tempus edax rerum

[tem-poos e-dahks rey-room, tem-puhs ee-daks reer-uhm]

Latin.

1. time, devourer of all things.

Example Sentences

There must be many an old oarsman still alive who can recall historical facts between 1830 and 1836, and it is hoped that such memories may be reduced to writing for the benefit of posterity, and for the honour of the oarsmen of those years, before tempus edax rerum makes it too late.

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Adjectives ending in ax, derived from verbs, also require a genitive case, as Tempus edax rerum: Time is the consumer of all things.

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The other churches, although their interiors are kept in some repair for the purpose of worship, have crumbling and mouldering walls, proving that "Tempus, edax rerum" has not spared them, and in the absence of rejuvenating art, still uses his remorseless tooth upon the softening stone.

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Not so many years ago a wooden highlander, as a tobacconist's sign, was a conspicuous figure in Knightsbridge, and there was another in the Westminster Bridge Road; but tempus edax rerum has consumed them with all their brethren.

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The first starts with an allusion to the Horatian tempus edax rerum.

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