Opusculum

Word OPUSCULUM
Character 9
Hyphenation ‖O pus cu lum
Pronunciations /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/

Definitions and meanings of "Opusculum"

What do we mean by opusculum?

An opuscule; a short work.

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The word "opusculum" in example sentences

_Echoes from Old Cricket Fields_ cites the biography of Bishop Ken to show that he played cricket at Winchester College in 1650, one of his scores, cut on the chapel-cloister wall, being still extant; and the same writer reproduces as a frontispiece to his "opusculum" an old engraving bearing date 1743, in which the wicket appears as a skeleton hurdle about two feet wide by one foot high, while the bat is the Saxon ❋ Various (N/A)

As it happens, during the second Parisian period, in the thick of the Latin-Averroist controversy, Thomas wrote an opusculum dedicated to the question: what did Aristotle actually teach? ❋ McInerny, Ralph (2005)

Quare autem opusculum hoc Plutarcho indignum atque suppositum visum ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)

What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an opusculum surpassed my comprehension; especially when there was a man of my sort walking about, who adored the very ground she trod upon. ❋ Richard Marsh (N/A)

It was addressed to Brutus, and was later than the dialogue which bears his name; cf. the preface, 'accipies hoc parvum opusculum, lucubratum his iam contractioribus noctibus, quoniam illud maiorum vigiliarum munus in tuo nomine apparuit.' ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

Nupt. _, 4 'meminerint prurire opusculum Sulpiciae, frontem caperare'. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

I have myself been unable to obtain a sight of a copy, but a more fortunate friend has furnished me with a careful description of the opusculum, which I print in its place in the bibliography. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

"De creatione Urbani VI opusculum"; Scipione Bozzuti (1582), killed in a sack of the city by some exiles in 1591. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It was, however, one of St. Thomas's greatest achievements in philosophy that, especially in his opusculum "De unitate intellectus", he refuted the Arabian interpretation of Aristotle, showed that the active intellect is part of the individual soul, and thus removed the uncertainty which, for the Aristoteleans, hung around the notions of immateriality and immortality. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He wrote an excellent opusculum known as "The Art of Dying Well" printed in 1487. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Peter Damian, an opusculum on Dominus Vobiscum in P.L. CXLV, 234; ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A small octavo volume, published in Bologna in 1792, "De diuturno terræ motu experimentis physico-mathematicis confirmato opusculum" gives (in the preface) the history and description of Guglielmini's experiments, then resumes in the first article the contents of the "Riflessioni", defends the same in the second article against opponents, and in the third presents the results. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Among his original works must be mentioned "De verâ nobilitate opusculum" (Paris, 1512); ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

There then appeared successively in Latin; "De Sanctissimo Christi Jesu amore opusculum" ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Dionysii Zecharii opusculum de lapide philosophorum, _Gallicè_. papyro, 4º. ❋ John Dee (1567)

Wilhelmi Wodford, ordinis Minorum, opusculum quaestionum quarundam, contra dialogum Joh. ❋ John Dee (1567)

Jvs & fas est, Doctissime Cardinaus* tenue boc opusculum nominl TW inscribih ita enimvero fiet t ut superioris anni vi - tium cxpurgetur. ❋ Unknown (1798)

Magnae celebritatis est opusculum hoc quod selectissima vetenim philo - sophorum ac sapientum apophtegmata, sententias, praecepta complectitur, ex arabico hebraice translata ac pleraque a Drusio, a Plantavitio, ab Erberto latinitate donata, auctore vel collecto - re R. Jedaja Appenini, vel ut aliis placet, et videtur etiam verosimilius, R. Salomone ben Gavirol. ❋ De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 (1795)

S.biungitur opusculum Eldefonsi Hispaniensis Episcopi de eodem argumento Et Eusebii Romani ad Theophilum Gallum epistola, De cultu sanctorum ignotorum, Parisiis, apud Levesque, ad Pontem S. Michaelis, MDCCXXI, cum privilegio Regis. ❋ Eco, Umberto (1980)

H. — oao m ifiud oéto annonim eleganter paritet defcribitur: auäor tamen Frantifct novo tunc temporis Duci Mediolanei opusculum dlcavit} nimiuni & vere, i nimium detrahere videtur. ❋ Unknown (1794)

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