Definition of Cornutes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of cornute) ¹

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Definition of Cornutes

1. cornute [v] - See also: cornute

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornutes

cornua of hyoid bone
cornua of lateral ventricle
cornua of spinal cord
cornua of thyroid cartilage
cornua sacralia
cornual
cornual pregnancy
cornuate
cornubite
cornucopia
cornucopian
cornucopias
cornuses
cornute
cornuted
cornutes (current term)
cornuting
cornuto
cornutor
cornutors
cornutos
cornwallite
cornworm
cornworms
corny
cornybacteria
corocore
corocores
corocoro
corocoros

Literary usage of Cornutes

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

1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"cornutes. IN pursuing our notices of marriage customs we come to the consideration of the vulgar saying, that a husband wears horns, or is a cornute, ..."

2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Mendoza ia the man makes thee a horu'd beast ; duke, Ч is Mendoza cornutes thee. Pi'etro. What conf ormance ? * Relate ; short, short. ..."

3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See Heywood, Witches of Lanes. iv. 230; Oldham, Satires upon the Jesuits, iv (ed. R. Bell, p. 125). See Brand's Pop. Antiq., cornutes (ed. 1877, p. ..."

4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Malevole. Mendoza is the man makes thee a horn'd beast. Duke, 'tis Mendoza cornutes thee. Pietro. What conformance ? relate; short, short. Malevole. ..."

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