Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vivarium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vivarium.
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- adjective obsolete
vivarium
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Examples
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And before the minster of this idol, is a vivary, in manner of a great lake, full of water.
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And when the minister of that church need to make any reparation of the church or of any of the idols, they take gold and silver, pearls and precious stones out of the vivary, to quit the costage of such thing as they make or repair; so that that nothing is faulty, but anon it shall be amended.
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a friend where there was such a vivary, to which I paid no small attention, taking every occasion to remark what passed within its narrow limits.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756
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