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Examples
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Isocrates plures ob formam immortalitatem adepti sunt quam ob reliquas omnes virtutes.
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Cum triumphos, opes, honores adepti sunt, ad voluptatem et otium deinceps se convertunt: 'twas [3844] Cato's note, they cannot contain.
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'Scio ego, Quirites, plerosque non iisdem artibus imperium a vobis petere et, postquam adepti sunt, gerere; primo industrios, supplices, modicos esse, dein per ignaviam et superbiam aetatem agere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ita, quod in adversis rebus optaverant otium, postquam adepti sunt, asperius acerbiusque fuit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Itaque ab imperatore facile, quae petebant, adepti.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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The vices with their adepti were reproached by the Church, gave to most of the languages of Europe a revolting word, modified from the name 'Bulgarian.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Igitur hi milites, postquam victoriam adepti sunt, nihil reliqui victis fecere.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Ipsum quod suj causa eligitur quod omnia appetunt. quod prudentiam adepti eligunt quod efficiendi et custodiendj vim habet.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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They _paddled_ in Pantheism, but as regards it, both lacked the stupendous faith and inspiration of the old adepti, who flung their whole souls into God; and yet they sneered at Materialism and Science.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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[52-*] Defunctus autem Rex beatissimus in crastino sepultus est Londini, in Ecclesia, quam ipse novo compositionis genere construxerat, a qua post, multi Ecclesias construentes, exemplum adepti, opus illud expensis œmulabantur sumptuosis.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846
chained_bear commented on the word adepti
"He was one of the adepti, who could cure merely by passing his hands over the afflicted spot, and was in constant converse with spirits of all forms, which he could see as ordinary men see each other."
—Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998), 274
October 7, 2008