Cornu Sentence Examples

Like Fortune, with whom she is often coupled in inscriptions on Roman tombstones, she was also represented with the cornu copiae (horn of plenty).

Cornu (C.R., 1875, 80, p. 655), who thus explains an anomaly observed by FIG.

The explanation of the difference of focus upon the two sides as due to unequal spacing was verified by Cornu upon gratings purposely constructed with an increasing interval.

Let us reconsider, following Cornu, the diffraction of a screen unlimited on one side, and on the other terminated by a straight edge.

He was then, at Sarum, censed by the deacon, and an acolyte censed the choir; at Bangor the Sinistrum Cornu of the altar and the relics were censed instead.

Elsewhere he was represented as a boy with a cornu copiae.

Myrioblepharis, with a peculiar multiciliate zoospore like that of Vaucheria, is provisionally placed in the same group. Monoblepharis was first described by Cornu in 1871, but from that time until 1895 when Roland Thaxter described several species from America the genus was completely lost sight of.

If we may believe Mme Cornu, he already at the age of twelve had dreams of empire.

His more intellectual friends, such as Mme Cornu, also came to visit him and assisted him in his studies.

Cornu's analysers xxi.

Unlike the buccina, cornu and tuba, the other military service instruments of the Romans, the lituus has not been traced during the middle ages, the medieval instrument most nearly resembling it being the cromorne or tournebout, which, however, had lateral holes and was played by means of a reed mouthpiece.

The remnants of the arch are known as the sacral cornu, and are located on either side of the hiatus.