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  • noun Plural of vestigium.

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  • But the poet must likewise understand and command what Bacon calls the vestigia communia of the senses, the latency of all in each, and more especially as by a magical penny duplex, the excitement of vision by sound and the exponents of sound.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Deus, qui in Ecclesia tua nova semper instauras exempla virtutum: da populo tuo beati Andreæ Confessoris tui atque Pontificis ita sequi vestigia; ut assequatur et præmia.

    Leap Year -- Day John 2008

  • And «we don't wanna» because it might just lead to ordinary US citizens taking politics, particularly at the national level, seriously, and as Aisōpus put it, «vestigia terrent».

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ted Rall 2008

  • “Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in England the veteris vestigia ruris.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.

    September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Ted Rall 2008

  • Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.

    Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008

  • [5417] Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia vertit,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6732] Assequitur Nemesique virum vestigia servat,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Homer: Et canis in somnis leporis vestigia latrat: as a dog dreams of a hare, so do men on such subjects they thought on last.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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