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limina

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lim·i·na  (lm-n)
n.
A plural of limen.


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George Quasha and Charles Stein, Introduction to Electronic Linguistics, Art of Limina (Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2009).
It is thus not surprising to see how it takes Aeneas a great deal of prodding from the side of his father to tempt these "thresholds," the potential site of dangers: "Your image, father, your sad image, meeting me so often, drove me to strive after these thresholds" ("tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago/ saepius occurrens haec limina tendere adegit" (lines 695-96).
There the Committee took a stand on providing ANH to persons alleged to be in the "vegetative state"--a stand that in many ways anticipated the words of John Paul II, who singled it out for praise at an ad limina visit of a group of U.
 
 
 
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