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Thine


Definition:

  • (pron. & a.) A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was headed with the following Shakespeare quotation: "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
  • (2) Photograph: Allstar Prithee, avert thine brain, for this Canadian-Irish production does dance a merry hornpipe upon the very phizog of historical accuracy.
  • (3) For thine is the Kone, the Puncheon and the Gallas, Fer Yaya and Yaya.
  • (4) The ability of 1,3,8-substituted xanthines (1,3-dipropyl-8-(4-(2-aminoethyl)amino)carbonylmethyloxyphenyl) xan thine (XAC), 1,3-dipropyl-8-(4-carboxymethyloxyphenyl)xanthine (XCC), 1,3-dipropyl-8-(2-amino-4-chlorophenyl)xanthine (PACPX), 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX), 1,3-diethyl-8-phenylxanthine (DPX) and 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT)), of 1,3,7-substituted xanthines (1-propargyl-3,7-dimethylxanthine (PGDMX) and caffeine), and of a 3-substituted xanthine (enprofylline) to antagonize the inhibitory effect of 2-chloroadenosine (CADO) on the amplitude of nerve-evoked twitches was investigated in innervated sartorius muscles of the frog.
  • (5) Some other xan-thines and drugs frequently co-administered with theophylline did not affect results.
  • (6) Although the 4 samples were similar in age distribution and none were contracepting, thine proportions becoming pregnant within the 1st 2 years after entry into unions were somewhat different, suggesting the importance of behavioral factors.
  • (7) In any case, the commandment meant only "Thou shalt not kill members of thine own tribe".
  • (8) 1 Know thine enemy It is droll to observe nutritional advice at the public health level; governments and their agencies always approach obesity as though it were a problem of information or – in the popular phrasing – "awareness".
  • (9) "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet is the line that will always be with me.
  • (10) And none of that for-thine-is-the-kingdom "life-changing job" tosh, neither.
  • (11) Thus, the dissociation of ER constituents into two groups (b and c), achieved by subfractionating microsomes by isopycnic centrifugation (Beaufay, H., A. Amar-Costesec, D. Thines-Sempoux, M. Wibo, M. Robbi, and J. Berthet.

Yours


Definition:

  • (pron.) See the Note under Your.

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