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He is losing his grandmother -- a woman who is * in loco matris* to him.
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October 6, 2008 at 1:25 pm mai kittehs uzuly maik it imposble to maik bed or chang sheetz. wonce iz pull da covers adn sheets, dey hopz up on da bare matris! adn wen ai wont to put new cobers on, dey wont moove!
I’z in ur comfurtr - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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For Vespers: Festum matris gloriose, which LLPB's book of hymn names lists as "Now in the holy celebration," and which is in the Hymner, translated, at this page.
Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008
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For Vespers: Festum matris gloriose, which LLPB's book of hymn names lists as "Now in the holy celebration," and which is in the Hymner, translated, at this page.
Update: Office Hymns for the Feast of the Visitation bls 2008
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Note 109: Constantinus Africanus described this most succinctly in his Pantegni (the theoretical part of Hali Abbas's Liber regalis dispositionis): "Eorum ergo membra videntur esse tenera sed iam nata minus sunt tenera quam cum sint in matris vulva."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 2: RHF, 18: 728A: Ex historia episcoporum Autissiodorensium: "corpus pueri mortui, quod propter interdictum civitatis ecclesiasticam non poterat habere sepulturam, importuno matris pueri excitus clamore et lacrymis, in ipsa episcopi camera ante lectum domini sui episcopi fecit humari in contumeliam ejus et dei contemptum." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Junonium puerum, et matris partum vere aureum, as [2212] Tully said of Octavianus, while he was adopted Caesar, and an heir [2213] apparent of so great a monarchy, he was a golden child.
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Vtique nullus absque peccato, si nec infans unius diei absque peccato, nec in ipso matris utero conceptus infans absque peccato. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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But he turned himself forthwith into his own shape, began to embrace and offer violence unto her, sed illa matris metu abnuebat, but she by no means would yield, donec pollicitus connubium obtinuit, till he vowed and swore to marry her, and then she gave consent.
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Hoc enim ex sanguine menstruato fit, qui quandoque nimis abundans super puerum in utero matris cadit.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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