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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ensign .
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Hencetaking tides we haply return, trumpeted by prawns and ensigned with sea-kale, to befinding ourself when old is said in one and maker mates with made (O my!), having conned the cones and meditated the mured and pondered the pensils and ogled the olymp and delighted in her dianaphous and cacchinated behind his culosses, before a
Finnegans Wake 2006
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-- Sapphire a cross gules ensigned with fleur de lis between six martlets topaz.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various
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The arms of the archiepiscopal See of Armagh are identical with those of Canterbury except that the staff is of argent ensigned with a cross pattée or.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The arms of the See of Canterbury (Plate I, Figure D) are "azure, an episcopal staff in pale or, ensigned with a cross pattée argent, surmounted of a pall of the last, edged and fringed of the second charged with four crosses pattée fitchée sable."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Topaz, and ensigned with a cross patee Pearl, surmounted of a pall of the last, charged with four crosses, formee, fitchee, Diamond, edged and fringed as the second.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Greek crosier in saltire, the shield is ensigned by a mitre, and in pale is a cross with a double traverse.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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His boot is always spurred, and his hand ensigned with the riding-whip.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Then the angel of our Lord appeared there, and flew round about the temple, and ensigned and graved with his finger the sign of the cross in four corners of the temple, saying: Our Lord saith this: Like as I have you cured and made you clean of all your sickness, so let this temple be made clean of all filth and ordure. but I shall show him of all filth and ordure.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Two are ensigned with mitres and fourteen with mantled helms, and of these fourteen, thirteen support a crest.
Vanishing England 1892
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Margaret used the Beaufort arms as above ensigned, with a coronet of roses and fleur-de-lis, out of which issues an eagle, displayed or; and this device of coat and crest is used by the College.
St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891
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