Definition of Sortitions

1. sortition [n] - See also: sortition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortitions

sortie
sortied
sortieing
sorties
sortilege
sortileges
sortilegious
sorting
sorting algorithm
sorting algorithms
sorting oneself out
sorting out
sorting program
sortings
sortition
sortitions
sortment
sortments
sorts
sorts oneself out
sorts out
sortsa
sorus
sorwe
sorweful
sorwes
sory
sos
sos response (genetics)
sosatie

Literary usage of Sortitions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"His inquiry runs—" Whether the advowsons of benefices in the gift of your church be not passed by balls or sortitions to private ..."

2. The History of Harvard University by Josiah Quincy (1840)
"... and to the Anatomical Museum connected with it, he made in the course of his after life many valuable additions. f • IT ii • i sortitions In 1808, ..."

3. Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate by William Conyngham Plunket Plunket, John Baptist Cashel Hoey (1862)
"sortitions, or to the individuals whose good fame should be blasted by the publication of the most foul and unfounded calumnies, if the printers and ..."

4. Roman antiquities: or An account of the manners and customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1835)
"... iejudices dare sortitions, qui causant cognoscant, to appoint judices to judge of causes.1 Then the plaintiff required that the defendant should give ..."

5. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"... upon thy seamless coat: (those poor spoils cannot so much enrich them as glorify thee, whose Scriptures are fulfilled by their barbarous sortitions. ..."

6. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in the Practical Study of Chemistry by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson, Silas Hamilton Douglas (1895)
"... sortitions, addition of potassium sulphate causes the crystallization of alum, potassium aluminium ..."

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