A demiurge or craftsman god takes pre-existing matter and fashions it in light of the eternal Forms.

In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he claweth them soon after in another acceptation.

In Hupeh, General Chen Cheng, governor, is enthusiastic in realizing Dr . Sun's land reform program and has ordered the Enshih and Sienfeng county governments to make experiments on helping tenant farmers to be...

a Renascence scholar had to justify himself, even if that meant denigrating other mens' learning. To the odium theologicum of the period was a added odium philologicum. Sic Shavius putride, says a late scholiast: « thus Shaw stinkingly » — he is referring to a rival commentator's interpretation.