organa
1 Americannoun
noun
noun
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Winchester’s Troper of two-voice organa manuscripts and its mighty four- hundred-voice pipe organ were the work of Anglo-Saxon Christians.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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A commentator on Aristotle, writing in the 4th century A.D., calls certain instruments used for fusion and calcination "chuika organa," that is, instruments for melting and pouring.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
Non digitis, Inglotte, tuis terrestria tangis, Tangis nunc digitis organa celsa poli.
From Curious Epitaphs by Various
Congenita esse potest, et tunc plerumque desunt omnia organa generativa.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
V. Ubi autem solito pauciores deferunter ad eadem organa spiritus animales, imperfectæ ac imbecillæ observantur fieri eadem functiones, in motu tremulo et infirmo, nec diu durante, in visu debili, ac mox defatigato, &c.
From An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by Parkinson, James
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