(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?
Note
Definition:
(v. t.) To butt; to push with the horns.
() Know not; knows not.
(n.) Nut.
(n.) Need; needful business.
(n.) A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
(n.) A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
(n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
(n.) A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
(n.) Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.
(n.) A short informal letter; a billet.
(n.) A diplomatic missive or written communication.
(n.) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
(n.) A list of items or of charges; an account.
(n.) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:
(n.) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
(n.) A key of the piano or organ.
(n.) Observation; notice; heed.
(n.) Notification; information; intelligence.
(n.) State of being under observation.
(n.) Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
(n.) Stigma; brand; reproach.
(n.) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
(n.) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
(n.) To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
(n.) To denote; to designate.
(n.) To annotate.
(n.) To set down in musical characters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(2) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
(3) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(4) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(5) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(6) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
(7) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(9) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(10) No differences in cardiac output were noted in surviving animals.
(11) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
(12) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(13) It should be noted that about a half of the plasmids (11 out of 21) belonged to the incompatibility group P-7 which up to the present time was conditional, since was represented by a single plasmid Rms 148.
(14) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(15) On HRCT, sequential changes from early edema to development of emphysema were noted.
(16) Valve-related complications were noted in four patients.
(17) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(18) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(19) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(20) It has been noted before that Campbell is rather an effective operator.