(a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.
(n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Let’s be clear,” says Edzard Ernst , emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, “there are two types of detox: one is respectable and the other isn’t.” The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions.
(2) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(3) Emeritus Professor Centre for Innovation and Research in Science Education, University of York.
(4) One idea is that the money should be invested in universities such as the London School of Economics – where David Metcalf, chair of the MAC, holds the post of emeritus professor.
(5) Paul Cheshire, professor emeritus of economic geography at LSE and a researcher at the Spatial Economics Research Centre, has produced data showing that restrictive planning laws have turned houses in the south-east into valuable assets in an almost equivalent way to artworks.
(6) It would be prohibitively expensive to break the contract and Russia has no viable candidate to replace him, the RFU president emeritus, Vyacheslav Koloskov, has argued.
(7) First of all, I would like to say a prayer for our bishop emeritus, Benedict XVI.Let us all pray together for him, let us all pray together for him so that the Lord my bless him and that the Madonna may protect him.
(8) Emeritus professor of medicine at UCL, John Yudkin , said pre-diabetes "is an artificial category with virtually zero clinical relevance .… There is no proven benefit of giving diabetes treatment drugs to people in this category before they develop diabetes, particularly since many of them would not go on to develop diabetes anyway."
(9) Christopher Todd Emeritus professor of French, University of Leeds • Angus Robertson is entirely right to say that young voters need a say on their EU future.
(10) This is the stark view of Norman Dombey, emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Sussex.
(11) Philip Hedley Director emeritus, Theatre Royal Stratford East, London • It is true that the decline of working-class representation in all spheres of British public life represents a narrowing of our culture for the worse.
(12) While many accept the need to update the existing state information law – which dates back 30 years – opposition MPs, civil society groups, trade unions, academics, journalists, writers, archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu and friends of Nelson Mandela have lined up to condemn the bill.
(13) "I'd be highly sceptical about gains to medical science from this merger," said Nick Bosanquet, emeritus professor of health policy at Imperial College London.
(14) John Thornes, professor emeritus of applied meteorology at the University of Birmingham, remembers these rain experiments of the 1960s.
(15) you can only call it an epidemic," says Julian Leff, emeritus professor at the Institute of Psychiatry.
(16) The archbishop emeritus, who has been described as the moral conscience of South Africa, and the de facto leader of the liberation struggle while Mandela was in jail, has become a fierce critic of the African National Congress (ANC) under president Jacob Zuma.
(17) Machines at work “I can see mass unemployment on the horizon as the robotics revolution takes hold,” said Noel Sharkey, a professor emeritus of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
(18) Frank Close is professor of theoretical physics at Oxford University and emeritus fellow at Exeter College, Oxford, and the author of Neutrino (OUP)
(19) Peter Muchlinski Emeritus professor of international commercial law, The School of Law, Soas, University of London • As a nation with a trade deficit of some 7% of GDP, it is obvious that we have to flog things off but I would like to make the case that it would be less culturally damaging to sell off Ely Cathedral than ARM Holdings.
(20) This is the conference given by Jorge Mardones, Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile on the occasion of receiving the Juvenal Hernández award.
Honorarium
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Honorary
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1975 the Government of India initiated an integrated approach for the delivery of health care as well as nutrition and education services for deprived populations at the village level and in urban slums through centres, each of which was run by a local part-time female worker (anganwadi) who was paid an honorarium and had a helper.
(2) Although in many of these programmes the CHWs are salaried or receive an honorarium, there are a number of large-scale programmes in which CHWs work as unpaid volunteers.
(3) I was receiving an honorarium for delivering an opening keynote at a literacy conference, and because my expenses were being paid, they said: “You need to answer further questions.” So I was taken into this holding room with about 20 other people and kept there for an hour and 40 minutes, and for 15 minutes I was interrogated.
(4) The court heard Jackson was earning $170,000 a year as national secretary and received a $63,000 honorarium from the union’s Victorian branch, which the HSU wants back.
(5) Justice Tracey said a $63,000 honorarium paid to Jackson was not authorised and should not have been paid.
(6) Students reported they were motivated to participate, not only by the honorarium, but because they believed the OSCE would be fun and interesting and because they were interested in medical education and in improving clinical evaluation.