(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) During subsequent open prostatectomy, a condition analogous to dilation with the Deisting dilator was seen.
(2) Whether or not it would exercise that capacity was another issue, and in Empire (2003) he worried that "in the absence of formal empire it must be open to question how far the dissemination of western 'civilisation' - meaning the Protestant-Deist-Catholic-Jewish mix that emanates from modern America - can safely be entrusted to Messrs Disney and McDonald".
(3) We conclude that the indications and results obtained with the balloon dilator are similar to those with the Deisting dilator.
Desist
Definition:
(v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
(2) We suspect that this hazard is more prevalent than its scarcity in the literature would suggest and that potential for unintended injury should be a prominent factor in the decision to proceed or desist with resection of a large neuroblastoma.
(3) Manchester United manager Ed Woodward is reported to have sent Chelsea a "terse" letter, warning them to cease and desist in their efforts to sign Wayne Rooney .
(4) Functions for the probability of feeding success and desistance over time were derived using data from observations on 300 mosquitoes.
(5) Last week the service pleaded with the public to desist from killing wild animals and instead contact the nearest office of the service.
(6) The agency’s ability to mute the proceedings was a surprise to Pohl, who issued a cease-and-desist order .
(7) He also told those briefing against Ed Miliband to desist, saying they should "get over it" and realise they had lost the Labour leadership election.
(8) Similar 22-kilohertz vocalizations occur in other social contexts, and in general they appear to be desist-contact signals.
(9) UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's office has said he is "gravely concerned" and has called on all sides to exercise the utmost restraint and desist from provocative actions: "He strongly condemns the excessive use of force by government security forces against unarmed protestors in the capital Sana'a, resulting in scores of people killed and many more injured."
(10) Britain has been an enthusiastic advocate of EU and US sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, and on Wednesday Cameron warned Putin that if he did not desist from supporting the rebels there would have financial and economic consequences for his country for many years to come.
(11) The authors desist from proposing genus and species names for the same reasons.
(12) Does a desisting doctor share responsibility, if he refers a patient to another doctor, who he knows would willingly perform prenatal diagnostics?
(13) Kaká came on to help Madrid seek it but Jupp Heynckes's side did not desist.
(14) The author points out the need for desisting from a scientific posture that switches the professional practice of Psychology into a mere diffusing of the Philosophy of Behavior--instead of resorting to technics aiming at modifying a behavior the patient feels as unpleasant or unadapted.
(15) So we have to be very firm and strong about the sanctions and say to Vladimir Putin: ‘What you are doing is unacceptable and it will have economic and financial consequences for many years to come if you do not desist with your behaviour’.” Speaking during a visit to West Sussex, Cameron underlined his intention to keep pressure on European Union partners to maintain the sanctions regime against Russia despite the ceasefire agreement.
(16) Houston’s city attorney, David Feldman, sent an email to Uber last month formally asking that it “cease and desist” from encouraging the public to write to officials demanding the introduction of the service.
(17) Two years later, in the summer of 2010, UberCab opened in San Francisco with just a small fleet of cars and a handful of employees, to be greeted by a cease-and-desist order from the city’s municipal transportation agency.
(18) Michael Gove may decry criticism of British leadership as an “out-of-touch elite”, but aerial photographs have proved that while the German defence had constructed concrete bunkers four deep, as late as 1916 old Oxford cavalrymen like Haig – drawn from class not qualification – desisted from resourcing trench warfare, insisting that a breakthrough was still possible.
(19) "It's a very serious situation - the message from the United States is Iran should cease and desist."
(20) Most of the time when we get issues like that coming to us we send out a desist notice and we say to the press, 'Look, there's an issue here, you may be in breach of the code, you got those photographs by harassment, you've got an issue to do with the privacy of that family, hold back' and they do.