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Albert blends these three main sources of his metaphysics into a hierarchical structure of reality in which there is an emanation of forms directed by what Albert calls “a summoning of the good” (advocatio boni).
Albert the Great Führer, Markus 2006
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This "advowson" (advocatio), or right to present to the benefice, is in origin an ownership of the soil upon which the church stands and an ownership of the land or goods set apart for the sustenance of the priest who serves it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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