Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the liver.
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Examples
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Exuritur sanguis et venae obstruuntur, quibus obstructis prohibetur transitus Chili ad jecur, corrumpitur et in rugitus et flatus vertitur.
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Cor totum combustum, jecur suffumigatum, pulmo arefactus, ut credam miseram illam animam bis elixam aut combustam, ob maximum ardorem quem patiuntur ob ignem amoris.
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Rabie jecur incendente feruntur praecipites, Vopiscus of
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Vernon walked off to his room, dark as one smitten blind: bile tumet jecur: her stroke of neglect hit him there where a blow sends thick obscuration upon eyeballs and brain alike.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Vernon walked off to his room, dark as one smitten blind: bile tumet jecur: her stroke of neglect hit him there where a blow sends thick obscuration upon eyeballs and brain alike.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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English means, what is one man's meat is another man's poison; and further, he adds, _Ut jecur, ut onus, put ut occiput_, which is as much as to say, that what agrees with one temperament, will be injurious to another.
Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820
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English means, what is one man's meat is another man's poison; and further, he adds, _Ut jecur, ut onus, put ut occiput_, which is as much as to say, that what agrees with one temperament, will be injurious to another.
Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820
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He is said to have a vulture preying upon his heart, or liver; immortale jecur tondens.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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Morbosus renes, vesicam, guttura, vulnam, Intestina, jecur, cumque lyene caput Confortat, variisque Anisum subdita morbis Membra: istud tantum vim leve semen habet.
unknown title 2009
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[47] petulanti splene chachinno, and then again, [48] urere bilis jecur, I was much moved to see that abuse which I could not mend.
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