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Definition of Runagates
1. runagate [n] - See also: runagate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runagates
Literary usage of Runagates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State Policy in Irish Education, A.D. 1536 to 1816: Exemplified in Documents by Timothy Corcoran (1916)
"From the Queen's House at Kilmainham, 20 May, 1579 [should be 1577]- AD 1579.
10. — A Midland University projected for Irish * runagates. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: From the Earliest by Great Britain Parliament (1763)
"... which [were] the Borders of the * two Kingdoms ; where heretofore much Blood *
were Habitations but for runagates^ are now * was ..."
3. A Motley by John Galsworthy (1910)
"THE runagates EVERYTHING was still. It was sundown, there was not the faintest
breeze to stir the warm, sleepy air. Along the straggling street, ..."
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