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It also requires inordinary physical strength and is ineffective when patient is fat with lots of extra fat tissue at abdomen.
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Peyrade had not only ceased to be of consequence, but had lost the profits of his position as spy-inordinary to His Majesty.
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On the brig he met a gentleman-inordinary to His Majesty Charles X.,
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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The same must be done in suppressing the titles of vicars, in annulling the head of processes and charges made by the bishops, and in suppressing the title of inquisitor-inordinary; for in these regions the jurisdiction over the crime of heresy is wholly apostolic, except in case of the Indians.
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The Emperor Marcus Aurelius called him to Rome and appointed him physician-inordinary to his son Commodus, and on special occasions Marcus Aurelius himself called in Galen as his medical adviser.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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After receiving various other preferments he became Dean of Westminster, and a chaplain-inordinary to Queen Elizabeth, who, however, did not advance him further on account of his opposition to the alienation of ecclesiastical revenues.
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It was probably a growing indisposition to motion, and a desire of learned and liberal conversation, which induced him to remove to LondoHf where in 1709, he was appointed physician inordinary to the Queen.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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It was high-tide in the antechamber, and had been so for more than an hour, ere the Duke’s gentleman-inordinary ventured into his bedchamber, carefully darkened, so as to make midnight at noonday, to know his Grace’s pleasure.
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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But besids these, ther are diverse motives provoking you above others to great care & conscience this way: As first, you are many of you strangers, as to y* persons, so to y® infirmities one of an - other, & so stand in neede of more watchfullnes this way, least when shuch things fall out in men & women as you suspected not, you be inordinary affected with them; which doth require at your hands much wisdome & charitie for y* covering & pre - venting of incident offences that way.
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