a pressing or resting upon or against, a pressure; a striving, exertion, labor, effort poet. ; nixus in good prose, v. h. v.): pedetentim et sedato nisu, a tread, step : hunc stirps Oceani maturis nisibus Aethra Edidit, pains, throes, labor

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a pressing or resting upon or against, a pressure; a striving, exertion, labor, effort poet. ; nixus in good prose, v. h. v.): pedetentim et sedato nisu, a tread, step : hunc stirps Oceani maturis nisibus Aethra Edidit, pains, throes, labor 
a pressing or resting upon or against, a pressure; a striving, exertion, labor, effort poet. ; nixus in good prose, v. h. v.): pedetentim et sedato nisu, a tread, step : hunc stirps Oceani maturis nisibus Aethra Edidit, pains, throes, labor 

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