Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
spacious .
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Examples
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A spatious terminal for the intersection of ideas, you might say.
So k*thy said "It’s good to see the tone of this post turning to suggestions to just ignore him." Ann Althouse 2009
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But I sodainlye with out any further regard or curious forcaste which with my searching eies went in as the spatious and lightsome entrie gaueme leaue, representing vnto me such sights as merit, and are
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And by this time, all lets and hynderances past ouer, a spatious and large going out was offered vnto me.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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This delightfull place was of a spatious and large circuit, compassed about and inuironed with wooddie mountaines, of
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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"There is a kinde of nagge," he says, "bred upon a mountanous and spatious peece of grounde, called Goon-hillye, lyinge between the sea-coaste and Helston; which are the hardeste naggs and beste of travaile for their bones within this kingdome, resembling in body for quantitie, and in goodness of mettle, the Galloway naggs."
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The third: this famous and spatious countrey, exceedeth the fertilitie of the Hyperborean Island in the West India, or the portugalles of
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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In the midst of the whole Castle standeth a mount conteyneing one Acre on which there is a spatious, ruyned, and old decayed building being nothing but ruyned walls which in many places begin to fall downe.
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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On the North side of the said Court opposite to the Gate standeth an other Gate which is the Entrance over a decayed bridg into the midle Castle and leadeth into an other spatious Court conteyneing two
The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923
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Now because I haue beene so oft asked such strange questions, of the goodnesse and greatnesse of those spatious Tracts of land, how they can bee thus long vnknown, or not possessed by the Spaniard, and many such like demands; I intreat your pardons, if I chance to be too plaine, or tedious in relating my knowledge for plaine mens satisfaction.
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 Various 1885
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Now because I haue beene so oft asked such strange questions of the goodnesse and greatnesse of those spatious Tracts of Land, how they can be thus long vnknowne, or not possessed by the Spaniards, and many such like demands; I intreat your pardons if I chance to be too plaine or tedious in relating my knowledge for plaine mens satisfaction.
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