Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a general term applied by Pfeffer to all the various theoretical aggregates of chemical molecules out of which vegetable structure is built up, thus embracing under one head the pleon, micella, and micellar aggregate. See micella, pleon, syntagma.
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- noun anatomy A specialized grouping of
arthropodan segments, such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen with a common function.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek τάγμα (tagma, "something which has been ordered or arranged")
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Examples
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Each tagma was stationed in a particular area near Constantinople itself; they were highly trained, highly paid, and in return they were expected to accompany the emperor or his general on any foreign campaign.
superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010
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[409] The word (...) (tagma) means a body, or troop or corps of soldiers.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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Greek tagma, was originally used of any estate in the church, e.g. St. Jerome, On Isaiah v. 19, 18.
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Council in Illyricum uses hieratikon tagma in precisely the same way.
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