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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Columba used when naming stars, such as α Columbae.
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For more progressive dinner conversation, she could stop by Columbae, a vegetarian co-op, or Synergy, where cooking crews are known to wear aprons and nothing else.
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Birds not of the same kind, and from different parts of the world, are often cased together, but this is open to criticism, unless you avowedly wish to illustrate the whole order for purposes of reference, as in the instance of, say, the Columbae (pigeons).
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It is described in Adamnan's _Vita Columbae_, where we read of the honour paid to the distinguished visitor, and how he was greeted with hymns and praises, while a canopy was borne over him on his way to the church, to protect him from inconvenient crowding.
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The priestesses of this temple were known in the Latin as _Columbae_.
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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The latter is a finely sculptured cross, having on the plinth the inscription Patricii et Columbae [crux], which would seem to imply that it was intended to commemorate the memory of Patrick, who founded the original church of Kells, and Columba, who founded the monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Vita Columbae_ (TT, p. 403) to the effect that "Once Saint Kieranus, whom they call the Son of the Wright, on being asked, promised Columba that as he was writing a book of the Holy Gospels, he would write out the middle part of the book.
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"Vita Columbae" as "the most complete piece of biography that all
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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_ J. Colgan, _Triadis Thaumaturgae seu divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae Acta_, Lovanii, 1647 (vol.ii. of his _Acta Sanctorum
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh of Clairvaux Bernard 1899
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