init.
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Juliana init.; and in the same poem we find “bealdor” used of a woman!
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
See Cicero de Legg II I, sub init., where he speaks of the plane tree under which Socrates used to walk and of the tree at Delos, where Latona gave birth to Apollo.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
American Board of Foreign Missions. ab init., ab initio=From the beginning. abl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
II, 1, ad init., but in the same chapter he rightly places his death in the second year of Phocas, i.e.,
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
The Senate, except in Book v. ad init., appears in a rather unfavourable light, and so does the plebs.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
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