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Definition of Cynosural
1. a. Of or pertaining to a cynosure.
Definition of Cynosural
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a cynosure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cynosural
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cynosural
Literary usage of Cynosural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"Nor, most assuredly, do we ask you to preserve the statue in its cynosural position
in this entrance-hall of our National Museum of Natural History as ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute, Edward C. Hegeler (1905)
"But the cynosural passage is the first chapter o~f \ of the Metaphysics; and here
he remarks (as he ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Nor, most assuredly, do we ask you to preserve the statue in its cynosural position
in this entrance-hall of our National Museum of Natural History as ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... in this wise :—" Had either, madam, of that cynosural triad been within call
of my most humble importunities, your ears had ..."
5. The New American Type: And Other Essays by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1908)
"In the first place, as the great sign over the entrance averred, the portraits
were " worth millions;" in addition to this cynosural quality, some of them ..."
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