virtus's Usage Examples:

virtus, and a//pa, sweet), "the last of the Incas" (or Yncas) of Peru, was the son of the ruler Huayna Capac, by Pacha, the daughter of the conquered sovereign of Quito.

"The book contains expressions such as daemones, angelica virtus, and purgatoria dementia, which have been thought to be derived from the Christian faith; but they are used in a heathen sense, and are explained sufficiently by the circumstance that Boetius was on intimate terms with Christians.

"His fundamental physical maxims are matter and force; the latter he calls virtus, species, imago agentis, and by numberless other names.

Mortem virtus communem, famam historia, monumentum posteritas dedit.

virtus pax et imperium cui est semper sine fine eleyson.

Laus virtus pax et imperium cui est semper sine fine eleyson.

Change, or any natural phenomenon, is produced by the impression of a virtus or species on matter - the result being the thing known.

Fejer, Genus, incunabula et virtus Joannis Corvini de Hunyad (Buda, 1844); J.

His fundamental physical maxims are matter and force; the latter he calls virtus, species, imago agentis, and by numberless other names.

"The edict to this effect seems, however, not to have been in force after the death of its royal author in 1154 ("eo magis virtus legis invaluit quo eam amplius nitebatur impietas infirmare," Joh.

The book contains expressions such as daemones, angelica virtus, and purgatoria dementia, which have been thought to be derived from the Christian faith; but they are used in a heathen sense, and are explained sufficiently by the circumstance that Boetius was on intimate terms with Christians.

(Maria Anna) Angelica Kauffmann >>The book contains expressions such as daemones, angelica virtus, and purgatoria dementia, which have been thought to be derived from the Christian faith; but they are used in a heathen sense, and are explained sufficiently by the circumstance that Boetius was on intimate terms with Christians.

Synonyms:

quality, vertu,

Antonyms:

tasteless, folly, imprudence,