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  • A 'war veteran' (from Latin vetus, meaning "old") [1] is a person who has or is working in the armed forces

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2008

  • While our role today is, in great measure, to preserve our heritage, if this renewal is going to go anyhwere, it must also be to expand it forward in time through the creativity of new work -- vetus ars nova, "old art in new ways."

    New Illustration: The St. Bernard Triptych, Part IV and Last 2009

  • In hac mensa novi Regis,Novum Pascha novæ legis,Phase vetus términat.

    Archive 2008-05-01 bls 2008

  • He is immediately charged with atheism — “Homo doctus, sed vetus atheus.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • [5685] Nunc primum Dorida vetus amator contempsi, as he said, Doris is but a dowdy to this.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Si quis incola vetus, non agnosceret, si quis peregrinus ingemisceret.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For the edition of Mustio (or Muscio), see Valentine Rose, Sorani Gynaeciorum vetus translatio latina (Leipzig, 1882), cited here as Must.; for Caelius, see Caelius Aurelianus, Gynaecia: Fragments of a Latin Version of Soranus '"Gynaecia" from a Thirteenth-Century Manuscript, ed.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • These translations were made and copied because there was a public whose interest in Aristotle had been formed by the schools of the twelfth century, in which some works of Aristotle that had been translated earlier (the logica vetus, the "old logic") were already objects of close study.

    Medieval Political Philosophy Kilcullen, John 2006

  • Aromatic and hot herbs, as dracunculus, nasturtium vetus, etc., although not warm to the hand (either whole or in powder), yet to the tongue and palate, being a little masticated, they feel hot and burning.

    The New Organon 2005

  • The old logic (logica vetus) consisted almost exclusively of the works of Boethius.

    John of Salisbury Guilfoy, Kevin 2005

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