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As soon as it was dead, the internal organs were examined to make sure that there was no physical defect or abnormal growth, for it was, of course, quite as necessary that the animal should be "purus" within as without; this was the only object of the examination, until the Etruscan art of _extipicina_ made its way to Rome.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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In the Aristotelian terms adopted by Aquinas, the natural order's nature does not entail its existence; its potentia depends on God who is actus purus for it to be realized.
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Aenean adipiscing purus quis dui luctus id cursus ante bibendum.
Why describe characters? maryrobinette 2009
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Sed porta, libero vel dignissim semper, quam est imperdiet justo, vel venenatis pede lorem ut purus.
"This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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Note 157: PrSalQ, B 252, pp. 122 — 23: "In ipsa celebri venerea actione, in spermate bonus sanguis emittitur et purus qui deberet in lac converti unde puer debet nutriri."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Etiam tortor purus, imperdiet eget blandit non, varius viverra turpis.
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Given further Aquinas' doctrine that God is actus purus, and thus has no unrealized potentialities, it follows that there is no "real" distinction between the divine essence and the divine actions or "energies."
Development of doctrine, essence/energies,and ecumenism Mike L 2007
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Given further Aquinas' doctrine that God is actus purus, and thus has no unrealized potentialities, it follows that there is no "real" distinction between the divine essence and the divine actions or "energies."
Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007
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Given further Aquinas' doctrine that God is actus purus, and thus has no unrealized potentialities, it follows that there is no real distinction between the divine essence and the divine actions or "energies."
Essence/energies, at last Mike L 2006
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Given further Aquinas' doctrine that God is actus purus, and thus has no unrealized potentialities, it follows that there is no real distinction between the divine essence and the divine actions or "energies."
Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006
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