(a.) Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also became an early ecclesiastical adopter of Twitter.
(2) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(3) There was repeated failure to assess the risk he posed to children, to confine him to his abbey, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse, to notify the police and social services, and to share information between dioceses and report matters to the appropriate civil and ecclesiastical authorities.” The report also criticised an order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Nazareth.
(4) That is Ecclesiastes, 1:2, as you'll find it in the Common English Bible.
(5) Recently, the church authorities barred her from practising in ecclesiastical tribunals, which rules over marriage annulments.
(6) Pope Francis has directed the Vatican to act decisively on ecclesiastic sex abuse cases and take measures against paedophile priests, saying the Catholic church's credibility was on the line.
(7) This study focuses on the residents of three ecclesiastical homes for the elderly in 19th century.
(8) They were not ones to build monuments; instead, they took weighing scales with them and ingot moulds to melt down spare ecclesiastical treasures.
(9) Given his active support for the charismatic movement in his diocese, one can only be concerned that he could be prepared to ordain women … How can the pope maintain discipline in the church if he himself does not conform himself to prevailing ecclesiastical legislation?"
(10) So they could be about quite mundane issues of ecclesiastical organisation.
(11) The penultimate twist in his long and unpredictable ecclesiastical career came last Friday, two days before it emerged that he had been accused of "inappropriate acts" by fellow priests.
(12) Their opposition is above all a public and political stance which is intended to maintain ecclesiastical unity, particularly within the Anglican communion.
(13) Ketan Patel, senior investment analyst at Ecclesiastical Investment Management, which holds AstraZeneca shares in several portfolios, said: “The shift in R&D strategy from volume-driven to science-driven looks set to deliver growth in 2017 and beyond for the company, although the speculation on Pfizer returning to make another bid will continue in the background.” More than half of third-quarter revenues came from AstraZeneca’s five key areas: its new heart drug Brilinta, its diabetes portfolio, respiratory medicines, emerging markets, and Japan.
(14) The service drew on hundreds of years of ecclesiastical tradition, but the proceedings differed in one key respect: for the first time in the Church of England's history, its head was enthroned by a woman.
(15) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
(16) Particular church leaders do not have a seat in parliament by virtue of their ecclesiastical office, although this does not preclude them being elected to a seat by popular vote.
(17) It is time to invite the nation to save these ecclesiastical beauties and for committed Christians to put down roots elsewhere.
(18) Andreotti obtained a first-class law degree from the University of Rome in 1941, specialising in ecclesiastical law.
(19) The criticism from the MCB comes after the CofE last week attacked the government's lack of consultation over its gay marriage plans, saying senior ecclesiastical figures learned of them only when Miller announced them to parliament.
(20) The practice received official support in Madrid in 1804 with a Real Cédula (royal order) of Charles IV to the civilian and ecclesiastic officials of the Indies and the Philippines.
Simony
Definition:
(n.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Simoni Alberto Abu Taleb Mridha has to go home.
(2) The degradation of HMGal mirrors that of HMG-CoA reductase, demonstrating that the membrane domain of HMG-CoA reductase is sufficient to confer regulated degradation (Skalnik, D.G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R.D.
(3) This fusion protein, HMGal, has been localized to the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum of Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with this chimeric gene, and its beta-galactosidase activity has declined in the presence of low density lipoprotein (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
(4) Repression of synthesis of these enzyme systems by various concentrations of PTS sugars was studied in wild type cells, in pts mutants, and in pts crr double mutants described in the accompanying reports (Saier, M. H., Jr., Simoni, R. D., and Roseman, S (1976) J. Biol.
(5) Also, the Giardia-free rats and dogs are susceptible to their own Giardia (G. simoni and G. canis respectively).
(6) This observation can not be classified in the forms that are actually described: Klüken's and Simonis' plasmocytic reticulosis, plasmocytomas with osseous and medullar lesions, extramedullar plasmocytoma.
(7) Derek Jacobi bellowing "SIMONY" before vomiting on some pork.
(8) As we have shown recently (Roitelman, J., Bar-Nun, S., Inoue, S., and Simoni, R. D. (1991) J. Biol.
(9) A mutation of the b subunit of the Escherichia coli proton-translocating ATPase and mutations in the gene for the a subunit that suppress its effects have been previously described (Kumamoto, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1986) J. Biol.
(10) Another monoclonal antibody raised against Giardia simoni cysts from the Norway rat reacted with homologous cysts (rat) and cross-reacted with cysts from a cow.
(11) Both the SSD and the parental cells stably express HMGal, a model protein for studying the regulated degradation of HMG-CoA reductase, which consists of the membrane domain of HMG-CoA reductase fused to bacterial beta-galactosidase (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
(12) In this report we revise a conclusion reached previously (Klionsky, D.J., Brusilow, W.S.A., and Simoni, R.D.
(13) A study was made of patients hospitalized with the diagnosis of colonic volvulus in two provincial hospitals of Camagüey during two different time periods (1979-1986 in the Amalia Simoni and 1978-1983 in the Manuel A. Domenech), for a total of 22 cases that represent 4.49% of the 489 patients admitted with a diagnosis of intestinal occlusion.
(14) 263, 6836-6841; Chun, K.T., Bar-Nun, S., and Simoni, R.D.
(15) This evidence is based upon a concanavalin A binding assay for in vivo glycosylation of an engineered glycosylation site in each of a series of mutants of the fusion protein, HMGal (Skalnik, D. G., Narita, H., Kent, C., and Simoni, R. D. (1988) J. Biol.
(16) The intracellular transport of phosphatidylcholine is distinct in several ways from the intracellular transport of cholesterol (Kaplan, M. R., and R. D. Simoni, 1985, J.
(17) A mutation of the b subunit of the Escherichia coli proton translocating ATPase was previously described (Porter, A. C. G., Kumamoto, C., Aldape, K., and Simoni, R. D. (1985) J. Biol.
(18) This paper is the first in a series which extends introductory studies of parinaric acid and its phospholipid derivatives as membrane probes (Sklar, L.A., Hudson, B., and Simoni, R.D.
(19) Of the studied species trophozoites of man (L. intestinalis), rabbit (L. duodenalis), vole (L. microti) and rat (L. simoni) have the same shape of the body but differ in absolute sizes.
(20) Each of these 11 calculated distances (ranging from 19 A to 32 A) was within 5 A of the corresponding distances measured previously for human albumin (Berde, C.B., Hudson, B.S., Simoni, R.D., and Sklar, L.A. 1979, J. Biol.