Definition of Adages

1. Noun. (plural of adage) ¹

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Definition of Adages

1. adage [n] - See also: adage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adages

ad seriatum
ad truck
ad val
ad valorem
ad valorem tax
ad valorem taxes
ad verbum
ad verecundiam
adacrya
adactylia
adactylous
adafenoxate
adage
adages (current term)
adagial
adagietto
adagiettos
adagio
adagios
adagissimo
adalimumab
adam
adam's apple
adam-and-eve
adamance
adamances
adamancies
adamancy

Literary usage of Adages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"The < Book of adages' was the first broadside sent from the new scholarship into ... In the <adages ' Erasmus proclaimed war against the mendicant friars ..."

2. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1847)
"In 1500 was printed at Paris the first edition of Erasmus's adages, ... The adages, which were now about eight hundred, amounted in his last edition to 4151 ..."

3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, John A Heraud, Benson E Hill (1797)
"There is no profit in the bramble, until it be hewn down. fend yoll the Hebrew adages, ... adages ..."

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