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  • The website is called primitus victor, which Abby points out to mean "first victim" in Latin.

    BuddyTV 2008

  • Fracastorius agrees in this with Gordonius, inde primitus imaginatio venerea, erectio, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Angelum primitus fuisse ostensam prædicto Danorum Duci, illic fame cum suo exercitu laboranti.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Ante hanc Ecclesiam, super columnam marmoream habetur de ære aurato opere fuscrio, magna imago Iustiniani quondam Imperatoris super equum sedentis, fuit autem primitus in manu imaginis fabricata sphæra rotunda, quæ iam diu è manu sua sibi cecidit, in signum quòd Imperator muliarum terraram dominium perdidit.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Angelum primitus fuisse ostensam pr鎑icto Danorum Duci, illic fame cum suo exercitu laboranti.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Ante hanc Ecclesiam, super columnam marmoream habetur de 鎟e aurato opere fuscrio, magna imago Iustiniani quondam Imperatoris super equum sedentis, fuit autem primitus in manu imaginis fabricata sph鎟a rotunda, qu� iam diu � manu sua sibi cecidit, in signum qu騞 Imperator muliarum terraram dominium perdidit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • * Haec gratia quae occulte humanis cordibus divina largitate tribuitur, a nullo duro corde respuitur; ideo quippe tribuitur, ut cordis durities primitus auferatur: [5517] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [127] "Haec gratia quae occulte humanis cordibus divina largitate tribuitur, a nullo duro corde respuitur; ideo quippe tribuitur, ut cordis durities primitus auferatur" -- August. de Praedest.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Quoniam uero in tota quaestione contrariarum sibimet [Greek: haireseon] de personis dubitatur atque naturis, haec primitus definienda sunt et propriis differentiis segreganda.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Sic porro primitus appellabant magnatum, atque adeo Regum filios.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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