"Radix" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pocket a paper packet and laid it upon the table. On the outside was written "Radix pedis diaboli" with a red poison label beneath it. He pushed it towards me. "I understand that you are a doctor, sir. Have you ever heard of ...
— The Adventure of the Devil's Foot • Arthur Conan Doyle
... writings which has been the only attempt to present them to English readers until the present year when I have undertaken a translation in extenso of the Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, which is actually in the hands of the printer. Now, it has not been alleged in so many words that the radix of Modern Diabolism and the Masonic cultus of Lucifer is to be found in Eliphas Levi, but that is the substance of the charge. Most, or all, of the witnesses agree in representing him as an atrocious Satanist, an invoker of Lucifer, a celebrater ...
— Devil-Worship in France - or The Question of Lucifer • Arthur Edward Waite
... [Greek: abato en eraemia]. Now I say that the 'Nous', notwithstanding its diversity from the 'Nomizomeni', is yet, relatively to their supposed original essence, [Greek: pasi tois nomizomenois tantogenaes], of the same race or 'radix': though in another sense, namely, in relation to the [Greek: pan theion]—the pantheistic 'Elohim', it is conceived anterior to the schism, and to the conquest and enthronization of Jove who succeeded. ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge
... Colocynthis Phosphorus Antimonium crudum Cuprum metallicum Pulsatilla Antimonium tartaricum Gelsemium Rhus toxicodendron Apis Hepar Sulphuricum Sanguinaria Arnica radix Hyoscyamus Sepia Arsenicum Ipecacuanha Silicea Belladonna Lycopodium Spigelia Bryonia Mercurius Spongia Chamomilla Natrum muriaticum Sulphur China Nux Vomica Veratrum album Cina Opium ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... The usual root sign is supposed to be derived from r (for radix), and at one time q was commonly used for square, as in Viete's style of writing ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan |
