(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."
Leftover
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
(3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(4) Verdict: Funded by leftovers from the 2010 funding deal, it means no top-slicing from the new licence fee agreement.
(5) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
(6) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
(7) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
(8) Transport of leftover feed from infectious disease (IBD) farms to susceptible flocks on clean premises is believed to have played an important role in the transmission of this disease to new farms and to new areas.
(9) Hand washing with soap before meals by all family members protected against cholera (OR = 0.2, 95 percent CI 0.02-0.96), suggesting that persons asymptomatically infected with Vibrio cholerae 01 may have been the initial source for contamination of the leftover foods.
(10) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
(11) Consistent with this, was the fact that 37% were unaware of safe methods of disposal of leftover medicines.
(12) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
(13) If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.
(14) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
(15) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
(16) Salmonella infantis and enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus were both isolated from samples of leftover turkey, and S. infantis was isolated from 18 of 20 stool specimens.
(17) The shoot is catered, and afterwards Mom takes the leftovers and passes out the Brie and watercress sandwiches to her friends, shouting, 'Free yuppie food!'
(18) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
(19) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
(20) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.