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  • adjective poetic Adoring.

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  • "Sed propositum salutis et eos amplectitur, qui Creatorem agnoscunt, inter quos imprimis Musulmanos, qui fidem Abrahae se tenere profitentes, nobiscum Deum adorant unicum, misericordem, homines die novissimo iudicaturum." from Lumen Gentium §16.

    CONFIRMED 2009

  • And which was most absurd, they made gods upon such ridiculous occasions; As children make babies (so saith [6510] Morneus), their poets make gods, et quos adorant in templis, ludunt in Theatris, as Lactantius scoffs.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et puis adorant meme que dis je venerant la neige j'ai MON coin a moi de neige blanche et plate pas abimé pour un sous ou je depose toujours une seule empreinte ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Vltra transiui per mare Oceanum versus meridiem, et transiui per multas contratas et insulas, quarum vna vocatur Moumoran, et habet in circuitu 2000. milliaria, in qua homines portant facies caninas et mulieres similitèr, et vnum bouem adorant pro Deo suo, et ideo quilibet vnum bouem aureum vel argenteum in fronte portat: Homines illius contratæ et mulieres vadunt totaliter nudi, nisi quod vnum pannum lineum portant ante verenda sua.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Multas superuacuas obseruant ceremonias, quia respiciunt in vanitates et insanias falsas: solem et lunam praecipuè adorant, eisque frequentèr genua curuant, et ad nouilunium, quicquid est magni estimant inchoandum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Omnes autem de terra illa bouem viuum sicut Deum suum adorant, quem

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Omnes pro deo adorant bouem, vnde et quilibet in fronte argenteam seu auream similitudinem bouis defert, et si quem viuum in prælio ceperint, sine vlla miseratione manducant.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Namque stultorum aliqui Paganorum huiusmodi adorant animalia propter colorum, odorumque virtutem.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Omnes adorant ad Aquilonem complosis manibus: et prosternentes se genibus flexis ad terram, ponentes frontem super manus.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Namque stultorum aliqui Paganorum huiusmodi adorant animalia propter colorum, odorumque virtutem.

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

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