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  • Just to be pedantic, inventus is the perfect passive participle of invenire, ‘to come upon, find, discover’, compounded from in (‘in, on’) and venire (‘to come’).

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Thesaurus Inventus: 2009

  • Stultus, qui quaerit quod nequit invenire, stultus qui quaerit quod nocet inventum, stultus qui cum plures habet calles, deteriorem deligit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Statim invenire article is very important, but it's one and only one starting point of a huge point that shouldn't be left hanging like that.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • The Statim invenire article is very important, but it's one and only one starting point of a huge point that shouldn't be left hanging like that.

    A.C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity (OUP, 2005) Miglior acque 2006

  • Quisquis litteris nostris electronicis notitiarum utaris atque nuntios Latinos invenire cupias, simpliciter ad hanc paginam quaesumus pergas.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • “Hactenus,” says he, “nullum omnino locum invenire putuerunt, ubi legeretur Christi justitiam nobis imputari ad justitiam; vel nos justos esse per Christi justitiam nobis imputatam,” De

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • * [2125] Nemo ergo sibi arroget, nemo de meritis glorietur, nemo de potestate se jactet, omnes speremus per Dominum Jesum misericordiam invenire, quoniam omnes ante tribunal ejus stabimus.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • "Ex his debet invenire præcentor incaustum omnibus scriptoribus monasterii; et Pergamenum ad brevia, et colores ad illuminandum, et necessaria ad legandum libros."

    Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

  • Apud nos quoque est invenire quod pro U consonante B ponitur, ut _caelebs_, caelestium vitam ducens, per B scribitur, quod U consonans ante consonantem poni non potest.

    The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

  • Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est (To know where you can find anything, that in short is the largest part of learning).

    Quotations 1919

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