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Cortes
Cortes Cor"tes (k?r"t?s), n. pl. [Sp. & Pg., fr. corte court.]
The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and
representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal
answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.
Cortes GeraesCortes Geraes Cor"tes Ge*ra"es [Pg.]
See Legislature, Portugal. portessePortass Por"tass, n. [OF. porte-hors a kind of prayer book, so
called from being portable; cf. LL. portiforium.]
A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace,
portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos,
portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] --Spenser. Camden.
By God and by this porthors I you swear. --Chaucer. PortessePortesse Por"tesse, n.
See Porteass. [Obs.] --Tyndale. ShortestShort Short, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE.
short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
t. Cf. Shirt.]
1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it. --Isa. xxviii.
20.
2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
protracted; as, short breath.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
--Chaucer.
To short absense I could yield. --Milton.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
money.
We shall be short in our provision. --Shak.
5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
trith.
6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence
should be so short. --Spenser.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
to be ready by a short day. --Clarendon.
7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than
the present. --Rowe.
8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
them again to war. --Landor.
9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
answer to the question.
10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
crisp; as, short pastry.
11. (Metal) Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
of the presence of phosphorus.
12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short,
under Short, adv.
Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
after being presented to the payer.
13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or
to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide
to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See
under Come, Cut, etc. SortesSors Sors, n.; pl. Sortes. [L.]
A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homeric[ae] or Virgilian[ae] [L., Homeric or
Virgilian lots], 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. SortesSortes Sor"tes, n.,
pl. of Sors. Sortes HomericaeSors Sors, n.; pl. Sortes. [L.]
A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homeric[ae] or Virgilian[ae] [L., Homeric or
Virgilian lots], 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.
Meaning of Ortes from wikipedia
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Orte is a town, comune,
former Catholic bishopric and
Latin titular see in the
province of Viterbo, in the
central Italian region of Lazio,
located about...
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Orte Cathedral or the
Basilica of
Santa Maria ****unta,
Orte (Italian:
Duomo di
Orte;
Basilica Concattedrale di
Santa Maria ****unta), is the main Roman...
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Giovanni Maria Ortes (2
March 1713 – 22 July 1790) was a
Venetian composer, economist, mathematician,
Camaldolese monk, and philosopher.
Ortes was one of...
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Catholic church located on Via
Matteotti in the
historic center of the town of
Orte in the
province of Viterbo,
region of Lazio, Italy. The
church was founded...
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Orthez (French pronunciation: [
ɔʁtɛs]; Basque: Ortheze; Occitan:
Ortès,
pronounced [urˈtɛs]) is a
commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, and...
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Orte railway station (Italian:
Stazione di
Orte)
serves the town and
comune of
Orte, in the
region of Lazio,
central Italy.
Opened in 1865, it
forms part...
- century, two wars
resulted in an
expansion to
thirteen cantons (Dreizehn
Orte): in the
Burgundian Wars of the 1470s, the
confederates ****erted
their hegemony...
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Florentine edition of
Galileo Galilei's works.
Giovanni Lami,
Giammaria Ortes and
Abondio Collina were
among his pupils.
Geometrica demonstratio Vivianeorum...
- was a
loose confederation of
independent small states (cantons,
German Orte or Stände),
initially within the Holy
Roman Empire. It is the
precursor of...
- The
Diocese of
Orte (Latin:
Dioecesis Hort****) was a
Roman Catholic diocese located in the town of
Orte in the
province of
Viterbo in the
Italian region...
