nomen
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Becciu explained this tradition during his testimony by invoking its Latin phrase “In odiosis non faceat nomen pontificis,” roughly meaning that the pope shouldn’t be drawn into unpleasant matters.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022
Whatever showdown battle metaphor you like best, that’s what it is going to be like if the words Qui sibi nomen imposuit Pius are used to introduce the next pontiff.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2013
I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University,— clarum et venerabile nomen .
From Time Magazine Archive
Beyond this, on the left, the base of the famous statue of Domitian has been discovered as described by Statius: "Ipse loci custos, cujus sacrata vorago, Famosusque lacus nomen memorabile servat."
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
Thus he concocts his accusations of immorality, or drunkenness, or profanity, or uncharity towards neighbors, and writes them busily down in his quorum nomina, or formulas of citations to appear before the official's court.
From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Sedley Lynch Ware
It is contrary to the idea of nouns with מ, that they could be used as nomina actionis.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Birds that sing as they fly are but few: Skylark, Raii nomina.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
The first, whose principal though not sole champion is Max Müller, holds that myths are the result of a disease of language—words become things, "nomina numina."
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
Ring-ousel, Raii nomina: Merula torquata: This is a new migration which I have lately discovered about Michaelmas week, and again about the fourteenth of March.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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