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Definition of "obliqui" [obliqui]

  • Plural of obliquus. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "obliqui" in a sentence
  • "Ergo dies aderat Parcarum conditus albo uellere, quo Stellae Violentillaeque professus25 clamaretur hymen. cedant curaeque metusque, cessent mendaces obliqui carminis astus, fama tace: subiit leges et frena momordit ille solutus amor: consumpta est fabula uulgi, et narrata diu uiderunt oscula ciues."
  • "Yet I am sure it will be a most unpleasent Seat, full of Thorns, Briers, thistles, murmuring, fault finding, calumny, obliqui, discrage for I ought I know, and what not."
  • "The law is the straight rule, that rectum which is index sui et obliqui -- that which points out the right and the wrong; it is the proper use and intendment of the law to open our wound, and therefore not likely to be the remedy."