paries
Americannoun
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parietes
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of paries
1720–30; < New Latin, special use of Latin pariēs a wall, partition
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He has seen the solecisms of his brother, Common Sense, exposed, and remembers that, —tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
That paries proximus concerns us, in our present uneasy condition, more than one likes to think of.
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by John Knox Laughton
To those who are not yet visibly assailed, and who possibly believe themselves secure, we can only give the warning: Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History
From Latin paries, a wall; properly, a partition-wall, from the root of part or pare.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
During the months of December and January last, she remained free from any inconvenience from the tumour, and the union of the parietes of the artery was therefore regarded as complete.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Its parietes were thickened; its cavities unnaturally large, and filled with black coagulum.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
The parietes of the heart were thicker than those of a healthy heart, but thin when compared with its whole volume; whence it follows, that the cavities were enlarged.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
In nine of these cases there was no fracture, and either no bruise of the parietes or a very slight one.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Slight ridges separate the roof from the parietes, and the parietes from the intra-parietes.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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