See velut in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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],
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},
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"etymology_text": "From vel + ut.",
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},
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"english": "Oh Fortune, like the Moon of variable state...",
"ref": "1230, “O Fortuna”, in Carmina Burana:",
"text": "O fortuna uelud luna ſtatu uariabiliſ...",
"translation": "Oh Fortune, like the Moon of variable state...",
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"even as, as, just as, like, as if"
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"word": "sīcut"
},
{
"word": "ut"
},
{
"word": "tamquam"
},
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"word": "quasi"
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"english": "an obligation contracted by (transferring) the thing, namely, by giving it in mutuum",
"text": "re contrahitur obligatio velut mutui datione",
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},
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"text": "Cf. On the so-called Real Contract in the Institutes of Gaius"
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},
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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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"word": "velut"
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},
{
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}
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],
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],
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},
{
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},
{
"word": "tamquam"
},
{
"word": "quasi"
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},
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"text": "Cf. On the so-called Real Contract in the Institutes of Gaius"
}
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}
],
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}
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