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Definition of Epicenes
1. epicene [n] - See also: epicene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicenes
Literary usage of Epicenes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New High German: A Comparative Study by William Winston Valentine (1894)
"With the names of birds in Eng. the epicenes fluctuate between Masc. and ...
By means of an Attributive Adjective with epicenes when the desire is to be ..."
2. The Sacra Idulia in Ovid's Fasti: A Study of Ovid's Credibility in Regard to by Horace Wetherill Wright (1917)
"It would seem possible only in the case of true epicenes, if such a term may be
employed; that is, of words which have only one grammatical gender, ..."
3. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"From nouns of Common gender, those termed epicenes ... To these epicenes belong,
first, most of the names of beasts, ..."
4. The New American Latin Grammar, Or, A Complete Introduction to the Latin by Edward Rigg (1807)
"epicenes, These are commonly called epicenes, in which the Sex cannot easily be
distinguished; and being but of one Gender, do. notwithstanding, ..."
5. A Grammar of the Latin Language: For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Ethan Allen Andrews, Solomon Stoddard (1853)
"epicenes. NEUTERS. § 31. When nouns of the common gender denote males, ...
epicenes. Names of animals which include both sexes, but which admit of an ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"Both terms, however, Godard and Franck, appear in this case to be used as epicenes,
ie, without reference to sex.] L'Abbaye de Quincy. ..."
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