Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, partly; in part: noting names of species, genera, and other groups which are inexactly synonymous. Abbreviated p. and pt.
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Rome's official statements do not explicitly define whether Tradition is the second of a two-part revelation (known as partim-partim), or if both forms of revelation contain the entirety of God's revealed truth.
Pros Apologian 2009
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Operae pretium est de amore considerare, utrum Deus, an Daemon, an passio quaedam animae, an partim Deus, partim Daemon, passio partim, &c. Amor est aetus animi bonum desiderans.
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Si quo pacto fieri civitas aut exercitus posset partim ex his qui amant, partim ex his, &c.
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Partim quia subtilioris sensus acumine, partim scientia calidiore vigent et experientia propter magnam longitudinem vitae, partim ab Angelis discunt, &c. 1153.
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Apes nascuntur partim ex apibus, partim ex bubulo corpore putrefacto.
Archive 2007-06-01 David Wharton 2007
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P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente.
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Quae illi audire et legere solent, eorum partim vidi egomet, alia gessi, quae illi literis, ego militando didici, nunc vos existimate facta an dicta pluris sint.
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Apes nascuntur partim ex apibus, partim ex bubulo corpore putrefacto.
Did the Ancient Romans Know About Colony Collapse Disorder? David Wharton 2007
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Inde partim asper, partimnavigia patiens; mox præcipiti cursu progressus, inter occursantes scopulos non fluere immenso fragore creditur, sed ruere.
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C鎡erum etsi ilium prolixiore responsione non dignemur: tamen propter alios, qui hodie hanc rem partim mirantur, partim haud leuiter nostr� genti obijciunt, pauca hoc loco addenda videbantur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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