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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Gr. Antiq.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called
theoric fund .
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Examples
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Sorbait's works are the following: "Universa medicina tam theorica quam practica" etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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"Tratado da sphera com a theorica do sol e da lau e o primeiro livro da geographia de Claudio Ptolomeo Alexandrino" (Lisbon, 1537); "De crepusculis liber unus" (Lisbon, 1542); "De arte atque ratione navigandi" (Coimbra, 1546); "De erratis Orontii Finei" (Coimbra,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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