87 examples of coeval in sentences

Every one knows that the Roman Catholic religion is at least coeval with most of the governments where it prevails; that it has generally gone hand in hand with them, and received great favor and every kind of support from authority.

But these later edifices were erected in the Middle Ages, coeval with the cathedrals of Europe, and therefore do not properly come under the head of ancient art, in which the ancient Hindus, whether of Aryan or Turanian descent, did not particularly excel.

Mr. Choate honestly confesses that sectional jealousies are coeval with the country itself, but it is only as fomented by Anti-slavery-extension that he finds them dreadful.

Adj. synchronous, synchronal^, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical^; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval, coevous^; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous^; coeternal; isochronous.

The glass is coeval with the building, which has been described as the most perfect Gothic chapel in existence.

The practice of defraying out of the Treasury of the United States the expenses incurred by the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers within the bays, inlets, harbors, and ports of the United States, to render the navigation thereof safe and easy, is coeval with the adoption of the Constitution, and has been continued without interruption or dispute.

The origin of the political relations between the United States and France is coeval with the first years of our independence.

[320:1] So Westcott in S.D. iii. 1692, n. Tregelles, in Horne's Introduction, p. 333, speaks of this translation as 'coeval, apparently, with Irenaeus himself.'

A second law, which is coeval with the school law, renders it illegal for any young man to marry before he is twenty-five, or any young woman before she is eighteen; and a young man, at whatever age he wishes to marry, must show, to the police and the priest of the commune where he resides, that he is able, and has the prospect, to provide for a wife and family.

If it be so, the imputation on the public honor is aggravated by the consideration that the claims are coeval with the present century, and it has been a persistent wrong during that whole period of time.

With regard to the age of forests, it may be affirmed that there are some undoubtedly in existence which are coeval with the earliest history of nations; but no individual trees are of such antiquity.

"The law of nature," says Blackstone, "being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.

The legal maxim of 'Partus sequitur ventrem' is coeval with the existence of the rights of property itself, and is founded in wisdom and justice.

And as it was now that season I hurried down from the gap in the blue-grey hills by an elfin path that was coeval with fable, and came by means of it to the edge of the wood.

It will serve also to prove that the testimony of Friends against slavery is no novelty, but is coeval with its rise as a distinct religious body.

The question is of recent date, not even coeval with the modern anti-slavery enterprise; and the practice, at the origination of this enterprise, that of separate action.

A part of the fortifications, according to tradition, are coeval with Caesar's incursions into Gaul; and the islanders hold it famous in their oldest story, and of antiquity beyond record.

And Earth has need of Prophets fiery-lipped And deep-souled, to announce the glorious dooms Writ on the silent heavens in starry script, And flashing fitfully from her shuddering tombs, Commissioned Angels of the new-born Faith, To teach the immortality of Good, The soul's God-likeness, Sin's coeval death, And Man's indissoluble Brotherhood.

This implement was known to the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and was invented at a very early period, being perhaps nearly coeval with the cultivation of the soil itself.

But thou art coeval with the race; there lives not a man who will not bow before thy sceptre; all must drink from thy cup.

"Number, which distinguishes objects as singly or collectively, must have been coeval with the very infancy of language"Jamieson's Rhet., p. 25.

Coeval with the decline of commerce and the extermination of sailing ships was the cessation of this Phoenician emigration to America.

And Miriam, knowing the worship and protection in his delicate caress, looked up into his face and smiledand the smile in her grey eyes was that ancient mother-smile which is coeval with life.

But the word stuck because of a rhyme, in which one was ... crowned coeval With Monadnock's crest,

Congress have exercised the power coeval with the Constitution of establishing light-houses, beacons, buoys, and piers on our ocean and lake shores for the purpose of rendering navigation safe and easy and of affording protection and shelter for our Navy and other shipping.

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