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præcipice
præcipice
English
Noun
præcipice (plural præcipices)
- Obsolete form of precipice.
- 1632–1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion, in The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion (William Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.), page 124:
- Nay, sir, ’tis as I told you :—you may as soon recall an arrow when ’tis flying, or a stone from præcipice, as reclaim him.
- 1632–1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion, in The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion (William Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.), page 124: