vinculum
noun
a bond signifying union or unity; tie.
vincula
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pluralof vinculum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The transverse vincula are often at right angles to the principal branches, and the meshes, where formed, are often long and rectangular.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
His body was buried first at All Hallows, Barking, and then removed to St. Peter’s ad vincula in the Tower, where it lies beside that of Sir Thomas More.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
And the King Henry came home to England before harvest, after the mass of St. Peter "ad vincula".
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
The regular Latin phrase for imprisonment is "in vincula conicere": Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. "carcer."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Note the phrases et is, et ea, etc., in the sense: and that too; as,— vincula, et ea sempiterna, imprisonment, and that too permanently.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
