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gurges (ˈgɜːdʒiːz) Also 7 gorges, 9 dial. gurgise. [a. L. gurges whirlpool.] A whirlpool, gulf; dial. a pool, pond.1664 Cotton Scarron. i. 19 Here a Boat kicking on the Surges, And there one sinking in a Gurges. 1668 Phil. Trans. III. 633 There may be a very Low Ebb, though no High-Spring, which the...
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges
Marcus Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges may refer to::
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC), Roman consul in 292 and 276 BC
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC), son of the previous, Roman consul in 265 BC
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC)
, in 292, supports the hypothesis that he was Gurges' grandson, rather than his son. This Fabius would have been the son of Gurges, and had his public career cut short by his own indiscretion.
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gurge
▪ I. gurge, n. rare. (gɜːdʒ) Also gorge. [ad. L. gurges abyss, whirlpool.] A whirlpool (lit. and fig.); Her. = gurges b.1667 Milton P.L. xii. 41 The Plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boiles out from under ground, the mouth of Hell. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Gurge, a Whirl-Pool. 1820 Keats Hyperio...
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Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)
Maximus Gurges, the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, was consul in 292, 276, and 265 BC. Beloch and Degrassi holds that Verrucosus was the grandson of Gurges, consul in 292 and 276, and that his father, also named Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges
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gurgitive
† gurgitive, a. Obs. rare—0. [irregularly f. L. gurgit-, gurges whirlpool.] ‘Belonging to a Gulph or stream’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656).
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Gorges family
The ancient Gorges canting arms of "Argent, a gurges azure", being a blue whirlpool on a white (or silver) background, gurges signifying in Latin a Whirlpool
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gurgitation
gurgitation (gɜːdʒɪˈteɪʃən) [ad. late L. *gurgitātiōn-em, n. of action f. gurgitāre to engulf (gurgitātus ‘gorged’, in Du Cange), f. gurgit-, gurges whirlpool. Cf. ingurgitation, regurgitation.] † 1. Swallowing; guzzling; = ingurgitation.1542 Boorde Dyetary ix. (1870) 250 A surfet is taken as well b...
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265 BC
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gurges and Vitulus (or, less frequently, year 489 Ab urbe condita). During a siege, the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges is killed.
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Warbelton v Gorges
Yet the Gorgeses had by then chosen their own canting arms of a whirlpool (Latin gurges) depicted by a blue whorl on a white field, blazoned Argent, a gurges azure.
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St Andrew's Church, Bere Ferrers
of the Gorges family of Knighton, Isle of Wight and Wraxall, Somerset, from a co-heiress from whom the Cheyneys were descended, blazoned as Argent, a gurges A gurges is a form of canting arms, being Latin for a whirlpool, depicted as a whorl.
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291 BC
Fabius Maximus Gurges and legate Q. Fabius Gurges celebrates a triumph, at which the Samnite general Gavius Pontius is beheaded.
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Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 305 BC)
do for some considerable time, before moving to finally join Gurges. Gurges had no choice but to obey, and Megellus, having taken command of both armies, immediately sent Gurges back to Rome.
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295 BC
August 19 – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges.
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Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 264 BC)
In his consulship, Fulvius Flaccus concluded the siege of Volsinii (Etruscan: Velzna), which his predecessor Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges had started,
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