thoro
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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To some that may seem too much, but we feel that the first requirement for teaching in the high school should be a thoro grounding in the subjects to be taught.
From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd
She had long been living with the Duke, but in 1769 she obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro, which she believed erroneously annulled the marriage.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
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 George Henry Danton
Divorce a mensa et thoro could be granted on the grounds allowed by the canon law.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
When you had recovered substantial damages against the hawker, you would have instructed your proctor to sue in the Ecclesiastical Courts for a divorce à mensa atque thoro.
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
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