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  • Cum autem simul communicari et inungi aliquam oportuerit. soror aliqua crucem portet. et frater socius sacram deferat unccionem: et primo fiat communio. deinde inunccio. et in isto casu semper remaneat conuentus in infirmaria usque ad complectionem officii.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Viles animae et effrontes (sic enim Lutherus [2093] alicubi vocat) lucelli causa, ut muscae ad mulctra, ad nobilium et heroum mensas advolant, in spem sacerdotii, cujuslibet honoris, officii, in quamvis aulam, urbem se ingerunt, ad quodvis se ministerium componunt. —

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • * Nec officii sui in tempore obliviscatur: [1038] 1

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Caesaris militem fecit; quippe protinus ab adoptione missus cum eo praefectus equitum in Germaniam, successor officii patris mei, caelestissimorum eius operum per annos continuos viii. praefectus aut legatus spectator et pro captu mediocritatis meae adiutor fui. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Comes de Lyndsey modo existit in possessione et executione officii prædicti, et quod Robertus non ita pridem Carolum Primum fælicissimæ memoriæ, tunc Regem Angliæ, de advisamento Dominorum in Parliamento; quod quidem officium Montague nuper Comes Lyndsey pater ejus, cujus hæres ipse est executus est in coronatione Caroli Secundi nuper

    Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

  • Quaeso, reputate cum animis vestris, num id mutari melius sit, si quem ex illo globo nobilitatis ad hoc aut aliud tale negotium mittatis, hominem veteris prosapiae [448] ac multarum imaginum et nullius stipendii, scilicet ut in tanta re ignarus omnium trepidet, festinet, sumat aliquem ex populo monitorem officii sui.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Apastolicæ sedis et omnis officii semper observantissimus.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • Eoo quotiens surgit ab orbe dies; tota (licet quaeras) hoc me non fingere dicet officii testis Pontica terra mei.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • (The Lord Chancellor made the appointment, usually relying upon the Lord Lieutenant, or the custos rotulorum, of the county.) (b) virtute officii -- i.e. the Lord Chancellor, Lord President of the

    Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

  • Congreg. romanis s. officii et concilii in Archiv.f. k.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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