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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of semnopithecine or sacred monkeys: synonymous with Semnopithecus.
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African chimpanzee (to whom satirical gentlemen with a turn for zoological comparisons, are greatly indebted); the ourang-outan, with his young, from Borneo; the presbytes, dusky and starred, from
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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o de presbytes akousas edeise te kai apeei sige, apocho - resas d ek tou stratopedou polla to Apolloni eucheto, tas te eponymias tou theou anakalon kai ypomimneskon kai apaiton, ei ti popote e en naon oikodomesesin, e en ieron thysiais kecharismenon doresaito. on de charin kateucheto tisai tous Achaious ta a dakrua tois ekeinon belesin.
The Scholemaster 1570
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o de presbytes akousas edeise te kai apeei sige, apocho - resas d ek tou stratopedou polla to Apolloni eucheto, tas te eponymias tou theou anakalon kai ypomimneskon kai apaiton, ei ti popote e en naon oikodomesesin, e en ieron thysiais kecharismenon doresaito. on de charin kateucheto tisai tous Achaious ta a dakrua tois ekeinon belesin.
The Schoolmaster Roger Ascham 1541
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