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  • Sed cum Jacobum et Joannem suspectos in fide, et sibi conscios sues speciales discipulos, ad jussum ecclesiae eum inquirenti nollet dimittere nisi per ignem, et reportis in multis a vera fide devius et impersuasibilis, secularium potestati juste traditus est qui eum incinerarunt.

    The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905

  • Ways was devius, William Leachman, that me and you has past;

    Riley Songs of Home James Whitcomb Riley 1882

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  • License: Creative Commons by download send to a friend subscription other artwork from devius slashdot it digg it del. icio.us

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  • License: Creative Commons by download send to a friend subscription other artwork from devius slashdot it digg it del. icio.us

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  • Late Latin dēviāre is based on the Latin adjective devius ` out of the way; off the road, 'which is also the ancestor of English DEVIOUS ` roundabout, circuitous; not straightforward, underhanded' and OBVIATE ` to remove from the way; to make unnecessary by anticipating or circumventing '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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