secundus
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of secundus
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1820–30
Example Sentences
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The act of knowing is an actus secundus which presupposes the cognitive faculty as an actus primus: the faculty being the first or fundamental equipment of the soul in relation to knowledge.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
"What a knowing set out!" squeaked Johnson secundus.
From Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
So Panurge spent the night with tippling amongst the pages, and played away all the points of his breeches at primus secundus and at peck point, in French called La Vergette.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
But this is to croak like a raven, for the cross-examining is, after all, of very minor importance compared to the Gift of the Gab—in which I am notoriously nulli secundus.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey
On many of the doors were inscriptions in Latin: eight, one after the other, were marked, "Visitator primus, secundus," etc.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
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