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Minuit

NOUN
  1. Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)

How To Use Minuit In A Sentence

  • The Dative of Reference denotes the person _to whom a statement refers, of whom it is true_, or _to whom it is of interest; _ as, -- mihi ante oculōs versāris, _you hover before my eyes_ (lit. _hover before the eyes to me_); illī sevēritās amōrem nōn dēminuit, _in his case severity did not diminish love_ (lit. _to him severity did not diminish_); interclūdere inimīcīs commeātum, _to cut of the supplies of the enemy. New Latin Grammar
  • It is also conjunct my midheaven, give or take a minuite of arc or two. Trivia Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  • It is also conjunct my midheaven, give or take a minuite of arc or two. Trivia Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  • Minuit autem cibum minutio, unde et moritur fetus. back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • FLVMINA uerna cient obscuro lumine Pisces curriculumque Aries aequat noctisque diique, cornua quem condunt florum praenuntia Tauri; aridaque aestatis Gemini primordia pandunt, longaque iam minuit praeclarus lumina Cancer, 5 languificosque Leo proflat ferus ore calores. post modium quatiens Virgo fugat orta uaporem: autumni reserat portas aequatque diurna tempora nocturnis dispenso sidere Libra: effetos ramos denudat flamma Nepai: 10 pigra Sagittipotens iaculatur frigora terris: bruma gelu glaciat iubarem spirans Capricorni, quem sequitur nebulas rorans liquor altus Aquari. tanta supra circaque uigescunt lumina mundi; at dextra laeuaque ciet rota fulgida Solis15 mobile curriculum et Lunae simulacra feruntur. Astronomical Fragment
  • Peter Minuit of the Dutch West Indies Company bought the island in 1626 from the Manhattan Indians, supposedly for some $24 worth of merchandise.
  • Note 91: Must., p. 22, chap. 64: "deambulare etiam eas et lavari et cibos accipere antiqui iubebant. nos vero non permittimus haec fieri, quia ambulatio infantem prope foris positum premit et matricem quassat, lavacrum vero et vires minuit et digestum corpus mulieris infrigidat, cibus autem qui in frigore datur corrumpitur et non nutrit. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • Peter Minuit of the Dutch West Indies Company bought the island in '2' from the Manhattan Indians, supposedly for some $24 worth of merchandise.
  • Note 164: Canon, 1.3.3, fols. 66va-b: "Nutrici preterea est precipiendum ut temperato utatur et ut nutrientibus boni chimi alatur et ne ullo modo aliquis cum ea coeat: hoc enim sanguinem permiscet menstruum, et lactis odorem corrumpit, et ipsius minuit quantitatem, immo fortasse impregnatur in quo nocumentum duobus attinens filiis existit." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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