Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vicious; corrupt.
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Examples
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Ou gar an houtô tachy epidêlon epoiei methistemenois houtô brachy.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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Old Latin are for thrusting in [Greek: tachy] (D [Greek: tacheôs]) after
The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels John William Burgon 1850
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So I did the Rattle: "IL-2 patient, hypotensive, B.P. hovering between 70 over 40 to 60 over 30, occasionally tachy, bolused once this morning for a pressure of 80 over 50, getting another bolus right now, already fluid overloaded, crackles at the bases."
NYT > Home Page R.N. By THERESA BROWN 2010
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Some at my institution like to add "tacky (tachy) as a polyester suit!"
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Some at my institution like to add "tacky (tachy) as a polyester suit!"
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Unless they shift direction in tachy, they're coming this way. "
Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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18 [Greek: _amelounton de ton kektaemenon autaen (sc. taen gaen) apographesthai, kataegorous ekaerytton endeiknynai; kai tachy plaethos haen dikon chalepon_].
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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