Verging Sentence Examples

It still means " doctrine " when the collected decreta of Trent bear on their title-page (1564) reference to an Index dogmatum et reformationis; but here " dogma " is already verging towards the narrower and more precise sense - truth defined by church authority.

Fairly high mountains (in places verging on 4000 ft.) are found between Gafsa and the salt lakes of the J erid.

The head is mesati-cephalic, verging on brachycephalic in the case of many of the Dokpa; the hair is black and somewhat wavy; the eyes are usually of a clear brown, in some cases even hazel; the cheek-bones are high, but not so high as with the Mongols; the nose is thick, sometimes depressed at the root, in other cases prominent, even aquiline, though the nostrils are broad.

Hobbes, then verging upon eighty, was terrified at the prospect of being treated as a heretic, and proceeded to burn such of his papers as he thought might compromise him.

The Marrow was discouraged as verging on Antinomianism (1720); and in 1722 its protesting admirers were rebuked by the Assembly.

The spell, however, of O'Connell's power had vanished; his health had suffered much from a short confinement; he was verging upon his seventieth year; and he was alarmed and pained by the growth of a party in the repeal ranks who scoffed at his views, and advocated the revolutionary doctrines which he had always feared and abhorred.

It was elliptical, and its long Diameter was perpendicular to the Horizon, verging below farthest from the moon."

The effects of a protectionist policy verging upon prohibition were soon sharply felt in.

But there is no doubt that the possibility of episodes of violence, verging on open civil war is more likely.

Verging on pedantic, some of Harrison's songs would have sounded trite in lesser hands.

Verging on pedantic, some of Harrison 's songs would have sounded trite in lesser hands.

And with a huge helping of fruit piled inside, they're almost verging on healthy!For this dessert, you'll want to use glass dessert bowls so that you can see the red, white, and blue striping through the dish.

The flowers are in loose spikes, each blossom being about 1 inch in length; the color varies from light scarlet to a shade verging closely on crimson, and when seen in the open air, especially in sunshine, dazzles the eye by its brilliancy.