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CIS

noun

An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991. Synonym: Commonwealth of Independent States.

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"CIS" Quotes from Famous Books

... bis'cuit al'oes knap'sack prac'tice fil'bert dac'tyl lad'der rab'id im'age fash'ion lat'tice rap'id im'pulse gal'ley lan'cet tac'tics mil'dew bit'tern crys'tal crim'son kid'ney brisk'et dis'tance grid'dle lin'tel cis'tern dis'taff live'long liq'uid chim'ney dwin'dle gyp'sy liq'uor chis'el pick'le ...

— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey

... invit, refusant d'accepter les dites conditions et obligations, recourt la guerre centre un Etat signataire, les dispositions de l'article 16 du Pacte, telles qu'elles sont prcises par le prsent Protocole, ...

— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller

... son teint un peu olivtre, ne l'empchaient pas d'avoir un visage imposant et agrable. (Rvolutions d'Espagne, tom. iv. liv. viii.; Mariana, Hist. d'Espagne, tom. ii. liv. xxv.; Hist. de Ferdinand et d'Isabelle, par M. l'Abb Mignot, &c.)"—Florian, Gonzalve de Cordoue, Prcis Historique sur les Maures d'Espagne, quatrime poque, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 • Various

... wait a pair of oars On cis-Elysian river-shores. Where the immortal dead have sate, 'Tis mine to sit and meditate; To re-ascend life's rivulet, Without remorse, without regret; And sing my ALMA GENETRIX Among ...

— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the most important of Philadelphia writers, the first professional man-of-letters in America, and the predecessor of all cis-Atlantic novelists, was born in Philadelphia, January 17, 1771, and in that city he founded, in 1803-4, the Literary Magazine and ...

— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... your mother," said the outspoken daughter of "proud Cis." "My Lady Duchess mother is stern enough if we do not bridle our heads, and if we make ourselves too friendly with the meine, but she never frets nor rates us, and does not heed so long as we do not demean ourselves unlike our royal blood. She ...

— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge

... expen[s] [t] misis [f]cis [crossed p] eos[d] Vice^{tes} [crossed p] Willo le Walleys Scoto lat^one predone puplico utlagato inimico et rebellione [Rx] qui in contemptu [Rx] [crossed p] Scociam se Regem Scocie falso fec[a]t n[o]iare [t] [t] ministros [Rx] in [crossed ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 • Various

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