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Definition of Portions
1. portion [v] - See also: portion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portions
Literary usage of Portions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Origin of the presumption against double portions from giving the name of debt
to a portion from father to child; not perhaps with great propriety in a ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... which neutralizes the gravitation — or pull of the various portions of the
comet's head for one another — and therefore permits those portions of the ..."
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)
"(1) The Yasna (Skt. yajna), "sacrifice", "worship", the chief liturgical portions
of the sacred canon. It consists principally of prayers and hymns used in ..."
4. The Sources of Luke's Perean Section by Dean Rockwell Wickes (1912)
"CHAPTER I THE USE BY MATTHEW OF portions IN LUKE'S ... 9:51—:;:-28.3 The fact
that considerable portions of this material are closely paralleled in Matthew, ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"The lyrical portions, which doubtless belong to Dekker, are the most attractive.
From Sir Henry Herbert's ' Diary ' it appears that two other plays by Ford ..."
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