(n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
(n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
(n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
(n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(3) These results are compared to estimates of caloric requirements based on the Harris-Benedict equations, without modification for severity of disease or other factors.
(4) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(5) He was happy to dismiss the declarations of his predecessor, Pope Benedict, regarding gay priests, but an apostolic letter written nearly 20 years ago by John Paul II outlining his personal objections to the ordination of women is held to be a "definitive formulation" that is not open to further discussion.
(6) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
(7) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(8) • What led the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI to order the cardinal's immediate resignation, suddenly last Monday, when it had known of the four men's allegations since early February?
(9) Thirty-one patients received 90% or more of their anabolic caloric requirement (Harris-Benedict equation) by means of TPN.
(10) He shot down rumours that Benedict Cumberbatch will play a role in the film but claimed Adam Driver would play a masked Sith-like character with cyborg elements.
(11) Guests can choose from pancakes, eggs Benedict, homemade granola, fresh cinnamon rolls, sausage, “biscuits”, hash browns and scones.
(12) The REE was 1.3 times the predicted (by the Harris-Benedict equation) basal energy expenditure.
(13) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
(14) First of all, I would like to say a prayer for our bishop emeritus, Benedict XVI.Let us all pray together for him, let us all pray together for him so that the Lord my bless him and that the Madonna may protect him.
(15) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
(16) News that Pope Benedict had accepted the cardinal's resignation as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh came after the Observer disclosed a series of allegations by three priests and one former priest.
(17) There was only a moderate correlation between measured resting energy expenditure and that predicted using the Harris-Benedict (r = 0.57) and Aub-Dubois (r = 0.59) formulae.
(18) His predecessor, Pope Benedict, appalled many traditional Catholics when he appeared to do so on his visit to Turkey eight years ago.
(19) Sherlock, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role and Martin Freeman as Watson, was the top-rating show of the night.
(20) He argued that performing arts schools had become dominated by those from affluent, privately educated backgrounds, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne .
Thanksgiving
Definition:
(n.) The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
(n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macy’s said more than 15,000 people were lined up outside its flagship New York City store when it opened its doors at 6pm on Thanksgiving.
(2) But it is now widely understood this Thanksgiving story is a fictional history.
(3) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(4) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(5) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(6) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
(7) I feel that eventually all of these retailers will be open all day on Thursday and Thanksgiving will be nothing but a holiday on a calendar,” said Sozzi.
(8) Now, new employees are always warned, “Just wait until Thanksgiving.” Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays.
(9) This should be the year that water is honored at the Thanksgiving table.” And many enjoy the opportunity to get together with family for a meal, despite the holiday’s origin myth.
(10) As soon as that door opens they are in there and it’s like Black Friday,” Cary said, referring to the manic behaviour of shoppers during the US discount shopping day around Thanksgiving.
(11) John Piper, lead parade designer Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Piper, lead designer, Macy’s Parade Studio for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(12) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(13) We take care of the customers, but at the same time, I’d wish to have Thanksgiving with my family,” she says.
(14) We really are witnessing history here because we are seeing the shift of the economy – from focused on the state sector to consumption.” Last year, Alibaba’s websites and other Chinese online retailers together sold about $9.3bn worth of goods on Singles Day – about 10 times more than on a typical shopping day in the country and nearly five times the amount sold in the US on Cyber Monday – the Monday following Thanksgiving and the world’s second largest online sales event.
(15) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(16) Cumberbatch need not take the news too harshly: the top 10 of flops assembled by the magazine ahead of the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the US is filled with numerous films featuring well known stars.
(17) As millions of American shoppers headed to stores in search of post-Thanksgiving bargains, scores of demonstrators interrupted Black Friday shopping in St Louis as part of a retail boycott over the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson.
(18) Morrissey has attacked President Obama and the tradition of turkey-eating on Thanksgiving, in a blog post on his website entitled 'Thankskilling' .
(19) We want millions of Americans to know that their Thanksgiving is not going to be interrupted by an immigration agent.” Gutiérrez insisted he had not got any inside track on what the White House was or was not planning, despite media reports that action was imminent.
(20) If you don’t win on Thanksgiving, the turkey doesn’t taste so good.