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Pou sto   Listen
noun
Pou sto  n.  A place to stand upon; a locus standi; hence, a foundation or basis for operations.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pou sto" Quotes from Famous Books



... integros accedere fonteis; : Atque haurire: iuratque (sic) novos decerpere flores. : Unde prius nulli velarint tempora nausae. : Primum quod magnis doceo de rebus; et arctis : Religionum animos nodis exsolvere pergo. : Lucret. lib. 4 : Dos pou sto, kai kosmon kineso. : Archimedes. : London: : Printed by P. B. Shelley, : 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... annual track How long!—let others count the miles,— And peddled out my rhyming pack To friends who always paid in smiles. So, laissez-moi! some youthful wit No doubt has wares he wants to show; And I am asking, "Let me sit," Dum ille clamat, "Dos pou sto!" ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various

... effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent^, plenipotent^, omnipotent; almighty. forcible &c adj.. (energetic) 171; influential &c 175; productive &c 168. Adv. powerfully &c adj.; by virtue of, by dint of. Phr. a toute force [Fr.]; dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen [Gr.]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [Lat.]; fortis cadere cedere ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... patching, not so careful for what is best as for what will do, with a clasp to his purse and a button to his pocket, not skilled to build against Time, as in old countries, but against sore-pressing Need, accustomed to move the world with no [Greek: pou sto] but his own two feet, and no lever but his own long forecast. A strange hybrid, indeed, did circumstance beget, here in the New World, upon the old Puritan stock, and the earth never before saw such mystic-practicalism, such niggard-geniality, such calculating-fanaticism, such ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



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