Meaning of catadupe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile.
   obsolete
2. Waterfall; cataract.
3. An inhabitant of this city.

Examples

“Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them.”

“The inhabitants of Atures and Maypures, whatever the missionaries may have asserted in their works, are not more struck with deafness by the noise of the great cataracts, than the Catadupes of the Nile.”

“Yet was not this all; for hither to the north boiled the majestic cataract in unimaginable grandiloquence, and thither to the south sparkled the gentle catadupe in serene and incandescent tranquillity, whilst far and near the halcyon brooklet flowed between!”

“It happens oftentimes that in the church of God, where the waters of Siloam should run with silence, there is nothing heard but the tempestuous roaring of some gulf or catadupe.”

“It sounds just like storing up more catadupes of undigested data.”

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