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Si vero, Crateva, inter caeteras herbarum radices, avaritiae radicem secare posses amaram, ut nullae reliquiae essent, probe scito, &c.
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Si quibus consuetae suae suppressae sunt menses, &c. talo secare oportet, aut vena frontis si sanguis peccet cerebro.
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Isti trahunt magnas domos Moallorum: et habent cornua gracilia, longa, acuosa, acutissima: ita quod oportet semper secare summitates eorum.
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Isti trahunt magnas domos Moallorum: et habent cornua gracilia, longa, acuosa, acutissima: ita quod oportet semper secare summitates eorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"At toto Thori die hominibus ungues secare minime licuit."
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In a way, the critics were not mistaken who maintained that in his dramas, following the example of some surgeons, he rarely used any other method than that of «urere et secare»; still, however, there is something to admire in this Muse of romantic exaltation and austere severity which condemns any compromise with duty.
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If the man of the critical school takes the pithy aphorism "Melius autem est naturam secare quam abstrahere" [1] for his motto, the champion of free speculation may retort with another from the same hand, "Citius enim emergit veritas e falsitate quam e confusione;" [2] and each may adduce abundant historical proof that his method has contributed as much to the progress of knowledge as that of his rival.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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It seems to be nearly equivalent to the Latin phrase _recte viam secare -- to cut a straight road_ -- and to hint that the true workman of God is like the civil engineer to whom it is given to construct a direct road to a certain point.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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Turcæ in eo negotio occupatos nos videntes, similiter eas radices tractare & secare voluerunt: at cum summus esset æstus, & omnes sudore maderent, quicunque eam radicem manibus tractaverant sudoremque absterserant, aut faciem digitis scalpserant, tantam pruriginem iis locis quos attigerant postea senserunt, ut aduri viderentur.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The word "sect" is not derived, as is sometimes asserted, from secare, to cut, to dissect, but from sequi, to follow (Skeat,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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