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Then it becomes what in Latin is called vacuus dictums -- empty words.

Tom Alderman: Vacuus Dictum: Words Do Have Meaning But They Also Have a Sell-by Date 2008

Today he repeated no timetable, which is a kind of vacuus placeholder.

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Submitted as a public service for your approval, here is a starter list of vacuus dictums -- those words and phrases that have long since passed their sell-by dates.

Tom Alderman: Vacuus Dictum: Words Do Have Meaning But They Also Have a Sell-by Date 2008

Nullus cibum sumere debet, nisi stomachus sit vacuus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Do you, on the contrary, never talk of business but to those with whom you are to transact it; and learn to seem vacuus and idle, when you have the most business.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Cantabit vacuus —, and I am always sufficiently vacuus.

Tales of all countries 2004

Accedentes verò ad praedictum dominum, sempèr sibi aliquid offerendum deferunt; secum illam antiquam legem obseruantes; Non apparebis in conspectu meo vacuus;

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Clipeus erat vacuus, in quo olim fuisse dicebant laminam æream, et eius in ea itidem cælata insignia, Leonem videlicet argenteum, cui ad pectus lunula rubea in campo cæruleo, quem Limbus ambiret denticulatus ex auro.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

For the custom is suche, that no straungere schalle come before him, but zif he zeve hym sum manere thing, aftre the olde lawe, that seythe, Nemo accedat in conspectu meo vacuus.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Clipeus erat vacuus, in quo olim fuisse dicebant laminam

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003