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  • English, conquered it; and that the country was pacified by victory when the people of it had promised imperata facere, that is, to do what the Roman people commanded them: this was to be conquered.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Seriously, not only am I happy that we're going out and attacking from the 'audere est facere, Danny Blanchflower' point of view, but also because it is tactically the right thing to do.

    Tottenham and Harry Redknapp have little option but to attack Milan 2011

  • The latin factum is the past participle of facere: to do, to make, and therefore means: that what has been made.

    Marco J. de Vries - An Existential–Spiritual View of the Nature of Man William Harryman 2009

  • Sed sic est abolita attritione vitiorum, sic est offuscata fumo peccatorum, ut non possit facere ad quod facta est, nisi renoves et reformes eam

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Sed sic est abolita attritione vitiorum, sic est offuscata fumo peccatorum, ut non possit facere ad quod facta est, nisi renoves et reformes eam

    St Anselm 2 2009

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sacrificium, from sacr -, sacer + facere to make -- more at DO

    McCain Apologizes For Saying American Lives "Wasted" 2009

  • The word “Sacrifice” derives from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", and in turn from Old French, and from the Latin sacrificium: sacr, "sacred" + facere, "to make".

    Perpetual Oblation and Christian Joy 2009

  • [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacer, sacred; see SACRED + facere, to make.]

    A Few (?) Thoughts About Samhain and Sacrifice 2008

  • “Scito dominum,” said Cato, “pro totâ familiâ rem divinam facere”: “No priest at a birth, no priest at a marriage, no priest at a death,” is the aspiration of the present Rationalistic School.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hence they use each other by turns, a “puerile practice” known as Alish – Takish, the Lat. facere vicibus or mutuum facere.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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