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  • It will laxare animos, refresh the soul of man to see fair-built cities, streets, theatres, temples, obelisks, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The trial court's recommendations and the record of any proceedings conducted shall be returned to this Court within sixty (60) days of the date of this order. lachesce laschesce negligence, from Old French lasche lax, ultimately from Latin laxare to loosen, from undue delay in asserting a right or privilege

    The StandDown Texas Project 2008

  • [6815] avertat cogitationem a re scrupulosa, by all opposite means, art, and industry, let him laxare animum, by all honest recreations, refresh and recreate his distressed soul; let him direct his thoughts, by himself and other of his friends.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tum litore funem Beripere, excuflbsque jubet laxare rudentis.

    P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796

  • Tum litore funem Deripere, excufTosque jubet laxare rudentis.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Etfi non imus infi - cias, humiditatcm, pcr acddcnsjpoffc vcntrcm laxare: fcd non per fc.

    De medicamentorum quomodocunque purgantium facultatibus, nusquam anteà neque ... Guillaume Dupuis 1552

  • ViciJylueflriscortcx tntus, & inaqudcpotm. htenim hacinre laxare venamfolutiutsve medicinis v-ti non benum.? roficiet plaga di~ duczredaniatamque per ambitum carnem auferrefcalpcUofubindepra fundim rmmiffo, vnde pofteafanguu humorque, cucurbitulis vaiidis

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550

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