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Definition of Comities
1. comity [n] - See also: comity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comities
Literary usage of Comities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"... man who opposed the war during its progress was defeated in running for office
last fall, except possibly in a few of the extreme northern comities. ..."
2. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"From the lively account of comities, who represented the king in the negotiations
preliminary to the battle of Fornovo, we gain Battle of a verv c'ear 'dea ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"lowing appropriations, except in tea comities, where bounties were paid by towns
entirely: .... comities ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"... where two comities are mentioned before, though one was in the addition only.
R. J Rol. 223. (/) But the hour is not necessary in an indictment, ..."
5. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"I>ut in most other comities the plan is \n make- the pudding an inch thick, nnd
either to turn it on the baking-tin or to turn it out of one baking-tin on ..."
6. Publications by William Shakespeare, New Shakspere Society (London, England) (1877)
"... and comities.1 Chap. 4-aN reding of ancient writers, as Co-far, Tacitus, and
others, ... comities."
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