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  • Morbus nihil est aliud quam dissolutio quaedam ac perturbatio foederis in corpore existentis, sicut et sanitas est consentientis bene corporis consummatio quaedam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et hæc ridiculosa dissolutio vocatur religio! ....

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

  • Disband Planned Parenthood and dissolutio cornel: Obama perfect lunch menu!

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The Independen­ts are open to Ron Paul and Ron Huntsman and are dissolutio ­ned with President Obama.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Arianna Huffington 2012

  • Elixirs and dragons; the characteristics of mercury; the alchemical references in Ben Jonson; the names Kalid ibn Yazid and Cheng Wei, Robert of Chester and Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon and Isaac Newton, Abu Bakr and Charles II; the magnificent Latinate stages of the alchemical process, the seven or twelve or more levels of transformation from the prima materia and the nigredo of dissolutio to the white of purificatio and the red of the Stone itself; the links between the planets and the metals; the alignment necessary between the artifex and his universe and the work going on within the alembic.

    A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999

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