Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunis to close down all the Catholic churches in the country, forced the Holy See to accept an agreement of the type known as a modus vivendi, a term that literally means "a way of living". This particular agreement was unofficially described as instead a "modus non moriendi" ("a way of not dying"). By it, all but 5 of the country's more than 70 churches were handed over to the state, including what had been the cathedral of the archdiocese, while the state, for its part, promised that the buildings would be put only to use of public interest consonant with
Latin mnemonics parts: diamond, ruby, sapphire, ’"onyx cum prole silexque"‘. If I do not wonder how the quean 'scaped tempting, I'm an hermaphrodite! The Latin phrase is a line taken from William Lily's Latin grammar "Brevissima Institutio", from a mnemonic poem entitled "The Third Special Rule", the particular verse of which is entitled "Nouns of the doubtful Gender excepted": <poem> "Sunt dubii generis", cardo, margo, cinis, obex, Forceps, pumex, imbrex, cortex, pulvis, adeps"que": "Adde" culex, natrix, "et" onyx "cum prole", siléx"que"; "Quamvis hæc meliùs vult mascula dicier usus". </poem> The literal meaning of the phrase is ""onyx" with its compounds, and "silex"".