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Neutrius se fortunae extremum libenter experturam dixit: sed si necessitas alterius subinde imponeretur, optare se difficilem et adversam: quod in hac nulli unquam defuit solatium, in altera multis consilium, &c. Lod.
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This means that when a cardinalitial office is vacant, the cardinal next in rank of seniority can choose (optare) the vacant office.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Quodque nos ipse dominus Iesus Christus uotis docuit optare, ut fiat uoluntas eius sicut in caelo et in terra et ut adueniat eius regnum et nos liberet a malo.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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There is a passage in _De Consolatione_ (_Opera_, tom.i. p. 600) which gives Fazio's view of happiness after death: -- "Memineram patrem meum, Facium Cardanum, cum viveret, in ore semper habuisse, se mortem optare, quod nullum suavius tempus experiretur, qu [a =] id in quo profundissime dormiens omnium quæ in hac vita fiunt expers esset."
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Regina quotidie scribit, se vexari eorum petitionibus, nec exsolvere se quire, quod se maxime optare ostendit.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Automotive Headlines 2009
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Ad - optat, adsciscit, sibi tdiungit e vj propria v. optare, qua eli - gere significat.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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Ibi omnes Mofen et Aaronem incufabant, 3. quod eos in hoc defertum duxiffent, in quo prtinibus effet fame pereundum: optare fe, ut in Aegypto a Jova elTent ieba&t, ut in nos frematis?
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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EaiUipefumgenitus, ut multam piius quam longam vitam debeam optare.
Conciones et orationes ex historicis Latinis excerptae : argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, quae causam cujusque & summam ex rei gestae occasione explicant : opus recognitum recensitumque in usum scholarum Hollandiae & Westfrisiae. Veratius, Jobus, d. 1571 1672
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[Footnote 635: 'Talem universitas debuit optare, qualem nos probamur elegisse, qui rationabiliter disponens propria, non appetat aliena.'
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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