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Definition of Patted
1. pat [v] - See also: pat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patted
Literary usage of Patted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes of Ohio and of the Northwestern Territory, Adopted Or Enacted by Ohio, Salmon Portland Chase, Northwest Territory (1834)
"... Dewitt Clinton president of the board of commissioners for the canal from lake
Erie to Hudson's river. [patted, January 27, 1817. ..."
2. Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain by Edmund Burke (1791)
"... value at leaf! as any which have patted at or fince the period of the Revolution ?
If kings, who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people, ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1863)
"When she had regained his back, and patted him on the neck, he gave a neigh of
mingled triumph and recognition, and she turned his head homeward and ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"And, that the enemy might not be able to take any advantage, a party of dragoons
was fent to keep Cropredy-bridge, until the army was patted beyond it. ..."
5. A Companion to the Temple, Or A Help to Devotion, in the Daily Use of the by Thomas Comber (1676)
"... this may be thought moft proper to be ufed after the Candidates have patted
Examination, as the other is ..."
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