Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A South American nocturnal monkey of the genus Nyctipithecus, as N. felinus, the eia. See
douroucouli .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See
durukuli .
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Examples
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The Wall Rue (_Ruta muraria_) is a white Maidenhair Fern, and is named by some _Salvia vitoe_.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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This herb, together with the _Thuja Occidentalis_ (_Arbor vitoe_) makes the _Anti-venereo_ of Count Mattaei.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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My appetite is still good, which I know is dear Dr. Heberden's criterion of the vis vitoe.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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"Felix non solum claritatê vitoe, sed etiam opportunitatê mortis."
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The arbor vitoe (Thuja occidentalis), one of our native plants, growing only in the highest mountains, is said to be "indigenous, and to grow abundantly on the banks of the Hudson, making the finest ornamental hedge known to this climate."
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BARTHOLOMEW OF PISA, De Conformitate vitoe B. Francisci in Analecta
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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_toedium vitoe_ lays hold on a man, he is to be pitied, not to be blamed.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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'Tu vero felix! non vitoe tantum claritate, sed etiam opportunitate mortis. "
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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