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- adjective being five more than seventy
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Examples
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This mounteine in many places is founde thre hundred lxxv. miles broade: and of length equalle with the whole countrie.
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"The most esteemed is that called Microsphaerum, having the least leaf, and the price of it is X. lxxv," seventy-five pence.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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English Garner_ (_Elizabethan S.nnets_, ed.S. Lee, 1904, pp.lxxv. et seq.).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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(Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, t. lxxv., p. 784.)
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Epiphanius (Adv. hær., lxxv, 5) offered an explanation of this condition of uncertainty by supposing that priests were appointed in some places where there was no bishop, while in other places where no candidates for priesthood were found, the people were satisfied with having a bishop, who, however, could not be without a deacon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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For this he was ranked among the heretics by Epiphanius (Adv. hær., lxxv, 3).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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A masterly synthetic exposition of the theological and philosophical doctrine as to man is given in the "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas, I, QQ. lxxv-ci.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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He contradicts himself, as in his "Chronicle" he expressly calls the Apostle John the teacher of Papias ( "ad annum Abrah 2114"), as does Jerome also in Ep. lxxv, "Ad Theodoram", iii, and in "De viris illustribus", xviii.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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This doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas (cf. I, Q. lxxv, a. 4) and of Aristotle is not the only one that has been advanced.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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In Questions lxxv to xc of part I of the "Summa Theologica", St. Thomas gives a very fairly complete and systematic account of the leading topics connected with the soul.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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