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  • Roman usage, equivalent to 'infamous;' _detestabilis_, which also properly signifies 'one deserving to be excluded in the will,' or 'to be disinherited.'

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ignatius Loyola in August, 1623, Luther is called _monstrum teterrimum et detestabilis pestis_.

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • I think the torment is being felt on all sides .. velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem.

    bobjots : redux 2008

  • Within a few weeks of the council being held at St. Paul’s, the same sacred edifice witnessed the formality of affixing a golden _bulla_ to the deed — the detestable deed (_carta detestabilis_) — whereby John had in May last resigned the crown of England to the papal legate, and received it again as the Pope’s feudatory. (

    London and the Kingdom - Volume I

  • Nec id eis injuria contigit: quia illorum detestabilis sermo et cancer serpebat, jamque circumjacentes regiones suo pravo dogmate foedaverat, (Robert.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Nec id eis injuria contigit: quia illorum detestabilis sermo et cancer serpebat, jamque circumjacentes regiones suo pravo dogmate foedaverat, (Robert.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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