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- abbreviation
Sweden
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Examples
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But Suarez and later writers complete the argument by analyzing the term _movens non motum_, which they consider equivalent to _Ens a se, in se, et per se_, or _Actus Purissimus_.
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[Footnote 86: This tense is formed from the Past Def. by changing the termination _ron_ of the 3rd pers.pl. into _se, ses, se, semos, seis sen_, in all the three conjugations.]
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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The hybrids are divided into su, se, se+, and sh2 types.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Se puede ser mongolo, se puede ser gilipollas, pero … ¿se puede ser original?
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“_La graderia_ (del monumento sepolcrale) _se hallaba practicada en el costade occidental per donde se subia para_ ORAR, _o para_
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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It may be that electricity is an _entity per se, just as matter is an entity per se_. "
Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper
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But Le Sage supposed that every one addressed as señor, might also be spoken of by the term señoria; a mistake against which a very moderate knowledge of Spanish usages would have guarded him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Malum in se is Latin for "evil in itself", not "wrong in itself" HUGE difference.
Crimlaw 2009
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Anyway .... the "se lo" occurs when the result would normally be "le lo (la)" -- which sounds awkward to the Spanish ear, so "se" is substituted for "le":
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That closing the funding gap per se is not the difficult or serious problem facing SS can be seen from the fact that big funding gaps in SS have been closed * repeatedly* since the 1940s with no serious problem by raising taxes and (later) cutting benefits.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
oroboros commented on the word se
Chemical element symbol for Selenium.
December 2, 2007
mollusque commented on the word se
A ancient zither-like Chinese instrument.
December 8, 2007