Definition of Opuscles

1. opuscle [n] - See also: opuscle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opuscles

opts out
opulence
opulences
opulencies
opulency
opulent
opulently
opulus
opuluses
opuntia
opuntias
opus
opus operatum
opus spicatum
opuscle
opuscles (current term)
opuscula
opuscular
opuscule
opuscules
opusculum
opuses
opv
opye
or
or-
or else
or so

Literary usage of Opuscles

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

1. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"Sources.1 The works of Plotinus consisted originally of fifty-four opuscles. After having, as some maintain, undergone a previous recension at the hands of ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"Unfortunately, these opuscles do not form a complete treatise, and yet a treatise on spontaneity would be a very curious and very useful work. ..."

3. A General View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere: And of Its by Henry Robertson (1808)
"See opuscles Physiques et Chimiques, page 54. He likewise performed this experiment by means of atmospherical air and nitrogen gas, and in all of them he ..."

4. Essays Political, Social, and Religious by Richard Congreve (1892)
"He speaks of them, in a letter to me, as his two didactic opuscles, the one religious, the other political, in which our propagandist effort is sufficiently ..."

5. Thackerayana: Notes and Anecdotes Illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches by by Joseph] [Grego, William Makepeace Thackeray (1898)
"... certain opuscles, denominated " Christmas Books," with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, ..."

6. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1857)
"... in the opuscles de Jurisprudence of Dr Dupin (Paris, 1851), which is an abridgment of the larger work issued by this distinguished jurist, and M. Camus, ..."

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