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  • Whether it is the moment when a newborn draws its first independent breath, the laying of the first brick of a building, the signing of an important contract, or the first time a question is asked, a map of the heavensan astrological chartis calculated.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • Scire velim: Pretium chartis quotus arrogat annus.

    Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) G. W.

  • (I 137) and Hor _Carm_ IV ix 30-31 'non ego te meis/_chartis_ inornatum silebo' (where Kiessling-Heinze point out that _chartis_ refers to the poem in its published state being transmitted to others, rather than to the poem at its moment of composition).

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • 'Deferar in vicum vendentem tus et odores et piper et quidquid chartis amicitur ineptis.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Corneli, tibi; namque tu solebas meas esse aliquid putare nugas iam tum, cum ausus es unus Italorum omne aevom tribus explicare chartis, doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • The metonymy is not found in Virgil or Propertius, but compare Lucretius IV 970 'patriis ... _chartis_' = 'Latinis uersibus'

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • THOMAS, Antiquitates prioratus majoris Malverniae in agro Wicciensi, cum chartis originalibus easdem illustrantibus, ex registris Sedis

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Martia, quae paruos Mauortis semine natos uberibus grauidis uitali rore rigabat: quae tum cum pueris flammato fulminis ictu45 concidit atque auolsa pedum uestigia liquit. tum quis non artis scripta ac monumenta uolutans uoces tristificas chartis promebat Etruscis?

    De Consulatu Suo 1912

  • Quod si recte se habere pronuntiaueris, peto ut mei nominis hoc quoque inseras chartis; sin uero uel minuendum aliquid uel addendum uel aliqua mutatione uariandum est, id quoque postulo remitti, meis exemplaribus ita ut a te reuertitur transcribendum.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • There is another manner of using the active participle, which gives it a passive signification: as, The grammar is now printing, grammatica jam nunc chartis imprimitur.

    A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746

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