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Sessa

Sessa \Ses"sa\, interj. Hurry; run. [Obs.]
--Shak.

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sessa

interj. (context obsolete English) hurry; run

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Sessa (chaturanga)

Sessa (or Sissa) was a legendary Indian minister and creator of the game of chess ancestor, chaturanga.

Sessa

Sessa may refer to:

  • Sessa (Chaturanga), legendary inventor of game of Chaturanga
  • Sessa, Switzerland, a municipality in Ticino
  • Sessa Aurunca, a town in the province of Caserta, Campania, Italy
    • Roman Catholic Diocese of Sessa Aurunca
  • Sessa Cilento, a town in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy

Usage examples of "sessa".

I am Tenant of the Joannas guarding the Sessa Clen on her way to her marriage bed.

In their slow fashion they came presently to the main ship of the Sessa Clen, red-hued, standing high above the waves.

The bafflement resulted from a strong conviction that the Sessa Clen would not even vaguely comprehend a refusal to let her come aboard.

Holding to the hand-hold of the steps perhaps a little more tightly than was necessary, the Sessa Clen walked daintily down to the metal runway.

The Sessa and the second Joanna went up and out and onto the air carriage.

At no time did we approve the alliance of the winged men with these creatures of the Sessa Clen.

In spite of their hasty alliance with the Sessa Clen, he did not question their motives or their honesty for a single instant.

When he called the Clen ship, surprisingly, the Sessa herself talked to him.

There is Giovanni, who is as the apple of his eye, whom he has created Duke of Gandia, Duke of Benevento, Prince of Sessa, Lord of Teano, and more besides.

Two footmen that Edward recognized from the Palazzo Sessa hurried forward, red-faced from the cold, one to open the door and the second with a small step stool for Francesca.

Also in a private letter from Lope de Vega to his patron, the Duke of Sessa, there is a malignant allusion to Cervantes, speaking of poets.

Cardan, however, refused, whereupon the physician in question called attention to a certain book in which Cardan had made some remarks to the effect that the friendship of the Duca di Sessa had been a fatal one to him, inasmuch as, having trusted too entirely to this friendship for his support, he had let go other interests which might have served him better.

Senate had condemned him and not the Duca di Sessa, and that Cardan was now slandering this prince most unjustly.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.