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  • Testis est mihi conscientia, quod viderim matronam quandam hinc liberatam, quae frequentius ex iracundia demens, et impos animi dicenda tacenda loquebatur, adeo furens ut ligari cogeretur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Most people who attempted such a task would sink into being miserable blabbers of tacenda, mere sieves through which matters of secret importance would granulate into the hands of ardent journalists.

    From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Indeed, I cannot see how any interest can be taken in the book, except that derived from its background of _tacenda_; and though no one, I think, who has read the present volume will accuse me of squeamishness, _I_ can find in it no interest at all.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • Horace expresses it, said — dicunda tacenda — whatever came into his head. 8 (I am much of opinion that my quotation comes under the head of tacenda.).

    "Prejudice Against Composition Writing," Class Composition of J. Horace Lacy, [January 1851] 1851

  • Willelmus Sacrista sits drinking nightly, and doing mere _tacenda.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • With due rigour, Willelmus Sacrista, and his bibations and _tacenda_ are, at the earliest opportunity, softly, yet irrevocably put an end to.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • With due rigour, Willelmus Sacrista, and his bibations and _tacenda_ are, at the earliest opportunity, softly yet irrevocably put an end to.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Frequent bibations, _'frequentes bibationes et quaedam tacenda, '_

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • How one hooded head applies itself to the ear of another, and whispers -- _tacenda_.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • How one hooded head applies itself to the ear of another, and whispers -- _tacenda.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

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  • tacenda shouldn't be on a proper agenda

    January 13, 2007

  • Things not to be mentioned; matters that are passed over in silence.

    May 2, 2009