saltus
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Origin of saltus
1655–65; < New Latin, Latin: a leap. See salt 2
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And let us observe that Nature, though forbidden such style of progression by her savans, sometimes does make a local saltus, especially in the change of climates.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
But as to the people about us, the hundredth part of them could not be saved: "Videas desertaque regna Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Montaigne, Michel de
It is a derivative, through the French, from the Latin saltus.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
But as to the people about us, the hundredth part of them could not be saved: "Videas desertaque regna Pastorum, et longe saltus lateque vacantes."
From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 by Cotton, Charles
The apparent springs "saltus vel transitus etiam longissimos," he explains by the same thought having been a component part of two or more total impressions.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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