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Magnifico   Listen
noun
Magnifico  n.  (pl. magnificoes)  
1.
A grandee or nobleman of Venice; so called in courtesy.
2.
A rector of a German university.






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"Magnifico" Quotes from Famous Books



... de boquerones, otra de carne y otra de pan, con su correspondiente dosis de vino de Tarifa.[83-9] (p84) El buen musico, gordo como un cebon y colorado como una remolacha, digeria penosamente, paseando su turbia mirada de apopletico por el magnifico panorama del Mediterraneo, y del Estrecho de Gibraltar, del maldecido Penon[84-1] que le da nombre, 05 de las cercanas cumbres de Anghera[84-2] y Benzu[84-3] y de las remotas nieves del Pequeno Atlas, cuando sintio acelerados pasos en la escalera y la argentina voz ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

... way across the Atlantic. We have passed over some twenty or thirty vessels of various kinds, and all seem to be delightfully astonished. Crossing the ocean in a balloon is not so difficult a feat after all. Omne ignotum pro magnifico. Mem: at 25,000 feet elevation the sky appears nearly black, and the stars are distinctly visible; while the sea does not seem convex (as one might suppose) but ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... was that a camel should go through the eye of a needle, than that a Roman senator should forswear those inveterate superstitions with which his own system of aristocracy had been riveted for better and worse. As soon would the Venetian senator, the gloomy "magnifico" of St. Mark, have consented to Renounce the annual wedding of his republic with the Adriatic, as the Roman noble, whether senator, or senator elect, or of senatorial descent, would have dissevered his own solitary stem from the great ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey



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