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- n. The sum of all the political, economic, technological, scientific, military, geographical, and psychological knowledge of the masses and of their representatives. Usually contrasted with scienda.
Etymologies
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Christianis, vt saltem scita veraciter voluntate et intentione ipsorum, possemus illam patefacere Christianis, ne forte subito irruentes inuenirent eos imparatos, sicut peccatis hominum exigentibus alia vice contigit: et fecerunt magnam stragem in populo Christiano.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Ubi sunt isti scortatores, qui soli inviti cubant? haec nox scita est exercendo scorto conducto male.
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Reimmannus carries his strictures, upon the jealousy of foreigners at the success of the Germans in bibliography, with a high hand: "Ringantur Itali, nasum incurvent Galli, supercilium adducant Hispani, scita cavilla serant Britanni, frendeant, spument, bacchentur ii omnes, qui præstantiam
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Jam vero illud stultissimum existimare omnia justa esse, quæ scita sint in populorum institutis aut legibus, "etc." Quod si populorum jussis, si principum decretis, si sententiis judicum jura constituerentur, jus esset latrocinari, jus adulterare, jus testamenta falsa supponere, si hæc suffragiis aut scitis multitudinis probarentur. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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