(n.) A form of instruction by means of questions and answers.
(n.) A book containing a summary of principles, especially of religious doctrine, reduced to the form of questions and answers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that the catechisms of health were written by physicians on the one hand and pedagogues on the other generated criticism.
(2) Hasn’t Trump shown himself to be hostile to free trade, a central aspect of the Reagan catechism?
(3) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
(4) Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?” In its catechism, the Catholic church brands “homosexual acts … intrinsically disordered” and the pope, while encouraging a more welcoming stance towards gay people, has said nothing that deviates from that.
(5) For the Kesh Malek organisation, now based in southern Turkey, this is depressingly reminiscent of the old Ba’athist catechism.
(6) Although the catechisms of health (especially that of Bernhard Christoph Faust) were widespread--as is shown by the many editions and translations--it is very difficult to judge their effectiveness.
(7) Some extracts proceeding of these possess a bactericidal activity, specially if they contain polyphenols (flavonoids, catechics tanins), saponins and alkaloids.
(8) I could hardly step onto the roof without looking to the east and counting those flares like a catechism.
(9) Some extracts proceeding of these possess an antispasmodic activity, specially if they contain polyphenols (flavonoïds, catechics tanins), saponins and alkaloïds.
(10) That catechism however, also teaches that, "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered".
(11) At the start of a panic attack, you are supposed to commence the catechism: what am I afraid of?
(12) In his book, he said that the church had actually led him back to Catholicism, that without Christ Fellowship he would never have returned to the catechism.
(13) When interpreting, the analyst often subordinates image to idea, so that what emerges is treatise, polemic, or catechism-anything but revelation or a deeper vision.
(14) In addition, therapeutic agents for both physicians and elderly patients are presented in catechism.
(15) Medical matters were popularized in the eighteenth century on three main levels: the Moral Weeklies were directed at the educated public; there were various publications designed to instruct the masses; and the rural population and the young were reached by means of the catechisms of health.
(16) It's basically the school catechism that he is relying on.
(17) In opposing such antiquated practices as bleeding, purging, faith-healing and uroscopy, the catechisms were also an appropriate medium for promoting recent medical achievements (such as inoculation against small-pox and, later on, vaccination) which were customarily regarded with suspicion by the common people.
(18) Prostaglandins are known to: 1) stimulate uterine contraction; 2) inhibit spontaneous contraction of the rabbit uterus; 3) inhibit the respiratory smooth muscle of different animals; 4) lower systemic arterial blood pressure when injected intravenously; 5) stimulate contractions in isolateral segments of intestinal smooth muscle of most species investigated; 6) produce transient sedation when intravenously injected in cats, and 7) inhibit lipolysis induced by catechal amines, corticotrophin, glucagon and thyroid stimulating hormone.
(19) It has become something of a catechism to proclaim that homosexuality was introduced to Africans by European colonisers.
(20) "This chapel is a compendium of theology, a catechism in images.
Principle
Definition:
(n.) Beginning; commencement.
(n.) A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
(n.) An original faculty or endowment.
(n.) A fundamental truth; a comprehensive law or doctrine, from which others are derived, or on which others are founded; a general truth; an elementary proposition; a maxim; an axiom; a postulate.
(n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle.
(n.) Any original inherent constituent which characterizes a substance, or gives it its essential properties, and which can usually be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc.
(v. t.) To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet, or rule of conduct, good or ill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
(2) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(4) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(5) Using the MTT assay and analyzing the data using the median-effect principle, we showed that synergistic cytotoxic interactions exist between CDDP and VM in their liposomal form.
(6) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(7) The binding follows the principle of isotope dilution in the physiologic range of vitamin B12 present in human serum.
(8) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(9) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(10) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
(11) The basic principle of the resonant tool, its adaptation for surgery, the experimental results of its use in animals, and clinical experience are reported.
(12) It seems tragic, then, that so little of these principles transfer over to the container in which the work is done.
(13) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(14) The general principles of bypass surgery as they affect the cerebral circulation are reviewed.
(15) The interest of this view resides in the resulting general principle of classification and interpretation of all forms of disease, giving rise to an "existenialistic pathology".
(16) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(17) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(18) In older stages, the cervical joints rotate according to geometric and lever arm principles.
(19) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(20) The principles and practice of aneasthesia for patients having coronary bypass grafts are discussed.