Crossword-Solution: CAPITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Capite | n. | See under Tenant. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “CAPITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of a tenant holding: Lat. | 1 answer |
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Front part of the eye
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
OEARNC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with CAPITE (5)
Liz, in consideration of his providing shoes for his horses.[20] But though the practice of horse-shoeing is said to have been introduced to this country at the time of the Conquest, it is probably of an earlier date; as, according to Dugdale, an old Saxon tenant in capite of Welbeck in Nottinghamshire, named Gamelbere, held two carucates of land by the service of shoeing the king's palfrey on all four feet with the king's nails, as oft as the king should lie at the neighbouring manor of Mansfield.
This was an estate of some 320 acres, six miles from Hythe, in the Bailiwick and Hundred of Stowting, and the Lathe of Shipway, held of the Crown _in capite_ by the service of six men and a constable to defend the passage of the sea at Sandgate.
Solus libero capite, ornamento in manu otioso.—G Note: Tertullian does not expressly name the two emperors, Severus and Caracalla: he speaks only of two emperors, and of a long peace which the church had enjoyed.
Olivet) affirms that the decemvirs made libels a capital offence: cum perpaucas res capite sanxisent—perpaucus!] 178 (return) [ Bynkershoek (Observat.
Men shall hold of me _in capite;_ and we charge and command that their wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).