Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Remains, as of fossil organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relics; remains, as those of fossil organisms.
- In botany, same as
induviæ . - In archaeology, artifacts. See
artifact .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
- noun plural (Bot.) Same as
Induviæ .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Si vero, Crateva, inter caeteras herbarum radices, avaritiae radicem secare posses amaram, ut nullae reliquiae essent, probe scito, &c.
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Boris Zbarsky was one of the embalmers originally entrusted with the task of preserving the reliquiae of V.
Wonders Never Cease 2004
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Boris Zbarsky was one of the embalmers originally entrusted with the task of preserving the reliquiae of V.
Wonders Never Cease 2004
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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For Orpheus, see ‘Carminum orphicorum reliquiae’ in Christian August Lobeck, Aglaophamus, 2 vols.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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Wilfridi reliquiae sub arcu prope magnum altare sepultae_ are too vague to decide its exact position.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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