secundus
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of secundus
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1820–30
Example Sentences
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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
Ordinals; as, prīmus, first; secundus, second; etc. c.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
In vigilia sancti petri advincula fugit Rex Ricardus secundus a facie ducis Henrici Et postea in vigilia Assumpcionis beate marie captus est et se submisit ordinacioni prelatorum et procerum Anglie.
From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Pearce, Ernest Harold
“In the Epitaph on John Philips occurs this line on his metre, that ‘Uni in hoc laudis genere Miltono secundus, Primoque pene par.’
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
Concedimus, ecclesiam esse scripturæ sacræ testem, custodem, vindicem, praeconem, et interpretem; sed negarnus, ex eo effici, quod autoritas scripturæ sive simpliciter sive quoad nos ab ecclesia pendeat et quidem unice, pendeat.—Ibid., tomus secundus, p.
From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel
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