(n.) A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
(n.) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
(v. t.) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tristram Hunt’s resignation letter reads like the kind of fantasy epistle people dream of sending the boss on a Friday morning after another awful week at the office.
(2) Byrne's brief epistle was redolent of a similar valedictory message left by Reginald Maudling to James Callaghan after Labour won a narrow victory in the 1964 general election.
(3) In the words of Paul, the inventor of Christianity (or whoever really wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews), "without shedding of blood, there is no remission".
(4) Later, an extraordinary epistle, which deserves to be read in its entirety, emerges from Banda's office, accusing Madonna of, among other things, exaggerating her charitable endeavours and "blackmailing" Malawi by demanding gratitude and star treatment.
(5) His credo is "Home Sweet Home", and his greatest achievements a witty and angry letter to the laundry service and the return dispatch of some bad eggs accompanied by another scornful epistle.
(6) We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose,” said the 44-year-old, quoting from the Epistle to the Romans.
Introit
Definition:
(n.) A going in.
(n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.
(n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.
(n.) An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service.
(n.) Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.
Example Sentences:
(1) The non-pathogenic aerobic bacteria in 97 quantitative introital cultures from 11 women with documented recurrent bacteriuria were compared statistically to those in 100 quantitative introital cultures from 10 control women with no history of bacteriuria.
(2) Reported is a patient with long standing vulvar pain and severe introital dyspareunia whose symptoms were cured by removal of a glomus tumor of the vulva.
(3) The treatment's effectiveness can be explained by two features of the two antibacterial agents involved: both reach high bactericidal concentrations in the urinary tract and induce no (or minimal) resistance in the introital gram-negative bacterial flora.
(4) Third, it has been observed that bacteriuria in female patients is preceded by colonization of the introital mucosa of the vagina and urethra with Enterobacteriaceae from the rectal flora; it is at these sites that oral antimicrobial agents can determine the character of subsequent reinfections of the urinary tract.
(5) We conclude that bacterial vaginosis, or an altered vaginal microflora as reflected by an abnormal gas-liquid chromatographic pattern characteristic of bacterial vaginosis, is associated with E coli introital colonization and acute symptomatic urinary tract infection in women who use diaphragms.
(6) Fifty-eight percent of children with more than one encounter had a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm as compared to 29% in those with one encounter (chi 2, p less than .006).
(7) The criteria for diagnosis include introital dyspareunia, absence of active infection, erythema around orifices of the minor vestibular glands and exquisite tenderness to point palpation with a cotton-tipped applicator over these glandular openings.
(8) The mean introital pH during application of the placebo and buffer was 4.87 and 4.61, respectively (p less than 0.01).
(9) Family history revealed consanguineous parents and a mentally retarded elder sister who had anorectal atresia with introital fistula and perineal ectopic stenotic anus.
(10) In a logarithmic regression analysis, the greatest proportion of children with a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm was observed in the penile-vaginal contact group (chi 2, p less than .00003).
(11) In this study we introduce a non-invasive sonographic method called "introital sonography" which enables concomitant urodynamic measurements for evaluating the bladder function.
(12) Hence, there is introital or entry dyspareunia, vestibular erythema of varying degrees, and localized tenderness confined to the vulvar vestibule.
(13) There was no difference in introital carriage of enterobacteria before during or after tetracycline therapy.
(14) Introital colonisation was heavier and more frequent in the patients than in the control subjects.
(15) To determine if antibiotics used in the treatment of urinary infections alter introital gramnegative carriage after termination of therapy we analyzed 254 cultures obtained between episodes of bacteriuria in 14 women with recurrent urinary infections.
(16) Escherichia coli introital colonization and urinary tract infection were both significantly more frequent among women with a high vaginal fluid pH, an absence of vaginal lactobacilli, or an abnormal vaginal fluid gas-liquid chromatographic pattern characteristic of bacterial vaginosis.
(17) A vaginal introital transverse diameter of greater than 4 mm was more prevalent among children in Group I (94%) than in Group II, (5%); or in Group III (0%) (chi 2, p less than .001).
(18) We therefore studied 242 females, ages 1 through 12 years, to determine if the vaginal introital diameter is useful in evaluating a child for sexual abuse.
(19) Eighty-eight percent of children who complained of penile-vaginal penetration had a vaginal introital diameter greater than 4 mm as compared to 18% of children with no penetration (chi 2, p less than .001).
(20) Two women complained of a vaginal discharge due to hair at the vaginal vault, two women developed postoperative haematomas and one experienced introital stenosis.