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Lumine Sicco (In)

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Disinterestedly; as a dry question to be resolved without regard to other matters.

“If physiological considerations have any meaning, it will be always impossible for women to view the subject [of women’s suffrage] in lumine sicco.”—The Nineteenth Century (The Hon. Mrs. Chapman April, 1886).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Luez
Luff
Lufra
Luggie
Luggnagg
Luke (St.)
Luke’s Iron Crown
Lullian Method
Lumber (from Lombard)
Lumine Sicco (In)
Lump
Lumpkin (Tony)
Lun
Luna
Lunar Month
Lunar Year
Lunatics
Luncheon. (Welsh, llonc or llwnc, a gulp; llyncu, to swallow at a gulp.)
Lungs of London
Lunsford