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  • Plebs tua te, Domine, beati Angeli sacerdotis et Martyris tui glorificatione sanctificet: et eodem intercedente te mereatur habere rectorem.

    5 May -- St Angelus, O. Carm. John 2009

  • Plebs tua te, Domine, beati Angeli sacerdotis et Martyris tui glorificatione sanctificet: et eodem intercedente te mereatur habere rectorem.

    May 30 -- St Joan of Arc John 2009

  • Note 37: "Siquidem quamuis beata illa soror in silencii observacione sollicita fuerit nimis, nunquam transgrediens et infringend legem silencii in vita sua, tamen cum graciam illuminantem se minus solito se habere conspexit, strictissimum sibi ipsi silencium indixit, tanquam os ad loquendum ey aures ad audiendum non haberet; ..."

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Habit, meanwhile, is intimately interlaced with habitat: both are derived from a combination of habere, to have, and abitare, to dwell.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • ˜Disposition™ (habitudo) or ˜relative disposition™ (habitudo relativa), which suggests that relations account for the way a thing ˜holds itself toward something™ (se habere ad aliquid);

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • Categories Aristotle says that the being associated with relatives is being-toward-something-else (ad aliud se habere).

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • The root *kap in #9 gives English 'have', 'heavy', 'heave', Dutch 'hebben', German 'haben' and Latin 'capere' (seize), capsa (case); *gʰabʰ/gʰebʰ (or *ka̤p/ke̤p under the Syllabic Breathy Voice Hypothesis) gives Latin 'habere' and English 'give'.

    PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009

  • Per hoc enim quod intelligimus vel gaudemus, ad aliquod obiectum aliqualiter nos habere oportet: amor vero aliquid alicui vult; hoc enim amare dicimur cui aliquod bonum volumus, secundum modum praedictum.

    Quitting Smoking 2009

  • Necessarium est autem veteres ortus cometarum habere collectos.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Magna abusio est os habere in choro et cor in foro.

    The singing of Psalms and the Divine Office 2009

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