flamen
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of flamen
1300–50; < Latin flamen (perhaps earlier *flādmen; akin to Old English blōtan to sacrifice); replacing Middle English flamin < Latin flāmin- (stem of flāmen )
Example Sentences
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"Take back your curse!" shouted the flamen Dialis, rushing up to her and seizing her hand.
From A Christian But a Roman by Jókai, Mór
The one substantial proof of it lies in the unique and truly extraordinary character of the taboos placed on his flamen, and to some extent on the flamen's wife, by the Roman ius divinum.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
They announce that a duumvir or aedile or flamen will exhibit twenty or thirty pairs of combatants on the calends of May or the ides of April.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
The flamen is permanently holy, having charge of constant sacrifices; e.g. the Dialis had duties every day.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
And shall the flamen by living abroad draw on himself and on his country such a weight of guilt every night?
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
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