Citations:et ceteræ

English citations of et ceteræ

Phrase: antiquated form of et cetera

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• 1805 C.E., William‐Henry, quoted in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, Edmond Malone, page #579:

  […] for after his conclusions are drawn upon each topic of discussion, his pages are so conceitedly interlarded with “Let us no longer hear of this”—“I trust we shall hear no more of that,” and an hundred et‐ceteræ of the same nature, that it should appear Mr.Malone’s fiat was irrevocable […]

• 1815 C.E., Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex, volume III in The beauties of England and Wales, volume XII, page #405:

  He likewise granted them sac and soc, toll and team, and a long et ceteræ of Saxon liberties in the most ample degree.

• 1829 C.E., William Leggett, The Critic: a weekly review of literature, fine arts, and the drama., volume I, Park Theatre. The Hypocrite., page #256:

  Her gait, the intonations of her voice, the tossing of her head, the twirling of her fan, and all the thousand little et ceteræ of manner, which an observant eye may detect in such elderly ladies as have furnished the studies of the dramatist, are given by her with only so much of exaggeration as, while it does not impair the resemblance of the portrait, renders it irresistibly comic.

• 1834 C.E., Colloquia Entomologica, in The Entomological Magazine, Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, page #12:

  […]—a twelfth recommends quarto ;—a thirteenth insists on its being monthly ;—a fourteenth thinks that once a year would be often enough ;—a fifteenth declares it is too scientific ;—a sixteenth, that it is too popular, et cetera, et ceteræ, et cetera.

• 1858 C.E., Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the regal Succession of Great Britain, Blackwood, volume VII, Mary Stuart, chapter LIII, page #174:

  That convenient abbreviation, or, as Tytler in his pithy comment on Killigrew’s letter terms it, “the emphatic ‘ to do, et ceteræ,’ ” comprehended the climax of the tragedy, by serving, as a cipher, to intimate the black deed which the English negotiator for Mary Stuart’s murder shrank from naming in plain words, even to uncle Burleigh its originator.

• 1863 C.E., Florence Marryat and James Hogg, Passages From The Family History Of The English Aristocracy., in London Society, William Clowes and Sons, volume IV, I.—The Cavendishes, page #315:

  I have been so fortunate, through great interest, as to get the Bishop of Durham to take you into his palace at Bishop Auckland, to write his lordship’s private notes ; to attend him in his lay‐visits ; to see that his pens are mended ; to hold the umbrella over him when his lordship walks,’ &c., &c. (Heaven knows what the et ceteræ would comprise!)

• 1881 C.E., Charles Dickens, All The Year Round, issue №.679, page #295:

  “Et cetera” will be a neutral tag of sentiments, which you are quite welcome to keep to yourself. “Et ceteræ” will be languid in suggestiveness, or wanting in the robustness of esteem.

• 1884 C.E., Emily S. Holt, Mediæval Life Among the Nobles., in The Churchman, article III, page #21:

  There were a clerk of the works, a guest‐master, a jewel‐keeper, heralds, minstrels (who, to judge from their names, were Flemings), varlets of the household, of the chamber, and of the robes ; pages of the chamber and the wardrobe ; huntsmen, falconers, ushers, messengers, and a mob of underlings of every possible description —cooks, butlers, footmen, running footmen, palfrey‐keepers (grooms), sumptermen (baggage‐porters), dairymaids, laundresses—with as many et ceteræ as the reader chooses.

• 1916 C.E., Aura Brantzell, The Disturbing Element, in The Smart Set, volume XLVIII, №. 4, chapter I, on page #4:

  And so—admitting that the East is East, et cetera, et ceteræ, a summons from out Bohemia continued to present contractions to the West End Avenue.