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  • The text “Cunctorum plasmator summus” is not otherwise kniwn, and probably has no liturgical function.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • This feature explains the title sometimes given to this mass, Missa cunctorum plasmator summus.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Sol, the sun god, was believed to be the visible manifestation of an invisible summus deus “Highest God” who ruled the universe and, not incidentally, provided advice on grand strategy to the Roman emperor.

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • Si aliquis horum morborum, summus sanatur, sanantur omnes inferiores.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nummers that is summus that is toptip that is bottombay that is Twomeys that is Digges that is

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Porro apud Regem tenetur bos singularis, cuius custos diligentissimè vrinam in uase aureo accipit simpliciter, et de fimo in vase consimili: et quotidie venit summus eorum prælatus quem dicunt Archiprotoplaustum, offert personaliter in prædictis preciosis vasis, Domino Regi de bouis vrina et fimo, atque in vrina, quam appellant Gaul, tingens manus, defricit, et perungit

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Sacerdotalis, et Regia, in qua Rex habet suum magnificum palatium, et summus Idolorum Pontifex quem Labassi appellant, cui omnes Regni obediunt et populi sicut Domino Papæ nos Christiani quoniam et iubet, et benedicit, ac confert sacerdotibus beneficia idolorum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Cuncti principes huius primæ Tartariæ, quorum summus semper vocatur Bachu, et moratur in Ciuitate Horda, [Marginal note: Horda est multitudo riuens in agris.] reddunt Imperatore Grand Can, magna tributa.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And also the gret Chan is the most myghty emperour of the world, and the grettest lord undre the firmament; and so he clepethe him in his lettres, right thus, Chan, filius Dei excelsi, omnium universam Terram colentium summus Imperatur, et Dominus omnium

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Can filius Dei excelsi, omnium vniuersam terram colentium summus Imperator, et Dominus Dominantium omnium.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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