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Definition of Legendaries
1. legendary [n] - See also: legendary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legendaries
Literary usage of Legendaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"CHAPTER XVI Later Transition English i Legendaries AND CHRONICLERS IT is significant,
both of the approaching triumph of the vernacular, and of the growing ..."
2. Legenda Aurea by Pierce Butler (1899)
"... to anything like thorough study of them or of the many other late legendaries
which a little care might discover. CHAPTER III. ENGLISH PROSE VERSIONS. ..."
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)
"The legendaries are usually made up of biographies and Passions of relatively
great length. Beginning with the thirteenth century, collections of a more ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"The brazen legendaries, by how much more they are in other cases uncapable of
any trust, yield us so much greater plenty of canonical proof for evincing the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... or legendaries, varieties of which are dispersed in libraries and have not
been studied collectively. They generally draw from a common source, ..."
6. Origines Celticae (a Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain by Edwin Guest (1883)
"The legendaries tell us that this royal missionary was himself converted by a
... The Timotheus in question is represented by certain legendaries as the ..."
7. Origines Celticae (a Fragment) and Other Contributions to the History of Britain by Edwin Guest (1883)
"The legendaries tell us that this royal missionary was himself converted by a
... The Timotheus in question is represented by certain legendaries as the ..."
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