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- noun rhetoric Introducing a proposition into a speech, especially an extraneous one.
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Examples
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Ave, praeclara omnibus [Hail, glorious one] angelicis virtutibus, [in all angelic virtues] cuius assumptio [whose Assumption] nostra glorificatio. [was our glorification]
Josquin's Ave Maria 2009
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But there is also a third assumptio - the downfall of the, once dominant, Europe's Center Left.
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The assumptio is that A was bad, and needed to be changed by B, because Obama characterized A as an "excess" of the 60 and 70s.
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Nytimez88: and add in random stats, and i come up with an assumptio
writerchic88 Diary Entry writerchic88 2004
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As for the syllogism, Lorenzo Valla compared it to the art of making bread: the three parts that compose it, the major premiss (propositio), and the minor premiss (assumptio) are the water and the flour from which the baker makes the dough, the conclusion
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM NICOLA ABBAGNANO 1968
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Some of the passages still remain, in spite of Alcuin's suggestion that the original and proper readings must have been assumptio and assumptus, not adoptio and adoptatus (or adopticus); but they all can bear an orthodox explanation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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This adoption was defined by St. Thomas (III: 23: 1): personae extraneae in filium et heredem gratuita assumptio.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Virgo itaque de spiritu sancto incarnatum dei filium concepit, uirgo peperit, post eius editionem uirgo permansit; atque hominis factus est idemque dei filius, ita ut in eo et diuinae naturae radiaret splendor et humanae fragilitatis appareret assumptio.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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There is no _assumptio naturæ novæ_, and no change or mixture.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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This festival {298} is kept to celebrate the miraculous taking up (assumptio) of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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