(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
(a.) Mulled red wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A possible role for Id for IgM Ab as cardinal autoantigens is discussed.
(2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(3) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
(4) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(5) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(6) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
(7) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(8) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
(9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
(10) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
(11) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
(12) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(13) It derives from remnants of the left cardinal vein system.
(14) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(15) 2.10am BST Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 0, top of 4th Yadier Molina hits the first pitch to center field for the first out.
(16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(17) Freese is down to his last strike with a chance to tie it for the Cardinals.
(18) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(19) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
(20) The cardinal signs and symptoms are given in detail, particularly those at the onset.
Conclave
Definition:
(n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
(n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
(n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(2) 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.
(3) Only three of the nine previous conclaves since 1900 have ended sooner.
(4) He told her: This is my first time here [in the Vatican during a conclave] and I feel so happy and privileged to be here at this particular time so I can see the smoke with my naked eye instead of on television.
(5) Meanwhile,it is expected that the conclave of Cardinals due to select a new leader of the world's 1.2bn Catholics could start as soon as next week.
(6) #Conclave March 13, 2013 1.20pm GMT The final word on the composition of the holy smoke goes to the New York Times .
(7) Letters inviting cardinals to join the conclave will be sent out on Friday, but the first meetings to discuss a new pope are unlikely to take place before next Monday, with the conclave itself following a few days later.
(8) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(9) If pressed, they go into conclave and agree to forgive the foreigners; the lack of manners is doubtless the result of an Eton education.
(10) More than 2,500 of globalisation's movers and shakers gather for their annual four-day mountaintop conclave this week, aware that the world is still being shaken by the events of half a decade ago.
(11) Asked about speculation that he could himself emerge from the conclave as Benedict's successor, he said: "I've always answered, 'If it's the will of God.'"
(12) In 2003 Pope John Paul II made him only the third Scottish cardinal since the Reformation, and in 2005 O'Brien was part of the conclave that appointed Pope Benedict.
(13) The conclave In one of his last acts as pope, Benedict issued a decree on Monday to allow the cardinals to bring forward the start of the conclave – which takes its name from the Latin phrase cum clave ("with key") and refers to the fact the cardinals used to be locked in until they made their choice – meaning the gathering could begin as soon as next week.
(14) He added that interpretations of the report were creating "a tension that is the opposite of what the pope and the church want" in the approach to the conclave of cardinals that will elect Benedict's successor.
(15) 7.54pm GMT New York magazine's Kevin Roose breaks down the Roman Catholic Church's financial empire: The new pope, who is being elected at a conclave that began today, will not only take control of one of the world's major religions; he will also oversee a massive religious business whose holdings are worth billions of dollars, but whose finances on a yearly basis are often rocky.[...]
(16) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(17) During 1958's conclave BarÇa beat Real Madrid 4-0 , and in 1978 they put four past Las Palmas.
(18) Now we’re down to 250,000, living in a state of siege.” Conclave , Harris’s 11th novel, wasn’t an easy book to write, but it was a fairly fast one.
(19) On 22 February, the cardinal gave an interview to the BBC about going to the conclave.
(20) The playlist is intended to give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer to the God who first loved us.” So, starting with some Palestrina and taking in some Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, here is the official Songs for the Conclave playlist .