(n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
(n.) The water used in cleansing.
(n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(2) "You either would mind somebody publishing a film of you doing your ablutions in the morning or you wouldn't.
(3) Churchill, as prime minister, directed that Diana could bathe daily, but water supplies were so low that ablutions were never more than weekly.
(4) Broad fancies a review – which is a bit like saying a bear fancies going off into the woods for his ablutions – but Cook opts against.
(5) The half-life of atenolol in blood was calculated to ablut 9 hours.
(6) It is demonstrated that the release of testbacteria from the finger tips of artificially contaminated hands is influenced to a very small degree only by application of the finger tip method when compared to the effect of ablutions.
(7) Significant increases occurred in the geometric mean titer of serum vibriocidal antibody; this suggests the need for study of the possible role of anal ablution in maintaining serum vibriocidal antibody levels in endemic cholera areas.
(8) Few will ever forget the shock glimpse into wife Pamela's en-suite as our hero smirkingly performed his morning ablutions (Ewing, not Bolland), meaning that the show's fans were asked to pretend Bobby hadn't really been dead during the previous season they'd just invested so much time watching.
(9) Study of the effect of religion on the prevalence of S. haematobium infection revealed that ablution and other Muslims rituals do not represent an important factor in the prevalence of S. haematobium.
(10) These cases were traced to 130 households in the Umvoti Mission Reserve, which were ranked according to socioeconomic condition, permanence of housing materials, ablution facilities and purity of water source.
(11) Alongside the hotel-style fluffy towels and Molton Brown soap, the mesh-coated glass walls offer a grandstand from which to observe the runway while keeping your ablutions to yourself.
(12) The following risk factors of the disease were identified: rural living, absence of school attendance, low family income, multiparity, identical pathology after a previous pregnancy, postpartum "quarantine" period, ritual ablutions with very hot water, large amounts of sodium in the diet, hypertension, breast-feeding and postpartum oestrogen secretion decrease.
(13) In many developing countries and ablution with surface water is a daily habit.
(14) We have, for example, "I balanced a thoughtful lump of sugar on my teaspoon"; "he uncovered the fragrant eggs and b and I pronged a moody forkful"; or the memorable ablutions in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit : "As I sat in the bathtub, soaping a meditative foot and singing, if I remember correctly, 'Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar', it would be deceiving my public to say that I was feeling boomps-a-daisy."
Bathing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe
(n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
(5) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
(6) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(7) The effects of drugs applied in the bathing medium on the peristaltic responses were examined.
(8) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
(9) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
(10) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
(11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(12) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
(13) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(14) However, when Na+ in the bath was returned to the control level, pHi recovered completely Amiloride (1 mM) in the bath completely inhibited the Na(-)-dependent pHi recovery.
(15) Bath-applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), glutamate or quisqualate elicited transient enhancement in these field potentials, followed by a sustained depression reversible on washout.
(16) Fibres bathing in 60 mm-MgCl(2) sea water, free of Ca, did not develop tension with sudden displacements of the membrane potential towards more positive values.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Cells were then placed in a bath on a microscope stage, superfused and electrically stimulated.
(19) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
(20) Elevation of bath [K] reduced Vm and Vs by 30.3 and 44.5 mV, respectively.