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periœcus

periœcus is the obsolete form of perioecus.

Meaning of perioecus

Noun

perioecus (plural perioeci)

  1. (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
    • How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci, there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Forms of periœcus

pluralperiœci

Questions about periœcus

What is periœcus the obsolete form of?
Periœcus is the obsolete form of perioecus.

Words near periœcus in the dictionary

  1. perizonial
  2. perizonium
  3. Perizzite
  4. Perizzites
  5. periœci
  6. periœcus
  7. Perișani
  8. perjink
  9. perjinkety
  10. perjorative
  11. perjurable

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