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Used chiefly in phrases that are the Latin names of oils.

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Usage examples (18)
  • It was "oleum perdidit" in another sense than the scholastic one.
  • Aristotelem fons in agro Carthaginensi, qui oleum pr鎎eat, & guttulas Cedri odore representet.
  • Walter in the De Sacramentis (anulus, virga, aqua, sal, oleum, and crisma) directly with the investiture controversy.
  • Secanium 107 rum ibidem Sicyonium oleum Soadus i83:
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