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  • For the 20 years after his appointment to Oxford as Archetypographicus academicus in 1958, he continued a tradition of fine scholarly production that stretched back to Archbishop Fell in the 17th century.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • In a letter of 1551 to his patron, the Cardinal of Lorraine, Ramus wrote that he had heard a rumor that he was considered to be an academicus, an adherent of the Academic school or, in other words, a skeptic, who taught his students to doubt.

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • To his patron, the cardinal, who had expressed concern over the claim that Ramus was an academicus, he explained that the academici were merely eclectics, who

    Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

  • And last of all he appears as the disappointed, disillusioned man, "infelix academicus ignotus."

    John Lyly John Dover Wilson 1925

  • The bestowal of the D.C.L. degree at Cambridge in October, 1843, is treated with acidulated satire, and in his imaginary speech in dog-latin the Prince presents the University with a new academic cap (novus pileus academicus) of his own designing.

    Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

  • Among the Franciscans Claudius Frassen (d. 1680) issued his elegant "Scotus academicus", a counterpart to the Thomistic theology of Billuart.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Sorbonne and wrote "Scotus academicus seu universa theo Scoti" (many editions, 1672, etc.; last ed.,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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