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Western Catholicism, when surveyed as a whole, has been described as a complexio oppositorum, but this was also true of the

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

In this sense, the substantive form of form is akin to what, in the 1920s, Schmitt termed complexio oppositorum, the complex of opposites, where a living form tensely brings together the most contradictory contents.

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Hm. Some terms from classical rhetoric involving the canon of arrangement: dispositio taxis enumeratio merismus catacosmesis chiasmus digressio epiphonema (my personal favorite) complexio

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Note 26: William, pp. 47 — 48: "Ex transgressione enim Ade complexio tota fuit debilitata et corrupta in pena peccati." back

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In the general treatment of wounds (f. 86 c) Gilbert tells us the surgeon must consider the time, the age of the patient, his temperament (_complexio_) and the locality, and be prepared to temper the hot with the cold and the dry with the moist.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Take me the two former figures and put them into one, and it is that which the Greekes call _symploche_, the Latines _complexio_, or _conduplicatio_, and is a maner of repetion, when one and the selfe word doth begin and end many verses in sute & so wrappes vp both the former figures in one, as he that sportingly complained of his vntrustie mistresse, thus.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Here too we must, however, recognize a complexio oppositorum, and that in a twofold sense.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

But here again we are confronted with the complexio oppositorum.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

And although perhaps this will not alter his lubberly condicio {n} s, yet I assure you, it wil for a time chau {n} ge his knauishe complexio {n}, and helpe him of the grene sicknes: and euery man maie practise this, as occasion shall serue hym in his familie, to reforme them.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Take me the two former figures and put them into one, and it is that which the Greekes call symploche, the Latines complexio, or conduplicatio, and is a maner of repetition, when one and the selfe word doth begin and end many verses in sute & so wrappes vp both the former figures in one, as he that sportingly complained of his vntrustie mistresse, thus.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569