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Definition of Canthari
1. cantharus [n] - See also: cantharus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canthari
Literary usage of Canthari
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical student's vade mecum by George Mendenhall (1863)
"What are the officinal preparations of the canthari» vesicatoria, or Spanish Fly,
... What are the properties of the indigenous insect, the canthari» ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"The canthari compose a tribe of the ... In the latter point he agrees with
Rondelet; but as to the former, Rondelet states that the canthari go in shoals, ..."
3. Christian Iconography: Or, The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages by Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1851)
"... and the Spirit, by the image of a dove, Christ is often figured by the Cross
alone ;f while He, in his own peculiar person, is * " ' canthari,' ..."
4. A Manual of Greek Archæology by Maxime Collignon (1886)
"... and canthari are decorated with Dionysiac subjects : Dionysus, crowned with
parsley, bearing the thyrsus, and surrounded by Bacchantes and satyrs, ..."
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