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Centum ova et unum, quolibet mane sumant ova sorbilia, cum sequenti pulvere supra ovum aspersa, et contineant quousque assumpserint centum et unum, maniacis et melancholicis utilissimum remedium.
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Note 21: Ebrard, p. 1543A: Ergo & puer, qui non credit, nec credendi habet intellectum, baptizari non debet, quousque rationem habeat.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 106: Ebrard, p. 1543D: Corui enim pullis suis pastum negant, quousque nigrescant, et parentibus similes fiant, similiter et pueris pastum vitae negare vultis quousque intelligant.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Sermo 66.10, p. 185: Nemo mihi dicat quia non habet fidem, cui mater impertit suam, involvens illi in sacramento, quousque idoneus fiat proprio, non tantum sensu, sed assensu, evolutam puramque percipere.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Propter hoc autem id maximè credebatur, quia semper, quando Cuyne tentorio exibat, eidem cantabatur, et cum virgis speciosis, in summitate lanam coccineam habentibus, inclinabatur, quod alteri Ducum nulli fiebat, quousque exterius morabatur.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Ogeri historia, à natiuitate ipsius, quousque in Franciam fantasticè dicatur reuersus, cum tempore Caroli magni regis
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Sole intrante signum Cancri omni anno hoc est, ad quindenam ante Festum Natiuitatis Ioannis Baptistæ incipit paulatim fluuius crescere, et inundare, quousque sol intret Virginem, quod est circa Festum Laurentij, atque ex tunc decrescere, et minui, donec Sole veniente in Lybram intra suos alueos se conseruet:
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Hîc petrarum fluuius currit ad intercisum tempus, quasi in tribus septimanæ diebus, per spatium deserti Indiæ plurium dietarum, velut fluuius, quousque tandem se perdat in mare arenosum praedictum, atque ex tunc ipsi lapides penitùs non comparent.
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Propter hoc autem id maxim� credebatur, quia semper, quando Cuyne tentorio exibat, eidem cantabatur, et cum virgis speciosis, in summitate lanam coccineam habentibus, inclinabatur, quod alteri Ducum nulli fiebat, quousque exterius morabatur.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et si vident quod hoc etiam facere non possunt, cedunt retro ad decem vel duo decem dietas: aliquando etiam morantur in loco tuto, quousque aduersariorum exercitus separetur, et tunc furtim veniunt, et depopulantur totam terram.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
bilby commented on the word quousque
Still used in legal circles.
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
"If the facts are not inconsistent with the existence of a basis for exercising the board's power of suspension or cancellation but there is a real threat to apply an erroneous test or to go outside the scope of the discretion and so abuse the power, more difficulty as to the remedy in prohibition may arise. But the tenor of the writ might perhaps be moulded to meet the situation and the board and its delegate prohibited quousque, eg until they were satisfied lawfully or until they abandoned the unlawful course or criterion: see per Willes J in Mayor of London v Cox (1867) LR 2 HL 239 at 275, 276, and in White v Steele 1862 EngR 796; (1862) 12 CB (NS) 383 at 412 142 ER 1191 at 1202-1203."
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
That makes my head hurt, so someone please now show me a video of an otter eating lettuce.
August 1, 2016
madmouth commented on the word quousque
THIS is the direct consequence of your punning
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
Well.
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
I deserved that.
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
I shall cease and desist immediately and I accept my punishment.
August 1, 2016
bilby commented on the word quousque
Oops ;-)
August 1, 2016