2. Noun. (plural of pita) ¹
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Definition of PITAs
1. pita [n] - See also: pita
Lexicographical Neighbors of PITAs
Literary usage of PITAs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia Crítica de la Literatura Espanola by José Amador de los Ríos (1803)
"... Eras'Don Pitas Payas, un pintor de Bretaña; Casó con muger moca, ... Don Pitas
Payas: Donna de fermosura, Yo volo ser en vos una bona figura, ..."
2. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1756)
"... Pitas) an officer who receives all the fines, after they have been with the r»/-
... an officer of the court of Common Pitas, v.ho makes out writs of ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench: And by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis, Colin Blackburn Blackburn, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1853)
"... if he shall be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep, so that you may
have his body before Us [or in the Common Pitas " before Our Justices, ..."
4. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, Thomas Emerson Headlam (1846)
"Of Overruling Pitas. Effect of, 802. ... Of Amending Pitas and Pleading de novo,
804. Leave to amend, in what manner obtained, 805. CHAPTER XV. ..."
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