profert
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of profert
1710–20; < Latin: literally, he brings forward
Example Sentences
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In the twelfth century Nigel Wireker tells of an ill-bred and ill-fated parrot, kept in a nunnery, who told tales about the nuns and was poisoned by them for his pains: Saepe mala Psittacus in thalamum domina redeunte puellas Prodit et illorum verba tacenda refert; Nescius ille loqui; sed nescius immo tacere Profert plus aequo Psittacus oris habens.
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Dicit enim quod ipse feofatus est de predicto tenemento de quodam Willelmo Harold per cartam suam quam profert....
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The difficulty is not cleared up.218.Reading “profert” for the impossible “proferetur.”
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Lydia sic nitrum profert, Islandia sulfur, Ac mod� Tyrrhenus mittit alumen ager.
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Vercingetorix ex arce Alesiae suos conspicatus ex oppido egreditur: crates, longurios, musculos, fasces, reliquaque quae eruptionis causa paraverat profert.
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