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- noun obsolete 23491Pa, a short-lived isotope of
protactinium .
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Cecil, meanwhile, had obtained the reversion to the office of _custos rotulorum brevium_, and, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in parliament in 1543; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Non-payment by the husband subjected him to excommunication, a judgment of the ecclesiastical court which the executive department of the civil government enforced through its officer, the sheriff, to whom was issued the writ de excommunicato capiendo, reciting that "potestas regia sacrosanctæ ecclesiæ in querelis suis deesse non debet" (Registrum omnium brevium, 65).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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He graduated from the Roman University as a student of law but soon devoted himself to archaeological interests, which an important office (Magister brevium gratiæ) in the Apostolic Chancery permitted him to pursue.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Quum ver6 de - leftitio inde ia auditorum aures a - nimumque non modica fiueret, rem imperfeftam fcnfim dofti & egregii Viri perfecerunt, invc£lis nempe non - nuUis legibus, quibus deir. ceps Ver - fus conftruerentur, & adhibita in il - lis caftigJtiore menfura pedum, ita ut rigide etiam temporis raiio & u - niformitas fervaretur in ufu fyllaba - rum brevium atque longarum.
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January, 1632, congratulated Wallenstein on his reassumption of the command and sent him the Apostolic blessing (Registrum brevium, XXXI,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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