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Definition of Autos
1. auto [v] - See also: auto
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autos
Literary usage of Autos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega by Hugo Albert Rennert (1909)
"CHAPTER XIV The representation of autos sacramentales. Description of the autos at
... Sums paid for the representation of autos. autos in the theaters. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The best edition of the autos continues to be that of J. Fernandez de ...
These little pieces (see autos SACRAMENTALES) deal only with the Eucharistie ..."
3. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"he had not given his whole life to writing autos and other similar religious ...
48 Preface of Joseph Ortis de Villena, prefixed to the autos in Tom. ..."
4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"In 1559 and 1560, two great autos da fé were held in the two cities where heresy
had taken the ... Similar autos da ¡è occurred in various other places, ..."
5. History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature by Friedrich Bouterwek (1823)
"The autos, or spiritual dramas, contained in the collected works of this poet,
... They cannot properly be called Corpus Christi pieces, or autos ..."
6. Etude pratique du paludisme et des parasites du sang by John William Watson Stephens, John Addington Symonds, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1904)
"... Inquisition organised by Caraffa differed from it—autos da fe in Bome—Proscription
of suspected Lutherans—The Calabrian Waldenses—Protestants at Locarno ..."
7. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"The example of Valladolid was soon followed by autos, de fe in Granada, Toledo,
Seville, Barcelona, —in short, in the twelve capitals in which tribunals of ..."