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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The simple ascidians; a suborder of Ascidiacea contrasted with Compositæ, and with Salpiformes, containing ordinary fixed ascidians which are solitary and seldom reproduce by gemmation, or, if colonial (as in one family), whose members have no common investment, each having its own case or test.
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- noun mathematics Plural form of
simplex .
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Examples
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Parum vero distat sapientia virorum a puerili, multo minus senum et mulierum, cum metu et superstitione et aliena stultitia et improbitate simplices agitantur.
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Rudes enim et incomparati, simplices, et inscij omnis artis apparent.
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Rudes enim et incomparati, simplices, et inscij omnis artis apparent.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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One thing which Leibniz admired in Plato was the pluralism of the theory of ideas; Plato, he says in the Letter to Hansch, teaches that objectum sapientiae esse substantias nempe simplices, quae a me Monades appellantur (“the objects of knowledge are the simplest substances, which I call Monads”).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968
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The papillæ simplices are similar to those of the skin, and cover the whole of the mucous membrane of the tongue, as well as the larger papillæ.
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The varieties of papillæ met with are the papillæ vallatæ, papillæ fungiformes, papillæ filiformes, and papillæ simplices.
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Hoc admonere simplices etiam potest, Opinione alterius ne quid ponderent; Ambitio namque diffidens mortalium Aut gratiae subscribunt, aut odio suo; Erit ille nottis, quem per te cognoveris.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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Apostolicœ are further divided into Litterœ Apostolicœ simplices or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Litterœ Apostolicœ simplices are understood all documents drawn up by virtue of papal authorization, and signed with the pope's name but not by the pope personally.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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No doubt, when the feast was introduced in England and Normandy, the axiom "decuit, potuit, ergo fecit", the childlike piety and enthusiasm of the simplices building upon revelations and apocryphal legends, had the upper hand.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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