A recent vogue for the extensive misuse, usually tautological misuse, of the word "complexus" -- an excellent word if used rarely and for definite purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Cornelium Tacitum arta familiaritate complexus est. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Attalum comiter accepit, pristinamque uxorem complexus, magno honore apud se habuit. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
In the Preface, which, as its whole language implies, was written last, Saxo speaks of Waldemar II having "encompassed (` complexus ') the ebbing and flowing waves of Elbe.". From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Qyam rem Thor - valldus boc catmine complexus eft. From Wordnik.com. [Hungurvaka, sive Historia primorum qvinqve Skalholtensium in Islandia ...] Reference
This complexus has formed itself and has changed several times. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference
Tuus uero testis ipse sum quam haec uiuaciter fueris ante complexus. From Wordnik.com. [The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
It is the name of the science which treats of this nation-wide complexus of economic activities. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Modesty is a complexus of emotions with their concomitant ideas which we must unravel to comprehend. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference
The soul, a mere complexus of the finest atoms, perceives not the objects but their effluent images. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Hohenemser admits that fear is a form of psychic stasis, and I have sought to show that modesty is a complexus of fears. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference
Simile eft quod in Ae - thiopia ficri tradit Joannes Barros fide dignus Au£tor, qui Lufiranicc complexus cft navigationes fuae gentis. From Wordnik.com. [Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ...] Reference
The economic system is not a tissue of reasonings but it is a sum and a complexus of facts which engenders a complex tissue of relations. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History] Reference
1, 14, 'Cornelius totum corpus disciplinae quinque libris complexus est.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
In general, the Churches in the "East", as this complexus of Roman provinces was known (cf. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
149, "Ignis in aethereas volucer se sustulit oras summaque complexus stellantis culmina coeli, Flammarum vallo naturae moenia fecit.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
A complexus of granted powers 281. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
Inter complexus excidit umbra meos. From Wordnik.com. [Cynthia Dead] Reference
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