What's the difference between crete and syncretism?

Crete


Definition:

  • (n.) A Cretan

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
  • (2) In Crete, 459 patients with a hip fracture were treated during 1986 and studied prospectively.
  • (3) "But what we would like to avoid is where an apology leads to con crete commitments.
  • (4) The Russian bomber flights, he said, spanned “from Japan to Gibraltar, from Crete to California, and from the Baltic sea to the Black Sea.” The Guardian view on eastern Europe and the EU: get it right in Riga | Editorial Read more Russia was failing to draw on the lessons of the Cold War, including that “when it comes to nuclear weapons, caution, predictability and transparency are vital,” he said.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy The Cyclades are not an obvious destination for walkers, but in spring and autumn the smaller islands offer a peaceful alternative to the more popular hiking trails of Crete and the Peloponnese.
  • (6) Away from the package tours and resorts of Crete, it’s a step back in time.
  • (7) Manager of the week Greece, September: OFI Crete’s Italian manager Gennaro Gattuso shouts at the Greek press in English : “No leave.
  • (8) In Crete, males were just as likely to visit the health center as females (55% vs. 57%), but females were more likely to visit the health center than males in Sweden (64% vs. 50%).
  • (9) Although presenting with a variety of delusional complaints in individual cases, the condition appears to represent a relatively dis crete diagnostic entity.
  • (10) For more on holidays in Greece use our travel guides to the Cyclades , t he Dodecanese , Crete , top 10 family holidays on Greek islands , and our readers’ tips on Greece’s best beach cafes and tavernas
  • (11) But I found my way to Pina's studio, knocked on the door, and said, 'Good morning, I'm Daphnis from Crete.'"
  • (12) The last section of the paper focuses on the discussion of the experimental use of an integrated "low cost" system for interconnection among the Metaxas Pathology laboratory, the Pathology Department of the University of Crete, and the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens.
  • (13) There are people who have nowhere to sleep at all.” Greece crisis: a disaster for Athens and a colossal failure for the EU Read more According to a University of Crete study earlier this year, there are now 17,700 people without proper and secure housing in Athens alone.
  • (14) Over the past year the group has been blamed for a rash of arson attacks on cemeteries and synagogues in Athens, Salonika and Crete.
  • (15) He was installed on an elegantly spread foil blanket, his laptop balanced on his cabin bag, at his side the food, water and toilet roll he brought when he left his home in Oxford at 5pm on Saturday afternoon expecting to end the day with a late supper in Crete.
  • (16) Zombanakis, a rags-to-riches success story who talked his way into Harvard after an impoverished childhood in Crete, acknowledges that the world of international finance has been transformed in the intervening years.
  • (17) Personally I don’t see any signs of recovery.” “Healthcare increasingly a major financial concern” “I work as a journalist, with two university degrees,” says Zoe Georgoula, 40, from Crete.
  • (18) Two children born on Crete of consanguinous parents presented the following manifestations of the ocular type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS): blue sclerae, keratoglobus and rupture of cornea following minor trauma.
  • (19) Job of the week Greece: OFI Crete’s translator , asked to convert under-pressure Italian manager Gennaro Gattuso’s shouted English into Greek in real time.
  • (20) They had been travelling from Crete and had been at sea for about 30 hours," she said.

Syncretism


Definition:

  • (n.) Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ethnomedical studies of the Middle East may be enriched by a long-term historical perspective, which takes into consideration the complex syncretism, through time, of both literate and nonliterate medical systems in this region, as well as the tumultuous history of conquest and colonialism in the Middle East.
  • (2) Through a Korean freechristian priest, who brought about an atmosphere of syncretism, a Korean patient was introduced by withdrawal of sleep into a shortterm state of artificial psychosis which lead to her attempting suicide.
  • (3) This is illustrated by the activities of a Peruvian healer who utilizes both psychoactive plant substances and a syncretic combination of modern and traditional symbolic therapies.
  • (4) The Yazidis are predominantly ethnically Kurdish and have kept alive their syncretic religion for centuries, despite many years of oppression and threatened extermination.
  • (5) It documents continuity of ancient ayurvedic ideas and practices as well as syncretism between ayurvedic and allopathic (Western, biomedical) traditions in modern Nepal.
  • (6) The medical conquest of Sonora was accomplished by laymen, explorers and missionaries who carried the theory of healing resulting from these syncretic processes into the northern lands, adding new materials that they learned from indigenous peoples there.
  • (7) Syncretic approaches incorporating western and indigenous elements represent those preferred by exoffenders, but choice of treatment program is often determined by funding.
  • (8) It derives in part from the city's mercurial and intangible spirituality, rich in symbols, occult meanings, numerology, syncretism between Catholicism and magic, between scintillescent sunlight and deep shadow – and the cult of death.
  • (9) In serial fashion it experimented with Sun Yat-sen’s Republicanism, Chiang Kai-shek’s east-west syncretism, Mao Zedong’s sinified communism, Deng Xiaoping’s hybrid capitalist-socialism, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao’s consensus authoritarianism; and now … now what?
  • (10) Syncretic Santería beliefs remain strong on the island, particularly among the Afro-Cuban population.
  • (11) Synaesthesia and eidetic imagery are both syncretic experiences entailing a dedifferentiation of perceptual qualities.
  • (12) Patients often seek care from native healers, then syncretic churches before making any contact with modern psychiatric facilities.
  • (13) These treatment methods include: traditional healers' approach, syncretic churches, government hospitals including a specialised drug addiction centre and voluntary agencies.
  • (14) This paper reviews and compares the growing evidence for independent hot-cold classifications in Mesoamerica, and suggests certain common lines of syncretism in structure, content and applications.
  • (15) In July 2015 it was given world heritage status by Unesco, together with other monuments in the region including the Monreale and Cefalù Cathedrals and the Palatine Chapel, which are part of the Arab-Norman itinerary – defined as an “outstanding example of a socio-cultural syncretism between western, Islamic, and Byzantine cultures”.
  • (16) Out of the 'root tearing' experience, four basic types may be told apart: Small craftsmen, Transplanted, Exiled, and Transhumants (culture-syncretizing migrants).

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