(v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
(v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
(v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
(v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
(v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(3) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(5) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
(8) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
(9) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
(10) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
(11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(12) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(14) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
(15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
(16) Conventional control experiments for method and antiserum specificity were performed.
(17) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
(18) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
(19) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(20) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.
Missionary
Definition:
(n) One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
(a.) Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
(2) He sent his first missionary to America in 1960, the year he married Hak Ja Han.
(3) On being a Jesuit Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
(4) Two months later, Ugay said, he learned that he was accused of illegal missionary activity, based on evidence from three witnesses, two of whom had not been present at his talk.
(5) Most travel (71%) was for vacations, 13% was for teaching or study, 11% for business, and 5% for missionary activities.
(6) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(7) The former missionary college used as the set for the BBC's hit series Call the Midwife is to be redeveloped as a luxury housing estate, forcing a dramatic plot shift in the show's 2013 Christmas special .
(8) The 44-year-old now faces a fine for allegedly conducting illegal missionary activity, an administrative offence under the new Yarovaya law, a package of legal amendments intended to fight terrorism that is named after its author, the MP Irina Yarovaya.
(9) Basketball-star-turned-would-be-diplomat Dennis Rodman clashed with CNN over imprisoned missionary Kenneth Bae when interviewed about an historic basketball game in North Korea.
(10) Their organisation calls them “mission co-workers”, not missionaries, in an effort to show they’re collaborating with, not directing, local partners.
(11) The humanism of an African survival culture that he sought to define in his work is reflected in the way he conducted his relationships, whether he was writing to a former missionary teacher or to the writer Langston Hughes.
(12) But weirdly, instead of being turned away, I am allowed in by an Australian missionary called Cherie.
(13) You made history, you opened their eyes.” In his eulogy, the Rev Steve Daniels Jr of Shiloh Missionary Baptist church questioned why racial profiling still occurred in the US He said he grew up in Mississippi in the 1950s and 60s and understood the frustrations expressed by today’s protesters in response to police shootings of black people.
(14) "We're doing a missionary job; we're educating people about other brands," says Wei.
(15) A case of cutaneous myiasis produced by D. hominis in a 26-year Polish missionary, who spent 3 months in Peru in 1990 is presented.
(16) A number of US missionaries have been arrested in the past, with some allowed to return home after interventions by high-profile US figures.
(17) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(18) In 1966 she was sent as a missionary to Brazil at a time when the progressive practices of liberation theology were sweeping through the Catholic church in Latin America.
(19) During his homily he said that, given theirs was the foremost Catholic country in Asia, Filipinos were called to be missionaries of faith.
(20) The functional complementarity of Western medicine to the pluralistic Chinese medical structure enabled missionary medicine to gain increasing credibility from the Chinese, although few Chinese actually understood the basic principles of Western medicine.