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  • A few years ago the was max normal, then the constructus corporation and then max normal TV

    KN | Kitsune Noir » ‘Zef Side’ by Die Antwoord 2010

  • In Aramaic, on the contrary, such adverbs take, as is well known, the form of the _status constructus_.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • The curious position of the words in the _status constructus_ is very striking.

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

  • Parcum, qui Parcus erat primus Parcus Angliae, et continet in circuitu septem Miliaria; constructus erat.

    Woodstock 1855

  • _Fecit iste Rex Parcum de Woodstock, cum Palatio, infra praedictum Parcum, qui Parcus erat primus Parcus Angliae, et continet in circuitu septem Miliaria; constructus erat.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • And a modular (Latin modulatus, pp. of modulari, to regulate, measure off) way of constructing (Latin constructus, past participle of construere, from com - + struere to build) new terms using relevant prefixes, roots, and suffixes.

    unknown title 2008

  • Hugo Giffard de Yester moritur; cujus castrum, vel saltem caveam, et donglonem, arte daemonica antique relationes ferunt fabrifactas: nam ibidem habetur mirabilis specus subterraneus, opere mirifico constructus, magno terrarum spatio protelatus, qui communiter BO-HALL appellatus est. "

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

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