(n.) A projecting part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy.
(n.) The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.
(n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in the presence of a sufficient excess of APS kinase, APSe is completely converted to PAPSe.
(2) The basilica was rebuilt in the 12th century by Pope Innocent II and, at the end of the 13th century, Pietro Cavallini embellished the apse with six mosaic panels of scenes from the life of Mary.
(3) Paul O'Brien, chief executive of the Association for Public Service Excellence Paul O'Brien has been the chief executive of the Association for Public Service Excellence (APSE) for the past 10 years.
(4) It really felt like a pioneering thing when we first arrived,” she says, sitting in the living room of her home, which nestles behind the foundry apse like a cosy Hobbit cave, its porthole windows looking down on the bronze-pouring action below.
(5) The German nostril was larger in size, flatter in shape, and the apse line closer to the sagittal plane than the Japanese counterpart.
(6) Beneath one richly patterned apse sit two women, carving cosmic symbols into freshly cast ceramic bells, while a second group pours molten bronze into sand moulds under another dome nearby.
(7) He has overall strategic responsibility for the management and development of all APSE's activities in the United Kingdom.
(8) At pH 8.0, 30 degrees C, the specific activities (units x mg protein-1) of the most highly purified sample are as follows: ATP synthesis, 370; APS synthesis, 23; molybdolysis, 65; APSe synthesis or selenolysis, 1.9.
(9) Story of cities #36: how Copenhagen rejected 1960s modernist 'utopia' Read more The ultimate masterplan, which is currently being digitally modelled in 3D for the first time by visiting workshoppers, looks a little like a city-sized cathedral, except with the apses, which would usually face the inwards, flipped to face the surroundings.
(10) With passive environmental design at the core, the buildings were south-facing, their thick concrete apses oriented to soak up the winter sun, while providing shade during the sweltering summer.
(11) The inclination of the apse line was calculated from the phase of the second term.
Church
Definition:
(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.