Dictionary Entry
A price or cost, as in up the ante.
Origin
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Common Phrases
Poetry examples for “ante”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Dulcius haerescunt humano mella palato,
Si malus hoc ipsum mordeat ante sapor (592).
Read full poem →When the visitor to Cambridge enters the Ante-
chapel of Trinity College, he meets two objects
Read full poem →A line really wakes. ; .
333, Tea ante eel Prune is ultimately from the stem
propago. See Cymb. Y. iv. 118.
Read full poem →in a scrape, but in "no immediate peril," and from the lines, "Remember
him, whom Passion's power" (_vide ante_, p. 67), we may infer that he
had sought safety in flight. The _Bride of Abydos_, or _Zuleika_, as it
Read full poem →in 1817 (chap, xxiii.), he gives a detailed analysis of "the old Spanish
play, entitled _Atheista Fulminato_ [_vide ante_, the 'Introduction to
_Don Juan_'] ... which under various names (_Don Juan_, the _Libertine_,
Read full poem →it occurs repeatedly. And another poem, -- not to make
too long a story of my private enthusiasms -- "Ante Aram", --
wakes all my classical blood, --
Read full poem →Tradiderit, regno aut optata luce fruatur:
Sed cadat ante diem, mediaque inhumatus arena. Aeneid. iv. 615.
Read full poem →[107 foll.] _vide ante_, 'The Dungeon,' p. 185.