coram populo
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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In the elder play, the Bastard does "the shaking of bags of hoarding abbots," coram populo, and thereby discloses a phase of monastic life judiciously suppressed by Shakspere.
From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred
In science we think that a teacher who ignores views which have been discussed coram populo for twenty years, is hardly up to the mark.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
She sent to Essex for a dairymaid, and set her to churn milk into butter, coram populo, at a certain hour every morning.
From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles
In this remarkable debate coram populo, it seems to me that the defeat of the Home Rulers in argument has been even more complete than their rout at the polling booths.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox
In science, we think that a teacher who ignores views which have been discussed coram populo for twenty years, is hardly up to the mark.
From Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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