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Definition of Tantivies
1. tantivy [n] - See also: tantivy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantivies
Literary usage of Tantivies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"Part 1 is the political organisation of the empire ; part 2, finance; part 8,
legal mattere; and part 4, military affairs. tantivies (The), 1680. ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... and that gentleman was one ; and among other discourse, they were speaking of
some pictures, and they «hewed us the picture of th* tantivies. Charlett. ..."
3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1810)
"... and that gentleman was one ; and among other discourse, they were speaking of
some pictures, and they shewed us the picture of the tantivies. Charlett. ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"About half-a-dozen of the tantivies were mounted upon the Church of England,
b»ote<l aid «purred, riding it like an old back Taa- tivy to Borne.—. ..."
5. The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes by John Dryden (1808)
"... entitled, " The Mushroom, or a Satire against libelling Tories and prelatical
tantivies; in answer to a Satire against Sedition, called the Modal, ..."
6. The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes by John Dryden (1821)
"... or a Satire against libelling Tories and prelatical tantivies-; ... as will
appear from a few extracts: Epistle to the Tories and tantivies j Instead of ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"About half a dozen of the tantivies were mounted [in a caricature] upon the Church
of England, booted and spurred, riding it, like an old hack, Tantivy, ..."
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