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Omnium

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Om´ni`um
n.1.(Eng. Stock Exchange) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.
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Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset, saith Tacitus of Galba; but of Vespasian he saith, Solus imperantium, Vespasianus mutatus in melius; though the one was meant of sufficiency, the other of manners, and affection.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
From one issue the notes of a piano, which a young lady in ringlets practises six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow- lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whilst Jacob, his papa, is beheld eating prawns, and devouring the Times for breakfast, at the window below.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Nay, in the last capital, being, as it were, the cope-stone which our blessed founder placed on the pure and undefiled doctrine which he had enjoined, we are prohibited from offering, even to our sisters and our mothers, the kiss of affection---ut omnium mulierum fugiantur oscula.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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