ancilla

Revealed truth, given through the tra - dition to which one is committed, must be the ruling mistress; philosophy, through which the metaphors of scripture are harmonized with each other and with other systematic knowledge, must be ancillary (from ancilla, the Latin word for serving girl).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK FERR 1968

I afterwards to her house; but she did not come presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.

Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668

I afterwards to her house; but she did not come presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

I afterwards to her house; but she did not come presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 65: May 1668 Samuel Pepys 1668

I afterwards to her house; but she did not come presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

(Mary's consent at the angel's annunciation tells us everything we need to know, except for most folks the connotation conjures up 'automobile company' or 'ex-nihilo' currency creation favored by political administrations who like to avoid concepts like "consent" not something young men desire to imitate: ancilla Domini heroism)

Do you think "Consent is Sexy"? 2009

Often the word servus is changed to the appropriate ancilla. 48 Or sometimes sorores is inserted into the text.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Transposition and the combining of multiple cantus firmi are also prominent features of his remarkably long Missa ‘Ecce ancilla Domini’/‘Ne timeas Maria’, for which Du Fay's Missa ‘Ecce ancilla’/‘Beata es Maria’ apparently served as a point of departure.

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The masses on Se la face ay pale, L'Homme armé, Ecce ancilla Domini, and Ave regina coelorum are of this type; the Missa ‘Caput’ sometimes attributed to Dufay is now thought instead to be by an English composer.

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From this same decade date the earliest extant copies of his works the songs S'il vous plaist and Puisque ma dame, and the Missa ‘Ecce ancilla Domini’/‘Ne timeas Maria’.

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