donec
Americanconjunction
Etymology
Origin of donec
From Latin
Example Sentences
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I was recently fired by my company because I added “non desinetis vapulare donec animi vobis fuerint refecti” at the bottom of my email signature line.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
Digital. ʒiiiss. ad. aq. ℔ss. cap. ℥i. altern. horis donec nauseam excitaverit.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William
Kepler said that it ought to be worded "donec explicetur."
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
Through love for her he adopted her favorite colors, and took for his device the crescent, with the words, "Totum donec compleat orbem."
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
It was not known till the iron age, donec facinus invasit mortales, as the poet says; and the Scythians always detested it.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
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