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Volum us insuper et ordinamus quod Abbas ejusdem monasterii qui pro tempore fuerit de cousensu saniorum de Conventu specialiter constituat unum monachum providum et discretum ad recipiendum ordinandum et expendendum totam summam pecunie memorate pro utilitate conventus secundum votum et intencionem mentis nostre superius annotatum et ad reddendum fidele compotum coram Abbate et Maioribus de Conventu singulis annis de pecunia sic recepta.
The Monastery 2008
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Simul, id quod in tali re solet, alii portenta atque prodigia [153] nuntiabant, alii conventus fieri, arma portari, Capuae atque in Apulia servile bellum moveri.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Postquam res in Africa gestas quoque modo actae forent fama divulgavit, Romae per omnes locos et conventus de facto consulis agitari.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Atinius, Marii filius, quæstor, ex multatitia pecunia conventus decreto fieri mandavit.
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Having been presented by one of them, he had obtained from the Chancellor licence to perform certain exercises before the _conventus_, or meeting of the faculty, by which the degree was finally bestowed.
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But it may be that other Italians also are comprised under the name; for Romans and Italians resided in great numbers in all the towns subject to the Roman dominion, for the sake of commerce, and in them they formed a distinct _conventus_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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At Bologna the process of graduationof admission to the jus docendi, right to teachconsisted of two parts, the Private Examination and the Public (conventus): The private Examination was the real test of competence, the so-called public Examination being in practice a mere ceremony.
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But in 84 it was incorporated with the province of Asia by L. Licinius Murena, a lieutenant of Sulla, and became the capital of the Cibyratic conventus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Farneta, near Lucca, recently repurchased and occupied by the general and the conventus Cartusiae; Pisa; Florence, where the monks are merely custodians of a national monument; Trisulti, near Alatri; La
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The kingdom was then divided into four districts, each of which had its capital and its conventus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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