Lexicographical Neighbors of Portous
Literary usage of Portous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"portous, a breviary. ... The portous, or Breviary, contained whatever was to be
said by all beneficed clerks, ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"Let me see your portous,1 gentle Sir John ! JUVENTUS. No, it is not a book for
you2 to look on, ... 1 portous, the ancient name for a Breviary. ..."
3. African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement by Philip Beaver (1805)
"portous, Supera Fuego; do. 6th October, request. John Primado ; run away 3oth
September, ... 3o, portous ; do. do. Sept. 5, Fuego; do. do. 20, Manuel Lopez. ..."
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