(n.) The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
(n.) A collection or mass of separate things.
(n.) An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
(n.) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
(n.) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
(n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
(n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
(n.) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
Example Sentences:
(1) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
(2) The particles were congregated in the walls of blood vessels and in perivascular fibrous zones, consistent with a causal role of Thorotrast in the development of lung fibrosis.
(3) A typology of the social climates of group residential facilities for older people was developed by a cluster analysis of seven social climate attributes obtained on a national sample of 235 nursing homes, residential care facilities, and congregate apartments.
(4) Referring to the 2011 census, he told the congregation that "faith is not about what public opinion decides", and Christians should not lose heart.
(5) Teenagers, parents and teachers interrupt their summer holidays and congregate at schools to receive GCSE exam results.
(6) Michel claimed that God had deserted Shenouda's congregation and that more than a million Copts had become Muslims or evangelical Christians.
(7) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
(8) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
(9) It created a cooperation between state and private initiatives, and between scientific work and management, based on voluntary congregation of all partners.
(10) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
(11) Government-backed demolition crews forced hundreds of churches to remove prominently placed crosses, despite elaborate protests and sit-ins by congregants.
(12) Other LH-RH neurons in the medial septal nucleus, nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca and olfactory tubercle are congregated in small clusters around large blood vessels which penetrate into this area, and they do not appear to send axons outside their immediate vicinity.
(13) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(14) When we reached Sanjiang, in Zhejiang province, an elderly woman was angrily telling the pastor how at the end of April police dispersed members of her congregation and neighbouring ones who had come to protect their new Protestant church from being bulldozed .
(15) It would be convenient to explain his increasingly outspoken attacks in the context of a church whose congregations include many Catholic migrants.
(16) He said: "Through the confessional system the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants.
(17) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
(18) Entrepreneural nurses have the opportunity to seek out congregate housing sites with large aging populations to create ways of promoting healthy lifestyles and a higher quality of life for older persons.
(19) It is likely that the same males that were territorial would have formed the nucleus of a social hierarchy if space had been limited enough to cause all of the females in the population to congregate in one large group.
(20) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
Pastorate
Definition:
(n.) The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
Example Sentences:
(1) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(2) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(3) The evangelical pastor knew he faced an almighty task.
(4) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(5) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
(6) Then Angela Merkel , daughter of an East German Protestant pastor, became Germany's first female chancellor on 22 November 2005.
(7) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
(8) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
(9) Merkel, whose father was a pastor in communist Eastern Germany , has suddenly discovered a deep affection for the downtrodden people of Greece.
(10) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(11) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
(12) How much time should be spent on reviewing progress and achieving standards, compared to pastoral care?
(13) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
(14) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
(15) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
(16) These plans are a far cry from the desires of Atlah’s Rev David Manning, who became pastor of the church in 1981.
(17) Over the weekend, Nehemiah Fischer, a 35-year-old pastor, was shot dead by an Oklahoma state trooper after getting into a fight when told to evacuate his truck in rising flood waters south of Tulsa.
(18) The son of a Congolese pastor, he trained as a gynaecologist and went on to treat thousands of women gang-raped during the DRC conflict , becoming a world expert in repairing vaginas.
(19) Pastoral systems must focus on effective management of grazing pressure of the rangelands.
(20) "I acknowledge that Superman sermon notes are definitely not for every pastor or church setting.