Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sors   Listen
noun
Sors  n.  (pl. sortes)  A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae, a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Sors" Quotes from Famous Books



... solitaire, Ici comme moi, Voix qui sors de terre, Ah! reveille-toi! J'attise la flamme, C'est pour t'egayer; Mais il manque une ame, Une ame ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn

... 61.:—"Das Land eines jeden Dorfes, einer jeden Germarkung war wirklich getheilt und, wie es sehr wahrscheinlich, alsdan verlost worden. Daher nannte man dasjenige, was zu einem Grunstueke an Aekern, Wiesen gehoerte, ein Los (Sors). Das Burgundische Gesetz redet ausfdruecklich vom Lande das man in Lose erhalten hat (Terra sortis titulo acquisita, Tit. i. Sec. 1.)" Schmeller, in his Bayrishces Wort. B. v. Lud-aigen, also points to the connection ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 27. Saturday, May 4, 1850 • Various

... primum esse virum, qui ipse consulat, quid in rem sit, secundum eum, qui bene monenti oboediat; qui {5} nec ipse consulere nec alteri parere sciat, eum extremi ingenii esse. Nobis quoniam prima animi ingeniique negata sors est, secundam ac mediam teneamus et, dum imperare discimus, parere prudenti in animum inducamus. Castra cum Fabio iungamus; ad praetorium {10} eius signa cum tulerimus, ubi ego eum parentem appellavero, quod ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce



Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com