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  • noun Plural of cingulum.

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  • For reverence is that? wherewith princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum.

    The Essays 2007

  • E� vehunt argenti veteris fragmenta, line醩que vestes prop� detritas, omn韘que generis minutiores merces, ad vsum, cult鷐que corporis hominum vtriusque sexus, veluti lintea et byssea cingula, periscelides, crumenas, cultros, et id genus sexcenta.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Et aperti sunt oculi amborumipsorum, et cognoverunt quod nudi essent: et consuerunt folia ficus, feceruntque sibi cingula.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • For reverence is that wherewith princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum [I will unbind the girdles of kings].

    XV. Of Seditions and Troubles 1909

  • Eò vehunt argenti veteris fragmenta, lineásque vestes propè detritas, omnísque generis minutiores merces, ad vsum, cultúmque corporis hominum vtriusque sexus, veluti lintea et byssea cingula, periscelides, crumenas, cultros, et id genus sexcenta.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • For reverence is that? wherewith princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Aurea fubnedens exfertse cingula nuunmsy Bellatrix; audetque viris concurrere virgo.

    P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796

  • Filiis quoque Aa - ronis facies tunicas et cingula et tiaras fplendidas et. ornatas.

    Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791

  • Endymioneos solita affectare sopores cum face et astrigero diademate Luna bicornis. centum aliae ueterum recolentes uulnera amorum dulcibus et maestis refouent tormenta querellis. quas inter medias furuae caliginis umbram45 dispulit inconsultus Amor stridentibus alis. agnouere omnes puerum memorique recursu communem sensere reum, quamquam umida circum nubila et auratis fulgentia cingula bullis et pharetram et rutilae fuscarent lampados ignem: 50 agnoscunt tamen et uanum uibrare uigorem occipiunt hostemque unum loca non sua nactum, cum pigros ageret densa sub nocte uolatus, facta nube premunt. trepidantem et cassa parantem suffugia in coetum mediae traxere cateruae.

    The Martyrdom of Cupid Ausonius 1912

  • It was in the thirteenth century, in the opinion of some, that the girdle of chastity (_cingula castitatis_) first begins to appear, but the chief authority, Caufeynon (_La Ceinture de Chasteté_, 1904) believes it only dates from the Renaissance (Schultz, _Das

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

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    Sensory gating deficits, pattern completion, and disturbed fronto-limbic balance, a model for description of hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia.

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