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Definition of Adages
1. adage [n] - See also: adage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adages
Literary usage of Adages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"The < Book of adages' was the first broadside sent from the new scholarship into
... In the <adages ' Erasmus proclaimed war against the mendicant friars ..."
2. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1847)
"In 1500 was printed at Paris the first edition of Erasmus's adages, ... The adages,
which were now about eight hundred, amounted in his last edition to 4151 ..."
3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips, John A Heraud, Benson E Hill (1797)
"There is no profit in the bramble, until it be hewn down. fend yoll the Hebrew
adages, ... adages ..."
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