What's the difference between donatism and sacrament?

Donatism


Definition:

  • (n.) The tenets of the Donatists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
  • (2) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
  • (3) Asked if his donation to Filner, who has a district about 2,500 miles from where Sharif lives, was because of his position on Iran and the MEK, Sharif said that it was.
  • (4) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
  • (5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
  • (6) Enzyme-inhibiting ability for individual alkylphenols can be estimated based on the quantitative structure-activity relationship developed by Dewhirst (1980) and is a function of the free hydroxyl group, electron-donating ring substituents, and hydrophobic aromatic ring substituents.
  • (7) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (8) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
  • (9) A comparison of the qualification of first time homologous and directed donations showed in our groups significant differences for HBsAg positivity, ESR and hemoglobin.
  • (10) The PTA take 25% of sales, and most parents donate unsold stock."
  • (11) The headline controversy is that, for the first time, following changes to the regulations, women can be paid for donation.
  • (12) To see whether the issue of AIDS has influenced the observed decline in blood donation in Scotland.
  • (13) In contrast, none of 16 women who had reached menopause and only two of 21 men required oral absorption of dietary or prescribed iron for the amount of blood iron donated.
  • (14) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
  • (15) Activity was insensitive to oxygen and CO if the substrates had no additional substituents on either ring or contained only electron-donating substituents.
  • (16) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
  • (17) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
  • (18) Other health spending includes $10.2m to improve organ and tissue donation and transplantation rates.
  • (19) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
  • (20) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.

Sacrament


Definition:

  • (n.) The oath of allegiance taken by Roman soldiers; hence, a sacred ceremony used to impress an obligation; a solemn oath-taking; an oath.
  • (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.
  • (n.) One of the solemn religious ordinances enjoined by Christ, the head of the Christian church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.
  • (v. t.) To bind by an oath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nevertheless, they differed in their motivations for use and their perceptions of its influence in their lives: some employed MDMA as a sacramental adjunct for following specific spiritual paths; others viewed it as aiding their spiritual growth in more general ways.
  • (2) Only the Putin era tells many such stories: the president taking sacrament on state-run television.
  • (3) Canon Robinson replied that he believed he was in a "sacramental relationship" with his long-term partner Mark Andrew, adding that it was a reflection of God's desire for humans to be in sexual relationships.
  • (4) It became one more holy object in the communal sacrament that, thanks to the gods of business, technology, and creativity, TV had become in the early 21st century.
  • (5) I think the person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament' was right.
  • (6) But this year, it is a major focus for evangelicals as well as for Roman Catholics.” Cruz, a Tea Party favorite who was elected to the Senate in 2012, once again invoked what he called the Obama administration’s “assault on our religious liberty” – name-checking everything from the supreme court’s Hobby Lobby contraception case to church groups helping the poor, and from abortion to “the sacrament of marriage”.
  • (7) United by the holy sacrament of marriage, they go off to America to teach.
  • (8) "For someone who's religious, marriage is a sacrament, and a sacrament is an outward sign of an inward grace," she said.
  • (9) In church eyes, any sacraments the cardinal had subsequently administered would be illicit.
  • (10) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
  • (11) Its hero, Lionel Espy, is a doubting cleric who is far more concerned with the church's social commitments than its sacramental obligations; as a result he is banished from the team-ministry he has created in south London.
  • (12) Almost all of us are somewhere on a spectrum of interpretation and we switch up and down that spectrum as ... we try to apply scripture to the concrete messiness of living.” Protestants, he added, “do not understand marriage as a sacrament but as a covenant voluntarily entered into by two persons who bind themselves to each other in a series of vows”.
  • (13) Hence Poussin's insistent structuring (which becomes strikingly experimental in a series of canvases sent to Cardinal Richelieu, the Seven Sacraments : the Dulwich has managed to borrow five of them to display alongside Cullinan's exhibition).
  • (14) In Vegas I had made a friend who shared my sacramental devotion to marijuana, my dilated obsession with gaming and my ballistic impatience to play GTA IV.
  • (15) He lends to the observation of nature the sense of something essentially sacramental.
  • (16) The Supreme Court now has established a legal precendent running contrary to previous lower court cases that has implications for the religious use of peyote, specifically, and for nontraditional use of sacramental drugs, generally.
  • (17) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
  • (18) Our church denies women the ability to use modern technology and medicine to control their fertility, even though Pope Francis told us this year that we no longer “need to breed like rabbits.” Our church tells divorced people they have failed as Christians – even if the marriage was abusive or if their spouse was cheating on them – and denies them access to the sacraments.
  • (19) But before getting overly sanctimonious, journalism is not altogether a sacrament to truth.
  • (20) This is a dramatisation of the sacramental force of song: it has the power to make present what it represents, to conjure up the inspiration and protection it seeks.

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