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Definition of Adverted
1. advert [v] - See also: advert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adverted
Literary usage of Adverted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 by Hugh Blair Grigsby (1890)
"said that if we adverted to the democratic, aristocratical, or executive branch
of this new government, we would find their powers perpetually varying and ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"His Lordship then adverted briefly to the great hardship of the case, and the
result was, that the time was enlarged on ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"I think Napoleon adverted to it in his conversation with the English physician
appointed to attend to his health ; but he did not, if I recollect rightly, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"To this Romilly adverted in his reply by declaring that ' he ' listened with
pleasure to such sentiments from one whom ' public rumour had marked out for a ..."
5. The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe (1803)
"... his important task1', to the progress of which he has occasionally adverted
in his own works'. Whether his youthful labours fell a sacrifice to the ..."
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