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Definition of Confreres
1. confrere [n] - See also: confrere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confreres
Literary usage of Confreres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"HIEROGLYPHIC RECORDS—THE NATIVE BOOKS—AUTHORITIES—DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIVE
ARCHIVES BY ZUMARRAGA AND HIS confreres— PICTURE-WRITINGS USED AFTER THE ..."
2. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"And a master of an hospital may have a writ of right, because the right remaineth
in him and his confreres, SfC. And so of (18) other like cases, (19) SfC. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"... and asks the co-operation of his confreres in the establishing of his improvement
of the same in the treatment of closure of the Eustachian tube. ..."
4. In Viking Land: Norway: Its Peoples, Its Fjords and Its Fjelds by Will Seymour Monroe (1908)
"... Early Scandinavian mythology — Odin and Thor the supreme gods — Resemblance
to their Greek confreres — Minor Norse gods — The ancient heathen temple and ..."
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