paries
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Etymology
Origin of paries
1720–30; < New Latin, special use of Latin pariēs a wall, partition
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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
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
Ossification of the parietes of the heart. mitral valves. aortal valves. aorta. coronary arteries.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins
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)
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