Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient unit of length, 8 stadia; a mile.
- noun A unit of surface in the metric system, the one thousandth part of an are, equivalent to 154.07 square inches.
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Examples
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After sleeping in most of the morning theMan and I headed downtown to watch Slumdog milliare as we did not make it on Saturday.
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2009
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Porro me veniente e Padan, mortua est mihi Rachel in terra Chenaan in via, quum adhuc esset milliare terrae ad veniendum in Ephrath: et sepelivi eam in via Ephrath, ipsa est Bethlehem.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Profecti vero sunt de Beth-el: erat autem adhuc ferme milliare terrae ad veniendum in Ephrath, et peperit Rachel, et difficultatem passa est, dum pareret.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Antiquarians allow it to be the oldest _milliare_ now extant in Britain; and perhaps the inscription upon it is older than most others that have been found upon altars, or other monuments of Roman antiquity in this island.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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XXIX. fesqui milliare ulterius ad quendam pagum juxta matronam fluvium difceffum eft.
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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Equitumque prsefidiis unura milliare usque ad vi - cinum pagum S.
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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Such is the inscription on this _milliare_, which our industrious antiquaries seem faithfully to have extracted from among the ruins of time and the injuries of accident; an object, which exhibits a curious instance of the civilization introduced by the Roman arms into this island; for the erection of marks to denote the distance from place to place, is an accommodation, at least to the travelling stranger, which unpolished nations never devised; and which the inhabitants of Britain never generally enjoyed from the final departure of the Roman legions, till the last century, when mile-stones were again erected along our principal turnpike roads.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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_forte etiam, vel milliare millesimum_, they are his owne words, and, perhaps, a thousand, and all this in a minutes space, or little more, quicker than the Sunne can move.
The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643
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a street of considerable extent, in the broader part of which stands what may justly be deemed one of the most valuable curiosities of the place; it is a _milliare_, or Roman mile-stone, forming part of a small obelisk.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers Susannah Watts 1805
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