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  • Inter calida radix petrofelini, apii, feniculi; Inter frigida emulsio seminis melonum cum sero caprino quod est commune vehiculum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The carrying about of images in procession is another relic of the religion of the Greeks and Romans, for they also carried their idols from place to place, in a kind of chariot, which was peculiarly dedicated to that use, which the Latins called thensa, and vehiculum Deorum; and the image was placed in a frame, or shrine, which they called ferculum.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Coelum vehiculum divinae virtutis, cujus mediante motu, lumine et influentia, Deus! elementaria corpora ordinat et disponit

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Elephantes ad hoc curiosè instructi, cum quatuor hippis albis equæ doctis et ipsi cooperti ditissimis tegumentis, ac præter aurigas nobiliter indutos, qui currum cautissimè ducunt, adsunt et quatuor de maioribus palatii Dominis, indè ad vehiculum habentes iugem curam, de minatione eius, et ne vltimo exercitu appropriet infra iactum (vt dixi) sagittæ.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Elephantes ad hoc curios� instructi, cum quatuor hippis albis equ� doctis et ipsi cooperti ditissimis tegumentis, ac pr鎡er aurigas nobiliter indutos, qui currum cautissim� ducunt, adsunt et quatuor de maioribus palatii Dominis, ind� ad vehiculum habentes iugem curam, de minatione eius, et ne vltimo exercitu appropriet infra iactum (vt dixi) sagitt�.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • No; but it is the efficient, which is ever but vehiculum formae.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • The word of the gospel as preached is "vehiculum gratiae," and ought to be ordered so as it may comply with its design in its whole work on the souls of men.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Non ascendis currum, nec rotarum lupsibus veheris, sed habes pedum tuorum vehiculum tecum natum.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Language, the great vehiculum and instrument of thought, is wanting, and reason can not develop itself without words.

    Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

  • Plethodon vehiculum -- and the wooded edges, hoping to see an ensatina -- Ensatina escholtzii -- both so-called "Plethodons," or lungless salamanders that breath through their skin and don't breed in a pond.

    The Seattle Times 2012

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