Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the numerous variants (simulating Latin arcus, a bow) of harquebuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
arquebus .
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- noun Obsolete form of
arquebus .
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Examples
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Habeant et galeas et arma catera, ad protegendum corpus et equum ab armis et saggitis eorum, et si qui non ita sunt armati, debent more illorum post alios ire, et contra ipsos arcubus vel balistis traijcere.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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In illo autem tabulato iuxta tentorium erant duæ maiores portæ, per quarum vnam solus Imperator debebat intrare, et ad illam nulla erat custodia, quamuis esset aperta, quia per illam nullus audebat ingredi vel exire: per aliam omnes, qui admittebantur, intrabant, et ad illam custodes cum gladijs et arcubus et sagittis erant.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Habeant et galeas et arma catera, ad protegendum corpus et equum ab armis et saggitis eorum, et si qui non ita sunt armati, debent more illorum post alios ire, et contra ipsos arcubus vel balistis traijcere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In illo autem tabulato iuxta tentorium erant du� maiores port�, per quarum vnam solus Imperator debebat intrare, et ad illam nulla erat custodia, quamuis esset aperta, quia per illam nullus audebat ingredi vel exire: per aliam omnes, qui admittebantur, intrabant, et ad illam custodes cum gladijs et arcubus et sagittis erant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Archbishop of Canterbury, and the judge of such court was called the Dean of the Arches because in ancient times he held court in the church of St. Mary le bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), one of the churches of London.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Previous combinations of measurements of degrees varied between 1/302d and 1/297th; thus Walbeck ( 'De Forma of Magnitudine telluris in demensis arcubus Meridiani definiendis', 1819) gives 1/30278th:
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Carpinus tondentur, retrahuntur, & arcubus affi - guntur, tefta formant & feneftrarum aperturas pa - tiuntur; quo loco mihi praetereundum non eftLy - cium barbarum, frutex Indicus, quicocH noftri tem - periem fiiftinet, & quum in fupremo vertice laxi#r fit, aeftivarum 'aedium tefta optime perj: exere poteft.
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
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Fortuna heroum? nerape arcubus atque triumphis Splendida, & expofitis pretiofa palatia fadis Pauper adulator fubit, imperiofa firequentat Uxor, fit ftrepitus, nodurnique otia fomni Turbantur mifere varii molimine luxus. 42 '
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The service annexed to the first grant included the maintenance of six archers sufficiently provided with bows and arrows, upon occasion of the King's curbing the inhabitants of the Isles, who had long set the royal authority at defiance: "Neenon sustentando sex homines defensivos architenentes, cum arcubus et sagittis bene suffultos, ad serviendum Regi, et successoribus suis, in guerris si quas Reges in Insulis contra inhabitantes carundem habere contigerit, cum dictus Adam vel hæredes sui ad hoc requisitus fuerit."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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£. bcRiifphaerico fubgtobofiis, ambnhcrii denii » areft Ia ttE: arcubus in bafi obliqnis, propiui a vcrttcc ma - gti creilii,
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