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UK
/kwˈɒndəm/
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ADJECTIVE
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belonging to some prior time
the once capital of the state
her quondam lover
our former glory
erstwhile friend
How To Use quondam In A Sentence
- Has arbores seu arbusta Balsami fecit quondam quidam de Caliphis Aegypti de loco Engaddi inter mare mortuum, et Ierico, vbi Domino volente excreuerat, eradicari, et in argo pr鎑icto plantari: est tamen hoc mirandum, quod vbicuncque alibi siue prope, siue remote plantantur, quamuis fort� virent, et exurgant, non tamen fructificant. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- _quondam_ "jarvey," who understood the handling of horses as every The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
- Is, dum parit鑢 colloqueremur, interseruit aliquid dictis, per quod tandem nostra inuicem renouabatur antiqua notitia, quam quondam habueramus in Cayr Aegypti apud Melech Mandibron Soldanum, prout supr� tetigi in 7. capitulo libri. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- ILLE ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena carmen, et egressus siluis uicina coegi ut quamuis auido parerent arua colono, 15 gratum opus agricolis: at nunc horrentia Martis. The Aeneid
- Had I known you as the Wife of any but the 'quondam' Greek Professor, I should very likely have sent it to you: since it was meant for those who might wish for some insight into a Play {109} which I must think they can scarcely have been tempted into before by any previous Translation. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II
- quod quondam bene fructuosa malus autumnis sterilis duobus adstem? non me praegrauat, ut putas, senectus, nec sum grandine uerberata dura, 5 nec gemmas modo germine exeuntis seri frigoris ustulauit aura, nec uenti pluuiaeue siccitasue, quod de se quererer, malum dederunt; non sturnus mihi gracculusue raptor10 aut cornix anus aut aquosus anser aut coruus nocuit siticulosus: sed quod carmina pessimi poetae ramis sustineo laboriosis. The Complaint of the Garden God
- A second illustration: -- Did Curio, the 'quondam' patriot, reformer, and semi-revolutionist, abjure his opinion, and yell the foremost in the hunt of persecution against his old friends and fellow-philosophists, with a cold clear predetermination, formed at one moment, of making Literary Remains, Volume 1
- Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.
- Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse perditum ducas. fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles … Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- Johannes Quondam Papa XXIII: to which inscription Martin V, Cossa's successful rival at Constance, is said to have taken exception; but the Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition