Meaning of membre | Babel Free
Definitions
5° Fig. Chacune des personnes qui forment un corps politique, une société religieuse, savante, littéraire, etc. Les membres du corps législatif, de l'Académie française. Comme il est sans exemple que l'Académie ait fait l'éloge d'un souverain, en faisant, si on ose le dire, celui d'un de ses membres.... [FONTENELLE, Czar Pierre.]
Examples
“Thus the bodie beinge divided everie one membre having smale regarde of thother were at length brought to suche a feeble and extreme state that they awayted for nothinge but even the utter decaye and confusion of them selves wh indeed folowed, even so shall it be by us : for when everie singuler membre envieng the state of the bodie will of any singuler fantasie swerve from that unitie we are all conjoined in lett him awayte most assuredlie for destruction.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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