Non-human Sentence Examples

The spirits which cause disease may be human or non-human and their influence is shown in more than one way; they may enter the body of the victim (see Possession), and either dominate his mind as well as his body, inflict specific diseases, or cause pains of various sorts.

At a higher stage the spirits of dead kinsmen are no longer unfriendly, nor yet all non-human spirits; as fetishes (see Fetishism), naguals (see Totem), familiars, gods or demi-gods (for which and the general question see Demonology), they enter into relations with man.

It is only procurable at the residence of a Sasabonsum, a malicious non-human being.

In its rudiments it is akin to the HamitoSemitic group. It possesses two grammatical genders, not masculine and feminine, but the human and the non-human; the adjective agrees in assonance with its noun, and euphony plays a great part in verbal and nominal inflections.

The eye color is a tribute to their non-human blood diet.

Subsequent series invariably had at least one non-human on the bridge crew.

Non-human races mingle with humankind, and a corrupt government tries to maintain control over all.

The classic Battlestar Galactica television show introduced a universe where there was more than one non-human species.

Ully opened the door without entering, his gaze fluttering from her to the angry non-human.

You're some sort of freakish non-human, aren't you?

This was naturally found in the non-human member of the totem-kin - the totem animal; in a sense, therefore, the god died for his people.

Demons, when they are regarded as spirits, may belong to either of the classes of spirits recognized by primitive animism; that is to say, they may be human, or non-human, separable souls, or discarnate spirits which have never inhabited a body; a sharp distinction is often drawn between these two classes, notably by the Melanesians, the West Africans and others; the Arab jinn, for example, are not reducible to modified human souls; at the same time these classes are frequently conceived as producing identical results, e.g.

Animism may have arisen out of or simultaneously with animatism as a primitive explanation of many different phenomena; if animism was originally applied to non-human or inanimate objects, animism may from the outset have been in vogue as a theory of the nature of man.

Tylor, makes the foundation of all religion animistic, but recognizes the non-human character of polytheistic gods.

On the Guinea Coast the spirit implanted in the object is usually, if not invariably, non-human.

Again, the savage universe is no preserve of man, but is an open field wherein human and non-human activities of all sorts compete on more or less equal terms, yet so that a certain measure of predominance may be secured by a judicious combination of forces.

Even the churches which trace their descent from Calvin's work and faith no longer hold in their entirety his views on the magistrate as the preserver of church purity, the utter depravity of human nature, the non-human character of the Bible, the dealing of God with man.

Study of the uncertainty in estimation of the exposure of non-human biota to ionizing radiation.

This agrees with our SRT working group's conclusion for a standing commission on the ethics of non-human biotechnology.

The difference in proportions between human and non-human sites was observed to be greatest in medium and large cervids.

And is one to believe that John the Baptist recognized Our Lord as a non-human entity in his Mother's womb?

A hatch opened and several humanoids described as having " bulbous heads " and non-human in appearance exited the object.

The process and product claims extend to all similarly altered non-human mammals.

Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans, but non-human primates do not form atherosclerotic plaque like humans either.

He is a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences inquiry into the use of non-human primates in research.

A gazetteer of non-human vertebrate remains from caves in the Yorkshire Dales referenced in caving club journals and allied literature.

The call was non-human, and old enough that it was thought that the originators were probably beyond help - the Company was apparently motivated by hopes of valuable salvage.

Mork from Ork was television's resident non-human from 1978 to 1982, when Mork and Mindy spun off from a character in the 'sixties-nostalgia sitcom Happy Days.

Non-human enemies are useful dramatically because they allow you to posit a humanity more highly evolved than our own, in which differences would not be settled militarily.