(n.) One who conforms or complies; esp., one who conforms to the Church of England, or to the Established Church, as distinguished from a dissenter or nonconformist.
Example Sentences:
(1) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
(2) Charlie Hebdo was launched by a group of "non-conformists" who had previously run a monthly called Hara Kiri (whose subtitle read: "dumb and nasty").
(3) As a test of the hypothesis that consistent short sleepers tend to be less reflective and more conformist in their thinking than long sleepers, the I-E scale scores of 15 short and 15 long sleepers were compared.
(4) Post-conformists obtained the highest mean scores on Picture Arrangement; however, there was no difference among the lower stages on this subtest.
(5) SCT findings revealed an expected pattern for middle childhood with the preponderance of children falling into impulsive, self-protective, and conformist stages of ego development.
(6) Patterns of food exclusion and of frequency of consumption of 35 foods and food groups were consistent with classifications as conformists or nonconformists.
(7) More research is also needed on the treatment of the Passive Conformist group.
(8) Maintaining abstinence in both crises was consistently associated with being in serious-minded (telic) and conformist states.
(9) In the same way that Isis offers a chance for teenagers and non-conformists to rebel against their communities and families, it also offers the same for women.
(10) In the slanging match that followed, Jean-Marie Le Pen accused his daughter of turning the far right party into a conformist group “without substance”.
(11) A character in Vieira’s strong-willed mode is precisely what Newcastle need but it appears unclear as to how such a potentially challenging figure would fit into Mike Ashley’s hitherto ultra-conformist regime.
(12) Chevalier de Tromelin was hierarchically just under him; this Chevalier had a character as chilly and stiff as the Bailli was the opposite; both were ambitious and deserving officers, the Chevalier being as much conformist as his "adversary" was fiery and bold.
(13) : a) cooperative-conformist in 66 patients; b) cooperative-over-particular in 20 patients without therapeutic failure; c) non-cooperative by interest 21 (16.93%) with 11 failures (52.3%); d) completely noncooperative (nonsocial) 17-13.71% with 13 failures (76.48%).
(14) Patients with secondary Raynaud's phenomenon were found to be more distant, more conformist, more able to control their emotions and seemed to be less inclined to seek help when in trouble.
(15) Four experiments examined freely interacting groups to investigate the determinants of group members' reactions to opinion deviates and conformists.
(16) Once mocked as a marginal non-conformist with a penchant for funky hairstyles , the young firebrand is seen, even by his enemies, as a talented politician with extraordinary ambition.
(17) Instead of producing confident students who can handle any argument you throw at them, universities are a production line for cowed conformists.
(18) Lastly, because I can see Molière starting to flag and scratch at his wig, I explain how, in the 1960s and 70s, there was a brief moment when a counter-cultural agenda opposed the mainstream before being swept along by it, and how today's clamouring for "choice" masks a society of well-tamed conformists, whose addiction to media-driven fantasies of property and celebrity distracts them from their inability to shape their own lives.
(19) There is a long tradition of performing rebellious, or non-conformist, nuns in our cultural landscape and Sister Cristina shows that our fascination with them has not yet worn thin.
(20) An instrument for differentiating between individuals exhibiting conformist and nonconformist or nontraditional food consumption patterns was developed and used for recruitment and identification of respondents for a study of food-related behavior and attitudes.
History
Definition:
(n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.
(n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.
(v. t.) To narrate or record.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(3) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(4) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(5) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(6) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(7) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(8) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(9) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
(10) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(11) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(12) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(13) In both cases there was no history of previous trauma and acne.
(14) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(15) The relationship of weight history with current fat distribution was also explored.
(16) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(17) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(18) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(19) Eighty percent of subjects with significant asymmetry of muscle action had recent LBP history.
(20) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.