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Tyrannus

noun
1.
Type genus of the Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers.  Synonym: genus Tyrannus.



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"Tyrannus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tyrannus tanquam latro aut stuprator in ipsos faciat impetum, et ipsi nec potestatem ordinariam implorare, nec alia ratione effugere periculum possint, in presenti periculo se et suos contra tyrannum, sicut contra ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... what is new and most important. He, therefore, goes fully into the work at Ephesus. (1) There was the incident of the work of Apollos and the baptism of some of John's disciples. (2) Three months work among the Jews. (3) Two years of teaching in the school of Tyrannus. (4) A "season" after he sent Timotheus and Etastus into Macedonia. The success of this work is seen especially in two incidents. (1) The burning of the books of the Jewish exorcists which were valued at over $31,000. (2) The checking of ...
— The Bible Period by Period - A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods • Josiah Blake Tidwell

... strung together by the accident that they all happen to the same person. 'Tom Jones,' on the contrary, has a carefully constructed plot, if not, as Coleridge asserts, one of the three best plots in existence (its rivals being 'Oedipus Tyrannus' and 'The Alchemist'). Its excellence depends upon the skill with which it is made subservient to the development of character and the thoroughness with which the working motives of the persons involved have been thought out. Fielding claims—even ostentatiously—that ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen

... is sure to. Marcia is a Christian; when he tires of her he will use her Christianity for the excuse and throw the Christians to the lions by the thousand in order to justify himself for murdering the only decent woman of his acquaintance. Sic semper tyrannus. Say what you will about Marcia, she has done her best to keep Commodus from making a public exhibition ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy



Words linked to "Tyrannus" :   superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannus tyrannus, kingbird, genus Tyrannus, bird genus, Tyrannus vociferans, Tyrannidae



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