(adv. & a.) Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
(n.) The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
(2) Investors agape as the rule book is taken out and burnt.
(3) The results suggested that Rubin's Love Scale contained elements of Mania and Agape but none of Ludus, which could not be further differentiated.
(4) He sees me scrutinising it, slightly agape, and says, "OK, I'm piecing it together now.
(5) In the moment of victory Murray dropped his racket and turned, mouth agape, towards the nearest section of the crowd – by happy coincidence also the press box – before crumpling to his knees on Centre Court, overcome at the end point of a gruellingly ascetic, occasionally obsessive journey towards an unassailable career high.
(6) But when, as advised, Gale and Zemeckis sent it to Disney, agape faces awaited them.
(7) AGAPE (Computer-based Outpatients' Clinic Programme) is a programme for IBM-compatible microcomputers realised by physicians for the management of hypertensive patients.
(8) The hole in the landscape that opens up in front of the group of visitors is so vast and deep that some of them simply stare, mouths agape.
(9) There's no… " And he does the Lineker goal face, arms raised, eyes dementedly screwed up and mouth agape, a disturbing sight for anyone who kicked over a coffee table – and split a toenail – when he scored against West Germany at Italia 90.
(10) Agi & Sam : AKA Agape Mdumulla and Sam Cotton, who met while working at Alexander McQueen .
(11) The author critiques the dialectic between justice-based ethics and an ethic of caring from a historical perspective (by analogy with the dialectic between agape and friendship).
(12) The ibis raised its bill and gagged down the worm, its bill agape and throat bulging with each hard swallow.
Eucharist
Definition:
(n.) The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
(n.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Going beyond, an attempt is made, and this, solely from the anthropological standpoint, to apply these data to the religious and mystical act of Eucharistic Manducation.
(2) The texts specified the foundations of these dispositions, not in a malefic view of epilepsy inherited from Morbus Sacer of Antiquity, but in decency and on account of risk incured by Eucharist in case of fit.
(3) The Latin community celebrates the Eucharist inside the chapel from 4.30am each day.
(4) This gave us further opportunity to share the experience of our dioceses and, within a context of daily Eucharist and prayer, to hear again God’s calling in Scripture and in Creation (Psalms 104, 148, 24) and to discern ways forward.
(5) We were profoundly moved as we participated in an Indigenous Eucharistic rite which connected Creation, Morality, and Redemption in a biblical, integral and comprehensive way.
(6) For the synod’s final report backtracked on key issues around admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to the eucharist, and more LGBT-friendly pastoral strategies.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alice apparel, stole and maniple designed for a priest celebrating the Eucharist.
(8) BBC1 will broadcast the First Eucharist of Christmas live from Westminster Abbey, in addition to carols from King's College, Cambridge on BBC2, and the archbishop of Canterbury's new year message on New Year's Day.
(9) Does the eucharistic bread merely symbolise the body of Jesus or does it become his body, in true "substance" if not "accidental" DNA?
(10) And so chewing on pork products becomes a sublime union of self with planet, a Gaian eucharist.
(11) One bishop reportedly labelled those in favour of divorce "criminals" who are not entitled to receive the Eucharist.
(12) ", with the implication that the Eucharist should be attended daily.
(13) Urine from a fifth pneumonia patient who attended the Eucharistic Congress (but who was a dubious seroconverter) was negative.
(14) When we have the opening Eucharist I will definitely stand with them.
(15) Oil and blood are mixed together in the unholy eucharist of modern life.
(16) Our communities must be equal, as in the Eucharist,” she said.