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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.
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[[Variety]] ( '' varietas '') and [[Form]] ( '' forma '').
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[[Variety]] ( '' varietas '') and [[Form]] ( '' forma '').
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His motet Clangat plebs flores existed by 1477, when Tinctoris praised the work for its compositional varietas in his Liber de arte contrapuncti.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Annon aqua sic afficitur a calore ut ardeat; et a frigore, ut in glaciem concrescat? et haec varietas distinctionum, alii flent, rident,
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Tanta enim morbi varietas ac differentia ut non facile dignoscatur, unde initium morbus sumpserit.
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And how could a medievalist complain about such miscellaneous varietas?
Archive 2007-05-01 Miglior acque 2007
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Laet, and [3066] Acosta contend, there is tam mirabilis et inopinata varietas, such variety of weather, ut merito exerceat ingenia, that no philosophy can yet find out the true cause of it.
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And how could a medievalist complain about such miscellaneous varietas?
Paul Strohm (ed), Middle English (Oxford, 2007) Miglior acque 2007
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Septentrione deuiat, nunc in Occidentem, nunc in Orientem, prout quis vel orientalior, vel occidentalior est illo Meridiano qui per vtrumque polum Magnetis, et Mundi ducitur, Mirabilis est h鎐 varietas, et qu� nauigantem plurim鵰 fallere potest, nisi hanc
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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'Equidem omni cura morem servabo senis; sed si libuerit aliquid interponere, dictorum sensus ut delectet varietas, bonas in partes, lector, accipias velim.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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