ab origine
Americanadverb
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It is worthy of remark that the invariable phrase applied to past quarrels is "ab origine mundi," which left no loophole for the revival of ancestral feuds, however remote in point of time.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
It is owing to reasons like these that the ornamental grounds of an American country-house have usually to be commenced ab origine, and that natural causes so little aid in furnishing them.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
My constitution and my frame were ab origine blasted with a deep, incurable taint of hypochondria, which poisons my existence.'
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
It is owing to reasons like these that the ornamental grounds of an American country-house have usually to be commenced ab origine, and that natural causes so little aid in finishing them.
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
To have been abroad was the next best thing to having been a foreigner ab origine.
From The End of the World A Love Story by Edward Eggleston
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