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Last winter they made a successful hack and searched for information about grades and tentamen-results.
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The effect produced by this _tentamen_ was indisputably great.
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After it had been completed we described it "as a _tentamen_, a careful endeavour, claiming no finality, inviting, rather than desiring to exclude, other attempts of the same kind, calling the attention of the Church to the many and anxious questions involved in rendering the Holy Scriptures into the vernacular language, and offering some help towards the settlement of those questions {12}."
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Hitherto, his encounters had been mostly with the chief priests and the elders, men in authority, who trusted more to their power than to their policy, and examined him concerning his commission (ch.xxi. 23); but now he is set upon from another quarter; the Pharisees will try whether they can deal with him by their learning in the law, and in casuistical divinity, and they have a tentamen novum -- a new trial for him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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