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  • Num ergo potius _actito_ et _actitavi_ producenda sunt? quoniam frequentativa ferme omnia eodem modo in prima syllaba dicuntur, quo participia praeteriti temporis ex iis verbis unde ea profecta sunt in eadem syllaba pronuntiantur; sicut _lego_, _lectus_, _lectito_ facit; _ungo_, _unctus_, _unctito_; _scribo_, _scriptus_, _scriptito_;

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • Dominus Jesus in humana sua natura divinae hunc modum conjuncta sanctificatus est, ac Spiritu sancto supra mensuram unctus,: [10437] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French unctueus, from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus act of anointing, from unguere to anoint

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French unctueus, from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus act of anointing, from unguere to anoint

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French unctueus, from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus act of anointing, from unguere to anoint

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Medieval Latin; Middle French unctueus, from Medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus act of anointing, from unguere to anoint

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Ei, pro scorto, supponetur hircus unctus nantea. "

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • Theos] -- "Petrus Iesum ipsum esse filium dei testificatus est, qui et unctus Spiritu Sancto Iesus dicitur."

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Here he was anointed (unctus), i.e. rubbed dry from perspiration, with a strigil on which oil was dropped to soften its action. [

    Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

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