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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Pipridae .
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Sophene is a district on the east side of the river between the mountain range called Masius and the range called Antitaurus: the capital or royal residence was Carcathiocerta.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles DMB&B.
AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials 2009
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These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles DMB&B.
July 2009 2009
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For the dwelling of all Ioktans posteritie is described by Moses to haue bene betwixt Mescha or Masius (an hil of the Ammonites) and Sephace, nere to the riuer Euphrates: which maketh it very vnlikely that Asarmathes should plant any colonies so far off in the North and Northwest countries.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It was the old German superstition, that any one who should eat the heart of a bird would thenceforth comprehend its language; and one modern philologist of the same nation (Masius declares) has so far studied the sounds produced by domestic fowls as to announce a Goose-Lexicon.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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It rises in Mt. Masius (the present Karaja Dagh), some fifty miles north of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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A titular Archdiocese of Mesopotamia, situated on the Mygdonius at the foot of Mt. Masius.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The views of Genebrard, Pereira, Bonfrere, a Lapide, Masius, Jansenius, and of other notable Biblicists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are equally elastic with regard to the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Other works of his are a treatise on paradise, of which there exists a Latin translation published by Masius in 1569; a treatise on the soul in forty chapters with a supplement on the utility of offerings for the dead, a book of controversy against heretics; homilies for the feasts of the liturgical year; a commentary on the works of Gregory Nazianzen; sermons on various subjects; and a history of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Balabitene, a region between Masius and Anti-Taurus, north of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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