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Definition of Cubages
1. cubage [n] - See also: cubage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubages
Literary usage of Cubages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Celts Or Gauls by Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank (1827)
"As the men of Massilia, according to Ammian, were grown by little and little to
civility, the studies of laudable sciences, begun by the bards, cubages (or ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... bards, cubages (students of nature), and druids—an order like the Pythagoreans.
Suetonius asserts that Claudius extinguished the religion in Gaul, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(F.,-Ital.,-L.) In Shak. Merry Wives, i. I. 124. Spelt cubages in lien Jonson,
The Fox, ii. i ; cabbages in Holland's Pliny, bk. xix. c. 4. ..."
4. Report by United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geographic Board (1916)
"cubages; see Cobbetts. Cube; Mountain (altitude 2927 feet), Orford Town, Grafton
County, NH (Not Cuba.) Cube; Point, northwestern part of Marquette Island, ..."
5. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"Grouped with the druids were two other classes of men, the cubages, or divines,
and the bards. The first performed sacrifices and attempted to discover the ..."
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