(a.) Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
(a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.
(n.) A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.
(n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(3) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(4) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(5) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
(6) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(7) Yet when the final bill for compensating the thousands of victims of that abuse is counted, the cost will be shouldered, in the main, by the Irish taxpayer rather than the Catholic church.
(8) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(9) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(10) She was also a pacifist and lived her Catholic faith, no matter how difficult that made her life.
(11) However, Catholic women who receive communion at least once a week are less likely to be sexually active and substantially less likely to use medical contraceptive methods.
(12) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(13) "They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas," Armando Martínez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys, told reporters.
(14) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(15) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
(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) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(18) Compared with Catholics and Protestants, Jews had significantly higher rates of major depression and dysthymia, but lower rates of alcohol abuse.
(19) They had also told of a lack of community cohesion and a loss of faith and connectedness to the Catholic church communities.
(20) Many claims made against them echo with uncanny precision those once made against Jews and Catholics.
Interstice
Definition:
(n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
(n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(2) The acellular vesicles are formed from excess nuclear and plasma membranes produced during spermatid condensation, and the ECM is topologically restricted to the interstices between acellular vesicles and sperm heads, being absent from the flagellar surface.
(3) The effluent water and solutes appear in the form of lymph in the interstices between cells.
(4) The influence on healing of three materials for closure of interstices in a macroporous Dacron arterial prosthesis were evaluated by 56-day implantation in the canine descending thoracic aorta.
(5) The potential consequences of vascular damage are described as well as the importance of pancreatic lymphatics in the transport of the escaped enzymes from the interstices.
(6) It was also suggested that the interstices of the collagen fibers in the myocardial wall constituted the lymphatic ducts outside the blood vessels and that the MAO activity in serum determined by the method in which tryptamine hydrochloride was used as substrate might indicate the grade of fibrosis of the myocardial tissue in the infarcted areas.
(7) Mesh interstices epithelialized over the surface of the full-thickness wound (control sites) or over the surface of Dermagraft (experimental sites).
(8) The interstices G1, G3 and G4 seem to contain glycoproteins, whereas interstice G3 seems to contain some type of carbohydrate.
(9) Liquid in these interstices could amplify the degree of luminal compromise due to muscular contraction in at least two distinct ways.
(10) Finally, most frequently in 10- to 12-cell embryos, typical nucleolar structure is established as a result of intranucleolar differentiation giving rise to distinct fibrillar and granular components as well as to nucleolar interstices.
(11) Examination of the posterior or inner wall of this canal, represented by the sclerocorneal trabecula, in 15 species of primates and 5 adult humans, has enabled us to observe the existence of some small orifices or stomata that are the outermost part of the so-called Sondermann's canals, which in our opinion are made by the successive confluence of the interstices worked in the interior of the sclerocorneal trabecula by means of contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle.
(12) Small pockets of gas, known as gas nuclei, are trapped within surface interstices.
(13) The unproven hypothesis that ankle pain may result from compression of the marrow contents into the bone interstices is presented for consideration.
(14) In grade 1 injury the testicular parenchyma shows edema of interstice, slight blood extravasation and a desquamation of the germ cells.
(15) In the entorhinal area, the superficial cortical layers (I-III) contained most enzyme activity in the superficial two-thirds of layer I, the interstices between the stellate cell bodies in layer II, and the superficial part of layer III.
(16) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(17) The alveolar subepithelial basement membrane were markedly thickened and bundles of collagen fibres were formed in the interstice.
(18) Evidence of continuous basement membrane formation at the epithelial-Dermagraft junction, which was identified by immunohistochemical staining for laminin and type IV collagen, was seen by day 14 beneath the healed epithelium in the skin graft interstices.
(19) Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates.
(20) This morphological maturation involved the gradual transformation from relatively compact nucleoli to reticulate ones which exhibited a typical nucleolonemal configuration with numerous nucleolar interstices and fibrillar centers.