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- noun A senior title of nobility conferred to members of the Roman and Byzantine imperial families.
- noun sciences A named species of
fish , found in the Scotland area.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Aedes Orientem spectantes vir nobilissimus, inhabitet, et curet ut sit aer clarus, lucidus, odoriferus.
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P. Crassus Mutianus, quinque habuisse dicitur rerum bonarum maxima, quod esset ditissimus, quod esset nobilissimus, eloquentissimus, Jurisconsultissimus, Pontifex maximus.
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Dalwolsey, man, of whom John Fordoun saith, — ‘He was bellicosissimus, nobilissimus?’ —
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Præstitum est à multis tam Islandis quàm extraneis huiusmodi beneuolentiæ et commiserationis opus: ex quibus fuit vir nobilissimus Accilius
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Pr鎠titum est � multis tam Islandis qu鄊 extraneis huiusmodi beneuolenti� et commiserationis opus: ex quibus fuit vir nobilissimus Accilius
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Longa enim oratione toti Anglorum nationi persuasit, quod vir prouidus, pr鎠tans, fortis, genere nobilissimus, et imperio dignissimus esset: quo salutatus a populo fuit, atque in regem coronatus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Verum haud recta insistentes via umbras germanae gloriae non veram sectabantur, cognomina sibi nobilitatis imponentes, eaque Anglorum more ostentantes atque iactantes, quum antea is haberi esseque nobilissimus soleret, qui virtute non opibus, qui egregiis a se factis non maiorum suorum clarus erat.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Is Crassas a Sempronio Asellione et plerisque aliis historiae Romanae scriptoribus traditur habuisse quinque rerum bonarum maxima et praecipua: quod esset ditissimus, quod nobilissimus, quod eloquentissimus, quod jurisconsultissimus, quod pontifex maximus.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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Francis Drake, _nobilissimus pyrata_, was said to have circumnavigated the world, — they went to Greenwich.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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Heard ye never of Sir William Ramsay of Dalwolsey, man, of whom John Fordoun saith, -- 'He was _bellicosissimus, nobilissimus?
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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