Usage Sentence Examples

Probably the recognition and appointment of elders was simply the transfer from the synagogue to the Church of a usage which was regarded as essential among Jews; and the Gentile churches naturally followed the example of the Jewish Christians.

This may not be logical, but long usage has made it permissible or even necessary.

I doubted that, as Feynman was precise in his usage of words.

And the same usage went on after the Conquest; the use of English becomes gradually rarer, and dies out under the first Angevins, but it is in favour of Latin that it dies out.

In modern usage " fowl," except in " wild-fowl " or " water-fowl," is confined to domestic poultry.

Its meaning has, however, become synonymous and is consecrated by usage.

In later usage it describes those of the New Testament books which have obtained a doubtful place in the Canon.

This usage is not Hebrew; it is not found either in the Old Testament or in the later (Mishnaic)Hebrew.

Traces of this usage are frequent in Augustan writers.

The present writer has suggested that the word Pali should be reserved for the language of the canon, and other words used for the earlier and later forms of it; 1 but the usage generally followed is so convenient that there is little likelihood of the suggestion being followed.

We find the Jewish usage from time to time reasserting itself after this, but it never prevailed to any large extent.

The history of the earlier usage of the term "Apocrypha" (from 6.7roxpb7rreev, to hide) is not free from obscurity.

In the earliest of them, sacrilege in the narrower sense is not a separate class of crime, but the wider usage goes with variations through the different collections.

From the same usage is derived the shorter political term "cave" for any body of men who secede from their party on some special subject.

In the forms of his words he generally follows Attic usage.

In Egypt the uncertainty and laxity of usage was still greater.

If we are not prepared to say that the three Persons are one thing - in which case the Father and the Holy Ghost must have been incarnate along with the Son - then, did usage permit, he says, we ought to speak of three Gods.

Hungary proper, according to ancient usage, was generally divided into four great divisions or circles, and Transylvania up to 1876 was regarded as the fifth.

Speaking generally, it has been found that the East as opposed to the West has undergone relatively little alteration in the principal constituents of dress among the bulk of the population, and, although it is often difficult to interpret or explain some of the details as represented (one may contrast, for example, worn sculptures or seals with the vivid Egyptian paintings), comparison with later descriptions and even with modern usage is frequently suggestive.

Before passing to the special covering for the feet and head some further reference to the Old Testament usage may be made.

Foreign usage of the term, as in French, is different, and where the word is kept with this foreign application, the distinction should be observed.

The foreign "retable" is, therefore, what should in English be called a "reredos" (q.v.), though that is not in modern usage a movable feature.

It is expressly directed by the act of 1898 above referred to, that in regard to succession, inheritance, marriage, caste or any religious usage or institution, the law to be administered in Burma is (a) the Buddhist law in cases where the parties are Buddhists, (b) the Mahommedan law in cases where the parties are Mahommedans, (c) the Hindu law in cases where the parties are Hindus, except so far as the same may have been modified by the legislature.

In the latter sense, modern usage tends to supersede "officinal" by "official."

It is thus not only a general word for a prince or sovereign, but also the common word for a feudal superior, and particularly of a feudal tenant holding directly of the king, a baron (q.v.), hence a peer of the realm, a member of the House of Lords, constituted of the lords temporal and the lords spiritual; this is the chief modern usage.

During classical times the law kept to the narrow meaning of sacrilegium, but in popular usage it had grown to mean about the same as the English word.

The colony is administered by a governor, who exercises military power through a marine infantry colonel, and civil power with the assistance of a privy '- A similar usage exists in Malay; see paper by Yule in Jour.

As the continent of America was opened up and explored, it became evident that the consumption of tobacco, especially by smoking, was a universal and immemorial usage, in many cases bound up with the most significant and solemn tribal ceremonies.

The description of this institution which has come down to us from Roman sources of the days when feudalism was beginning is not so detailed as we could wish, but we can see plainly enough that it met a frequent need, that it was called by a new name, the patrocinium, and that it was firmly enough entrenched in usage to survive the German conquest, and to be taken up and continued by the conquerors.

They were forms which may rightly be called feudal, but only in the wider meaning in which we speak of the feudalism of Japan, or of Central Africa, not in the sense of 12th-century European feudalism; Saxon commendation may rightly be called vassalage, but only as looking back to the early Frankish use of the term for many varying forms of practice, not as looking forward to the later and more definite usage of completed feudalism; and such use of the terms feudal and vassalage is sure to be misleading.

It is worth noting that in a document connected with this action the union of towns, borrowing the term from English usage, was first called the "German Hansa."

In addition to the tribute, which was in accordance with native usage, there was the " mita," or forced labour in mines, farms and manufactories.

And, though he cannot unroll before us the page of heroic action with the power and majesty of Homer, yet by the sympathy with which he realizes the idea of Rome, and by the power with which he has used the details of tradition, of local scenes, of religious usage, to embody it, he has built up in the form of an epic poem the most enduring and the most artistically constructed monument of national grandeur.

It has been defined to be the right which a clerk has to enjoy certain ecclesiastical revenues on condition of discharging certain services prescribed by the canons, or by usage, or by the conditions under which his office has been founded.

But in order of adoption and actual usage the last is first.

There was a further complication in that each one of these characters had at least two different phonetic values; and there were other intricacies of usage which, had they been foreknown by inquirers in the middle of the 19th century, might well have made the problem of decipherment seem an utterly hopeless one.

In commercial and banking usage "cash" is sometimes confined to specie; it is also, in opposition to bills, drafts or securities, applied to bank-notes.

The direct result of this investigation is not known, but it is impossible to disconnect from it the promulgation by Pope Alexander V., on the 20th of December 1409, of a bull which ordered the abjuration of all Wycliffite heresies and the surrender of all his books, while at the same time - a measure specially levelled at the pulpit of Bethlehem chapel - all preaching was prohibited except in localities which had been by long usage set apart for that use.

His style in its simplicity, facility and clearness owed something to De Foe, something to Cotton Mather, something to Plutarch, more to Bunyan and to his early attempts to reproduce the manner of the third volume of the Spectator; and not the least to his own careful study of word usage.

The history of the practice of excommunication may be traced through (1) pagan analogues, (2) Hebrew custom, (3) primitive Christian practice, (4) medieval and monastic usage, (5) modern survivals in existing Christian churches.

Mr Way, in the article alluded to, says of the custom of offering crowns to churches that frequent notices of the usage may be found in the lives of the Roman pontiffs by Anastasius.

In the Greek Church the equivalent word is yuvriipcov, a mystery, a usage which is explained below.

In the exercise of its duty as the protector of the laws it must have had power to inhibit in the Four Hundred, or in the Ecclesia, a measure which it judged unconstitutional or in any way prejudicial to the state, and in the levy of fines for violation of law or moral usage it remained irresponsible.

Aragon was divided in 1833 into the provinces of Huesca, Teruel and Saragossa; an account of its modern condition is therefore given under these names, which have not, however, superseded the older designation in popular usage.

First there is a medical usage - empirical versus dogmatic medicine.

While the New Testament knows only the political usage of 56yµa, the Greek Fathers follow one which is more in keeping, with philosophical tradition.

Thereafter the usage gradually drops.

That might be a conceivable development of usage.

But, in its case, such a usage would constitute a violent break with the past.

At the present day this usage is universal.

At this point you may consult a dictionary to check spelling or usage.

Also often seen on contemporary photos was the usage of some small whistles, anchors or other adornments fixed to the smaller loop.

During 1995 regional pesticide usage closely approximated to the areas of vegetable crops grown in each country.

The collective term biotope is now in common usage to encompass both of these biotic and abiotic elements.

The robust outer casing is designed to cope with heavy usage even in public places.

The new Toshiba system has replaced an aging four-pipe fan coil system which affected half the building's usage during a system failure.

Perhaps the standard might usefully make explicit reference to careful choice of vocabulary and to English usage, including conventional collocations.

To resist, therefore, the rough usage the picture will have to undergo, it should be made with tolerably strong collodion.

The current low usage levels do not justify the continuance of this service by MIMAS.

You can also output video to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage.

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They have been designed for high usage business environments.

Students are required to critically evaluate the company usage of ICT in the light of what they are learning in the module.

Over the two weeks of usage, the router never once faltered.

Typical usage would be to allow a user to select a particular font.

The usage of reconfigurable hardware can be a solution for both problems in cars.

This is understandable, as in modern usage the two have become largely interchangeable.

For indeed in the usage of our day, the two words have become interchangeable.

Sessions may be invalidated due to policies affecting security or resource usage, or by an application explicitly calling invalidated due to policies affecting security or resource usage, or by an application explicitly calling invalidate.

The safe usage of cutting tools including a sheath knife which you will keep.

Nevertheless, in contemporary usage the term has become synonymous with public access to the Internet, social inclusion, broadband and lottery largesse.

Dictionaries You need to know that dictionaries are compiled by lexicographers, not usage experts.

Memory usage is approximately linear in RE size, and largely insensitive to RE complexity, except for bounded repetitions.

Easy deployment, easy usage, easy tuning - the only key logger which is really Handy!

Memory Usage If it typically uses just a few meg of memory, don't bother making any effort to reduce memory usage.

Third, given English usage of the word God, the simple affirmation " Jesus is God " may be easily misinterpreted.

The typical usage for a strongly scented candle is 1 weighed ounce of scent to 1lb wax.

There have already been reports of the owners of the pachinko parlors involved in the usage of the counterfeit cards.

The included learning modules are designed to introduce the participant to many aspects of internet usage.

London Luton Airport (a) To increase passenger transport usage by passenger transport usage by passengers.

The daily usage pattern fits neatly into the quiet overnight period in the UK.

You are charged based on the 95th percentile of your monthly usage.

Your leg usage is what gives you control of proximity, adjusting level and making pirouettes.

Minimum raw material usage is inherent in single ply.

The control of Internet usage is proving problematic in many areas.

He doesn't think there really is such a thing, everyone has quirks to what their usage is.

If you exceed your filestore quota you will be unable to save any new work until you reduce your quota usage.

Usage tips When you're on the road you're going to be wholly reliant on your battery powering the laptop.

The overall zetoc usage score in Table 2 is 7.8.

Beyond that there is the further issue of the usage of bilingual signage in the private sector.

For more information about the operation of the built-in JPEG plug-ins, see the JPEG metadata format specification and usage notes.

The server can also be used stand-alone, or for integration in other usage scenarios.

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The -s option restricts the information displayed to a short usage synopsis.

No mem usage / data transfer needed there at all!

Further down you will find 2 vt (verb transitive) meaning verbs which take a direct object, with examples of usage.

The demihexagon is an isosceles trapezium (trapezoid in American usage) in which three of the sides have the same length.

However, this usage - by students and others - is often uncritical.

Fears of increased cannabis usage as a result of the experiment would thus appear unfounded.

In some group contexts, this could, I think, represent an intelligent usage of a relatively unintelligent technology.

However, despite strong interest in their usage, a lack of fundamental test data and verified structural design guidance is inhibiting uptake.

The AIR FLUSH ® urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal bowls and very heavy usage.

Apart from the application you should also monitor the disk usage.

Ceridian Customer Services may also send notifications to affected customers detailing ways to optimize product usage or warning of potential product issues.

However, the rare side effect of laminitis restricts the usage of this type of drug.

Dosing and measuring is not a hassle, if anything it allows you to maximize the full usage of your Ariel.

We offer all this to you, with unlimited usage; all you need to do is dial.

Like the US, most of this shift toward an increased usage of more skilled workers has occurred within industries.

Focus groups, written evaluation, and transaction logs were used to gather data and understand actual usage and user needs.

English is defined by its common usage over an extended period of time.

Depending on the intended commercial usage, different levels of payment may be requested.

Can I limit the bandwidth usage of the Virtual sites?

Correspond determines the similarity of codon usage of two or more codon frequency tables.

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On the left hand side is the list of mail folders in your account, along with a summary of your disk usage.

Pie chart of memory card usage, free spaces are also displayed for the best of your convenience.

The word has become debased, made almost valueless, by its societal usage.

The learner shall also gain an understanding word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations and Internet usage with e-mail.

These connexions of a real not formal character are handed to us by the separate sciences and by the usage and culture of everyday life.

The object of his metaphysics is so to remodel the current notions regarding the existence of things and their connexions with which the usage of language supplies us as to make them consistent and thinkable.

Gentilis in Latin, properly meaning "tribesman," came to be used of foreigners and non-Roman peoples, and was adopted in ecclesiasticaI usage for the non-Christian nations and in the Old Testament for non-Jewish races.

In all parts of Albania the vendetta (gydk, jak) or blood-feud, the primitive lex talionis, is an established usage; the duty of revenge is a sacred tradition handed down to successive generations in the family, the village and the tribe.

Rhytidome is, however, a preferable term, as the word bark has long been established in popular usage to mean all the tissue that can easily be peeled offi.e.

Varenius does not treat of special geography, but gives a scheme for it under three heads- (i) Terrestrial, including position, outline, boundaries, mountains, mines, woods and deserts, waters, fertility and fruits, and living creatures; (2) Celestial, including appearance of the heavens and the climate; (3) Human, but this was added out of deference to popular usage.

The lower usage of Apology (as expression of regret for a fault) has tipped many a sarcasm besides George III.'s on the occasion of Bishop Watson's book,, " I did not know that the Bible needed an apology!"

The trouble began early in the 17th century with the attempt, made in connexion with the printing of the liturgical books, to emend certain ritual details in which there was proved to have been a departure from primitive usage; 1 it came to a head under the patriarch Nikon.

These old canons are adduced by way of ridiculing the Armenians, yet they reflect old usage.

Even if the analysis of the literature into component documents were complete, we should still possess a most imperfect record, since the documents themselves have passed through many redactions, and these redactions have proceeded from varying standpoints of religious tradition, successively eliminating or modifying certain elements deemed inconsistent with the canons of religious usage or propriety which prevailed in the age when the redaction took place.

To condemn re-shaping or adaptation of this nature from a modern Western standpoint is to misunderstand entirely the Oriental mind and Oriental usage.

Mitra, even as late as the 15th century, retained its simple meaning of cap (see Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v.); to Isidore of Seville it is specifically a woman's cap. Infula, which in late ecclesiastical usage was to be confined to mitre (and its dependent bands) and chasuble, meant originally a piece of cloth, or the sacred fillets used in pagan worship, and later on came to be used of any ecclesiastical vestment, and there is no evidence for its specific application to the liturgical head-dress earlier than the 12th century.

In this usage the word would be equivalent to the more recent and scarcely less abused term, transcendentalism, and as such it is used even by a sympathetic writer like Carlyle; but this looseness of phraseology only serves to blur important distinctions.

In 1774 the number of electors (which by usage had been restricted to the mayor, aldermen and freemen elected by them) had dwindled to six, and in 1790 to one person only, whose return of two members, however, was rejected and that of the general body of the freemen accepted.

In popular usage "conscience" is generally understood to give intuitively authoritative decisions as regards the moral quality of single actions; this usage implicitly assumes that every action has an objective or intrinsic goodness or badness, which "conscience" may be said to discern much in the same way as the eye sees or the ear hears.

The manumissio minus justa was effected by a sufficient manifestation of the will of the master, as by letter, by words, by putting the pileus (or cap of liberty) on the slave, or by any other formality which had by usage become significant of the intention to liberate, or by such an act as making the slave the guardian of his children.

It is true indeed that in zoological nomenclature some of these are distinguished as "voles" (see VOLE), but this is not in accord with popular usage, where such creatures - come under the designation either of water-rats or field-mice.

After Augustus, the road gave its name to the district which formed the eighth region of Italy (previously known as Gallia or Provincia Ariminum), at first in popular usage (as in Martial), but in official language as early as the 2nd century; it is still in use (see Emilia).

The prefix "lord" is ordinarily used as a less formal alternative to the full title, whether held by right or by courtesy, of marquess, earl or viscount, and is always so used in the case of a baron (which in English usage is generally confined to the holder of a foreign title).

Papineau had formerly professed a deep reverence for British institutions, and he had acquired a theoretical knowledge of the constitution, but he did not possess the qualities of a statesman, and consequently in his determination to apply the strict letter of the constitution he overlooked those elements and compensating forces and powers which through custom and usage had been incorporated in British institutions, and had given them permanence.

Savonarola, however, refused to conform to the usage.

In compliance with this feeling a royal edict (January 18, 1409) was issued, by which, in alleged conformity with Paris usage, and with the original charter of the university, the Bohemian "nation" received three votes, while only one was allotted to the other three "nations" combined; whereupon all the foreigners, to the number of several thousands, almost immediately withdrew from Prague, an occurrence which led to the formation shortly afterwards of the university of Leipzig.

Lightfoot points out, the best Greek commentators among the Fathers are so dominated by this new usage,, that they misinterpret Col.

In Thomas Thomas has his own technical name - doctrine (sing.) or rather sacra doctrina; and this expression holds its ground, though the usage of Abelard, Theologia, was destined to an even more important place (see Theology).

They insisted that the Government should introduce proposals as to the official language of functionaries, for they feared a return of the procedure used by Badeni, which by means of a Government ordinance had altered the received usage and upset the national balance of power; that in Bohemia the purely German sub-districts (Bezirke) should be included in German districts (Kreise), and in like manner the purely Czech sub-districts in Czech districts, so that there would then be a relatively small number of territories of mixed nationality, which would have to be governed bilingually; that minorities should be protected by law; and that in appointing to posts in the offices of the autonomous Bohemian territorial Government, proportionate consideration should be given to the Germans, attention being paid to the fact that in Bohemia more than a third of the population were German, and that they paid more than half the taxes, but that the Czech national majority had appointed more than 90% of Czechs and not even 10% of Germans in the Government offices.

This representation of baskets of loaves and several fishes, or of one fish and several loaves, seems to contradict the usage of one loaf.

In the development of the law since that time the courts of one state are not bound either by law or by usage to follow the decisions either of the Federal courts or of the courts of any other state, any more than they would follow English courts, although such decisions are used and discussed as evidence of the common law, and great deference is always shown to the opinions expressed by the Federal courts.

In military usage "retreat" is also the term for a signal, given by bugle and drum at or about sunset.

The legal piastre is called the piastre tariff (P.T.), to distinguish it from the 1/2 piastre, which in local usage in Cairo and Alexandria is called a piastre.

To these "spheres" some writers add, by figurative usage, the terms "biosphere," or life-sphere, to cover all living things, both animals and plants, and "psychosphere," or mind-sphere, covering all the products of human intelligence.

It extends from the 8th to the 37th degree of north latitude, that is to say, from the hottest regions of the equator to far within the temperate The spelling throughout all the articles dealing with India is that adopted by the government of India, modified in special instances with deference to long-established usage.

Although nothing can be more simple than the fundamental principle of general average, that a loss incurred for the advantage of all the coadventurers should be made good by them all in equitable proportion to their stakes in the adventure, the application of this principle to the varied and complicated cases which occur in the course of maritime commerce has given rise to many diversities of usage at different periods and in different countries.

By common usage the word " seal " is employed as a term to describe both the implement for making the impression, and the impression itself; but properly it should be confined to the latter, the graven implement being technically called the matrix.

In current usage, the term is applied to a feminine spirit or fairy, and is often used in a figurative sense of a graceful, slender girl or young woman.

The Fenian movement had practically expired; some annual motions for the introduction of Home Rule, made with all the decorum qf parliamentary usage, had been regularly defeated.

The report describes ergonomic, clinical usage, patient dose, image quality and quantitative analysis of the system.

He does n't think there really is such a thing, everyone has quirks to what their usage is.

Usage tips When you 're on the road you 're going to be wholly reliant on your battery powering the laptop.

Lets you reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage.

Raspberry root rot is a devastating root disease in northern Europe and accounts for the majority of fungicide usage on field grown raspberries.

The second largest search engine on the web has a global usage share of 20.6 percent.

A different water usage exists in Norway, for example, where snowmelt runoff is utilized for hydropower generation.

My gym does n't have a squat rack or power cage whence the usage of the Smith 's machine.

This means the term " algal " stromatolite reef is no longer current scientific usage.

No mem usage / data transfer needed there at all !

But there was another tunnel, even longer, with restricted usage times, so we decided to turn round and head south.

Farmers also frequently obtained drugs from suppliers unqualified to advise on their correct usage.

The AIR FLUSH ® urinal system is ideally suited to sites with multiple urinal bowls and very heavy usage.

The indexes to the usage statistics pages are provide by the Project Office.

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It was also agreed that it would be useful to compare relative usage of different areas of the website.

It's interesting how word usage changes over time, so "gast" is no longer used but we still have "ghastly" and "aghast" from the same root.

A revised statement concerning the usage of pacifiers has many pediatricians recommending that parents encourage their babies to use them at bedtime.

While the revised statement from The American Academy of Pediatrics may help parents make up their mind regarding the decision of pacifier use, there are still valid arguments against their usage.

While some might argue that the additional water and electricity usage due to an increased amount of washing will balance out the expense of disposable diapers, others don't agree.

He, along with many of his colleagues, firmly believes that time spent guiding a baby through the usage of a computer is very beneficial.

Many child psychiatrists and pediatricians believe that early computer usage may actually be harmful for babies.

Optometrists often caution against prolonged computer usage because of the eye strain and damage it could do to developing eyes.

Boots do expand with usage, but a boot that does not feel comfortable initially will probably never give you the comfort that you desire.

Leather portfolios usually cost the most, though they also offer the longest lifespan of usage.

Ensure that the light capacity of the lamp is as per intended usage.

They also have the advantage of no screen burn-in problems, so they are considered better for video game usage.

Keep your daily routine of cooking, cleaning, and basic toiletry usage the same as it was before you starting buying in bulk.

These types of helmets are prone to heavier damage and usage, so finding a helmet that has a excellent venting system and anti-glare visors is a must.

Basic computing like e-mail and Internet surfing and light office functions (word processing, presentations and spreadsheet usage).

The activation and usage procedures vary based on the gift card provider.

The United States Coast Guard has very specific regulations for safety, and for usage.

Dial-up is an Internet option in general, but with the kind of usage most consumers want to access--streaming movies or music, gaming, downloading, heavy or long-term website surfing--dial-up isn't a practical choice.

Knowing some basic terminology and asking yourself some questions regarding your own usage will give you the knowledge needed to make an informed decision.

Use the four descriptions below to gauge your usage.

This does not mean that such products are exclusive to dog usage, but you may also need to look at luxurydog furnitureretailers to widen your array of options.

Clay, which is also a highly absorbent material, can form clay dust during usage and litter box cleanings.

This kind of machine is not necessary if you plan to keep the machine on the counter or in the same spot the entire usage time.

Though the card has its limitations, with responsible usage it can be a valuable tool for any consumer.

These programs include fees that vary according to your usage and the program you choose.

Limit your gasoline usage to save money while helping the environment.

Since many cards like these feature fees and charges associated with usage you may find that the savings you receive are negligible when compared to the money spent to use the card.

The censers or thuribles in Christian usage have been specially adapted to be swung, though there are in existence many early specimens of heavy weight and made of gold or silver which were obviously not meant to be used in this way and have handles and not chains.

This agrees with one feature in ordinary literary usage - the contrast between " dogmatizing " and suspending judgment, or taking refuge in conjecture.

As Christianity passed to Gentile soil, the sovereign assembly (ecclesia) of privileged citizens in each Greek city furnished an analogy to the latter usage.

In conformity with old Semitic usage, pilgrimages were made at definite seasons to certain deities, and the Sabaean pilgrim month, Dhu Hijjatan, is the northern Dhu'l-Hijja.

Jesus used the word to affirm his own utterances, not those of another person, and this usage was adopted by the church.

There are also states which have certain of the attributes of sovereignty, but are subject to servitudes or burthens imposed by treaty, usage, the sense that in regard to the same matters at the or force.

According to modern usage the appellation "sovereign state" belongs only to states of considerable size and population exercising without control the usual powers of a state, e.g.

This withdrawal of the head of the state from direct contact with his people was unknown to the Omayyads, and was certainly an imitation of Persian usage; it has even been plausibly conjectured that the name is but the Arabic adaptation of a Persian title.

In modern usage the term is used in the East generally for any important official under the sovereign.

Meanwhile he had published the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the book of Revelation in Latin verse, which he dedicated to the king, complaining of his hard usage.

While Apostolic phrases are used, the sense behind them is often different and less evangelic. They have not caught the Apostolic meaning, because they have not penetrated to the full religious experience which gave to the words, often words with long and varied history both in the Septuagint and in ordinary Greek usage, their specific meaning to each apostle and especially to Paul.

On the 10th of May she wrote curtly that the course proposed by Sir Robert Peel was contrary to usage and repugnant to her feelings; the Tory leader then had to inform the House of Commons that, having failed to obtain the proof which he desired of her majesty's confidence, it was impossible for him to accept office.

The law in question is in its present form post-exilic, and is plainly directed to the regulation of a known usage.

At a later date in the order of St Benedict the title was applied to the monk next in authority to the abbot, though this usage was not adopted technically until the r3th century.

The legislation of " P," though written down in or after the exile, must not, however, be supposed to be the creation of that period; many elements in it can be shown from the older literature to have been of great antiquity in Israel; it is, in fact, based upon preexilic Temple usage, though in some respects it is a development of it, and exhibits the form which the older and simpler ceremonial institutions of Israel ultimately assumed.

In later Latin usage " catholic " came to mean much the same as " canonical," another name that was also given.

He was peculiarly qualified for exercising this influence, as his long exile in the West made him familiar with Western usage, while he was also able to bring to the West the usage that he was trying to establish in the East.

Moreover usage varies slightly as regards the limits of the three main divisions, but the accompanying table shows the most usual classification, naming the principal groups within each, and distributing them according to the powers to which they are subject.

This system, the Aeginetan, one of the most important to the Greek world, has been thought to be a degradation of the Phoenician (17, 21), supposing 220 grains to have been reduced in primitive Greek usage to 194.

The horses and cattle are of a degenerate type, small, ungainly and inured to neglect and hard usage.

The translation, however, is stiff and literal to a fault, violating idiomatic usage and the proper order of words in its strict adherence to the Latin.

By Lord Lyndhurst's act, the Nonconformist Chapels Act 1844, where no particular religious doctrine or mode of worship has been prescribed by the deed or instrument of trust the usage of the congregation for twenty-five years is to be taken as conclusive evidence of the doctrine and worship which may be properly observed in such meeting-houses.

It was, save where animal sacrifices survived, the Christian sacrifice, par excellence, the counterpart for the converted of the sacrificial communions of paganism; and though charged with higher significance than these, it yet reposed on a like background of religious usage and beliefs.

Ritualists now keep unconfirmed children in church during the entire rite, through ignorance of ancient usage, in order that they may learn to adore the consecrated elements.

Officially the name is The United States of America, but The United States (used as a singular and not a plural) has become accepted as the name of the country; and pre-eminent usage has now made its citizens Americans, in distinctiofi from the other inhabitants of North and South America.

The unity and continuity of the district, expressed in the name Appalachian plateau, is seldom recognized in local usage.

Thus the Liguorian system surpassed all its predecessors in securing uniformity in the confessional on a basis of established usage, two advantages amply sufficient to ensure its speedy general adoption within the Church of Rome.

The flat frame is the most gentle in its usage of the silk, but is most costly in labour; whilst the circular frame, being more severe in its action, is not suitable for the thoroughly degummed silks, but on the other hand is best for silks containing much wormy matter, because the silk hanging down into the combing teeth is thoroughly cleansed of such foreign matter, which is deposited under the machine.

The benediction "Peace be to this house," with which, in accordance with apostolic usage, he greeted every dwelling he entered, was not inappropriate to his figure and aspect, and it is said "took the people's attention wonderfully," the more especially after the magic of his personality found opportunity to reveal itself in close and homely intercourse.

A certain king, Alchfrith, is said to have given the site of the town to Eata, abbot of Melrose, to found a monastery, but before it was completed Eata was deposed for refusing to celebrate Easter according to the Roman usage, and St Wilfrid was appointed the first abbot.

They differ somewhat from Roman forts in Germany or other provinces, though most of the differences arise from the different usage of wood and of stone in various places.

By the division of Spain in 1833, the province took the name of Oviedo, though not to the exclusion, in ordinary usage, of the older designation.

Usage, however, seems to have varied a good deal in this respect at different times and in different districts.

In contrast with later Scandinavian usage Tacitus states that the ancient Germans had no images of the gods.

Early The invitation was accepted by all; and, the consultation resulting in favour of the Roman usage, Victor thought fit to exclude the recalcitrant Churches of Asia from the Catholic communion.

The Fathers of the Church had repeated times without number that the priesthood stands above even the supreme secular authority; the Bible was full of stories most aptly illustrating this theory; nobody questioned that, within the Church, the pope was the Vicar of Christ, and that, as such, his powers were unlimited; as proof positive could be cited councils and decretals - whether authentic or spurious; at any rate all authorized by long usage and taken as received authorities.

The Gurkhas, however, in 1788 and following years continued to strike coins of progressively debased quality, which were rude imitations of the old Nepalese mintage, and to endeavour to force this currency on the Tibetans, eventually making the departure of the latter from old usage a pretext for war and invasion.

The old name, however, survived in popular usage; but the character of the city was changed, and till the time of Cyrus the kingdom of Sidon ceased to exist ii.

In modern usage the name Hebrew is applied to that branch of the northern part of the Semitic family of languages which was used by the Israelites during most of the time of their national existence in Palestine, and in which nearly all their sacred writings are composed.

Since then we discover in the Capitularies of Charlemagne actual mention of "caballarii " as a class of warriors, it may reasonably be concluded that formal investiture with arms applied to the " caballarii " if it was a usage extending beyond the sovereign and his heir-apparent.

The investiture with arms, which formed a part of the longer form of knighting, and which we have seen to rest on very ancient usage, may originally have had a distinct meaning.

In official usage the term is applied to any person, whether owner of a large estate or cultivating member of a village community, who is recognized as possessing some property in the soil, as opposed to the ryot, who is regarded as having only a right of occupancy, subject in both cases to payment of the land revenue assessed on his holding.

The Biblical usage appears to show that the terms "Canaanites" and "Amorites" were used synonymously, the former being characteristic of Judaean, the latter of Ephraimite and Deuteronomic writers.

The "three hours" service, borrowed from Roman Catholic usage and consisting of prayers, addresses on the "seven last words from the cross" and intervals for meditation and silent prayer, has become very popular in the Anglican Church, and the observance of the day is more marked than formerly among Nonconformist bodies, even in Scotland.

The blessing of the palms and the procession were, however, abolished at the Reformation, and the name "Palm Sunday," though it survives in popular usage, is not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer.

Further, the story involves points of old family usage which are no longer clear.

This comes from the usage in heraldry (first in French) for the colour equivalent to black, represented conventionally by a crosshatching of vertical and horizontal lines.

One reason may be that analyses are generally made of tea liquors produced by distilled water, which is the very worst possible from the point of view of the commercial expert or in domestic usage.

He continued to take an active part in the affairs of the church, and introduced in 1649 the practice, now confirmed by long usage, of dissenting from the decision of the Assembly, and requiring the protest to be entered in the record.

The graves of the period contain urns of earthenware or glass, cremation being the prevalent practice, and the objects found include one or more coins in accordance with Roman usage.

He was the first bishop of London, since the Reformation, to "pontificate" in a mitre as well as the cope, and though no man could have been less essentially "sacerdotal" he was always careful of correct ceremonial usage.

In religious usage, a "retreat" is a period and place set apart for prayer, self-examination and other spiritual exercises.

Special occasion for such a hortatory letter may be discerned in its polemic against intimate relations between ascetics of opposite sex, implied to exist among its readers, in contrast to usage in the writer's own locality.

Incidentally, too, its successive forms illustrate many matters of belief and usage among Syrian Christians generally in the 3rd and 4th centuries, notably their apologetic and catechetical needs and methods.

In 1652 he amused himself with ploughing and bell-ringing, In the Life he speaks of himself and his family as Wood or a Wood, the last form being a pedantic return to old usage adopted by himself.

The bank's notes of issue must be covered to the extent of two-fifths by legal specie (gold and current silver) in reserve; the rest of the paper circulation, according to bank usage.

The English usage until nearly the end of the 19th century was to confine the term "the Cameroons" to the mountain range, and to speak of the estuary as the Cameroons river.

So again the word mathani is, as Geiger has conjectured, the regular plural of the Aramaic mathnitha, which is the same as the Hebrew Mishnah, and denotes in Jewish usage a legal decision of some of the ancient Rabbins.

To succeed, it was essential that the fellah should be taught that discipline might be strict without being oppressive, that pay and rations would be fairly distributed, that brutal usage by superiors would be checked, that complaints would be thoroughly investigated, and impartial justice meted out to soldiers of all ranks.

They next seized his boats conveying soldiers, servants, and his ammunition and baggage; and, following him, they demanded wherefore he brought with him so numerous a body of men, in opposition to usage and to their previous warning.

His Britannic Majestys government, for their part, will respect the rights which France, in virtue of treaties, conventions and usage, enjoys in Egypt.

The chapel, dedicated to St Cuthbert, continued for a period to attract many pilgrims, but this usage gradually declined and the building was finally destroyed by English invaders.

In Turkey, and above all in Egypt, it has been found necessary greatly to limit the sphere and influence of the canonical jurists and to introduce institutions nearer to Western legal usage.

Thus the reflection of a person in a mirror is known as his "image"; in popular usage one person is similarly described as "the very image" of another; so in entomology the term is applied in its Latin form imago to an insect which, having passed through its larval stages, has achieved its full typical development.

It should be noted that, according to Scottish usage, police " includes drainage, the suppression of nuisances, paving, lighting and cleansing, in addition to the provision of a constabulary force, and that in point of fact, paradoxical as it appears, the bulk of the police burghs do not manage their police.

In the early r6th century the use of the vernacular is extended, chiefly in the treatment of historical and polemical subjects, as in Murdoch Nisbet's version of Purvey (in MS. till 1901), a compromise between northern and southern usage; Gau's (q.v.) Richt Vay, translated from Christiern Pedersen; Bellenden's (q.v.) translation of Livy and Scottish History; the Complaynt of Scotlande, largely a mosaic of translation from the French; Ninian Winzet's (q.v.) Tractates; Lesley's (q.v.) History of Scotland; Knox's (q.v.) History; Buchanan's (q.v.) Chamaeleon; Lindesay of Pitscottie's (q.v.) History; and the tracts of Nicol Burne and other exiled Catholics.

In regard to punishment for the violation of a husband's rights Proverbs shows a marked advance on the old usage.

The usage generally took the form that any one who visited a church, to which the Indulgence had been attached, on a day named, and gave a contribution to its funds, had his penance shortened by one-seventh, one-third or one-half, as might be arranged.

According to native usage, however, " Hindustan " is limited either to that portion of the peninsula lying north of the Vindhya mountains, or yet more strictly to the upper basin of the Ganges where Hindi is the spoken language.

The term has been applied in modern usage, due to Plato's Symposium, to a collection of opinions of different writers on a given subject.

The civil laws for the natives are those established by local usage.

The phrase " mechanical equivalent of heat" is somewhat vague, but has been sanctioned by long usage.

The name Scotus, which has often been taken to imply Scottish origin, really favours the theory that he was an Irishman according to the then usage of Scotus or Scotigena.

The history of the word and of the condition is especially instructive in English usage.

If, contrary to usage, we choose to call the latter a judgment of existence, there is no use in quarrelling about words; but we must insist that new terms must in that case be invented to express so fundamental a difference as that between judgments about real men and judgments about ideal centaurs.

Possibly " Matthew " (Yahweh's gift) was his Christian surname, since two native names, neither being a patronymic, is contrary to Jewish usage.

The kingdom of Chilperic was retrospectively given this name, and in contemporary usage it was given to the kingdom of Clovis II., as opposed to that of Sigebert III., the two sons of Dagobert; and after that, the princes reigning in the West were called kings of Neustria, and those reigning in the East, kings of Austrasia.

Dionysius Alexandrinus also, in his canonical epistle (260 A.D.), refers to the six fasting days (E Twv Pr YTECwv iijApac) in a manner which implies that the observance of them had already become an established usage in his time.

Though it was not till later times that the network of class divisions and subdivisions attained anything like the degree of intricacy which it shows in these latter days, still in its origin the caste-system is undoubtedly coincident with the rise of Brahmanism, and may even be said to be of the very essence of it.3 The cardinal principle which underlies the system of caste is the preservation of purity of descent, and purity of religious belief and ceremonial usage.

As yet, however, the tribal community would still feel one in race and traditional usage.

It also provides that in the absence of any written document the usage of twenty years is to be conclusive evidence of the application of charitable trusts.

In ecclesiastical usage it is the sacred vase or tabernacle in which the Host is reserved.

Tudno, Afan, Padarn, &c. To the second division - those place-names which have been corrupted by English usage - belong most of the older historic towns, in striking contrast with the rural villages and parishes, which in nearly all cases have retained unaltered their original Celtic names.

In not a few instances modern English nomenclature has supplanted the old Welsh placenames in popular usage, although the town's original appellation is retained in Welsh literature and conversation, e.g.

There must have been a large body of usage to which Jewish society subscribed; customary usage is one of the most binding of laws even among modern Oriental communities where laws in writing are unknown, and one of the most interesting features is the persistence in the East of closelyrelated forms and principles of custom from the oldest times to the present day.

But behind Homer stretches the dim scene of pre-Hellenic religion, and the conflict of elements " Pelasgic, and Hellenic, out of which the Homeric religion emerged; and beneath the Homeric religion how many features of the' religion of ghosts and nature-spirits survived in popular usage and the lower cults!

The word has thus come to mean in general usage an official caretaker of any place of worship whose duty it is to show the building to those who wish to view it, and to find seats for the congregation at a service.

According to usage and custom in Chile, a ministry does not remain in office unless supported by a majority in the chambers.

Some of them, however, were in part at least, as they all purported to be, declaratory of ancient usage and remained in force after the royal renunciation.

A foreign subject implicated in a criminal suit cannot be pursued or molested in any way unless there exist full proofs of his having taken part in the crime imputed to him, and should he be duly convicted of the crime, he is handed over to his legation, which either sends him back to his own country to undergo the punishment established by law, or, according to more recent usage, punishes him in Persia by fine, imprisonment, &c. In this respect the powers of the foreign representatives in Persia, now numbering ten (Great Britain, Russia, France, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, United States of America, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands) vary considerably, some having the power of condemning a criminal to death, while others cannot do more than fine and imprison for short periods.

Still, usage is decisive.

In comparing pagan with Christian usage it is important to remember that the lamps in the pagan temples were not symbolical, but votive offerings to the gods.

The usage in this respect in some " ritualistic " churches is a revival of pre-Reformation ceremonial.

On his death-bed Charles had at length declared himself an adherent of that religion and had received the last rites according to the Romanist usage.

In modern usage "chaos" denotes a state of disorder and confusion.

Having been ordained to the priesthood, he for some time acted as vicar of Archbishop Celsus or Ceallach of Armagh, and carried out many reforms tending to increase conformity with the usage of the Church of Rome.

The nature of the subjects with which they deal is one that naturally appealed to the priestly schools, and owing to this fact the laws were especially liable to modification and expansion at the hands of later legislators who wished to bring them into conformity with later usage.

But, though usage has made it convenient in this work to employ the term, " Celtic " cannot be properly applied to what is really " Gaelic."

The Celts are thus clearly distinguished from the Gaelic-speaking dark race of Britain and Ireland, and in spite of usage it must be understood that it is strictly misleading to apply the term Celtic to the latter language.

This usage, which is not found in other ancient writers, is probably due to a confusion of the Suebi with the agglomeration of peoples under their supremacy, which as we know from Strabo extended to some at least of the eastern tribes.

By Celtic usage abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns.

Sprott and Thomas Leishman, in the introduction to their edition of the Book of Common Order, and of the Westminster Directory published in 1868, collected a valuable series of notices as to the actual usage of the former book for the period (1564-1645) during which it was enjoined by ecclesiastical law.

According to feudal law the vassal usage.

Petrarch's real name according to Tuscan usage was Francesco di Petracco.

Geographical usage confines to the southern part of the island of Great Britain the name commonly given to the great insular power of western Europe.1 In this restricted sense the present article deals with England, the predominant partner in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, both as containing the seat of government and in respect of extent, population and wealth.

The ancient division, however, besides being maintained in general speech and usage, forms the basis on which the system of distribution of parliamentary representation now in force was constructed.

In a borough which is not a county of itself the inhabitants are only liable to repair bridges within the borough by immemorial usage or custom.

As the original home of the language can only be very doubtfully conjectured, we shall do well to follow the usage sanctioned by old custom and apply the word to both.

His treatment of this may be compared both with Homeric usage and that of other Alexandrian poets, e.g.

According to old usage, the post office was made a state monopoly for the express purpose of levying taxation by means of it.

This usage seems to have survived from the pre-Roman period.

In general usage the distinction made is into western and eastern provinces, according to the area of the primary division.

This old Semitic usage has its close parallel in the vow of the Nazarite.

Rajab was one of the ancient sacred months, and the feast, which extended through the whole month and was a joyful season of hospitality and thanksgiving, no doubt represents the ancient feasts of Mecca more exactly than the ceremonies of the bajj, in which old usage has been overlaid by traditions and glosses of Islam.

The local law was founded on usage and on the papal letters called decretals.

It has thus, by usage, obtained an authority perfectly recognized and accepted by the Church.'

Nevertheless, there are many provisions in these postReformation canons which are declaratory of the ancient usage and law of the Church, and the law which they thusrecord is binding on the laity.

Even if we allow for the difficulty of representing complete submersion in art, it is nevertheless clear that it was not insisted on; nor were the earliest fonts, to judge from the ruins of them, large and deep enough for such an usage.

Neander, Harnack, Dr Armitage Robinson and James Martineau, whether it represents a real utterance of Christ and not rather the liturgical usage of the region in which the first gospel was compiled.

The British systems have various origins, and are still subject to variations caused by local usage or by the usage of particular businesses.

But it should be noted that the primary reference of "binding and loosing" is, according to rabbinical usage, rather to the laying down of rules than to condoning breaches of them; and nothing is said to confine the words "Whose soever sins ye forgive" to the offences of Christians already baptized, and they should be held to include preaching the Gospel and baptizing converts as well as the administration of internal discipline.

Locusts (" ` grasshoppers " in local usage) have worked incalculable damage, notably in 1854, 1866, and above all in 1874-1875.

King Edward insisted that by common feudal usage it was perfectly regular, and announced his intention of permitting it.

All they demanded was to be allowed permission, whilst remaining as ministers in the church, to omit the usage of certain ceremonies to which they objected.