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Definition of Cornutes
1. cornute [v] - See also: cornute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornutes
Literary usage of Cornutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"cornutes. IN pursuing our notices of marriage customs we come to the consideration
of the vulgar saying, that a husband wears horns, or is a cornute, ..."
2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Mendoza ia the man makes thee a horu'd beast ; duke, Ч is Mendoza cornutes thee.
Pi'etro. What conf ormance ? * Relate ; short, short. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See Heywood, Witches of Lanes. iv. 230; Oldham, Satires upon the Jesuits, iv (ed.
R. Bell, p. 125). See Brand's Pop. Antiq., cornutes (ed. 1877, p. ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Malevole. Mendoza is the man makes thee a horn'd beast. Duke, 'tis Mendoza cornutes
thee. Pietro. What conformance ? relate; short, short. Malevole. ..."
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