(n.) One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
(a.) Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of their sexual practices in the preceding 6 months, the men were categorized into four groups: Group 1--unprotected oral intercourse only (n = 13), Group 2--unprotected oral and anal intercourse (n = 39), Group 3--unprotected anal intercourse only (n = 2), and Group 4--celibate (n = 6).
(2) John is in a long-term relationship with another clergyman, which he has affirmed is celibate.
(3) In many instances the personality factors and circumstances which led both to a decision to enter and then to leave a celibate religious community are not easily appreciated by the nonreligious professional counselor and do not readily lend themselves to extrapolation from other population groups.
(4) O'Brien explained that many priests found it "very difficult to cope" with the celibate life and suggested lifting that ban could soon happen in the wider church.
(5) Nor does it allow clergy to marry same-sex partners in civil ceremonies, and it only tolerates same-sex relationships if they are celibate.
(6) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(7) But having to insist that I was happy being celibate made me uncomfortable.
(8) He said it was clear "beyond peradventure that those who attend the masses are nearly all what the archdiocese calls 'non-celibate gay people' who intend to continue to defy Catholic teaching".
(9) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
(10) I want people to understand that being celibate can be as nourishing and fulfilling as being in a relationship.
(11) Men and women who have lived in a celibate religious community experience a unique set of sexual, social, and psychological problems upon resuming a secular life style.
(12) It tolerates clergy who are in civil relationships, but expects them to be celibate.
(13) Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in gay relationship Read more In effect, there is one standard for the laity – which is to conform to the liberal norms of society – and a double standard for the clergy who are supposed to be celibate, even when they live with same sex partners, if not heterosexually married.
(14) Although the majority were celibate or monogamous during the prior year (men 52.5%, women 64.3%), many IVDUs had multiple sexual partners in that time, including 19.6% of men and 7.2% of women reporting five or more.
(15) The Church of Scotland has been edging towards gay ordination ever since Rennie's appointment: in 2011, the general assembly voted to allow gay ministers already in post to remain in place, so long as they were in openly-declared civil partnerships or celibate, and had been ordained before 2009.
(16) That same year, he revealed to startled breakfast television viewers that he had been celibate since 1981, but before that had been bisexual.
(17) Lowest risk is among celibate women and those who live in communities where marriage is stable and where premarital and extramarital coitus is infrequent.
(18) Antibodies were not found in homosexual men who were celibate, or who practised only oral intercourse during the same period.
(19) In the past two years, Suzie King, founder of celibate dating agency Platonic Partners , has seen a marked increase in visitors to her website (which began as a resource for the medically impotent).
(20) In the future it will probably be best to stay celibate, in the dark, awake for as long as possible and quiet.
Interdict
Definition:
(n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
(n.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.
(n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
(n.) A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church.
(n.) An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(2) Algorithms for optimal interdiction of the infection network are formulated and their applicability is discussed.
(3) Unless therapy is interdicted, left ventricular failure will ensure as the major cardiac hemodynamic consequence.
(4) This compound is believed to act by interdicting the de novo synthesis of pyrimidines, probably through the formation of allopurinol ribotide.
(5) Vaccination already is recommended for persons recognized to be at increased risk of exposure to virus-containing blood or other body fluids (e.g., infants born to carrier mothers, household or sexual contacts of carriers); however, mass vaccination of adolescents and infants is needed to interdict effectively a majority of all exposures to the hepatitis B virus.
(6) Some of the largest illegal ivory consignments recently interdicted in Asia, involving thousands of tusks, have originated at Togo's port, Lome.
(7) There may also be a case for using special forces of interdiction to destroy the boats before they leave port.” He also said the European Union must put in place a fairer system when dealing with those who made it to Europe.
(8) Accurate perception and evaluation, having been interdicted during childhood, is avoided with the magical hope that thereby one will be acceptable and what is wrong will disappear.
(9) Wildlife traffickers are already shifting illicit transport routes in response to interdiction efforts through countries with weak controls, such as Togo.
(10) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(11) The Predators can tell us the vehicle type, number of people on the ground, but it can’t identify the person or read a license plate,” said a CBP air interdiction agent who asked not to be named because he is involved in undercover drug investigations.
(12) Thus, at least some and possibly most examples of angina pectoris may be mediated via the coronary chemoreceptor and vagal afferents to the brain, and injury or destruction of this chemoreceptor could interdict the perception of anginal pain.
(13) Accordingly, these data are interpreted as having implications for the establishment of programs and policies which focus on the adolescent male population in order to interdict the high rate of unwed adolescent pregnancy.
(14) Whether US port security or land borders would really prove that much more porous than other countries with stricter gun laws is also open to question, but it is strange this argument is rarely offered as a reason to give up on drug interdiction, or intercepting terrorist bomb threats.
(15) Troops are deployed on the Libyan border to interdict what the authorities believe are terrorist groups bringing in men and equipment.
(16) The first is that we are strengthening the capacities to interdict the illicit drugs but the country partnership programme also has a very strong social component.
(17) When these slow-growth systems are used with nutrient-limited populations, it is found that cellular concentrations of guanosine 5'-diphosphate 3'-diphosphate, the main effector of the stringent response, commence rising above basal levels at tD's longer than 12 h until, at a tD of 60-70 h, the level is reached that causes the interdiction of protein and ribosome synthesis characteristic of the response.
(18) The peroxidation could be blocked by substances which interdict at specific points in the Fenton chemistry: superoxide dismutase, alpha-tocopherol, the iron chelator desferrioxamine, and the xanthine oxidase substrate-analogs allopurinol and oxypurinol.
(19) One of the main planks of the strategy was “improving the ability of Mexico to interdict migrants before they cross into Mexico”.
(20) While their position is by no means unanimous, proponents of drug reform generally base their arguments on several key premises, such as elimination of or reductions in drug trafficking, enforcement, and interdiction expenditures; increased tax revenues from the legal sale of drugs; and reductions in health-care expenses associated with drug treatment.