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Definition of Plicatures
1. plicature [n] - See also: plicature
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plicatures
Literary usage of Plicatures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1882)
"... co-extensive with the brain itself, not only in its external, but also in its
internal structure ; and likewise through all its plicatures, interstices, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... but they cannot settle or fix themselves upon it ; they unfold the plicatures
of truth's garment, but they cannot behold the lovely face of it. ..."
3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"{ Placing together the parts in greater or lesser plicatures. . ( Folding, wrap,
lap, plait, clinching, clutching, doubling, envelop. ..."
4. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1882)
"... co-extensive with the brain itself, not only in its external, but also in its
internal structure ; and likewise through all its plicatures, interstices, ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"... but they cannot settle or fix themselves upon it ; they unfold the plicatures
of truth's garment, but they cannot behold the lovely face of it. ..."
6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"{ Placing together the parts in greater or lesser plicatures. . ( Folding, wrap,
lap, plait, clinching, clutching, doubling, envelop. ..."
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