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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
globus .
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Deep-fried dough was popular among Romans, including, as recounted by Cato the Elder (around 160 BCE), cheese fritters called globi/globuli (balls).
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Deep-fried dough was popular among Romans, including, as recounted by Cato the Elder (around 160 BCE), cheese fritters called globi/globuli (balls).
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Quid igitur inquies, si sint in coelo plures globi, similes nostrae telluris, an cum illis certabimus, quis meliorem mundi plagam teneat?
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Si nobiliores illorum globi, nos non sumus creaturarum rationalium nobilissimi: quomodo igitur omnia propter hominem? quomodo nos domini operum Dei?
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Heclæ flamma nec stuppam lucernarum luminibus aptissimam adurit, neque aqua extinguitur: Eóque impetu, quo apud nos machinis bellicis, globi eijciuntur, illinc lapides magni in aera emittuntur, ex frigoris & ignis & sulphuris commixtione.
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Hecl� flamma nec stuppam lucernarum luminibus aptissimam adurit, neque aqua extinguitur: E髊ue impetu, quo apud nos machinis bellicis, globi eijciuntur, illinc lapides magni in aera emittuntur, ex frigoris & ignis & sulphuris commixtione.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nicholas of Cusa argued that since all creation is an image of the divine, the world is as good as it possibly could be, given its status as contingent and finite (De ludo globi, I).
THEODICY LEROY E. LOEMKER 1968
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Omnem terrae ambitum, sicuti astrologicis demonstrationibus accepisti, ad caeli spatium puncti constat obtinere rationem, id est ut, si ad caelestis globi magnitudinem conferatur, nihil spatii prorsus habere iudicetur.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Non enim obscurum est Lactantium, celebrem alioqui scriptorem, sed Mathematicum parum, admodum pueriliter de forma terræ loqui, cum deridet eos, qui terram globi formam habere prodiderunt.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Alypius, juvaretque provinciae rector, metuendi globi flammarum prope fundamenta crebris assultibus erumpentes fecere locum exustis aliquoties operantibus inaccessum; hocque modo elemento destinatius repellente, cessavit inceptum.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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