profert
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of profert
1710–20; < Latin: literally, he brings forward
Example Sentences
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Thus the Cardinal de Vitry is fain to say the creature "profert ex cute quasi quamdam lanam de quâ zonae contextae comburi non possunt igne."
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Tertio quòd propter eius amaritudinem terra adiacens littori nil viride profert.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
Crux fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis, Nulla silva talem profert Fronde, flore, germine.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
Promus Condus, 1. profert Obsonia, 2. è Penu, 3.
From The Orbis Pictus by Hoole, Charles
Lydia sic nitrum profert, Islandia sulfur, Ac mod� Tyrrhenus mittit alumen ager.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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