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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The only genus of Scopidæ.

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Examples

  • Amabile objectum amoris et scopus, cujus adeptio est finis, cujus gratia amamus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He was promoted _non tam providentia divina quam temporum iniquitate E-scopus_.

    The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706

  • ScienceDirect (www. sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www. scopus.com),

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Elsevier 2010

  • The discoverability of postprints in IRs (via search engines like google, google scholar, citeseerx, scirus and scopus) is excellent.

    Open Access Archivangelism 2009

  • [867] quam honorifice sentiamus; [868] materies insuper ejus coelestis, doctrinae vis et efficacia, styli majestas, partium omnium consensus, totiusque scopus (ut Deo nempe omnis gloria tribuatur), plena denique quam exhibet unicae ad salutem viae commonstratio, praeter alias ejus virtutes incomparabiles, et perfectionem summam, argumenta sunt quibus abunde se Verbum Dei et luculenter probat; nihilominus tamen plena persuasio et certitudo de ejus tam infallibili veritate, quam authoritate divina non aliunde nascitur quam ab interna operatione

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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