Definition of Arguses

1. argus [n] - See also: argus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arguses

arguments
argumentum
argumentum ad Lazarum
argumentum ad etymologiam
argumentum ad fidem
argumentum ad nauseam
argumentum ad numerum
argumentum ad populum
argumentum ad verecundiam
argumentums ad hominem
argus
argus-eyed
argus pheasant
argus shell
arguses (current term)
argutation
argutations
argute
argutely
arguteness
argutite
argy-bargied
argy-bargies
argy-bargy
argy-bargying
argyle
argyles
argyll
argylls

Literary usage of Arguses

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)
"... he had been heralded in I know not how many Weekly arguses, and it was rumored that he had an army behind him and an empire before him. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"Are we really at the close of a war, or only at the beginning of one still greater? Take up the newspapers—those arguses, whose eves travel to and fro on ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"... he had been heralded in I know not how many "Weekly arguses, "and it was rumored that he had an army behind him and an empire before him. ..."

4. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"I long to hear, from my several correspondents at Leip- sig, of your arrival there, and what impression you make on them at first; for I have arguses, ..."

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