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Definition of Anserous
1. a. Resembling a goose; silly; simple.
Definition of Anserous
1. Adjective. resembling a goose ¹
2. Adjective. silly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anserous
1. silly [adj] - See also: silly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anserous
Literary usage of Anserous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage by John Earle (1890)
"Sydney Smith conveys the idea of ' such a goose ' by the phrase ' so anserous,'
but in this and many similar freaks he is not to be imitated. ..."
2. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"But be it in the mathematics as it j)anserous will; whether it be clearer, that
taking an to build inch from a black line of two inches, and upon pre- an ..."
3. The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith: Including His Contributions to the by Sydney Smith (1859)
"Can any be so anserous aá to suppose, that the faculties of young men cannot be
exercised, and their industry and activity called into proper action, ..."
4. Source Book of the History of Education for the Greek and Roman Period by Paul Monroe (1901)
"... who commit their boys in childhood to peda- "rors arc gogues and teachers,
and then suffer the impetuosity of <anserous- their youth to range without ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... not fearing God, but altogether inclined cov"<""and to Rapine (although without
question there are many very anSerous- honest men amongst ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"Under the elms were knots of politicians, taking care of the ' Public Thing,' as
the French call it, and not unlike the anserous gabbling of some other ..."
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