op. cit.
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Origin of op. cit.
From Latin opere citātō
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But banned are such standard and numbing footnote fare as ed. cit., loc. cit., op. cit., idem and ibid.
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"Aux rois appartient le gouvernment extérieur de l'Eglise de Dieu," Bochart, op. cit. p.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
For inscriptions see Hicks and Hill, op. cit., and the Inscriptiones Atticae, vol. ii. pt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The whole register is analysed in Langlois, op. cit. pp. 305-53.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
See Thwaites, op. cit. in note 127, ante, pp. 116-126.—Ed.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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