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- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey.
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To begin with, the leader of this 'Communion' is an apostate Catholic priest who joined the Anglican Church to get married, then divorced, then had himself ordained bishop by a shady epicope vagantes source, and that's only the start of it.
News that Traditional Anglicans... Joanna Bogle 2007
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Super alios autem Anthropophagos Scythas, in quadam conualle magna Imai montis, regio est, quæ vocatur Abarimon, in qua syluestres viuunt homines, auersis post crura plantis, eximiæ velocitatis, passim cum feris vagantes.
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Super alios autem Anthropophagos Scythas, in quadam conualle magna Imai montis, regio est, qu� vocatur Abarimon, in qua syluestres viuunt homines, auersis post crura plantis, eximi� velocitatis, passim cum feris vagantes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Four jurymen were to act as public executors: "Quatuor homines electi et jurati ad interficiendos porcos inventos vagantes infra muros civitatis."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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"Breviarium extravagantium", or summary of the decretals not contained in the "Decretum" of Gratian (vagantes extra Decretum), was the work of Bernard of Pavia (q. v.) and was compiled 1187-1191.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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It was also called "Collectio seu liber extra", i.e. the collection of the laws not contained (vagantes extra) in the "Decretum" of Gratian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Regionary clerics, who are also called clerici vagantes and acephali, were those who were ordained without title to a special church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Juris "are private works, the" Extravagantes of John XXII ", arranged in 1325 by Zenzelin de Cassanis, who glossed them, and the" Extra vagantes communes ", a belated collection; it was only in the edition of the" Corpus Juris "by Jean Chappuis, in 1500, that these collections found a fixed form.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Diacaledonæ et Vecturiones, itidemque Attacotti, bellicosa hominum natio, et Scotti per diversa vagantes, multa populabuntur. "
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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