cete

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There are seven orders belonging to the first class, as your mother has already informed you; the names of which are, Primates, Bruta, Ferae, Glires, Picora, Beluae, and Cete.

From Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Vaux, Frances Bowyer

Then again there is Bartholomew Joseph Alexander de Dominiceti, Lord de Cete et de cortesi, Knight of the Holy Boman Empire and Noble of Venice in terra firma.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various

The Cete, or Whales, although they resemble fishes in external appearance, are ranged very properly amongst the Mammalia, having warm blood, similar lungs, teats, &c.

From Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Vaux, Frances Bowyer

Cete, Whales: Pectoral fins in the place of feet, and in place of a tail the hind feet united so as to form a flat fin; no claws; the teeth cartilaginous.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

Cete grandia instar montium prope Islandium aliquando conspiciuntur, quæ naues euertunt, nisi tubarum sono absterreantur, aut missis in mare rotundis & vacuis vasis, quorum lusu delectantur, ludificentor.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard