totidem verbis
Americanadverb
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Our contract required him to bring in the anti-abolition resolutions touching the petitions; and although he could not venture against the reception, he has bolted down all the rest, totidem verbis et syllabis, as we wrote them for him;—the reception we struck out to accommodate the Democratic abolitionism of his district.
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It was given him, more or less; and he confirmed Sir John's tale totidem verbis.
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Alexander iii. says this totidem verbis in his Brief of Jan. 12, 1661.144 Nevertheless the translated missal is in general circulation in France, England and Germany, and is daily used by all the most pious persons.
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Our last resource must be to say, we are ready to sign the Provisional Treaty, totidem verbis, as the Definitive Treaty.
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From Marianus Scotus or Sigebert de Gemblours the story passed into other chronicles totidem verbis, and generally with hesitation and an expression of doubt in its accuracy.
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