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  • These ceremonies are called ise drup (a full life), and it is believed that if they were neglected life would be cut short.

    Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004

  • These ceremonies are called ise drup (a full life), and it is believed that if they were neglected life would be cut short.

    Among the Tibetans 1867

  • For this coaste is never subjecte to the ise, which is never lightly seene to the southe of Cape Razo in Newfounde lande.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Wherfore seeing the matter of this historicall ise is neither elementarie (as we haue so often proued by this place of Frisius) neither spirituall, nor infernall, both which we haue concluded euidently in short, yet sound and substanciall reasons: nor yet celestiall matter, which, religion forbiddeth a man once to imagine: it is altogether manifest, that according to the said historiographers, there is no such thing at all, which notwithstanding they blaze abroad with such astonishing admiration, & which we thinke to be an ordinary matter commonly seene and felt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Wherfore seeing the matter of this historicall ise is neither elementarie (as we haue so often proued by this place of Frisius) neither spirituall, nor infernall, both which we haue concluded euidently in short, yet sound and substanciall reasons: nor yet celestiall matter, which, religion forbiddeth a man once to imagine: it is altogether manifest, that according to the said historiographers, there is no such thing at all, which notwithstanding they blaze abroad with such astonishing admiration, & which we thinke to be an ordinary matter commonly seene and felt.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Wherfore seeing the matter of this historicall ise is neither elementarie (as we haue so often proued by this place of Frisius) neither spirituall, nor infernall, both which we haue concluded euidently in short, yet sound and substanciall reasons: nor yet celestiall matter, which, religion forbiddeth a man once to imagine: it is altogether manifest, that according to the said historiographers, there is no such thing at all, which notwithstanding they blaze abroad with such astonishing admiration, & which we thinke to be an ordinary matter commonly seene and felt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • So I've got a choice to make: OUP and the need to spot words which can only have "-ise", or "-ise" and leave it at that.

    On -ise vs -ize DC 2007

  • Two responses to my two questions, all in one day see the "-ise"/"-ize" post too.

    On di(a)ereses DC 2007

  • Meaning it by the ise which is made of frozen water, the same being molten by the sunne or fire, makes water againe.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • The installation seems to proceed finely (except for the cable driver part, which needs to be done separately for Ubuntu) but once the installation is over, the program 'ise' refuses to start up.

    Ubuntu Forums 2010

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