gleba
noun
the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.
glebae
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pluralof gleba.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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On all country estates, there were a number of serfs, glebae adscripti, sold with the estate, but not away from it.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
I was born and bred a west-country man, thank God! a Wessex man, a citizen of the noblest Saxon kingdom of Wessex, a regular "Angular Saxon," the very soul of me adscriptus glebae.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
The whole world seemed to be morally, as well as materially, "adscripti glebae."
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
He ordained, therefore, that they should be attached to the plantations, and made, though free labourers, a sort of adscripti glebae for five years.
From Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Thomas Clarkson
Were the serfs and the ascripti glebae of feudal Europe to be accounted slaves?
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
