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The only question is whether or not it'll be used in a pejorative sense said Lusus on February 10, 2007 10:58 PM.
YesButNoButYes: Social Networking on the Campaign Trail 2007
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Yea, that about summed it up for me as well Lusus.
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Charisse regales us with tales of her exploits at Lusus Naturae, a tiny software company that is trying to make computers understand when people talk to them, and her art, which is making pictures that you look at on a computer.
The Time Traveler's Wife Niffenegger, Audrey 2003
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The Priapeia, in its Latin form Priapeia sine Diversoreun poetarum in Priapum Lusus, is a work that has long been well known to scholars, and in the 16th and 17th centuries editions were common.
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Two days in the crowded residential hive was enough and I stepped to Lusus and took my pleasure in three days of whoring on the Rue des Chats.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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Names like Garden and Ouster, Renaissance and Lusus meant little to her.
Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990
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After much Debate, they concluded unanimously that I was only Relplum Scalcath, which is interpreted literally, Lusus Naturae, a Determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose Professors, disdaining the old Evasion of Occult Causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavoured in vain to disguise their Ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of All Difficulties, to the unspeakable Advancement of human Knowledge.
Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels 1946
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MICHAEL MAIER: Lusus Serius: or Serious Passe-time (1654), p. 138. 15.
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In his Lusus Serius: or, Serious Passe-time, for example, he supposes a Parliament of the various creatures of the world to meet, in order that Man might choose the noblest of them as king over all the rest.
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Ariosto had proved the pliancy, and modelling his epic style on that of Vergil, Camões set up as his hero the whole Lusitanian people, the sons of Lusus, whence the title, "Os Lusiadas".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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