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Definition of Fillips
1. fillip [v] - See also: fillip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fillips
Literary usage of Fillips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tolondron: Speeches to John Bowle about His Edition of Don Quixote; Together by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1786)
"... poco a poco, as he goes on, getting fillips under his chin, and raps on his
knuckles. ... fillips ..."
2. The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré, George Bruce Halsted (1907)
"These fillips are legitimate; I do not refuse to admit them; but they suffice to
tell us that the properties of space are not experimental truths, ..."
3. The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science by Henri Poincaré (1913)
"Should we not always have been able to justify these fillips by the same reasons ?
One could at most have said to us: 'Your fillips are doubtless legitimate ..."
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