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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.
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Examples
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Igitur amotus Cercinam, Africi maris infulam, quatuordecim annis exfilium to - leravit.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Exige, ac suspende te: ne supplicare hunc censeas tibi, nihili homo, ille est amotus. sine me -- per te, ere, opsecro deos immortales -- ire huc intro ad filium.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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