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Word: mensa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia, ae, like mensa), and consequently it is not only hard on the President, but a violence to the English and Latin tongues when we read, "the small sententia of a Cambridge paper are superfluous. But the President is another matter...

Author: By A. PHILIP Mcmahon ., | Title: Current Advocate Praiseworthy | 3/3/1916 | See Source »

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