nates
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of nates
1675–85; < Latin natēs, plural of natis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greek nôton the back
Example Sentences
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Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spiritual development germi- 66:12 nates not from seed sown in the soil of material hopes, but when these decay, Love propagates anew the higher joys of Spirit, which have no taint of earth.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
Any condition that makes it painful to use the upper part of the lower limb and especially the group of large posterior leg muscles just below the nates is called sciatica.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
In the second case, in a youth of sixteen, death occurred after washing out a deep abscess of the nates with the same solution.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The aitch-bone was formerly the nache-bone, from Old Fr. nache, buttock, Vulgar Lat. *natica for nates.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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