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Definition of Ambits
1. ambit [n] - See also: ambit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambits
Literary usage of Ambits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theoretic Arithmetic: In Three Books; Containing the Substance of All that by Thomas Taylor (1816)
"For 17 falling as a middle number, between the square 16, and 18 an oblong
number, (which are the only plain numbers that have their ambits equal to the ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1890)
"... walks ambits* and recesses, as also a garden (and orchard adjoyning) that by
the inhabitans of Oxon was called Paradise, given by the aforesaid (p. ..."
3. An Historical Review of the State of Ireland from the Invasion of that by Francis Plowden (1805)
"... and were the consecrated ground or site circuit and ambits of any monastary,
abby, or other religious house, shall be and remain vested in your majesty, ..."
4. Petrificata Derbiensia: Or, Figures and Descriptions of Petrifactions by William Martin (1809)
"The joints of the stipe in this species are unequal : the ambits smooth ; towards
the ... A specimen of the upper part of the stipe, with the ambits of the ..."
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