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n.1.A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.
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Others to note include Orvietan, collared late by Gurrun at Cork, and long-absent Deputy Consort, representing Michael O'Brien.
He fairly rattled home from the final flight to account for Orvietan by half a length.
Parenzo's military prowess signifies the bishopric's dependence on noble protection, while the mendicant Ambrogio, pouring sealing wax into the weathered cracks developing in his feet, demonstrates the rise of consensus and the use of popular spirituality to defend and expand the Orvietan see (189ff.
But Holland managed to persuade him to put his best foot forward when it mattered and driven into the lead with a furlong and a half to race, he kept on despite hanging left to pass the post five lengths ahead of Orvietan.
The territorial power of the Orvietan diocese, the administrative model it provided, and its participation in the creation of social norms meant that the bishopric was a central element in "regulat[ing] the competition to power" (3).
With that as her critical foundation, she deftly explores the challenging issues arising from this painted nexus of theology, religious ritual and iconography, Orvietan and Roman literary and ecclesiastical culture, and artistic practice.
Part of the reason for its inclusion seems less to expand the scope of the work than to make up for the severe limitations of the Orvietan sources.
The methodological factor is the assumption that analysis of Orvietan Catharism will lead to comparisons with other towns and eventually yield understanding about the religious phenomenon throughout medieval Italy.
Then, I will turn to legal and theological sources to argue that Orvietan legislators in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century understood political and social disorder in gendered terms.
The remedy orvietan, for example, had begun the century as an electuary against poison.
On Orvietan judicial procedure, see Francesca Cardarello, "Problemi di diritto penale ad Orvieto nel tardo medioevo, Tesi di laurea, Universita degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Facolta di Giurisprudenza, 1990-91.
Tom Ryan's mount opened up a clear lead before the second last and ran out a comfortable six-length winner over Orvietan.