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- noun Plural form of
mensa .
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Examples
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Mirabile dictu est, quantum opsoniorum una domus singulis diebus absumat, sternuntur mensae in omnes pene horas calentibus semper eduliis.
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[6738] Perpetua impietas, nec mensae tempore cessat,
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Gustonii in aedibus Hubianis in coenaculo e regione mensae.
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For one person a year after took the _sacrae mensae_ (by which I had meant the sanctities of hospitality) to mean the sacramental table.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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If a stranger is introduced without leave ( "ad mensam communitatis ad comedendum vel videndum secretum mensae"), the penalty is a quart of good wine for the fellows present in Hall.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Government a priest of the Diocese of Würzburg provided with the royal Bavarian titulus mensae, and asks if this cleric is a persona grata to the duke.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Subsequently he again lived in Paris at the great convent of the Minorites, where he was choir-master as well as corrector mensae
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Nunc clamosa juvant nocturnae gaudia mensae, Nunc loca sola placent; frustra te, somne, recumbens, Alme voco, impatiens noctis, metuensque diei.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The ordinary three parts or courses (_mensae_) of a dinner, -- the gustatio or light preliminary course, the cena proper, with substantial dishes, and the dessert of pastry and fruit, could be amplified and extended to an unlimited extent by the skill of the slave-cooks brought from Greece and the
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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No doubt the reality of the belief had vanished; it could not be said of the city family, as Ovid, said of the farm-folk: [377] ante focos olim scamnis considere longis mos erat _et mensae credere adesse deos_.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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