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
The second case was that of a man in whom almost the entire stomach was removed, and the pyloric and cardiac ends were stitched together in the wound of the parietes.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
A general treatise on the subject of lameness does not properly include such structures any more than it does the various affections of the dorsal, lumbar and sacral vertebrae or inflammation of the abdominal parietes.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The parietes of the left auricle and ventricle, particularly of the latter, were much thickened, and their cavities were filled with black coagulum.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
This cut divided the parietes and severed one of the coats of the colon.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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