(n.) Any one of several umbelliferous plants, of the genera Myrrhis, Osmorrhiza, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) End of life care campaign – coalition of organisations They say: Cicely Saunders International, Hospice UK, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Macmillan Cancer Support, Motor Neurone Disease Association, the National Council for Palliative Care and Sue Ryder came together in 2012 to campaign for the introduction of free social care for people at the end of their life.
(2) Cicely says her decision was more down to her upbringing than the downturn.
(3) They see their work as a British invention, revere the memory of Cicely Saunders and use "hospice" as a synonym for palliative care, not just for a care home.
(4) Danes' win ended the hopes that Scandal best actress nominee Kerry Washington would become the first African-American to win in the category since Cicely Tyson in 1995 for Sweet Justice.
(5) Its roots extend back to the Middle Ages, but it was developed into its present form by Dr Cicely Saunders at St Christopher's Hospice in London.
(6) The two eldest, Felix and Clarice, are still in full-time jobs, while Digby, just 15, helps out and will probably join the business when he leaves school, says Cicely.
(7) Think Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, Cicely Tyson in The Help, Lillian Randolph in It’s a Wonderful Life.
(8) Cicely Garrett is the food bank's point of contact at the food oasis; last autumn she was appointed to the newly created and curiously titled position of food systems innovation manager.
(9) The values for Na+, K+ and CIce-were 183.2, 51.5 and 245 mEq respectively.
(10) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(11) Case study When Cicely Elliott-Berry was still at school she decided a degree was not for her – her future lay in distilling gin.
(12) The basal 24 hour urinary volume was 1.36 litres with an average pH of 6.52 containing 42.74 mEq of combined acid and 114.5, 47.6 and 128.4 mEq Na+, K+ and CIce-ions respectively.
(13) The history of hospice care in Great Britain was first introduced, and the pioneer work carried out by the founder of the modern hospice care, Dame Cicely Saunders was briefly described.