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- abbreviation Leviticus
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
Leviticus .
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For _delictum_ would seem to signify the same as _derelictum_ [* Augustine, QQ. in Levit., qu. xx], and therefore is seemingly the same as an omission.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Violations of the Word and the church correspond to the prohibited degrees enumerated in Levit., ch. xviii.,
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Origen enlarges, almost to exaggeration, on the idea of vicarious martyrdom (Exhort. ad martyr., ch. 1) and of communion between man and angels (De orat., xxxi); and accounts for it by the unifying power of Christ's Redemption), ut caelestibus terrena sociaret (In Levit., hom. iv) and the force of charity, stranger in heaven than upon earth (De orat., xi).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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