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Particula, ra, facit pluralia nomina significantia res vilissimas, vel quæ despectui habentur: v.g.
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Ea est facundia, tanta in explicando, quod velit, gratia; tam candidum, et lene, et speciosum dicendi genus; tanta verborum, etiam quæ assumpta sunt, proprietas; tanta in quibusdam, ex periculo petitis, significantia.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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[499] Augustine, speaking of the New Testament, says, -- "Factum quidem est, et ita ut narratur, impletum; sed tamen etiam ipsa, quae a Domino facta sunt, aliquid significantia erant, -- quasi verba (si dici potest) visibilia, et aliquid significantia."
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"In grammaticis, dare navibus Austros, et dare naves Austris, sunt æque significantia.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Illud ego asseverare ex certo judicio possum, audivisse me propriis auribus a Viro vere pio vere docto) et in omni literatura Sacra versatissimo verba haec suum de tuo systemate amoris judicium non certe favens significantia: Devorator llbrorum ego sum, animum tamen obfirmare non potui, ut systema Bolgenii legerem continenter.
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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