(n.) A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retention was found to be dramatically higher for Abraxas than for all nine comparison TCs during the first month of treatment.
(2) Analysis of the Abraxas sample showed that client retention was significantly higher for court referrals, adults, and males, and did not significantly vary according to ethnicity.
(3) These differences between Abraxas and the nine comparison TCs are particularly notable in that Abraxas' population is primarily juvenile whereas the comparison program populations are primarily adult.
(4) Client retention for Abraxas, a therapeutic community (TC) whose clients are almost exclusively court referred, was compared with that for nine other TCs that primarily accept clients not referred by the courts.
(5) An exhaustive test-retest reliability study was made of the intake interview used by Abraxas' residential drug program.
(6) Finally, Abraxas resented what it initially took to be the courts' intrusion into program affairs.
(7) In response, Abraxas has sensitized its staff to the courts' role, established a uniform policy on progress reports, promoted communications with external agencies, and emphasized coordination of treatment effort with court officials.
(8) After the first month of treatment, discharge rates for Abraxas were lower than those for an aggregate of seven of the TCs but were comparable to rates for two others.
(9) Problems the Abraxas Foundation encountered in accommodating therapeutic community practices to the justice system in order to develop an alternative for courtstipulated drug offenders are reviewed.
(10) At the end of 10 months, more residents remained at Abraxas than at eight of the nine comparison programs.
Engraved
Definition:
(imp.) of Engrave
(p. p.) of Engrave
(a.) Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
(a.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
Example Sentences:
(1) From then on, different features were added over the years, including more use of colour, watermark portraits of the queen, highly detailed machine engravings, reflective foil patches and holographic strips.
(2) The authors devised a brain biopsy technique through only one burr hole under real time monitoring, using a small foot-print transducer, 12 mm in diameter, and a special trocar with engraved scales on its surface.
(3) "The National Gallery of Australia currently has more than 50 engravings related to this painting, and there exist many more.
(4) Photograph: islandersa1 flickr They were also instructed to engrave their possessions with special metallic pens, to clutch their bags with both hands, to hide any property they might have in their cars, and not even to trust their valuables to hotel vaults.
(5) It has been a battle fought out in the past few days on the wall of the former US embassy, where the “Death to America” slogans that had been there since the 1979 Islamic revolution were painted over this week – only to be replaced by a plaque engraved with anti-American slogans put up by ultra-conservative students.
(6) And a cameraman has just spotted that the engraver is now engraving Arsenal's name into the trophy: equally premature?
(7) He and Mitchell agreed on a limited edition of wood engravings based on the play, printed on handmade papers.
(8) The stone slabs engraved in the 19th century with the name of Cromwell and his relatives are usually covered by a blue carpet bearing the RAF crest.
(9) Guidance of the neuritic processes can be observed with small grooves engraved on quartz and plastic substrates, and simple shapes with few processes and bifurcations on each neurite could be obtained using adhesive microstructures.
(10) This nitrous oxide effect was present at all dial settings studied except the lowest engraved (0.25) concentration.
(11) The virtues of graft were drummed in by his parents, Nettie, a bookkeeper and Martin, an engraver – so successfully that at 17 Woody was earning more than them both combined , rattling out gags for comedians and columnists.
(12) It was safer just to go on living together, though they did have engraved gold wedding bands, and Eva still wears hers today.
(13) If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone?
(14) On the back of the seat was a plaque engraved with "Much-loved aunt".
(15) The first one is a case history, the second one is more general discussion with a fine engraving added.
(16) Systemic information, together with genetic information engraved on macromolecules and matter described by physics and chemistry, represents the existential basis of life.
(17) The new techniques of mechanical reproduction of photographs in printing slowly but surely replaced the lithos and wood engravings.
(18) If a bot manages to fool two or more of the judges, it will win its creator a gold medal engraved with Turing's image, and $100,000 (£64,000).
(19) And then I engraved this very delicate and traditional life drawing on to it, in words, and now that's become part of it.
(20) Someone, one day, may have to own up to making a considerable dent in the silverware itself, just beneath the engraving "Chelsea Football Club 2012", though this was not the time to be talking of depressions of any kind.