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English Dictionary: adage by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adage
n
  1. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
    Synonym(s): proverb, adage, saw, byword
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Adage \Ad"age\, n. [F. adage, fr. L. adagium; ad + the root of
      L. aio I say.]
      An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a
      proverb.
  
               Letting [bd]I dare not[b8] wait upon [bd]I would,[b8]
               Like the poor cat i' the adage.               --Shak.
  
      Syn: Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm.
               See {Axiom}.
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