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  • A close relation, E. signata, likewise autographed, grows along the coastal strip of New South Wales.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • A close relation, E. signata, likewise autographed, grows along the coastal strip of New South Wales.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The low sclerophyll forest, behind the foredunes stretching back to the taller eucalypt forest, is dominated by scribbly gum Eucalyptus signata.

    Fraser Island, Australia 2008

  • If one takes a thing's nature to be a constituent of it, together with some individuating constituent such as signate or designated matter (materia signata) in the case of material beings, then the notion of an immaterial simple being becomes conceivable.

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • Thus Socrates and Plato, though the same in nature, differ numerically in virtue of their different portions of materia signata.

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • = Tagetes signata, = a very neat plant with fine foliage and rather small orange-coloured flowers, produced in great abundance.

    The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

  • Through the aptitude to being determined by this accidental form, matter is held to be individuated; the principle of individuation of corporeal beings is materia quantitate signata.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • They are numerically diverse, in the same species, because of the differentiation that accrues to them on account of their reception in quantified matter (materia signata).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • St. Thomas taught that the principle of individuation is matter with its determined dimensions, materia signata.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • But St. Thomas insists that it is materia signata quantitate.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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