Word Finder - preserved

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To protect; to keep from harm or injury.

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Every people have the right to preserve its identity and culture.

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To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.

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to preserve peaches or grapes

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To maintain throughout; to keep intact.

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to preserve appearances; to preserve silence

I think it's wonderful that you have preserved an old way of life.

The history of the city is unknown, though it is regarded as probable that it preserved its independence long after the Spaniards had taken possession of the rest of the district.

The diplomatist preserved a mournful silence as he left the drawing room.

The most important export is fish, other items being seaweed, marble, preserved foods, butter and margarine and infusorial earth.

Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely?

For widows or deep mourning the peculiar cut of the local costume is preserved, but carried out entirely in black.

The roll is preserved in the record office, Dublin.

Good water is everywhere so scarce that but for the rain preserved in cisterns the country would be mostly uninhabitable.

The extra-Biblical history of Jericho is as disastrous as are the records preserved in the Scriptures.

It is most picturesquely situated in the valley under the rocky ridge on which are still the very well preserved remains of the castle of Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the first crusade.

It keeps finely, being preserved in my air-tight chest.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.

The hills give the town a beautiful appearance, as the forest was allowed to remain closely embracing it, being preserved in the public ground named the Town Belt.

Relics of the saint are preserved here and at Brieg and Turin.

The many important objects found in these excavations are preserved in the local museum.

A great variety of industries is carried on, the chief being the manufacture of semolina and other farinaceous foods, confectionery, preserved fruit and jams, chemicals and rubber goods.

Large quantities of frozen and preserved meat are exported, profitable prices being realized.

When once obtained, it may be indefinitely preserved.

It doesn't smell as if it was cleaned or preserved.

A large brass vessel used as a standard measure for the lead ore, and dating from the time of Henry VIII., is preserved.

So long as the conventionalities were preserved she endured it, but when her husband took to drinking and made love to the maids under her very eyes she resolved to break a yoke that had grown intolerable.

The text is preserved in the Maitland folio MS. in the Pepysian library, Cambridge.

If there be no young shoot below, and the bearing branch is short, the shoot at the point of the latter may sometimes be preserved as a fruit bearer, though if the bearing branch be long it is better to cut it back for young wood.

Several of these species are now preserved.

It has more than one advantage over the meadow mushroom in its extreme commonness, its profuse growth, the length of the season in which it may be gathered, the total absence of varietal forms, its adaptability for being dried and preserved for years, and its persistent delicious taste.

To this character the fungus owes its generic name (Marasmius) as well as one of its most valuable qualities for the table, for examples may be gathered from June to November, and if carefully dried may be hung on strings for culinary purposes and preserved without deterioration for several years; indeed, many persons assert that the rich flavour of these fungi increases with years.

Hostius, who wrote a poem on the Illyrian War of 178 B.C., of which some fragments are preserved.

The industries of the town and its environs (Sandnaes, &c.) are prosperous, including factories for preserved foods, woollens and linens, lime, iodine from seaweed, and domestic commodities.

Fina from his plans in 1468, and carved the fine marble altar, the original painting and gilding of which are still preserved.

The landing of Coote preserved Madras from destruction, though the war lasted through many campaigns and only terminated with the death of Hyder.

Of all these temples the oldest is probably that of Heracles, while the best preserved are those of Hera and Concordia, which are very similar in dimensions; the latter, indeed, a Some writers place Kamikos, the city of the mythical Sican Kokalos, on the site of Acragas or its acropolis; but it appears to have lain to the north-west, possiblyat Caltabellotta,lom.

Of that of Hephaestus only two columns remain, while of that of Asclepius, a mile to the south of the town, an anta and two pillars are preserved.

In England the story first appears in a short poem preserved among the Cotton MSS.

The majority perhaps of the nuraghi of Sardinia present this simple type; but a very large number, and, among them, those best preserved, have considerable additions.

Among the most curious relics of the art of the period is a group of bronze statuettes, some found at Uta near Cagliari and others near Teti, west of Fonni, in the centre of the island, of which many specimens are now preserved in the museum at Cagliari.

A portion of its course, however, between Forum Traiani and the modern Abbasanta, is not so followed, and is still well preserved.

An able paper written by him to the king in support of these principles, on the ground especially of their advantage to trade, has been preserved.

Court formed the design of writing a history of Protestantism, and made large collections for the purpose, which have been preserved in the Public Library of Geneva; but this he did not live to carry out.

The sultan also acquired from him the sacred banner and other relics of the founder of Islam, which have since been preserved in the Seraglio at Constantinople.

Preserved merely as taxpayers necessary to supply the funds for the maintenance of the dominant and military class, according to a foreign observer in 1571, they had been so degraded and oppressed that they dared not look a Turk in the face.

Great Britain had throughout the war preserved strict neutrality, but, while making it clear from the outset that she could not assist Turkey, had been prepared for emergencies.

The inhabitants are a brave and warlike race of mountaineers, and aided by the natural strength of their countr y they have hitherto preserved their independence.

Besides the treatises mentioned by Eusebius, fragments of treatises on Providence and the Soul have been preserved.

Nathorst has suggested that the whole of Greenland is a "horst," in the subordinate folds of which, as well as in the deeper " graben," the younger rocks are preserved, often with a covering of Tertiary or later lava flows.'

Its origin was ascribed to a Carian colony, whose memory was possibly preserved in Epicarus, the earlier name of the city; it was afterwards occupied by Ionians, and appears to have incorporated a body of Phlegyans from Thessaly.

The site of the last is identified with the chapel of St Nicolas; a few portions of the outer walls of the city can be traced; and the name Epidaurus is still preserved by the little village of Nea-Epidavros, or Pidhavro.

The goal, which is well preserved at the upper end, is similar to that at Olympia; it consists of a sill of stone sunk level with the ground, with parallel grooves for the feet of the runners at starting, and sockets to hold the posts that separated the spaces assigned to the various competitors, and served as guides to them in running.

The stage buildings are not preserved much above their foundations, and show signs of later repairs; but their general character can be clearly seen.

They consist of a long rectangular building, with a proscenium or column front which almost forms a tangent to the circle of the orchestra; at the middle and at either end of this proscenium are doors leading into the orchestra, those at the end set in projecting wings; the top of the proscenium is approached by a ramp, of which the lower part is still preserved, running parallel to the parodi, but sloping up as they slope down.

But, above all, in an unpublished work preserved at Oxford, the Defensor minor, Marsilius completed and elaborated in a curious manner certain points in the doctrine laid down in the Defensor pacis.