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Definition of Mainlined
1. mainline [v] - See also: mainline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainlined
Literary usage of Mainlined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Late Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the by Ebenezer Erskine (1798)
"Oh Sirs f beware of diminutive thoughts of the holy law of the ten commandments,
for God thinks honourably of it, and will have the honour of it mainlined ..."
2. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1908)
"... on these grades should be equipped with sand boxes, which should be mainlined
in proper condition and at all times while in movement filled with sand. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"... is mainlined by the best critics and civilians ; Noodt (1. ii. c. 2, p.
207,) Gravina (Opp. x 205, &c. 210. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"She developed a fr'w harmless eccentricities ; her habits, °nce formed, were
rather stiffly mainlined; her opinions, on all moral and social matters, ..."
5. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1900)
"... was able to hold the vast empire together; it was broken up into many smaller
sovereignties, which developed and mainlined an independent position. ..."
6. The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith (1920)
"... their reason in the article of transubstantiation, ley became entangled in
scruples, and so Luther mainlined a corporeal and Calvin a real presence in ..."
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