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Definition of Naves
1. nave [n] - See also: nave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naves
Literary usage of Naves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"naves naves of a single aisle were probably erected at all periods. The church
of Spigno, ... At S. Zeno di Castelletto there are two parallel naves. ..."
2. Roman antiquities: or An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1835)
"To ships of this kind Augustus was in a great measure indebted for his victory
over Antony at Actium, Hence after that time the name of naves LIBURNI was ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This church, which is a basilica of three naves, divided by two lines of marble
... In the lateral naves there are the sarcophagi of eight archbishops, ..."
4. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1841)
"... more willingly in his life than his coming to meet William. Taylor's Anon.
Hist. 191. Extra has naves quae ... unius cujusque multas alias naves, p. ..."
5. The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1873)
"Thus, for example, Duo cónsules VIGINTI naves ... naves habebant, means, " the
two consuls had twenty ships each," or forty it all. § 25. ..."
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