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Videbat nimirum doctissimus scriptor duplicem a Basilio distingui fornicationem, leviorem alteram, alteram graviorem levior dicitur, quae inter personas matrimonio solutas committitur: gravior, cum conjugati hominis libido in mulierem solutam erumpit.
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De karulis in claustro habendis hanc consideracionem habere debent quibus committitur claustri tutela ut videlicet celerarius seu alii fratres qui raro in claustro resident suas karulas in claustro non habeant, set nec aliqui fratres nisi in scribendo vel illuminando aut tantum notando communitati aut et sibimet ipsis proficere sciant.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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And Pope _Leo_ I. in his decretal Epistle to _Anastasius_ Bishop of _Thessalonica_: _Singulis autem Metropolitanis sicut potestas ista committitur, ut in suis Provinciis jus habeant ordinandi; ita eos Metropolitanos à te volumus ordinari; maturo tamen & decocto judicio_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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The entry of a committitur in execution, where the plaintiff acknowledges part received, 488
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Statim Gratianus in Occidentcm profedus Ala* mannos uincit Tlieodofip committitur Orlentis cura.
Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. Schwarz, Christian Gottlieb, 1675-1751 1779
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Patellam, qua? cum imo femore committitur, mulfa» glandulas ambeunt, quas plurimus adeps obvolvit.
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(in ch. xxi.) that this must not be taken allegorically, as the heretics allege, since “verisimile non est, ut ea species sacramenti, in quam fides tota committitur, in quam disciplina tota conititur, ambigue annuntiata et obscura proposita videatur” (the gospel is too important to be stated ambiguously; see further what follows).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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* verisimile non est, ut ea species sacramenti, in quam fides tota committitur, in quam disciplina tota conititur, ambigue annuntiata et obscura proposita videatur: [2106] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Thus St. Gregory in his letter to the Emperor Maurice, after quoting Christ's words in Matthew 16: 18-19, writes: "Behold he [Peter] received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the power of binding and loosing is committed to him, the care of the whole Church and its government is given to him [cura ei totius Ecclesiae et principatus committitur
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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: "Quod in religionem divinam committitur, in omnium fertur injuriam").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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