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Cestui
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CESTUI. He. This word is frequently used in composition as, cestui que trust, cestui que vie, &c.
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Chapter 62 describes how Gaster invented a means of arresting the flight of cannon balls with magnets, which he demonstrated to the narrator and which is presently used as a game at Theleme: "A cestuy inconvenient ja avoit ordre tresbon donne et nous en monstra l'essay: duquel a depuys use Fronton, et est de praesent en usaige commun entre les passetemps et exercitations honestes des Telemites" (684).
The Turpin method in comparative context by MacPhail, Eric / Italica
 
 
 
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