Ille

[ eel ]

/ il /

a river in Ille-et-Vilaine in W France, flowing S to Rennes.

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

At quicquid dixerint, ille (Zoroaster) fuit tantum unus, isque tempore Darii Hystaspis: nec ejus nomine plures unquam extitere.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)|Jacob Bryant
The word is rare in verse; Ovid uses it as a substantive at iii 15 'ille ego conuictor densoque domesticus usu'.
The Last Poems of Ovid|Ovid
Ille confusus abscessit, et illa intacta remansit, magno quidem et Dei miraculo et merito Malachiae.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh|H. J. Lawlor
Wycherley, poeta morum scientia clarus, ille meos primus qui habebat amores, æt.
The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1|Alexander Pope

Ille protinus strangulatus est, qu fuit merces ejus proditionis.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3)|Thomas Browne