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anile

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or like a feeble old woman

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  • The aquamanile eventually evolved for secular use during the renaissance and these items found their way onto the dinner tables of the rich.
  • The final lesson of the campanile was that towers were best seen as a whole.
  • Learning how to simultaneously walk and chew gum will soon be added to the menu of anile crap that our self-regarding progressive school system 'facilitates'. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • Several new varieties of metalwork also were added to the old, especially the aquamanile, i.e., a vessel in the form of an animal, used for washing the hands, and the metal structures placed upon the altar; other articles assumed new forms. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Not too be too anile, but I think that is from A New Pilgrims Progress, not Roughing it Digesting Good Literature
  • An aquamanile comes with a bowl or a basin to collect the water.
  • On display will be small bronze sculptures, liturgical implements, artifacts in gold, glass cabinets, altar paintings, water containers known as aquamaniles and statues.
  • Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations. Theologico-Political Treatise
  • His revolutionary conception of sculpture is first exemplified in the great series of standing and seated figures for the niches of Or San Michele and for the façades of Florence Cathedral and the campanile.
  • To-day, if you walk through Florence, the City of Flowers, you will still see its fairest flower of all, the tall white campanile or bell-tower, 'Giotto's tower' as it is called. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
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