geminous

English

Etymology

Latin geminus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛmɪnəs

Adjective

geminous (not comparable)

1. double; in pairs
   • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)

     And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.

   • 1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:

     The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “geminous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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