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  • Normannorum adventu derelicto proprio vulgari, construere gallice compelluntur; item quod filii nobilium ab ipsis cunabulorum crepundiis ad gallicum idioma informantur.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Galwenses, dicentes sui esse juris primam construere aciem ....

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • Now, it ought to have been _ex data linea construere_, [618] etc.: there is a given line, which is something to go on.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • But Montucla has behaved very unfairly: he represents Cluvier as placing the essence of his method in the solution of the problem _construere mundum divinæ menti analogum_, to construct a world corresponding to the divine mind.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • I spent another year in Padua, studying law in which I took the degree of Doctor in my sixteenth year, the subject of my thesis being in the civil law, ‘de testamentis’, and in the canon law, ‘utrum Hebraei possint construere novas synagogas’.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • Doctor in my sixteenth year, the subject of my thesis being in the civil law, 'de testamentis', and in the canon law, 'utrum Hebraei possint construere novas synagogas'.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • Doctor in my sixteenth year, the subject of my thesis being in the civil law, 'de testamentis', and in the canon law, 'utrum Hebraei possint construere novas synagogas'.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • _Voces_, _verba_, 3. and teacheth how to utter, write, 4. put together and part them rightly. docetque eloqui, scribere, 4. construere, distinguere

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

  • 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

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