Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The usual concluding clause of an instrument or legal document, beginning “In witness whereof” and followed by the signatures and seals of the party or parties. Also
testimonium clause .
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Examples
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The BCA's libel case and the McTimoney letter mean that from now on ignorantia testimonium non excusat ignorance of the evidence is no excuse.
The McTimoney Letter Jack of Kent 2009
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In his Lives of the Philosophers (Diels-Kranz, testimonium A1) Diogenes Laertius reports that Xenophanes son of Dexius (or according to some, Orthomenes) was born in the small Ionian town of Colophon and flourished during the sixtieth Olympiad
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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This is, in fact, not a fragment but a testimonium and most of the language comes from the doxographical tradition rather than Alcmaeon.
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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In cujus rei testimonium presenti Carte nostre sigillum nostrum precipimus apponi.
The Monastery 2008
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Xenophanes 'remark is reported in only one testimonium (DK 21 A1) and is not found in any of the extant fragments of his book; if it is his, it need not be directed at anything other than general Greek anthropomorphism.
Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008
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In testimonium autem nostre devotionis ergra locum predictum sic a nobis dilectum et electum concepte, presentem literam Religiosis predictis dimittimus, nostris successoribus in posterum ostendendam.
The Abbot 2008
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Thus, each piece of text can be uniquely identified: DK 59B12. 3 identifies line 3 of Anaxagoras fragment 12; DK 22A1 identifies testimonium 1 on Heraclitus.
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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The same testimonium indicates that different sorts of proportion defined different sorts of motion.
Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007
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This authority, it must be insisted once more, is not of the external, overriding kind; always it makes itself felt through the testimonium spiritus sancti internum working through the quickened insight of the hearer.
Archive 2006-10-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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This authority, it must be insisted once more, is not of the external, overriding kind; always it makes itself felt through the testimonium spiritus sancti internum working through the quickened insight of the hearer.
The Bible and preaching Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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