Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See fecula.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See fecula.

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Examples

  • -- This flower yields a juice, when expressed with alcohol, from which subsides, on standing, a bright yellow finely divided faecula, leaving a greenish-yellow transparent liquid, only slightly colored supernatant.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • The faecula spreads well on paper, and is very sensitive to light, but appears at the same time to undergo a sort of chromatic analysis, and to comport itself as if composed of two very distinct coloring principles, very differently affected.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • Common Merrigold yields an invaluable faecula, which appears identical with that produced by the Wall-flower, and Cochorus japonica mentioned before, and is very sensitive, but photographs procured upon it cannot be preserved, the color is so fugitive.

    History and Practice of the Art of Photography Henry Hunt Snelling 1856

  • Ita vero excrcvit elaboratio Mar« oeiäcum faeculorum progreiru, ut qunm tomu$ ftpmdms faecula novem contineat, tertinr non« nifi duo, et qaartus unum tantum, id elt faecu - hm XVI usque ad a. 1 600 enarret Appendicis loco principes regnis Ludovici XIII et XIV wopak&j dein liberi legitimi et naturales et tan« dcD dficialium praecipui enumerantun CL Afta EracL ■ • i68S* P* 206 - 212. ixvGLKT T* XII.p. 96 fq.

    Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1794

  • In prima parte fcriptores Rabbini, e Hi« fpania oriundi, pofterique eontm, pofteieftio*» nem ex Hifpania y fecundum faecula poil Chri-* ftum natum, ab undecimo nempe usque ad de« camum feptimum, enumerantury libri eoriim defcribuntttr, fontesque, e quibus audor hau«

    Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1793

  • Fortunate animi, longumque in faecula digne Promeriture diem! non tu pia degener anna Occulis, aut certae trqpidas occurrere morti.

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

  • Sykkina: flj. ttr fi** rib1i: S per noririulla faecula poft "oyGoogle ilomanonim imperium femper iniridum, & incorruptum flo - ruiflfe. ..

    Michaelis Antonii Vassalli Mylsen Phoenico-Punicum, sive, Grammatica Melitensis Michele Antonio Vassalli 1791

  • • Regnabit Dominus in facula &c 4] Ante faecula re* gnavit Chriftus finecarne; regnavitefiam in carn* in faecula.

    Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine 1784

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