Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tax paid in ancient times by merchants, etc., for leave to expose or display their goods for sale in markets.
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Examples
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I have a Jesuit friend (also a medievalist) that occasionally has people over to his church for an "ostensio reliquarum": a showing of relics.
Reliquaries: Saints Preserve(d for) Us! Heather McDougal 2007
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There were also sermons in English (see next chapter); Jocelin de Brakelonde says in his chronicle that sermons were delivered in churches, "gallice vel potius anglice, ut morum fieret edificatio, non literaturæ ostensio," year 1200
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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_Quidquid ostendit peccatum, iram seu mortem, id exercet officium legis; lex et ostensio peccati seu revelatio irae sunt termini convertibiles_. "
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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