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Traditional English :: August
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augustness.html - n.
the eighth month of the year. [OE f. L Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor] |
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Traditional English :: august
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augustness.html - adj. inspiring reverence and admiration; venerable, impressive. augustly adv. augustness n. [F auguste or L augustus consecrated, venerable] |
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Traditional English :: Augustan
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augustness.html - adj. & n. --adj. 1 connected with, occurring during, or influenced by the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, esp. as an outstanding period of Latin literature.
2 (of a nation's literature) refined and classical in style (in England of the literature of the 17th-18th c.). --n. a writer of the Augustan age of any literature. [L Augustanus f. Augustus] |
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Traditional English :: Augustine
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augustness.html - n.
an Augustinian friar. [ME f. OF augustin f. L Augustinus: see AUGUSTINIAN] |
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Traditional English :: Augustinian
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augustness.html - adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or relating to St Augustine, a Doctor of the Church (d. 430), or his doctrines.
2 belonging to a religious order observing a rule derived from St Augustine's writings. --n. 1 an adherent of the doctrines of St Augustine.
2 one of the order of Augustinian friars. [L Augustinus Augustine] |
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Traditional English :: August
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augustness.html - n.
the eighth month of the year. [OE f. L Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor] |
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