Definition of Desines

1. desine [v] - See also: desine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desines

desilverized
desilverizes
desilverizing
desilvers
desilylate
desilylation
desilylations
desine
desined
desinence
desinences
desinent
desinential
desinential inflection
desinential inflections
desines (current term)
desingularization
desingularizations
desinicization
desining
desipience
desipramine
desipramine hydrochloride
desipramines
desir'd
desirabilities
desirability
desirable
desirableness
desirablenesses

Literary usage of Desines

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

1. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"... non desines dicere? for desine dicere : Eur. Androm. 106 a oux S(Tov ra\os \<a pr/cr (т а С ris ..."

2. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1891)
"Gentleman, the figures which he desines are already in type ; and I hope they will be in his hands in a very few days—certainly in good time for the Budget. ..."

3. A Grammar of the Idiom of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Gottlieb Lünemann, Edward Masson, Joseph Henry Thayer (1877)
"is nonne desines? but, wilt thou not CEASE? (ie wilt thou persist?) is non desines? The où here negatives the verb (non desinere iq pergere), see Franke I. ..."

4. A Grammar of the New Testament Diction: Intended as an Introduction to the by Georg Benedikt Winer (1860)
"WILT thou (really) not cease ? is equivalent to nonne desines ? but, wilt thou NOT cease ? means non desines ? The où here denies the notion of the verb ..."

5. A Grammar of the Idioms of the Greek Language of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer (1850)
"stions: will you NOT desist? equivalent to non desines? but WILL you not desist? equivalent to nonne desines. The ov here negates the verb (non desinere as ..."

6. The Works of George Bull: D. D., Lord Bishop of St. David's by George Bull, Edward Burton, Robert Nelson (1827)
"desines profecto, mi censor, in posterum, si sapis, criticam profitera, qui toties in hoc artis tuae ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1806)
"... a comfortable fire of reeds, was kindled by their officious benevolence ; the wants, and even the desines, of the Romans were liberally satisfied; ..."

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