cancrine

[ kang-krin ]

adjective

, Prosody.

1. reading the same backwards as forwards:

   a cancrine line.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cancrine¹

1745–55; < Latin cancr- (stem of cancer ) cancer + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

The proposal of a great military expenditure was discussed in the imperial council of 1841, and was opposed with reason by Cancrine, on the too real ground of want of money.

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Such are the expedients that constitute the genius of the ministry, and which Count Cancrine thought it right to employ to augment the financial resources of the country.

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But the Russian remained perfectly serious, and I am sure he thought himself as great a man as Cancrine himself; I really regret that I did not ask him, had he taken lessons in economics in the office of that illustrious financier.

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If Count Cancrine has not yet succeeded in doing this, the town has to thank the protection and the influence of Count Voronzof.

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Count Cancrine was the only statesman in Russia who possessed some share of learning and general information, though somewhat deficient in the knowledge specially applicable to his own department.

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