paries
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Origin of paries
1720–30; < New Latin, special use of Latin pariēs a wall, partition
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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 Hall, Benjamin Homer
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Laughton, John Knox
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
After death, the distention of the abdomen was found to be due to a coating of fat, four inches thick, in the parietes.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The horn entered at the anterior superior spinous process of the ilium, involving the parietes and the uterus.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The base of the terminal cell, and parts of the parietes of the next and next, present a coagulated appearance, precisely as in certain mosses.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
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 Darwin, Charles
The parietes of the heart, especially of the left ventricle, were greatly thickened, and somewhat ossified near the origin of the aorta.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins
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