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Dein pr鎠ulatu dimisso Wiltoniensis ecclesi�, qui sibi ad regendum commissus fuerat, et Hermanno, cujus supr� mentionem fecimus, reddito, mare transijt, et per Hungarian profectus est
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The conversus, the lay brother properly so called, made solemn vows like the choir monks, and wore the scapular; the commissus made simple vows, and was dressed like a monk, but without the scapular; the oblatus made a vow of obedience to the abbot, gave himself and his goods to the monastery, and wore a sober secular dress.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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But, in 1625, we find the conversus reduced below the status of the commissus, inasmuch as he was permitted only to make simple vows and that for a year at a time; he was in fact undistinguishable, except by his dress, from the oblatus of a former century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Dein præsulatu dimisso Wiltoniensis ecclesiæ, qui sibi ad regendum commissus fuerat, et Hermanno, cujus suprà mentionem fecimus, reddito, mare transijt, et per Hungarian profectus est Hierosolymam, &c. The same in English.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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[3254] On the word summorias the Ben. note is: "Hac voce non designatur tota diocesis, sed certos quidam pagorum numerus chorepiscopo commissus, ut patet ex epist. cxlii.," q.v., "erat autem chorepiscoporum sedes insigni alicui affixa pago, cui alii pagi attribuebantur.
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