(n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have a great relationship with Christianity.” Asked why he had started talking about Carson more of late – this weekend he appeared to question Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist faith , then refused to apologise for doing so – Trump was equally uncollegiate about his former lead rival, Jeb Bush.
(2) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(3) Compared to all US whites, Adventists experienced decreased risk from pancreas cancer death (standardized mortality ratio [SMR] = 72 for men; 90 for women), which was not statistically significant.
(4) A comparison of health status between 779 Seventh-day Adventists, who have a strong commitment to heal-related life styles, and two other groups of people--8363 persons referred by general practitioners and 9825 volunteers--was made.
(5) Findings that have generated this hypothesis are from a population of 25,698 adult White Seventh-day Adventists identified in 1960.
(6) This study, conducted in 1982, chose a random sample of 160 Californian non-Hispanic white middle-aged Adventist men, 160 of their similar-aged male neighbors, and documented traditional ischemic heart disease risk factors.
(7) Dietary habits and medical history variables were evaluated in a prospective study of fatal pancreas cancer among 34,000 California Seventh-day Adventists between 1976 and 1983.
(8) A separate study involved a comparison of vegetarian Adventists (49 subjects), nonvegetarian Adventists (45), and non-Adventists on a conventional American diet (31) re: the incidence of the C. paraputrificum group in the fecal flora.
(9) Within the male Adventist population, vegetarians had a substantially lower risk than non-vegetarians of diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death.
(10) Cell-free extracts were prepared from mixed fecal anaerobic bacteria grown from stools of 14 vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventists, 16 omnivorous control subjects, and eight patients recently diagnosed with cancer of the large bowel.
(11) Fusobacterium and C. perfringens counts were very low and lactobacillus counts very high in Adventists as compared with Japanese-Americans on either a Japanese or Western diet or Caucasian individuals on a conventional U.S. diet.
(12) The religiously inactive Seventh-Day Adventists had risk factor patterns more similar to non-Seventh-Day Adventists.
(13) Height and weight data obtained from a 2-year longitudinal survey were analyzed for 2272 children aged 6 through 18 years who were attending public schools or Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) schools in southern California.
(14) The relationships among anthropometric variables, dietary nutrients, and plasma steroid, polypeptide, and binding-protein hormone concentrations were investigated in 24 Seventh-day Adventist postmenopausal women, 12 vegetarian (SV) and 12 nonvegetarian (SNV).
(15) The relation between age at natural menopause and all-cause mortality was investigated in a sample of 5,287 White women, ages 55 to 100 years, naturally-postmenopausal, Seventh-day Adventists who had completed mailed questionnaires in 1976.
(16) The effects of cigarette smoking and dietary factors on urinary excretion of N-nitrosothiazolidine 4-carboxylic acid (NTCA; N-nitrosothioproline) and N-nitroso-2-methylthiazolidine 4-carboxylic acid (NMTCA; N-nitroso-2-methylthioproline) were studied in a male volunteer and in healthy Japanese subjects from the general population and Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA).
(17) Ntakirutimana, president of the Seventh Day Adventists' west Rwanda area, was one of the many clerics accused of complicity in the genocide, and the first to be convicted by the tribunal.
(18) Ex-members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and members who did not comply with the recommended life-style had a risk factor level significantly higher than Seventh-day Adventists who complied with the life-style.
(19) The Seventh-Day Adventist population abstains from smoking and drinking; about 50% follow a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet; and most avoid the use of coffee, tea, hot condiments, and spices.
(20) Cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort of 6000 nonsmoking California Seventh-Day Adventists were monitored for a 6-year period, and relationships with long-term cumulative ambient air pollution were observed.
Millenarian
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
(n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Example Sentences:
(1) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(2) He said the group was the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
(3) Rayner's report made it clear the group had elements of a cult, calling it the "clearest case of far-left millenarianism which I have encountered".
(4) In 1959 he published his first major work, Primitive Rebels, a strikingly original account, particularly for those times, of southern European rural secret societies and millenarian cultures (he was still writing about the subject as recently as 2011).
(5) In his analysis of Breivik's document, Doug Sanders points to the influence of "Eurabian" writers such as Bawer, Mark Steyn, Melanie Phillips and Robert Spencer in agitating for a millenarian vision of a civilisation under attack.
(6) His best known study, The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (1957), demonstrated convincingly that the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, chiefly Marxism and nazism, shared a "common stock of European social mythology" with apocalyptic medieval movements such as the Flagellants and the Anabaptists.
(7) Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm (1959) Packed with bandits, mobs, anarchic millenarians and wandering journeymen, this delighted me as a student.
(8) Those who heard Hill deliver the lectures on which it is based - lectures delivered in a nervous, slightly stuttering voice - will always reserve a special place for his 1972 study of radical and millenarian ideas, The World Turned Upside Down.