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Melius sic errare, quam Zelotypiae curis, saith Erasmus, se conficere, better be a wittol and put it up, than to trouble himself to no purpose.
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It comes via the French verb confire, from the Latin conficere, meaning “to do, to produce, to make, to prepare.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It comes via the French verb confire, from the Latin conficere, meaning “to do, to produce, to make, to prepare.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Nam maximæ celeritatis & roboris bestias (Rangiferos appellant) scribit Munsterus non nisi 30. millaria 24. horarum spacio conficere.
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Nam maxim� celeritatis & roboris bestias (Rangiferos appellant) scribit Munsterus non nisi 30. millaria 24. horarum spacio conficere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pope Innocent I observes that it is the office of the bishop to make or prepare (_conficere_) this "holy of chrism" or unction: and in the
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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H.B. [Ducange explains _Pandoxare_ "Cauponum exercere, agere; cerevisiam venum exponere atque adeo conficere."] _Lord Bacon's Metrical Version of the Psalms_.
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Certe approbare non potuimus, quod ex actione salubri, spectaculum inane est factum, quod item facta est meritoria, vel celebrata pro pretio, quodque in ea sacerdos dicitur conficere ipsum Domini corpus, et hoc offerre realiter pro remissione peccatorum vivorum et mortuorum, adde et in honorem et celebrationem, vel memoriam sanctorum in coelis, etc. CAP.
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Certe approbare non potuimus, quod ex actione salubri, spectaculum inane est factum, quod item facta est meritoria, vel celebrata pro pretio, quodque in ea sacerdos dicitur conficere ipsum Domini corpus, et hoc offerre realiter pro remissione peccatorum vivorum et mortuorum, adde et in honorem et celebrationem, vel memoriam sanctorum in coelis, etc.
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The learned Prelate can never have made the attempt in this way "Harmoniam sibi conficere," or he would not have so written.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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