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Definition of Direr
1. dire [adj] - See also: dire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direr
Literary usage of Direr
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of human physiology: With Their Chief Applications to Psychology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1855)
"... tarn somewhat round the edge of the Cricoid, to be attached to the lower pert
of its Fio. 110. Part of Fig. 109 enlarged, to ahow the direr/ion afilie ..."
2. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1837)
"... and determines the strong to deny that which is ;; it converts the criminal
into the evidence, the judge > the executioner, and makes a direr punishment ..."
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