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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as anime.

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  • In Satellitium animi (The Soul's Escort, 1524), a collection of aphorisms dedicated to Princess Mary, he points out that “man knows as far as he can make” (IV, 63).

    Juan Luis Vives [Joannes Ludovicus Vives] Casini, Lorenzo 2009

  • XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.

    Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, ed & comm. Rosanna Bettarini (Turin, 2005) Miglior acque 2008

  • The axiomatic form in Euclid is more complex, relying not just on first principles (communis animi conceptio), the only type of principle used by Boethius and Alan, but also on definitions, petitiones, theorems, etc.

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • XI 12, 11, tutti, con avvolgente metafora, bisognosi dell'assiduità del buon coltivatore: «nec coluisse semel sufficit, sed semper insistere oportet qui singularem aliquem vel agri vel animi fructum cupit» Fam.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • [2854] In another place he laughs those men to scorn, that think longis syrupis expugnare daemones et animi phantasmata, they can purge fantastical imaginations and the devil by physic.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si caput, crus dolet, brachium, &c. Medicum accersimus, recte et honeste, si par etiam industria in animi morbis poneretur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For love is a perpetual [5345] flux, angor animi, a warfare, militat omni amans, a grievous wound is love still, and

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Habuit saeva animi symptomata quae impediunt concoctionem,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3728] Felix ille animi, divisque simillimus ipsis,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • One day of grief is an hundred years, as Cardan observes: 'Tis carnificina hominum, angor animi, as well saith Areteus, a plague of the soul, the cramp and convulsion of the soul, an epitome of hell; and if there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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