Theorica

In regard to Administrators of Dioceses, consult FERRARI, Theorica et

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Even in the dreariest days of decadence, when the study of the Talmud seemed to engross their attention, Jews prosecuted scientific inquiries, as witness Moses Isserles's translation of _Theorica_, an astronomical treatise by Peurbach, the Vienna humanist.

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878

(See my article _Theorica_ in the Archaeological Dictionary.)

The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1837

But the example once set, Theorica were extended to other festivals besides those of the drama [298], and finally, under the plausible and popular pretext of admitting the poorer classes to those national or religious festivals, from which, as forming the bulk of the nation, it was against the theory of the constitution to exclude them, paved the way to lavish distributions of the public money, which at once tended to exhaust the wealth of the state, and to render effeminate and frivolous the spirit of the people.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838