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Definition of Cancrine
1. a. Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.
Definition of Cancrine
1. Adjective. (rare) Of, or pertaining to crabs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cancrine
1. crab-wise [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancrine
Literary usage of Cancrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"Since then, besides the official report to the Minister of Finance, the Count de
cancrine, 1 have submitted to His Imperial Majesty, a tabular view of all ..."
2. Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison: Based on His Journals and Letters with by Sir Archibald Geikie (1875)
"The Emperor, as cancrine had reminded me, had asked me to see him among his true
Russians at Moscow. But this was not to take place for a fortnight, ..."
3. Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas by Charles Frederick Henningsen (1846)
"cancrine is essentially the man of expedients, though he has always been considered
by the emperor as a second Colbert. The fertility of his genius, ..."
4. Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart.; K. C. B., F. R. S.: Bart. ; K.C.B by Archibald Geikie (1875)
"The Emperor, as cancrine had reminded me, had asked me to see him among his true
Russians at Moscow. But this was not to take place for a fortnight, ..."
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