(n.) One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member.
(n.) One who communicates.
(a.) Communicating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(4) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
(5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(6) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
(7) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(8) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(9) So we’ve just stopped communicating now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Damaged buildings in Kommunar.
(10) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(11) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
(12) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
(13) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(14) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
(15) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(16) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(17) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
(18) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
(19) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(20) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
Sacrament
Definition:
(n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
(n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
(n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
(v. t.) To bind by an oath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nevertheless, they differed in their motivations for use and their perceptions of its influence in their lives: some employed MDMA as a sacramental adjunct for following specific spiritual paths; others viewed it as aiding their spiritual growth in more general ways.
(2) Only the Putin era tells many such stories: the president taking sacrament on state-run television.
(3) Canon Robinson replied that he believed he was in a "sacramental relationship" with his long-term partner Mark Andrew, adding that it was a reflection of God's desire for humans to be in sexual relationships.
(4) It became one more holy object in the communal sacrament that, thanks to the gods of business, technology, and creativity, TV had become in the early 21st century.
(5) I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament' was right.
(6) But this year, it is a major focus for evangelicals as well as for Roman Catholics.” Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who was elected to the Senate in 2012, once again invoked what he called the Obama administration’s “assault on our religious liberty” – name-checking everything from the supreme court’s Hobby Lobby contraception case to church groups helping the poor, and from abortion to “the sacrament of marriage”.
(7) United by the holy sacrament of marriage, they go off to America to teach.
(8) "For someone who's religious, marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace," she said.
(9) In church eyes, any sacraments the cardinal had subsequently administered would be illicit.
(10) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(11) Its hero, Lionel Espy, is a doubting cleric who is far more concerned with the church's social commitments than its sacramental obligations; as a result he is banished from the team-ministry he has created in south London.
(12) Almost all of us are somewhere on a spectrum of interpretation and we switch up and down that spectrum as ... we try to apply scripture to the concrete messiness of living.” Protestants, he added, “do not understand marriage as a sacrament but as a covenant voluntarily entered into by two persons who bind themselves to each other in a series of vows”.
(13) Hence Poussin's insistent structuring (which becomes strikingly experimental in a series of canvases sent to Cardinal Richelieu, the Seven Sacraments : the Dulwich has managed to borrow five of them to display alongside Cullinan's exhibition).
(14) In Vegas I had made a friend who shared my sacramental devotion to marijuana, my dilated obsession with gaming and my ballistic impatience to play GTA IV.
(15) He lends to the observation of nature the sense of something essentially sacramental.
(16) The Supreme Court now has established a legal precendent running contrary to previous lower court cases that has implications for the religious use of peyote, specifically, and for nontraditional use of sacramental drugs, generally.
(17) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
(18) Our church denies women the ability to use modern technology and medicine to control their fertility, even though Pope Francis told us this year that we no longer “need to breed like rabbits.” Our church tells divorced people they have failed as Christians – even if the marriage was abusive or if their spouse was cheating on them – and denies them access to the sacraments.
(19) But before getting overly sanctimonious, journalism is not altogether a sacrament to truth.
(20) This is a dramatisation of the sacramental force of song: it has the power to make present what it represents, to conjure up the inspiration and protection it seeks.