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  • The neo-Latin word autismus had been coined in 1910 by a Swiss doctor named Eugen Bleuler as a way to depict the “morbid self-admiration” of schizophrenics who were stuck in their interior worlds.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • The neo-Latin word autismus had been coined in 1910 by a Swiss doctor named Eugen Bleuler as a way to depict the “morbid self-admiration” of schizophrenics who were stuck in their interior worlds.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • The neo-Latin word autismus had been coined in 1910 by a Swiss doctor named Eugen Bleuler as a way to depict the “morbid self-admiration” of schizophrenics who were stuck in their interior worlds.

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • Welcome Vitum Medicinus to the blogosphere with his neo-Latin terminology and reminiscences of simpler times.

    Archive 2007-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • And if you're interested in neo-Latin poetry, apparently "Janus Secundus is een van de grootste dichters ter wereld":

    languagehat.com: THE RUINS OF ROME. 2004

  • The youths used to learn English, which they spoke fluently and with tolerable accent, but always barbarously; they are more successful with the easier neo-Latin tongues.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • While in the Trecento Italian writers followed medieval tradition in vernacular writings, in the Quattrocento neo-Latin poetry and prose closely imitated Roman models.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • Crashaw with Italian and neo-Latin literature, and he knew the work of Wölfflin.

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Horace, "one of the most precious and enviable jewels of our modern literature," and "perhaps the best of all Horaces in the neo-Latin tongues."

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • In its groundwork it presents the nearest approach to the old ecclesiastical Slavonic, the liturgical language common to all the Orthodox Slavs, but it has undergone more important modifications than any of the sister dialects in the simplification of its grammatical forms; and the analytical character of its development may be compared with that of the neo-Latin and Germanic languages.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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