Lexicographical Neighbors of Aligarta
Literary usage of Aligarta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (1859)
"In Ben Jonson, who writes " aligarta," we see the word in the process of its
transformation.* One of the most legitimate methods by which a language may ..."
2. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"... and is called by our English mariners aligarta, by the Spaniards Caiman, &c.
MM. A tortoise is a fish that lives in the sea. [Long descriptions of the ..."
3. Studies in English: Or, Glimpses of the Inner Life of Our Language by Maximilian Schele de Vere (1867)
"In Ben Jonson we find the contraction with the article already established, as
he calls the creature an aligarta, and when English sailors landed in America ..."
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