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  • -- In the passage relating to Mortimer's marriage in Walsingham's history, the word "obiit" is evidently an interpolation by mistake.

    Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820

  • Other terms used in the Annales and translated as 'death' include 'moritur' and 'obiit'.

    Iago Gwynedd Carla 2010

  • Altera trans-Rhenana ingressa sepulchrum recens apertum, vidit cadaver, et domum subito reversa putavit eam vocare, post paucos dies obiit, proximo sepulchre collocata.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • A citizen of ours, saith [3852] Cardan, was sixty years of age, and had never been forth of the walls of the city of Milan; the prince hearing of it, commanded him not to stir out: being now forbidden that which all his life he had neglected, he earnestly desired, and being denied, dolore confectus mortem, obiit, he died for grief.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Latin obiit Etruscan an lupuce perfective, "he/she has passed on, he/she has met death".

    Death and euphemisms in Etruria 2007

  • Bothwallius atribilarius obiit Brizarrus Genuensis hist.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Planetarum coitio sub Scorpio Asterismo in nona coeli statione, quam Arabes religioni deputabant efficit Martinum Lutherum sacrilegum hereticum, Christianae religionis hostem acerrimum atque prophanum, ex horoscopi directione ad Martis coitum, religiosissimus obiit, ejus Anima scelestissima ad infernos navigavit — ab Alecto, Tisiphone & Megara flagellis igneis cruciata perenniter. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Planetarum coitio sub Scorpio Asterismo in nona coeli statione, quam Arabes religioni deputabant efficit Martinum Lutherum sacrilegum hereticum, Christianae religionis hostem acerrimum atque prophanum, ex horoscopi directione ad Martis coitum, religiosissimus obiit, ejus Anima scelestissima ad infernos navigavit — ab Alecto, Tisiphone & Megara flagellis igneis cruciata perenniter. —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Et obiit, et mortuus est Abraham in senectute bona, senex et satur: et congregatus est ad populos suos.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et obiit Ishac, et mortuus est, et collectus est ad populos suos, senex et satur dierum: et sepelierunt eum Esau et Iahacob filii ejus.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

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  • Looks a bit like Bush with its “i�?s so close together...

    August 10, 2009