Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
eager .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
eager , andeagre .
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Examples
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Judge Daly said that 'the lecturer came before his countrymen with a well-earned European reputation, that his investigations had attracted much attention abroad, and in the matter of physical geography his researches were referred to in Humboldt's _Cosmos_, and his discovery and description of the egre or bore of the Tsien-tang River in China, occupies a large space in Maury's' _Physical
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I egre with mostt of yours opinios, bi it goot or bat
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I egre with mostt of yours opinios, bi it goot or bat
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Principem accedo, - & faluto in sedibus villae primariis, formae graecae vel romanae fane egre - gix, fimilisque guftus fupelle&ili inftru&is.
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If gentlemen thought so, they were egre - giously mistaken.
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What egre - ing out more than one, and the latter, gious inconfiftency.
The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... 1787
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Primae huius fpicilegii partis capita nonnulla egre - rorfta. gie iUuftrantur libeilo fequente, a Michaele ipfo prelo commiffo: 10. rbinoldi fors ter i Epiltolaead la Dav.
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit Burcard Gotthelff Struve 1782
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ProcdT. laus, qui in oppido Theflaliae Phylace regnaujt, etprimus Craecorum naui in Troianum. litrus egre/Tus interemtusi eft
Sex. Avrel. Propertivs varietate lectionis et perpetva adnotatione illvstratvs Propertius, Sextus 1777
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HgoBcclccvHi Latiationes% commendetur. r Nter \ T erbenacamret1: amargttur, janguinejufprimit, egre, fropter duritiam, tunditur.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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1.30.6: With egre thirst to drink thy giltlesse blood,
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