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Commination


Definition:

  • (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
  • (n.) An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These were predominantly centered in the inferior disc and were more commin in white women.
  • (2) Measurement of COHb by this method in rats exposed to 525, 900, 1800 and 2400 ppm CO produces higher values than those obtained with the 1965 spectrophotometric method of Commins and Lawther.
  • (3) The Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.
  • (4) Although it was determined that the development of IM during college years was statistically less commin in tonsillectomized students, the difference was not inordinately large and probably had no significant biologic meaning.
  • (5) Only the five wavelength method of Commins & Lawther (1965) Brit.
  • (6) In the late 1870s, Emary and his son left Regent Street and handed Aquascutum over to Scantlebury & Commin.
  • (7) The garage personnel replied to a questionnaire and underwent a brief clinical examination including taking of digital blood samples for measurement of hematocrit and carboxyhemoglobin level by the method of COMMINS and LAWTHER as modified by BUCHWALD.
  • (8) Dermal hypersensitivity, including erythema nodosum and erythema multiforme, was commin in patients whose clinical course was uncomplicated.
  • (9) The special comminication problems of deaf people may lead to serious misunderstandings, particularly during a medical evaluation.
  • (10) Variations on the method of Commins and Lawther, as well as COHb values available in the literature for animals exposed to CO, are reviewed briefly.
  • (11) Excessive weight loss and irritability are commin in these infants.
  • (12) The determination of the particulate acidity by the Commins method has been evaluated in order to examine the influence of sampling conditions on the results of the measurements.
  • (13) Aquascutum overcoats were worn by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, who granted Scantlebury & Commin Aquascutum's first royal warrant in 1897.

Comminatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.

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