superfluities

Dumont replies, that fire-irons are 'superfluities' -- (fire-arms might have been more to Buonaparte's taste) -- and that the Panopticon itself was coldly received.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

Albertus Magnus states this in very strong words: 'For a man to give out of his superfluities is a mere act of justice, because he is rather then steward of them for the poor than the owner;' [6] and at an earlier date St. Peter Damian had affirmed that 'he who gives to the poor returns what he does not himself own, and does not dispose of his own goods.'

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

Albertus Magnus (vol.iv. in Sent. 4, 14, p. 277, Lyons, 1651) puts to himself the question whether to give alms is a matter of justice or of charity, and the answer which he makes is compressed finally into this sentence: "For a man to give out of his superfluities is a mere act of justice, because he is rather the steward of them for the poor than the owner."

Mediaeval Socialism Bede Jarrett 1907

Careless of what we consider valuables, our superfluities were their necessaries.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

We of society are slaves, not so much to others as to ourselves; our superfluities are the chains that bind us, impeding every movement of our bodies and thwarting every impulse of our souls.

A Tour on the Prairies. 1835

It also helped rid the body of "superfluities," that dangerous build-up of bad humors that threatened to tip the balance toward sickness.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

The "superfluities," however, appear to be a key factor of concern.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

One is then encouraged to expel any excess mucus or "superfluities" resident in the nose, throat or chest.

UCC's Online Celt Project 2007

One is then encouraged to expel any excess mucus or "superfluities" resident in the nose, throat or chest.

Archive 2007-09-01 2007

On the part of the body, mention is made of "uncleanness," which may refer either to the inordinate emission of any kind of superfluities, or especially to the emission of the semen.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas