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Not, however, for reasons to be more fully stated in the Terminal Essay, by straining verbum reddere verbo, but by writing as the Arab would have written in English.
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[6186] Nevisanus, pares reddere vices, she will quit it if she can.
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[6612] Magillianus the Jesuit will not admit of conference with a heretic, but severity and rigour to be used, non illis verba reddere, sed furcas, figere oportet; and Theodosius is commended in
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Siquidem sapientiae suae admiratione me complevit, offendi sapientissimum virum, qui salvos potest omnes homines reddere.
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Et tamen felicibus moderationem, dum inconstantiam humanae felicitatis docent, praestant; infelices si omnia recte aestimare velint, felices reddere possunt.
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[5339] O niveam quae te poterit mihi reddere lucem,
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Proprium est ejus animum hilarem reddere, concoctionem juvare, ccrebri obstructiones resecare, sollicitudines fugare, sollicitas imaginationes tollere.
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Et cum vellem ei reddere rationem, respondit mihi, Ne loquaris nimis, et vade viam tuam.
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The Polish word is connected somehow with Late Latin arrenda, which Vasmer says is derived from reddere 'give back; pay, discharge a debt.'
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I have only to wish him success, and to express a hope that he is resolved verbum reddere verbo, without deference to any prejudice which would prevent his being perfectly truthful to the original.
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