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He means by "Mors aliena", some strange kind of death; though "aliena", signifies in quite another sense than there used.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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Scattare una foto di una forma di vita aliena potrebbe essere più semplice del previsto.
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The doctrine of the "faith of another," fides aliena, underwent frequent attacks in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as it had in the patristic period.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Although they peradventure that so scoff, do it alone in mirth and merriment, and hold it optimum aliena frui insania, an excellent thing to enjoy another man's madness; yet they must know, that it is a mortal sin (as [2176] Thomas holds) and as the prophet [2177] David denounceth, they that use it, shall never dwell in God's tabernacle.
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Note 15: See the much more extensive defense of fides aliena (the faith of another) below, in the discussion of God's redemptive plan for children; my concern in the present section is to establish the parameters of the negative side of infancy. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Immo etiam maiori aliena fides et affectio ex causa prodet, sicut paralitico qui per tegulas ante Dominum depositus fuit, quem Dominus curavit, secutus fidem eorum qui eum portabant. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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[6076] Cerinthus rejected Sulpitia, a nobleman's daughter, and courted a poor servant maid. — tanta est aliena in messe voluptas, for that [6077] stolen waters be more pleasant: or as Vitellius the emperor was wont to say,
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Parum vero distat sapientia virorum a puerili, multo minus senum et mulierum, cum metu et superstitione et aliena stultitia et improbitate simplices agitantur.
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In Hygiasticon, neque enim haec tractatio aliena videri debet a theologo, &c. agitur de morbo animae.
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However, heretical critics of the biblical precedents for fides aliena opposed precisely this conflation of the physical and the spiritual, a distinction of extreme importance to the Cathars and other dualists.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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