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Example sentences for "marginal"

Lexicographically close words:
margaric; margarine; marge; margent; margin; marginalia; marginally; marginata; margine; margined
  1. The Ars minor of Donatus became enveloped in commentaries; but Priscian was so formidable that in these early centuries he was merely glossed, that is, annotated in brief marginal fashion.

  2. Pescatore (Die Glossen des Irnerius, Greifswald, 1888) maintains that Savigny overstates the difference between the interlinear and the marginal glosses of Irnerius.

  3. But the marginal glosses are short expositions of the passages to which they are attached, and perhaps belong to the time of his fuller command over the legal material.

  4. Further, the Breviarium, and even the epitomes, were glossed with numerous marginal or interlinear notes made by transcribers or students.

  5. Such a shallow-water connection would be offered along the marginal shelf of a continent uniting these now widely separated countries.

  6. Marginal crevasses are directed upstream and inwards; radial crevasses are found where the ice stream deploys from some narrow valley and spreads upon some more open space.

  7. The waste of the rising land was constantly transferred to the sinking marginal sea bottom, and on the whole the trough was filled with sediments as rapidly as it subsided.

  8. Large glaciers, because of the enormous pressure of their weight and because of less marginal resistance, move faster than small ones.

  9. It was to this marginal belt that the ice sheets brought their loads, while northwards, nearer the centers of dispersion, erosion was excessive and deposition slight.

  10. On the surface of the ice along the marginal zone, rivulets no doubt flowed in summer, and found their way through crevasses to the interior of the glacier or to the ground.

  11. Marginal lines were drawn to bound the text laterally; but the ruled lines which guided the writing were not infrequently drawn right across the sheet.

  12. It is noticeable that the columns in papyri have a tendency to lean to the right instead of being perpendicular--an indication that it was not the practice to rule marginal lines.

  13. In the case of papyri it was enough to mark with the pencil the vertical marginal lines to bound the text, if indeed even this was considered needful (see above); the fibres of the papyrus were a sufficient guide for the lines of writing.

  14. The number of lines in the several columns of extant papyri is not constant, nor is the marginal boundary of the beginnings of the lines, for the accuracy of which a ruled vertical line would have proved useful, ordinarily kept even.

  15. The titles of old ballads were never printed red; but perhaps rubric may stand for marginal explanation.

  16. Exeunt Caesar and Train] I have here inserted the word Sennet, from the original edition, that I may have an opportunity of retracting a hasty conjecture in one of the marginal directions in Henry VIII.

  17. The time is minutely indicated at the head of each page, and the locations shown irregularly, in notes, chapter headings, or marginal synopsis.

  18. There is a good index of thirty-two pages, and a marginal synopsis.

  19. Further proof is offered by the marginal notes which Petrarch made to the text of Pilato’s translation which Boccaccio sent him.

  20. Marginal note: "Let the ordinance of the preceding section be observed.

  21. Marginal note: "Observe the ordinances according to the despatches that have been sent you regarding this.

  22. Marginal note: "It is well, and I trust that you will govern yourself in all matters as I expect from your person.

  23. Marginal note: "After considering what you mention in this matter, it is reduced to the following points.

  24. Marginal note: "Observe in this matter what has been written you; and whenever there is any occasion for any of these persons to be employed, advise us of their qualities, and answer will be made regarding them.

  25. Marginal note: "Let them observe the laws and what I have commanded by the decrees that I have given.

  26. Marginal note: "You and the Audiencia have already been answered in regard to this matter, as to what must be done.

  27. One may see in this and subsequent marginal notes of this nature, in this and in other documents, the possible working of the Spanish government offices.

  28. Marginal note: "Note of what was decreed, on a separate paper.

  29. A marginal pen correction in faded ink, in the copy from which we translate, reads 608.

  30. Marginal note: "Have the orders held by the viceroys regarding this collected.

  31. Marginal note: "Have this section filed with everything touching the causes of this fiscal; and should there be any letter from the latter that discusses this point, let a report of it be made when this section is examined.

  32. A marginal note here, apparently the reply of the Council of the Indias to this clause of Fajardo's letter, censures him for allowing the ships to leave Manila so late, and warns him to send them hereafter promptly, and not overladen.

  33. The original document contains a marginal abstract of each of the four points that follow; but these abstracts are here omitted.

  34. In the first case, as can easily be imagined or even artificially demonstrated, there would be possible only a lower or higher situation or an obliquity affecting mostly the marginal portion of the division.

  35. The conservative function of valuation may be further illustrated by reference to the well-known principle of marginal utility of which we have already made mention (p.

  36. The present writer has long contended that the marginal utility theory and the Marxian labor-value theory are likewise not antagonistic but complementary.

  37. In so far as the basis of social utility is the social labor necessary for its production, the labor-value theory of Marx may be said, I think, to include the marginal utility law, as one of the forms in which it operates.

  38. It is probably a marginal gloss taken into the text.

  39. The sentence recording this habitual ejaculation, in VG, breaks so awkwardly into the sense of the passage in which it is found, that it must be regarded as a marginal gloss which has become incorporated with the text.

  40. A glossator has added in LA the marginal note "Priests formerly wore cowls.

  41. I have (says he) above twenty popish authors, which she left me, and some of them with marginal notes in her own hand.

  42. You may put that in the marginal notes though, to prevent criticism, and say, "Jehu was formerly a hackney-coachman.

  43. The marginal note is, "The servants to Sir John Yorke all deny the conveying of Gerard or the knowledge of him, whereof Johnson was put to torture and denied it.

  44. The number of digits is five, but there sometimes appear to be more owing to the bifurcation of certain of them, or to the addition of marginal bones, either to the radial or ulnar side of the limb.

  45. Sometimes too the number of series is increased, either by the bifurcation of some of the digits or by the development of marginal bones.

  46. In Amia, Lepidosteus, and certain Teleosteans like Salmo, not only the propterygium but the meso-pterygium is almost suppressed by the marginal ray.

  47. In Acipenser and Polyodon the pectoral fin is built on the same type as in Elasmobranchs, but becomes modified from the fact that the propterygium is replaced by dermal bone which forms a large =marginal ray=.

  48. The ribs are much flattened, and each is fused with the corresponding costal plate, beyond which it projects to fit into a pit in one of the marginal plates.

  49. The plastron is imperfectly ossified, and marginal bones may be absent, or if present are confined to the posterior portion of the carapace.

  50. Additional records of occurrence, several of them marginal to the eastward, are: 10 mi.

  51. The silk disk, a sort of hardly concave paten, now no longer receives aught from the spinnerets in its centre; the marginal belt alone increases in thickness.

  52. This Epilogue, which occurs in Luttrell's collection with many marginal corrections, seems to have been spoken by Goodman, who is mentioned with great respect by Cibber in his "Apology.

  53. I regret to observe that it is stated by one of those connected with the forthcoming American revision of the Old Testament version that in nearly one hundred cases the marginal references to the Ancient Versions will be omitted.

  54. This intimation could only be given by a final marginal note, for which, as we know, by the arrangement of the University Presses (see p.

  55. That the revision be so conducted as to comprise both marginal renderings and such emendations as it may be found necessary to insert in the text of the Authorised Version.

  56. His Greek he had learned from the two small books the widow had so carefully preserved, their marginal notes his only lexicon.

  57. They have been read by some one who knew them well, I can see by these marginal notes.

  58. The hind wings have an obscure dusky central dot placed in the upper edge of the band, and usually there are two brownish bands on the outer marginal area, but these do not extend to the front margin.

  59. The black clouding on basal area of hind wings sometimes extends further towards the marginal band.

  60. Another has a larger portion of the inner marginal area ochreous brown, or whitish, ab.

  61. Hind wings whitish, tinged with smoky on the veins, and in the female on the outer marginal area.

  62. Ochreous or reddish ochreous specimens with the front marginal area broadly and irregularly reddish brown, and the outer margin bordered with reddish brown, are referable to var.

  63. Very rarely the stripe on the front edge of the fore wings unites with the upper hind marginal spot; still less frequently there are some crimson scales in addition connecting the two hind marginal spots.

  64. The hind wings in all the forms are pale whitish brown, with a black central dot, and brown marginal line; in the darker specimens these wings are clouded or suffused with dark brown (Plate 71).

  65. Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

  66. One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

  67. Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower.

  68. A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

  69. A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges.

  70. A similar variation may be noted in the utilization of marginal land, marginal factories, marginal forges, and marginal agents of every kind.

  71. It is a striking evidence of the importance of the marginal principle[9] that insurance at such a cost should still be desired by men.

  72. It is fallacious also in that it ignores the marginal principle in the problem of profits.

  73. So long as only the seasonal variations are equalized and the total supply of the year is not reduced it is, on the marginal principle, an economic service to the consumers, comparable to insurance in its utility.

  74. In any economic trade each trader gains by getting goods that are, on the marginal principle, to him more valuable than the other kinds of goods he gives up.

  75. Some mines are superior, others medium, others marginal which it barely pays to work.

  76. The premium comes from marginal income; the loss if it occurs would fall upon the parts of income having higher value to the insured.

  77. Heads many-flowered; the flowers all tubular and fertile; the marginal pistillate, with a slender corolla.

  78. Sporangia borne on a continuous marginal vein-like receptacle, connecting the apices of the veins, and covered by a delicate whitish indusium formed of the reflexed margin.

  79. Fructification marginal or intramarginal, provided with a general indusium formed of the (either altered or unchanged) margin of the frond.

  80. False-ribbed, as where a marginal vein or rib is formed by the confluence of the true veins.

  81. Heads many-flowered; flowers all tubular, the marginal often much larger (as it were radiate) and sterile.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marginal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bordering; borderline; boundary; coastal; determinant; determinative; extreme; frontier; inferior; limiting; littoral; marginal; secondary; side; terminal; unimportant