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  • Adiona's name comes from the Latin verb adeo, "to approach or visit" as well as "to take possession of one's inheritance"; perhaps the connection between these two meanings lies in the idea of "to come home again".

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jan 2008

  • Adiona's name comes from the Latin verb adeo, "to approach or visit" as well as "to take possession of one's inheritance"; perhaps the connection between these two meanings lies in the idea of "to come home again".

    Goddess Adeona a/k/a Abeona Jan 2008

  • In Hypochondriaca melancholia adeo ambigua sunt symptomata, ut etiam exercitatissimi medici de loco affecto statuere non possint.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Multi tacit e opinantur commercium illud adeo frequens cum barbaris nudis, ac presertim cum foeminis ad libidinem provocare, at minus multo noxia illorum nuditas quam nostrarum foeminarum cultus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [1797] Talia de genere hoc adeo sunt multa, loquacem ut

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Hostratus cucullatus adeo graviter ob Reuclini librum, qui inscribitur, Epistolae obscurorum virorum, dolore simul et pudore sauciatus, ut seipsum interfecerit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Usque adeo quod tangit idem est, tamen ultima distant!”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • [4662] Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarum,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It is in everything else as it is in colors; bad eyes can distinguish between black and white; better eyes, and eyes much exercised, can distinguish every nicer gradation: “Usque adeo quod tangit idem est, tamen ultima distant.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Nonnulli huic supra modum indulgent, usum etsi non adeo magnum, non tamen abjiciendum censeo.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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