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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
corpusculum .
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* Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula: [1032] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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The macrospore or embryo-sac produces a prothallium called the endosperm, in which archegonia or corpuscula are formed; and lastly, in typical dicotyledons it is only lately that any trace of a prothallium from the microspore or pollen cell has been discovered, while the macrospore or embryo-sac produces only two or three prothallium cells, known as antipodal cells, and two or three oospheres, known as germinal vesicles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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Ista enim flagitia Democriti, sive etiam ante Leucippi, esse corpuscula quaedam laevia, alia aspera, rotunda alia, partim autem angulata, curvata quaedam, et quasi adunca; ex his effectum esse coelum atque terram, nulla cogente natura, sed concursu quodam fortuito.
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"'Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula.'"
Pelham — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"'Mors sola fatetur Quantula sint hominum corpuscula.'"
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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-- Mors sola fatetur quantula sint hominum corpuscula. _ '
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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Qvarn quz per radios volitanr corpuscula Iblis Majorcm nafum vixiputOiPauIushabec.
M. Antoni Mureti ... Orationes, epistolæ hymniqve saeri Marc Antoine Muret , Publilius 1660
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-- Mors sola fatetur quantula hominum corpuscula. "
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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