Melior est conditio possidentis=--The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two.
Melior tutiorque est certa pax, quam sperata victoria=--A certain peace is better and safer than an expected victory.
In æquali jure meliorest conditio possidentis=--Where the right is equal, the claim of the party in possession is the best.
Lenior et melior fis, accedente senecta=--You become milder and better as old age advances.
Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45 is so good that no man can be better.
After this they had no more need of her, neither did Melior weep any longer.
If Melior is not here, and William is not here, then of a surety they have gone away together.
That night Alexandrine caused William to dream a dream in which the whole world vanished away, and only he and Melior were left.
At length the news spread abroad, no one knew how, that William and Melior were running about as bears no more, but in the garments they always wore.
Melior in glee, as she caught sight of herself in a polished shield on the wall.
Melior has heard that in Greece royal brides pass their lives shut in a tower, and she has sworn that she will never wed one of that race.
The skins were both so large that Melior and William wore all their own clothes beneath, and did not feel at all hot, as they expected to do.
Illustration: The lovers meet by plan of Alexandrine] Then Melior told her, and Alexandrine listened in amaze.
William and Melior are married, all ends happily and William becomes Emperor of Rome.
William and Melior fall in love with one another, and to avoid the Emperor's wrath devise an escape, disguised in the skins of white bears, helped by Melior's friend Alexandrine.
At last a rather complicated and not always quite consistently told provisional settlement is arrived at, carrying out, in a manner, the undertakings referred to by Melior in her first interview with her lover.
Melior gives it with the same frankness and kindness with which she has given herself--informing him, in fact, that he ought to go, for his uncle is dead and his country in danger.
An immense tourney for the hand of Melior is to be held, with a jury of kings to judge it: and everybody, Christian or pagan, from emperor to vavasour is invited to compete.
The "election" follows, and after some doubt goes right, whileMelior now offers no objection.
Take, for instance, the poem in which the poet writes to console Atedius Melior for the death of his favourite Glaucias, a puer delicatus.
But before such word-painting as the description of Domitian's privy council criticism is dumb: nec melior vultu quamvis ignobilis ibat Rubrius, offensae veteris reus atque tacendae.
So one fateful night, when all the castle was plunged in slumber, the young knight equipped himself with a lamp and made his way to the chamber where he knew Melior slept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melior" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
