meridiem

Example Sentences

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A few minutes past four o'clock, ante meridiem, word was brought to them that the Prince had boarded the Berengaria by "swarming up a rope ladder."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: In Mexico, it is a common use to interpret p.m. not as post meridiem but rather as puntualidad Mexicana, which means one or two hours after the stated time.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish all hours were post meridiem," Said Tom; "so that I were well rid of 'm.

From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John

"Omnes insulas et terras firmas inventas et inveniendas, detectas et detegendas, versus Occidentem et meridiem, fabricando et constituendo unam lineam a Polo Arctico, scilicet septentrione, ad Polum Antarcticum, scilicet meridiem."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by Prescott, William Hickling

Sept. 28th, Mr. John Ask ante meridiem, by York six myle on this syde; Elizabeth Mownson, circa horam 9 mane, soror magistri Thomæ Mownson et uxor magistri Brown.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John