What's the difference between athenian and ecclesiast?

Athenian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
  • (n.) A native or citizen of Athens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What she'd actually done was ram a friendly ship (all hands lost) to put off the Athenian vessel that was advancing her way.
  • (2) The temple itself was built in the 5th century BC by the city-state of Athens for Athena, its patron goddess, and it housed the tribute the Athenians received from the other city-states subject to them: hardly a symbol of Greek democracy or fellow-feeling.
  • (3) Earlier this year Athenian newspapers were full of reports of Germans "fearing for their lives" if they visited Greece.
  • (4) But while some may view that as poor remuneration for 37 years of welding carriages in an Athenian factory, Rallakis counts himself lucky.
  • (5) The Mytilenian debate of 427BC is perhaps one of the ancient world’s best examples of an argument with something vital at stake: following an unsuccessful insurrection in the city of Mytilene, the Athenians had voted to put to death not only the uprising’s leaders, but all Mytilenian men, and to enslave its women and children.
  • (6) From the Garden of Eden, to the Exodus, Athenian democracy, the Roman Senate, Magna Carta, the glorious revolution and American independence, the story of our civilisation has been the story of freedom and our struggles to achieve it.
  • (7) A common-source epidemic of hepatitis A occurred in an Athenian institution boarding 38 children (mean age 4.8 years).
  • (8) But I won't here: I write this as an Athenian, not a journalist.
  • (9) But with joblessness at an all time high, Athenians, increasingly, are choosing to vote with their feet.
  • (10) And five blocks away from Syntagma I had a quiet chat with British colleagues and fellow Athenians.
  • (11) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
  • (12) Around” is the operative word, because the Greeks have gone to great lengths to unite their Athenian antiquities with a pedestrian path.
  • (13) Somehow, he could make Connemara and Leeds sound Athenian.
  • (14) The current political scene might have been radically different if Remain had had Diodotus on its side: if you could persuade an assembly of Athenians bent on retribution to spare the lives of a group of rebels, then you could probably best Boris Johnson.
  • (15) Last week, in a glimpse of what the future might bring, elderly Athenians stood for hours outside banks as the government struggled to pay pensions.
  • (16) In the research programme of the Department of Microbiology of the Athens University the nature of the mycological flora of the Athenian air was studied.
  • (17) The first surviving text on training cavalry mounts is by the Athenian General Xenophon (400 BC) who reveals a sensitive understanding of the horse.
  • (18) "Two and a half thousand years ago," it reads, "Socrates declared that he was not an Athenian or a Greek but a simple citizen of the world.
  • (19) Within the 6-year period a substantial increase in the prevalence of symptoms of depression in all geographic areas was observed, with the Athenian respondents expressing a higher number of symptoms of depression than their counterparts from the other areas.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lysistrata Haranguing the Athenian Women, by Aubrey Beardsley.

Ecclesiast


Definition:

  • (n.) An ecclesiastic.
  • (n.) The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He also became an early ecclesiastical adopter of Twitter.
  • (2) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
  • (3) There was repeated failure to assess the risk he posed to children, to confine him to his abbey, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse, to notify the police and social services, and to share information between dioceses and report matters to the appropriate civil and ecclesiastical authorities.” The report also criticised an order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Nazareth.
  • (4) That is Ecclesiastes, 1:2, as you'll find it in the Common English Bible.
  • (5) Recently, the church authorities barred her from practising in ecclesiastical tribunals, which rules over marriage annulments.
  • (6) Pope Francis has directed the Vatican to act decisively on ecclesiastic sex abuse cases and take measures against paedophile priests, saying the Catholic church's credibility was on the line.
  • (7) This study focuses on the residents of three ecclesiastical homes for the elderly in 19th century.
  • (8) They were not ones to build monuments; instead, they took weighing scales with them and ingot moulds to melt down spare ecclesiastical treasures.
  • (9) Given his active support for the charismatic movement in his diocese, one can only be concerned that he could be prepared to ordain women … How can the pope maintain discipline in the church if he himself does not conform himself to prevailing ecclesiastical legislation?"
  • (10) So they could be about quite mundane issues of ecclesiastical organisation.
  • (11) The penultimate twist in his long and unpredictable ecclesiastical career came last Friday, two days before it emerged that he had been accused of "inappropriate acts" by fellow priests.
  • (12) Their opposition is above all a public and political stance which is intended to maintain ecclesiastical unity, particularly within the Anglican communion.
  • (13) Ketan Patel, senior investment analyst at Ecclesiastical Investment Management, which holds AstraZeneca shares in several portfolios, said: “The shift in R&D strategy from volume-driven to science-driven looks set to deliver growth in 2017 and beyond for the company, although the speculation on Pfizer returning to make another bid will continue in the background.” More than half of third-quarter revenues came from AstraZeneca’s five key areas: its new heart drug Brilinta, its diabetes portfolio, respiratory medicines, emerging markets, and Japan.
  • (14) The service drew on hundreds of years of ecclesiastical tradition, but the proceedings differed in one key respect: for the first time in the Church of England's history, its head was enthroned by a woman.
  • (15) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
  • (16) Particular church leaders do not have a seat in parliament by virtue of their ecclesiastical office, although this does not preclude them being elected to a seat by popular vote.
  • (17) It is time to invite the nation to save these ecclesiastical beauties and for committed Christians to put down roots elsewhere.
  • (18) Andreotti obtained a first-class law degree from the University of Rome in 1941, specialising in ecclesiastical law.
  • (19) The criticism from the MCB comes after the CofE last week attacked the government's lack of consultation over its gay marriage plans, saying senior ecclesiastical figures learned of them only when Miller announced them to parliament.
  • (20) The practice received official support in Madrid in 1804 with a Real Cédula (royal order) of Charles IV to the civilian and ecclesiastic officials of the Indies and the Philippines.

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