(n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.
(n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.
(n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
(2) He became a member of the legendary Cambridge Apostles.
(3) 7.31pm GMT He blesses them in the name of the apostles and the saints.
(4) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
(5) Mother Mary Clare Millea, the superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who headed the investigation, broke down briefly when she reached the passage of her prepared statement in which she thanked the cardinal and his deputy “for responding to us with sensitivity, respect and clarity”.
(6) The ceremony has been traditionally limited to men because all of Jesus' apostles were male.
(7) Conrad von Soest depicted an apostle in reading glasses in the Niederwildungen Altarpiece in 1403, and there are mentions of the use of eyeglasses dating back to antiquity.
(8) The apostles of apartheid saw him as dangerously subversive; his friends took him to be hopelessly naive.
(9) Among other things, we asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles, Psalms, "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say".
(10) The pope travelled to the Casal del Marmo prison on Rome's outskirts for the traditional mass, which commemorates Jesus's gesture of humility towards his apostles the night before he died.
(11) When the apostle tries to fill an existential emptiness in his heart by accumulating material goods, not because he needs them but because he’ll feel more secure.” 14) Forming closed circles that seek to be stronger than the whole.
(12) If King, an apostle of non-violence and advocate for the poorest of the poor, were alive today, what would he make of President Obama's careless-with-life drone assassinations, his bullying of journalists and whistleblowers, his assent to slashing Social Security via his Scrooge-like "deficit commission"?
(13) Ken Russell , who has died aged 84, was so often called rude names – the wild man of British cinema, the apostle of excess, the oldest angry young man in the business – that he gave up denying it all quite early in his career.
(14) It continues to be split between globalisers, liberal interventionists and pro-Europeans, and the Blue Labour apostles of localism and disengagement.
(15) The patron saint of the British Industrial Revolution was Francis Bacon, the great Elizabethan philosopher and crusading apostle for science.
(16) Despite the fact the F1 commission and strategy group meetings in Geneva were largely a fudge, with a final decision on the most important changes postponed for another two months, Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, said: “I think now I’m a bit more confident we are going to see some good racing.” Even Paul the Apostle did not change this quickly.
(17) His doctoral dissertation (1837) was the first monograph on tenotomy ever published, and he became the apostle of this operation for the correction of skeletal deformity secondary to neuromuscular disease.
(18) I saw seven hours of Mark Watson’s first 24-hour show and that seemed to kick- start, or be part of, an exciting shift towards comedy as an event – in that case an endurance event, although it seemed to free Mark (and everyone else) up, so he became some mad seer with a band of apostles.
(19) The apostles have conducted a 30-year global experiment, and the results are now in.
(20) The buyers at Debenhams reassure top brass: “We are working with Playboy to perfect the Easter Playboy Bunny look – perfect for Campari-fuelled nights out in this exciting post-feminist era.” Are you hiding an apostle?
Missionary
Definition:
(n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
(a.) Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(2) He sent his first missionary to America in 1960, the year he married Hak Ja Han.
(3) On being a Jesuit Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
(4) Two months later, Ugay said, he learned that he was accused of illegal missionary activity, based on evidence from three witnesses, two of whom had not been present at his talk.
(5) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
(6) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(7) The former missionary college used as the set for the BBC's hit series Call the Midwife is to be redeveloped as a luxury housing estate, forcing a dramatic plot shift in the show's 2013 Christmas special .
(8) The 44-year-old now faces a fine for allegedly conducting illegal missionary activity, an administrative offence under the new Yarovaya law, a package of legal amendments intended to fight terrorism that is named after its author, the MP Irina Yarovaya.
(9) Basketball-star-turned-would-be-diplomat Dennis Rodman clashed with CNN over imprisoned missionary Kenneth Bae when interviewed about an historic basketball game in North Korea.
(10) Their organisation calls them “mission co-workers”, not missionaries, in an effort to show they’re collaborating with, not directing, local partners.
(11) The humanism of an African survival culture that he sought to define in his work is reflected in the way he conducted his relationships, whether he was writing to a former missionary teacher or to the writer Langston Hughes.
(12) But weirdly, instead of being turned away, I am allowed in by an Australian missionary called Cherie.
(13) You made history, you opened their eyes.” In his eulogy, the Rev Steve Daniels Jr of Shiloh Missionary Baptist church questioned why racial profiling still occurred in the US He said he grew up in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s and understood the frustrations expressed by today’s protesters in response to police shootings of black people.
(14) "We're doing a missionary job; we're educating people about other brands," says Wei.
(15) A case of cutaneous myiasis produced by D. hominis in a 26-year Polish missionary, who spent 3 months in Peru in 1990 is presented.
(16) A number of US missionaries have been arrested in the past, with some allowed to return home after interventions by high-profile US figures.
(17) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(18) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(19) During his homily he said that, given theirs was the foremost Catholic country in Asia, Filipinos were called to be missionaries of faith.
(20) The functional complementarity of Western medicine to the pluralistic Chinese medical structure enabled missionary medicine to gain increasing credibility from the Chinese, although few Chinese actually understood the basic principles of Western medicine.