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  • But the term universitas can also mean a whole community or a commonality of things.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Dietrich does not tell us why he chooses the term universitas over the more common term universum.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • A consideration that is an ever occurring theme in Dietrich is the unity of being, both created and uncreated, a unity he expressed in the term universitas entium, or universe of being.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • The term universitas is used by the Roman law writers in the same sense as collegium.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • And so he most likely used this term universitas to express this community of being.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Gradually, however, the terms universitas and studium came to be used promiscuously to denote an institution of learning: Universitas Ozoniensis and Studium Oxoniense were both applied to Oxford.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Nature is defined as universitas rerum, the ˜totality of all things™, and includes both the things which are (ea quae sunt) as well as those which are not (ea quae non sunt).

    John Scottus Eriugena Moran, Dermot 2004

  • Dengan status atau kondisi seperti itu, maka universitas dapat memberi honorarium yang tidak terlalu besar, dan karena si dosen punya kerjaan lain, maka besarnya honorarium tadi tidak menjadi masalah.

    Planet Terasi 2009

  • It was common cause that at common law each of the appellants was a "universitas" capable of suing and being sued.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Just as in the old days, the conception of a university was that of a real "universitas" or gathering of people of various nations, so also there is within the Empire a need of assisted organized study by the component parts, prepared beforehand at our universities on either side.

    The Labor Situation in Great Britain 1924

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