1598 examples of equivalents in sentences

For the sake of the good opinion society would maintain of itself, it sends the latter nowadays to hospitals, sanitaria, or their equivalents, where protection for itself without punishment for them may be practised.

Now try to make a circle to the right, a volte we call it, because it is best to become accustomed to a few French words, as there are really no English equivalents for many of the terms used in the art of equestrianism.

As you look up the words of a foreign language in the lexicon, trying to memorize their English equivalents, take plenty of time.

This obligation is founded upon equivalents granted by the treaty to the Government and people of the United States.

The Chippewa equivalents are in the order stated, Cheman and Agákwut.

How shall a man say "raca," or "that fox," if there be no equivalents for the words in barbarous languages?

[Footnote 35: Not and Tod, the German equivalents for Need and Death, form a rhyme.

We know exactly how many equivalents of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen enter into the composition of each of the animal elements; but we can no more imitate an organic element than we can form a leaf.

The original meaning, indeed, of recht did not point to law, but to physical straightness; as wrong and its Latin equivalents meant twisted or tortuous; and from this it is argued that right did not originally mean law, but on the contrary law meant right.

The Globe was frequented by young "bloods" and by the more disreputable portions of the community, racing men (or their equivalents of that day) "coney catchers" and the like; commonly the only women present were women of the town.

The estimates in Rhode Island and Jamaica currencies, which were then depreciated, as stated in the document, to twelve for one and seven for five sterling respectively, are here changed into their approximate sterling equivalents.]

"Pipsqueaks," "crumps" and "Jack Johnsons," picturesque equivalents for unpleasant things, have long been familiar even to arm-chair experts.

Concerning equivalents, he evidently argues fallaciously; for he urges, that the using of them "does not dispense with the necessity of the definite passive voice.

Here the first two passive forms, and their names too, are thrown together; the former as equivalents, the latter as coalescents. 8.

It had lost half of its old words, and had filled their places with French equivalents.

The Promptorium, the name of which has now become a household word to students of the history of English, is a vocabulary containing some 10,000 wordssubstantives, adjectives, and verbswith their Latin equivalents, which, as edited by Mr. Albert Way for the Camden Society in 1865, makes a goodly volume.

The Second Part contains the ordinary words 'explained' by their hard equivalents, and is intended to teach a learned style.

The plain man or gentlewoman may write a letter in his or her natural language, and then by turning up the simple words in the dictionary alter them into their learned equivalents.

But I tell you this: the faith of our Christian community is not robust enough to bear the turning of our most sacred language into its depolarized equivalents.

These vowels, or their equivalents in sound, will be found pretty accurately represented in the last two syllables of every alternate line throughout the scene, which ends at p. 25, and where the verse changes into the full consonant rhyme.

The vowels here used are e, e, or their equivalents.

In the whole of this scene the asonante vowels are a-e, or their equivalents.

no doubt will be severe, the equivalents of Gladstone and Morley will stop at nothing to defeat the Bill; but it will nevertheless be carried by patriotic Conservative and Unionist majorities, and it will be written in the Statute Book that not more than one child in a hundred shall be taught to read, and no more than one in ten thousand shall learn the piano.

For instance, the English equivalents of the same Latin origin as the sonorous Spanish terms that are used so naturally by the man-servant Bruno and the garrulous Nicolasa would be strangers to the lips of English-speaking individuals of corresponding station.

If we are to use foreign words (and, if we have no equivalents, we must use them) it is certainly much better that they should be incorporated in our language, and made available for common use.

1598 examples of  equivalents  in sentences