thoro
Americanadjective
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The projects are such as have proven of exceptional service where woodworking and mechanical drawing are taught in a thoro, systematic manner in the seventh and eighth grades.
From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William
Persons seeking at the hands of the civil law relief in matrimonial troubles should have the right to ask for divorce a vinculo, or simple separation a mensâ et thoro, as they may elect.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
The article has a total lack of coloristic reflexes; it emfasizes form, if not line; its thoro reasonableness takes into consideration all that Lessing has stood for in the domain of art.
From Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery by Danton, George Henry
You should have gone to the ecclesiastical court and there obtained against your wife a decree a mensa et thoro.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Whether he obtained from his wife a divorce de thoro, is not handed down.
From Mr. Midshipman Easy by Marryat, Frederick
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