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"___ Organum" (1620 Francis Bacon work)
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novum
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Novum ( Latin for new thing ) is a term used by science fiction scholar Darko Suvin and others to describe the scientifically plausible innovations used by science fiction narratives. He argues that the genre of Science Fiction is distinguished from Fantasy ...
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n. 1 A new feature. 2 (context obsolete English) A game of dice, properly called ''novem quinque'', the two principal throws being nine and five.
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Novum \No"vum\, n. A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] --Shak.
Usage examples of novum.
Marcellus went a lot further in announcing that the people of the colony you set up at Novum Comum are not Roman citizens.
He paid a special visit to his colony at Novum Comum, where Marcus Marcellus had ordered a citizen flogged two years before, and personally paid the man compensation at a public meeting in the town marketplace.
Marcus Marcellus had flogged a citizen of your colony at Novum Comuma disgrace, Caesar.
Lydiat, of ascetic principles--of almost superhuman renitence, where the affections are involved--and of a determined bias respecting his mission in life--is still standing on the forecastle, with the Novum Organum opened at the same place, and his face still full of thought.