secund
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of secund
First recorded in 1770–80, secund is from the Latin word secundus following. See second 1
Example Sentences
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When, in 1520, the Friars of the Holy Cross wanted assistance for the maintenance and building of their church, they applied to the Corporation as being their "secund founders."
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
Spikelets sessile and jointed on the very short densely crowded branchlets of a tall, narrow raceme like panicle, deciduous, acute, much compressed, imbricate and secund 7.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
States, in swamps.—Var. glandulífera, Gray; a slender form with secund raceme, oval to lance-oblong obtuse gland-toothed leaves, and the bracts and calyx-teeth beset with slender gland-tipped teeth.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Spikelets distichously spreading, secund, keels of palea winged 8.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The divisions of time are: secund, a second; minnis, p. 97a minute; êr, an hour; dêdh, a day; seithan, a week; mîs, a month; bledhan, a year; cansvledhan, a century.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
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