Tyranni


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Tyranni

[tə′ra‚nī]
(vertebrate zoology)
A suborder of suboscine Passeriformes containing birds with limited song power and having the tendon of the hind toe separate and the intrinsic muscles of the syrinx reduced to one pair.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The Urner play dramatizes the well-known episodes of the Tell saga, beginning with the tyrannies of the Austrian Landvogt (bailif) Gessler, particularly his arrogant gesture of placing his hat aloft on a pole in the marketplace of Altdorf and compelling the Swiss to do it homage.
Other undetermined species of this genus were associated with Basileuterusflaveolus and Synallaxis scutata, previously reported as hosts of Nycteridocaulus tyranni, in Central Brazil (Kanegae et al., 2008).
(51) Judaei quidem impugnant Christi incarnationem, haeretici Scripturarum veritatem (tam hi quam illi impugnant Christi fidem), schismatici obedientiam et Ecclesiae unitatem, Sarraceni et pagani ecclesiasticam pacem, tyranni et mali christiani Ecclesiae libertatem, falsi fratres charitatem.
(28) The rebellions convinced him that one old saw still cut: ubi enim tyranni desunt, tyrannizant populi, people tend to tyrannize in the absence of tyrants.
His Arcadias take for granted, as readily as his Defence, the necessity and virtue of tyranni cide.
(14.) The adjective Niliacus is used at 5.475 (Niliaca harena, alluding to the death of Pompey); 8.281 (aetas Niliaci tyranni) 9.135 (litore Niliaco, again alluding to Pompey's death); 9.816 (our Niliaca serpens); 9.1023 (accipe Niliaca ius gurgitis); 10.80 (Niliaco); 10.91 (urbes Niliacas); 10.160 (Niliacas aquas); and 10.192 (Niliacos fontes).