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He assumed each person's soul was composed of independent parts he called "profanus" (profane) and "animi" (spiritual), and represented these parts by a pair of numbers.
Archive 1999-04-01 Ray Girvan 1999
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He assumed each person's soul was composed of independent parts he called "profanus" (profane) and "animi" (spiritual), and represented these parts by a pair of numbers.
The Mandelbrot Monk Ray Girvan 1999
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The word profane comes from the Latin profanus which literally means from the temple.
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Once, as she passed Benoist's, she murmured "_O festum dies_!" and again, by the Berkeley, when she was momentarily jostled by a very large and umbrageous tramp who had apparently been celebrating the joys of beggary -- "_Acto profanus vulgam_!"
The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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In 434 wrote _Commonitorium adversus profanus omnium heretiecrum novitates_.
Immortal Memories Clement King Shorter 1891
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»Nutnquani tua vidit terga meab ikcrifidii Neque per ora venit profanus fermo.
Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790
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Quicumque extra hanc domuai Agnum come» derit » profanus cft.
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini 1768
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Not that there's any doubt about your first statement, but this here _profanus vulgus_ business has got to be cut out. "
Prairie Flowers 1921
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[Footnote 344: At the beginning of the first letter occurs the remarkable expression 'Abscedat ritus de medio jam profanus; conticescat _poenale murmur animarum_,' which the commentator interprets of the ventriloquistic sounds produced by soothsayers.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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