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Nunc Stans

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The everlasting Now.

“It exists in the nunc stans of the schoolmen—the eternal Now that represented the consciousness of the Supreme Being in mediæval thought.”—Nineteenth Century, December, 1892, p. 953.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Numbers
Numbers
Numbers
Numbers
Numerals
Numero
Numidicus
Nunation
Nunc Dimittis
Nunc Stans
Nuncupative Will
Nunky pay for all
Nuremberg Eggs
Nurr and Spell
Nurse an Omnibus (To)
Nurseries
Nursery Tales
Nut
Nuts of May
Nuts