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Definition of Cornuted
1. cornute [adj] - See also: cornute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornuted
Literary usage of Cornuted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days by Joseph Grego (1886)
"Parson Home wears a singular wig, with the sides in what has been described as
a " cornuted" * roll,—as peculiar as that affected by his friend Wilkes, ..."
2. Yseldon a Perambulation of Islington by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1858)
"... Drank to the Freshmen of our nation, To his memory sainted, Whose branched
head was last cornuted. Barnaba Harrington's Itinerarium, 1623, pp. 59, 60. ..."
3. The British Palladium: Or Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science: for by Robert Heath (1766)
"... or even cornuted Corves, mould depend on the ... of cornuted Corves) affirm
that Corve to be infinite in Length and never terminate in the Pole i ..."
4. The Greek Anthology: As Selected for the Use of Westminster, Eton, and Other by George Burges (1854)
"ON A GRAMMARIAN, WHO HAD BEEN cornuted.' Out (of thy house) thou teachest the
evils of Paris and Menelaus ; but within it thou hast many Parises for thy ..."
5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1873)
"... &c. of Phora (wherein he supplements Dufour's record of the cornuted stigmata
of the pupa), the author asserts their carnivorous propensities. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) (1870)
"The silver pieces are principally of two different shapes, ono circular and the
other cornuted, somewhat like the upper'portion of a bull's head with large ..."
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