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Definition of Avises
1. avise [v] - See also: avise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avises
Literary usage of Avises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All edited by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1892)
"... 82 avises, E. С. [Am.] The State of Prisons and Child-saving Institutions in
the Civilised World; pp. 720 25«. 8° Cambridge, ТТЛ 80 Religious ..."
2. England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614 by Maija Jansson, N. M. Rogozhin, Paul Bushkovitch (1994)
"For the first quotation regarding the "avises," see SP 81/11, f. 210 (J. Hill to
Salisbury, 16 February 1612); the second is from Rymer, Foedera 7, 2: 194. ..."
3. The Wrongs of the Animal World: To which is Subjoined The Speech of Lord by David Mushet (1839)
"... familiar spirits to divers unhappy witches : that some were " in the shape of
avises or blackbirds," others of kine, and that the "avises" were fed with ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"Very few direct references to literature are made in the body of the book, and
the query naturally avises whether in a work so largely based on recent ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1869)
"... adorned with mouldings, from which avises a die, bearing upon each of its four
sides an inscription, surmounted by a lins-relief in marble. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"A far more pleasant picture is the next, the " Stack- j-ard ; " but its chief
interest avises from its consummate delineation of the leafage of the ..."
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