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correus

UK/ˈkɒɹɪəs/

correus noun: synonym of correus debendi.

Noun

correus (plural correi)

  1. Synonym of correus debendi.
    • When a creditor will accept ſolutionem particularum vel correi, the debtor or the correus muſt pay1656 June 7, John Thurloe (author) and Thomas Birch (editor), “A letter of intelligence from the Hague, 7 June 1656” in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe V (London, 1742), page 71
    • Since this act, few take bonds with cautioners, but bind them all as correi and principals.1707 December 17, Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall (editor), The Deciſions of the Lords of Council and Seſſion, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712 II (Edinburgh, 1761), page 404
    Synonyms:
    correus debendi

Proper noun capitalized: Correus

Correus

  1. The general who led the Bellovaci against Julius Caesar in 57 BC during the latter's conquest of Gaul.
    • CÆSAR thought he had done enough for the ſeaſon of the year, in diſperſing the enemy’s forces to prevent a war; but conſidering how much it imported him to take care that the rebels ſhould not be able to make any conſiderable head the next ſummer, left C. Trebonius, with two of the legions he...1737, Aulus Hirtius Pansa (author) and Martin Bladen (translator), “A Supplement to C. J. Cæſar’s Commentary of his War in Gaul”, book VIII of Julius Caesar’s Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul, and...

Synonyms of correus

Forms of correus

pluralcorrei

Origin of correus

First attested in the singular in 1656 and in the plural in 1707; elliptical use from correus debendi.

Phrases with correus

Questions about correus

What does correus mean?
Correus means synonym of correus debendi.
What part of speech is correus?
Correus can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce correus?
Correus is pronounced /ˈkɒɹɪəs/ (UK).
What is the plural of correus?
The plural of correus is correi.

Words near correus in the dictionary

  1. corresponds
  2. corresponsive
  3. corresponsively
  4. corretto
  5. correttos
  6. correus
  7. correus debendi
  8. correxion
  9. correxions
  10. corrgram
  11. corrgrams

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