alienas, ut nec illae in domos eorum, nec ipsi in domos earum intrent ....
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Omnes parentes, Libane, liberis suis qui mi auscultabunt, facient obsequellam [3] quippe qui mage amico utantur gnato et benevolo. atque ego me id facere studeo, volo amari a meis;
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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But this famous apostrophe closes on a truer note with six lines of unsurpassed satire (454) -- mortalia nulli sunt curata deo. cladis tamen huius habemus vindictam, quantam terris dare numina fas est: bella pares superis facient civilia divos; fulminibus manes radiisque ornabit et astris, inque deum templis iurabit Roma per umbras.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Quid deserta petis? tutior auiis non est forma locis: te nemore abdito cum Titan medium constituit diem, cingent turba licens Naides improbae, 20 formonsos solitae claudere fontibus, et somnis facient insidias tuis
Fatal Beauty 1912
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