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Sors  n.  (pl. sortes)  A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae, a form of divination anciently practiced, which consisted in taking the first passage on which the eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as indicating future events, or the proper course to be pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same purpose by Christians.






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"Sors" Quotes from Famous Books



... malade. here, is ill. L'homme avec qui je parle. The man with whom I speak. Le livre dans lequel j'etudie. The book in which I study. Le magasin auquel je vais, duquel The store to which I go, from je sors. which I come. Je vous donnerai ce qui est ici, I'll give you what is here, what I ce que j'ai trouve. found. Le livre (l'homme) dont je parle. The book of which (the man of whom) I speak. L'homme dont le fils est mort. The man whose son is dead. L'homme ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... "Sors eadem exilii nobis, vitaeque laborumque, Ex quo nos Christi conciliavit amor. Una salus amborum, unum et commune periclum; Pertulimus pariter praestite cuncta Deo. Dania te coluit. Me Lipsia culta docentem. Audiit, et sacros hausit ab ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell

... consists of fibres that have the power of contracting when properly stimulated. A bundle of muscle fibres, called a muscle, is usually attached to the part to be moved by a ten'don, or sinew. Muscles causing bones to bend are termed flex'ors; those causing them to straighten, ex ten'sors. The movements of muscles may be voluntary (controlled by the will), or involuntary (made without conscious ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... common to say cujuslibet rei. Sometimes the relative pronouns compounded with cunque and libet are separated by the insertion of some other word or words between them, which in grammatical language is called a tmesis—as quod enim cunque judicium subierat, absolvebatur; quem sors dierum cunque tibi dederit, lucre appone, 'whatever day chance may give thee, consider it as a gain.' [37] Capiundae. Respecting the e or u in such gerunds and gerandives, see Zumpt, S 167. [38] ...
— De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino • Caius Sallustii Crispi (Sallustius)

... solitaire, Ici comme moi, Voix qui sors de terre, Ah! reveille-toi! J'attise la flamme, C'est pour t'egayer; Mais il manque une ame, Une ame ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn



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