decem

It means to reduce by exactly one tenth - a very specific word coming from the Latin decem meaning ten.

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Similarly a dime is called a dime because in Latin decem meant "ten."

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In 1266 he returned to Paris, where his friars were under attack both from conservatives in the Theology faculty and from radicals in Arts. Bonaventure began a series of writings devoted primarily to moral matters: Collations on the Ten Commandments (Collationes de decem praeceptis), Lent of

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S. Bonaventurae decem opuscula ad theologiam mysticam spectantia.

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His most famous composition, Missa ‘Quem dicunt homines’, was printed by Giunta in Missarum decem … liber primus 1522, almost certainly a reprint of a lost Petrucci book of 1515.

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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

Ferre non possunt ut illorum Messias communis servator sit, nostrum gaudium, &c. Messias vel decem decies crucifixuri essent, ipsumque Deum si id fieri posset, una cum angelis et creaturis omnibus, nec absterretur ab hoc facto et si mille interna subeunda forent.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ille profitetur mille coronatus, cum nec decem mercatur; alius e diverso mille dignus, vix decem consequi potest.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

O si nunc morerer, inquit, quanta et qualia mihi imperfecta manerent: sed si mensibus decem vel octo super vixero, omnia redigam ad libellum, ab omni debito creditoque me explicabo; praetereunt interim menses decem, et octo, et cum illis anni, et adhuc restant plura quam prius; quid igitur speras.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And therefore (quod iterum moneo, licet nauseam paret lectori, malo decem potius verba, decies repetita licet abundare, quam unum desiderari) I would advise him that is actually melancholy not to read this tract of Symptoms, lest he disquiet or make himself for a time worse, and more melancholy than he was before.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007