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  • Suppositio confusa occurs when a common term is taken in combination with a universal sign (™Every man is running™).

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Since, however, alchemy, to the massive confusion (massa confusa) of most of its now nearly extinct readers, metaphorically negates what it literally appears to affirm (the Philosopher's Stone is not a stone), Satan as the creator of the fallen world becomes in his alchemical transformation the instrument of the Holy Spirit.

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • Far from viewing "Man's First Disobedience" as a loss, alchemy, as Giegerich first learned from Jung, treats it as the birth of consciousness, which releases the soul from its imprisonment in matter — understood as the womb (massa confusa) of the Great Mother — into an ongoing

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • Anzi, diciamo pure che e' stato abbastanza orribile - mi sentivo molto confusa e impotente aggravato anche dal jet lag, e dal fatto che a quel punto ero sveglia da fin troppe ore, e' veramente molto brutto non sapere cosa stia succedendo, e sapere solo che uno dei possibili esiti della situazione e' essere rifiutata l'ingresso nel paese.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Ra 2009

  • Anzi, diciamo pure che e' stato abbastanza orribile - mi sentivo molto confusa e impotente aggravato anche dal jet lag, e dal fatto che a quel punto ero sveglia da fin troppe ore, e' veramente molto brutto non sapere cosa stia succedendo, e sapere solo che uno dei possibili esiti della situazione e' essere rifiutata l'ingresso nel paese.

    The return of the emigrant, Part III: The ugly Ra 2009

  • Several colorful species thrive here owing to low competition: white-flowered snow whitlowgrass Draba nivalis, diapensia Diapensia lapponica, yellow-flowered Arctic poppy Papaver radicatum, snow cinquefoil Potentilla nivea and the grass-like northern wood-rush Luzula confusa.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • The fourth division, suppositio personalis, is subdivided into either derterminata (determinate = standing for a certain particular) or confusa (confused = standing for any individual falling under that name).

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Isidor. omnia ligata tu solvis, contrita sanas, confusa lucidas, desperata animas.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Minutos depois, enquanto tentava escrever um sumário no meio da confusa arrumação final da aula de EVT - acreditem, é uma daquelas confusões que só vista, outro aluno aproxima-se.

    Candura Artur 2006

  • The requirement of knowledge is met if one knows or doubts, even if only in confusa the solid opposite possibility that Church teaching offically condemns abortion as a sin.

    John Kerry, Excommunicated? 2004

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