adsum
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of adsum
Latin
Example Sentences
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"Did you find that in the dictionary?" said he; "I thought affui came from adsum."
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
En! ego quæ vindex 'mutis quoque piscibus' adsum, Donatura cycni, si ferat hora, sonos, Ipsa loquor vates: Patriæ decus addere linguæ Hic sciet, ut titulis laus eat aucta tuis.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine
It had been nothing at school—all the girls standing in the drill-room, rows of voices saying "adsum," then a Collect and the Lord's Prayer.
From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller
In the eight months that the class continued, the only words that passed between them were his name read from the roll and the daily adsum with which the student responded.
From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.
P. En, adsum; duc me in nomine DEI.
From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles
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