Hence Augustine asserts that if the name of the apostle is not expressly mentioned, St. Paul is always understood by this title--Apostolus cum dicetur, si non exprimatur quis apostolus non intelligitur nisi Paulus.
Sicut palmes non potest ferre fructum a semetipso, nisi manserit in vite: sic nec vos, nisi in me manseritis.
Nisi quid Dominus Part of the Hymn of Thanksgiving for a Victory at Sea (Prayer Book) A Psalm of the pilgrim Church's deliverance from the storms and waves of this troublesome world; her unshaken confidence in Christ.
Nisi Dominus Churching of Women (Prayer Book) A Psalm of the pilgrim Church confessing that her progress and her enlargement cannot be the fruit of human care and labour, but of the grace of Christ only.
Sir Thomas Davenport, a great Nisi Prius leader, had long flattered himself with the hope of succeeding to some valuable appointment in the law; but several good things passing by, he lost his patience and temper along with them.
To his bulk he added a stentorian voice, which he freely used in Nisi Prius practice to browbeat opposing counsel and witnesses, and through which he acquired his sobriquet.
The best illustration of the almost daily condition of things when Lord Norbury presided at Nisi Prius is given by himself in his reply to the answer of a witness.
The will is a blind faculty, which is directed by the intellect, "Nil volitum nisi prius cognitum.
On the wall over the door is this inscription around a heart: "Quid volo nisi ut ardeat?
It is to his interest to appear to have wanted to do something to Page 60 nihil nisi id, quod tu scis, quod ego magni aestimo.
Upon this, then, he bases his assertion: Naturam finem nullum sibi praefixum habere et omnes causas finales nihil, nisi humana esse figmenta.
The first is that place where our Saviour being demanded concerning the Day of Judgment by His disciples made answer, 'De die illa nemo novit, neque Angeli Dei, neque filius hominis, nisi solus Pater.
He says, "Non crederem Evangelio nisi me commoveret Ecclesiae Catholicae auctoritas," "I would not believe the gospel unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me to do it.
The Minor Sanhedrins might be very aptly described as the nisi prius courts of the Commonwealth of Israel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nisi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
