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  • Habicht, x.p. vi., refers to the following: — Historia decem Vezirorum et filii regis Azad – Bacht insertis XIII. aliis narrationibus, in usum tironum Cahirensem, edid.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Puzzling over the issue of the child's faith, Innocent III took this concept of the child's potential, or future, and incorporated that into a distinction between two types of faith, fides in usum and fides in habitum.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Serica quando venerint in usum planissime non acio: suspicor tamen in

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • [23] the classics will soon by published Lucan [24] particularly I suppose in usum republicæ.

    Letter 34 1792

  • In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).

    Liturgical English and the Hieratic Tradition 2009

  • Well, ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia, okay?

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club. 2010

  • In both cases the "debunkers" may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim, abusus non tollit usum* but in both cases they were pretty right about matter of fact.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Arevanye 2008

  • In both cases the "debunkers" may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim, abusus non tollit usum* but in both cases they were pretty right about matter of fact.

    Family Life Arevanye 2008

  • History is of two kinds — there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events — a scandalous chronicle.

    Eve and David 2007

  • History is of two kinds — there is the official history taught in schools, a lying compilation ad usum delphini; and there is the secret history which deals with the real causes of events — a scandalous chronicle.

    Eve and David 2007

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