10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ORAGIOUS»
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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... (op-PUG-nant) antagonistic or hostile an oppugnant business rival opsimath (
OP-si-math) one who learns late in life a halfway house staffed by helpful
opsimaths oragious (o-RAY-jus) stormy an oragious period orbate (OR-bayt)
parentless; ...
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The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical ...
ORAGIOUS. An old term for stormy or tempestuous weather: — "The storme was
so outrageous, And with rumlings oragious, That I did feare." ORAMBY. A sort of
state-barge used in the Moluccas; some of them arc rowed by 40, 80, or even, ...
William Henry Smyth, Sir Edward Belcher,
1867
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The Sailor's Word: A Complete Dictionary of Nautical Terms ...
ORAGIOUS. An old term for stormy or tempestuous weather: The storme was so
outrageous, And with rumlings oragious, That I did feare. ORAMBY. A sort of state
-barge used in the Moluccas; some of them are rowed by 40, 80, or even, it is ...
William Henry Smyth, Edward Belcher,
2008
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Soger North, Examen, p. 632. (Davies.) 2. In organ-building, a stop constructed
so as to produce a noise in imitation of the sound of a storm, oragious (o-ra'jus), a
. [< F. orageux, stormy, < orage, a storm : see orage.] Stormy; tempestuous. [Kare.
] ...
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
(Davin) 2, In organ-building, a stop constructed so as to produce a noise in
imitation of the sound of a storm. oragious (o-ra'jus), a. [< F. orageua', stormy, <
orage, a storm: see orage.] Stormy; tempestuous. [Rare.] M. D'Ivry, whose early
liie may ...
William Dwight Whitney,
1904
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
In organ-building, a stop constructed so as to produce a noise in imitation of the
sound of a storm. oragious (o-ra'jus), a. [< P. orageux, stormy, < orage, a storm :
see orage.] Stormy; tempestuous. [Bare.] M. Dlvry, whose early life may have
been ...
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The English Historical Review
... we enter a humble protest against the triple use of the queer word ' autolatrous,
' and against the monstrous word ' oragious,' applied to Caesar's political career.
Surely an English equivalent could have been found. Bernard W. Henderson.
Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner,
1903
M. d'lvry, whose early life may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman
perfectly well conserved. Resolute against fate his enemy (one would fancy fate
was of an aristocratic turn, and took especial delight in combats with princely ...
William Makepeace Thackeray,
1882
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Thackeray's Complete Works: The history of Samuel Titmarsh ...
M. d'lvry, whose early life may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman
perfectly well conserved. Resolute against fate his enemy (one would fancy fate
was of an aristocratic turn, and took especial delight in combats with princely ...
William Makepeace Thackeray,
1882
... in her hair, as beautiful as a princess of a fairy tale. M. d'Ivry, whose early life
may have been rather oragious, was yet a gentleman perfectly well conserved.
Resolute against fate his enemy (one would fancy fate was 322 THE
NEWCOMES.
William Makepeace Thackeray,
1904