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Definition of Cerites
1. cerite [n] - See also: cerite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerites
Literary usage of Cerites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839 by Elizabeth Caroline Johnstone Gray (1843)
"Strabo moreover says, that the cerites attacked the Gauls in their retreat, and
took from them all the spoil which they were bearing away, and which they ..."
2. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"A citizen thus excluded was not inscribed in the census, but his name was written
in tables known as the tables of the cerites ..."
3. A Selection of the Geological Memoirs Contained in the Annales Des Mines by Henry Thomas De la Beche (1824)
"The calcaire à cerites appears to be included in the calcaire grossier; as the
author always speaks of it under the former name, I have not thought myself ..."
4. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida: With Special Reference to by William Healey Dall (1890)
"The scarcity of cerites in the American Tertiary has been noted as a characteristic
of the fauna, but this is due rather to our ignorance of the Tertiary ..."
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