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In music, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a type of libretto for a church cantata consisting of quotes from sacred scripture.. When Erdmann Neumeister introduced the cantata concept for sacred music in early 18th-century Protestant Germany, his librettos originally had only two types of movements: recitatives and arias.
dictum factum: what is said is done: Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron VF-194. dictum meum pactum: my word [is] my bond: Motto of the London Stock Exchange. diem perdidi: I have lost the day: From the Roman Emperor Titus. Recorded in the biography of him by Suetonius in Lives of the Twelve Caesars. dies irae: Day of wrath
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
[9] simplex sigillum veri: simplicity is the sign of truth: expresses a sentiment akin to Keep It Simple, Stupid: sincere et constanter: sincere and constant: Motto of the Order of the Red Eagle: sine anno (s.a.) without a year: Used in bibliographies to indicate that the date of publication of a document is unknown. sine die: without a day
Incunabula is commonly used in English to refer to the earliest stage or origin of something, and especially to copies of books that predate the spread of the printing press c. AD 1500. ab initio: from the beginning: i.e., "from the outset", referring to an inquiry or investigation. Ab initio mundi means "from the beginning of the world".
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Dictum de nullo is the related principle that whatever is denied of a kind is likewise denied of any subkind of that kind. Example: (1) Dogs are mammals. (4) Mammals do not have gills. Therefore (5) dogs do not have gills. Premise (1) states that "dog" is a subkind of the kind "mammal". Premise (4) is a (universal negative) claim about the kind ...
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]