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Definition of Litmuses
1. litmus [n] - See also: litmus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litmuses
Literary usage of Litmuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"He gave a welcome asylum to (litmuses which persecution banished from Constantinople,
and every where encouraged the cultivation of science. ..."
2. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1809)
"This inquiry is not only poetically beautiful, like Homer's Hia*', 2. -185, in
which he addresses litmuses with a similar plea, VX-'T 7«f -*<*' Mm, ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"161. litmuses from borrowers belong to the estate. Savage v. Gould, 60 How. Pr.
For the saino reason, the executor may l>e required by the probate court to ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1885)
"I'v an application of the earlier, without sacrificing the later and larger
litmuses, th« I'tt- miums may be made to terminate during lilt without ..."
5. The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices by William Turner Coggeshall (1860)
"... but in his later life was unwilling to be reminded that he hud ever courted
litmuses. The specimens of hie unacknowledged newspaper contributions which ..."
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