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With a hearty laugh at this beautiful _circulus in definiendo_ he threw down his pencil, and the imperfect and illogical office definition was accepted.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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The violation of Rule 3, which guards against defining a thing by itself, is technically known as 'circulus in definiendo,' or defining in a circle.
Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock
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Viennensis in definiendo dogmate unionis animœ humanœ cum Corpore
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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: "Ex quo fit, ut nullo modo in theologicis, quæ omnia e libris antiquis hebraicis, grascis, latinis ducuntur, possit aliquis bene in definiendo versari et a peccatis multis et magnis sibi cavere, nisi litteras et historiam assumat."
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Non est ausus contravenire sonitu, videri noluit Ecclesiae, quam toties Scripturae commemorant, refragari; nomen callide retinuit, rem ipsam funditus, definiendo, sustulit.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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Opportune hoc loco tempus defitaire conabimur, quo Hadrianus Aegjptum, et Alexandriam intrarit, in quo figenda propter monumentornm defectum ope* ram haetenus luserunt chronologi* Scri* ptores Teteres aut reticent tempus, aut in eo definiendo more suo dissentiont*
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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