Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Latin preposition, meaning ‘according to,’ ‘by rule or practice of’: used in some phrases which occur in English books.
- Artificially; not naturally.
- Artistically; skilfully; scientifically; professionally: used especially as a direction to an apothecary for compounding a prescription.
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Examples
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Second, that which the praetor promises to all duly instituted heirs, and which is for that reason called secundum tabulas.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem.
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In this liturgical Latin the requirements demanded by Hilary for the style of the Christian exegete are realized to the full: Non enim secundum sermonis nostri usum promiscuam in his oportet esse facilitatem: "There is no place here for the loose facility of the colloquial language" (In Ps. 13.1).
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Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.
Archive 2008-07-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Dixit quoque Deus: Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta, et reptilia, et bestias terræ secundum species suas.
Snakes in the water and other discoveries Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.
Snakes in the water and other discoveries Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Dixit quoque Deus: Producat terra animam viventem in genere suo, jumenta, et reptilia, et bestias terræ secundum species suas.
Archive 2008-07-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele iniquitatem meam.
Archive 2009-02-01 Michelle 2009
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Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele iniquitatem meam.
Column: Dangerous Mirrors Michelle 2009
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"Tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech"
Silver Jubilee 2009
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