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Vade mecum   Listen
noun
Vade mecum  n.  A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vade mecum" Quotes from Famous Books



... (Parrhesiades), Swans and Amber, Alexander, Hermotimus (Lycinus), Menippus and Icaromenippus (in which Menippus represents him), A literary Prometheus, Herodotus, Zeuxis, Harmonides, The Scythian, The Death of Peregrine, The Book-fancier, Demonax, The Rhetorician's Vade mecum, Dionysus, Heracles, A Slip of the Tongue, Apology for 'The dependent Scholar.' Of these The Vision is a direct piece of autobiography; there is intentional but veiled autobiography in several of the other pieces; in others ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata



Words linked to "Vade mecum" :   enchiridion, book of facts, ready reckoner, guidebook, reference work, reference book, reckoner, manual, guide, handbook, reference, bible



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