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init.

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abbreviation

  1. initial.


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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

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

Juliana init.; and in the same poem we find “bealdor” used of a woman!

From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

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

Greece, book iii. chap. xv. ad init. as both refer to Aristoph.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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