vinum
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vinum
From the Latin word vīnum wine
Example Sentences
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The Church saw vinum clarum as a profane wine, and its consumption was not imbued with Christian symbolism, nor attached to any table ceremony.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
Neutral saline mixture, chrystals of tartar, vinum chalybeat. and other medicines had been prescribed to little advantage.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
The wine grown on the N.W. coast, in the district called by Strabo Ariusia, was known as vinum Arvisium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
The basin then went to the "little gentlemen" below the salt, they have the "vinum garrulum," and they scrambled as well as screamed for a sup of the precious liquor.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The English may think of him as they please! and for them, or some of them, there is "a better oenomel," a vinum Dæmonum, which Byron has not in his gift.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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