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Forms of Address: Sine

Sine die. (Lit.) Without day. Without fixing the time of resuming business. Sine qua non. (Lit.) without which, not. Something absolutely indispensable. Sobriquet, so bre kyay. A nickname.

Soi disant, swah de zang. Pretended. Calling himself. Self-styled. Soirée. soo ah ray. (Soir, evening.) An evening party. Solus Alone.

Soupçon, soop song. Surmise. A slight taste of anything. Souvenir, soo vuh neer. A keepsake. A remembrance.

Stabat Mater (dolorosa). "There stood the Mother bathed in tears." The beginning of the prose, or sequence, of the Mass for the Dead in the Roman Church. Status in quo. The state of things as they now are.

Status quo. The state in which. A treaty between belligerents which leaves each party in status quo ante bellum, that is, in the same state in which it was before the war.