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  2. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    with the broad, or general, meaning: Less literally, "in the wide sense". sensu stricto cf. stricto sensu "with the tight meaning" Less literally, "in the strict sense". sensus plenior: in the fuller meaning: In biblical exegesis, the deeper meaning intended by God, not intended by the human author. sequere pecuniam: follow the money

  3. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Also consuetudo est altera lex (custom is another law) and consuetudo vincit communem legem (custom overrules the common law); see also: Consuetudinary. consummatum est: It is completed. The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world.

  4. List of ecclesiastical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Vowel-sounds were frequently written not after, but over, the consonants. Certain letters, like p and q, that occur with extreme. frequency, e.g. in prepositions and terminations, became the source of many peculiar abbreviations; similarly, frequently recurring words like et (and), est (is).

  5. List of Latin phrases (O) - Wikipedia

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    oratio recta: direct speech expressions from Latin grammar oratio obliqua: indirect speech: oratio pro domo: speech for [one's own] house: also abbreviated pro domo; speak on one's own behalf; based on a speech by Cicero in legal proceedings in 57 AD to regain his house on the Palatine Hill that was confiscated during his exile [2] orbis non ...

  6. List of Latin phrases (E) - Wikipedia

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    E.g. is often confused with i.e. (id est, meaning ' that is ' or ' in other words '). [12] Some writing styles give such abbreviations without punctuation, as ie and eg. [a] Exemplum virtutis: a model of virtue exercitus sine duce corpus est sine spiritu: an army without a leader is a body without a spirit

  7. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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    velle est posse: to be willing is to be able: Non-literally, "where there is a will, there is a way". It is the motto of Hillfield, one of the founding schools of Hillfield Strathallan College. velocius quam asparagi coquantur: faster than asparagus can be cooked: Rendered by Robert Graves in I, Claudius as "as quick as boiled asparagus".

  8. List of Latin phrases (N) - Wikipedia

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    A claim of "non est factum" means that the signature on the contract was signed by mistake, without knowledge of its meaning, but was not done so negligently. A successful plea would make the contract void ab initio. non est princeps super leges, sed leges supra principem: the prince is not above the laws, but the law is above the prince.

  9. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    aurum potestas est: gold is power: Motto of the fictional Fowl Family in the Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin Colfer: auspicium melioris aevi: hope/token of a better age: Motto of the Order of St Michael and St George and of Raffles Institution in Singapore: Austriae est imperare orbi universo (A.E.I.O.U.) Austria is to rule the whole world