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The dies octava is indeed made more prominent by the liturgy.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave 2009
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The fourth decade is dedicated to the sun, time, the cosmos, and the virtues (cardinal first, then theological), and the final group consists of celestial bodies (and pagan gods), concluding with the "octava sfera," "primo mobile," and "prima causa."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Dicimus quod parvuli illi Iudeorum erant, octava die circumcisi secundum legem, et ita nullum peccatum habebant quia per circumcisionem remissa erant eis originalia vel, si aliqui qui circumcisi adhuc non erant tunc oblati sunt ad Dominum, et imposito complexu et contractu dominico mundati sunt. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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San Camilo, 1936: Visperas, festividad y octava de San Camilo del año 1936 en
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In the octava of the outbreak of the infernal furies in the French Revolution of February, 1848, spirits commenced to awaken materialists by raps through the Fox Girls in the vicinity of Rochester of this State of
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar
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Al-Hassheminith (Pss. vi and xii), "set to the eighth"; Septuagint, hyper tes ogdoes; Vulg., pro octava.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Eight Beatitudes of St. Matthew, in the eighth day as a fulfilment of our hope, and in eight as a sum of all virtues: "pro octava enim multi inscribuntur psalmi".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Moreover the vigil of a feast, or the previous day, or the octave, or a specified day within the octave, were all familiarly designated by their relation to the feast, e.g. in pervigilio Nativitatis Beatæ Mariæ; postridie Sancti Laurentii; in octava Sti.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The dies octava is indeed made more prominent by the liturgy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Its metre is the _octava rima_, the eight lined rhymed stanza.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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