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Caius

Proper noun

Meaning

Caius

(Cambridge University, informal) Ellipsis of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge..

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Examples

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all. Leo Tolstoy

King Lear: What is your name? Kent / Caius: Caius. King Lear: And whence do you hale? Kent / Caius: From Bonking, Sire. King Lear: Well, yes, lad as do we all. Christopher Moore (author)

After leaving secondary school, Conway entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge citation to study mathematics. Source: Internet

Boito and Verdi, introductory pages The score differs from much of Verdi's earlier work by having no overture: there are seven bars for the orchestra before the first voice (Dr Caius) enters. Source: Internet

Dr Caius bursts in and accuses Falstaff of burgling his house and Bardolfo of picking his pocket. Source: Internet

Caius is mentioned in the fourth-century Depositio Episcoporum (therefore not as a martyr): X kl maii Caii in Callisti. Source: Internet

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