Lexicographical Neighbors of Tersions
Literary usage of Tersions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"It is divided into three portions ; the first is doctrinal ; the second contains
metrical tersions of Psalms, with some hymns chiefly from the German ..."
2. The Rambler by Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1809)
"... it is particularly to be dreaded -by fine ladies, who have had no other end
or ambition than to fill up the day and the night with dress, di- tersions, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1809)
"These tersions, which are evidently the productions of Dryden, possess considerable
merit, and we are thankful to Mr. S. for our acquaintance with them ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1813)
"... and, at the same time, they may ask why the Sunday cabinet-dinners of the
ministers of state have not fallen under Mrs. M.'s animad- tersions. ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1840)
"Besides, they are good lawful di- tersions for the duller sort of citizens, who
contract diseases for want of motion ; they supply the building of pyramids ..."
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