(n.) Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.
(n.) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
(n.) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite a glorious career, her Olympic history had been one of crushing disappointment.
(2) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(3) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(4) The Nuit debout has some aspects of a May 68 for the internet age, but with a major difference: the revolutionary students of half a century ago came of age during the trente glorieuses , the 30 glorious years of postwar economic growth, and wanted to crack open a conservative society; those of 2016 are, on the contrary, the children of 30 years of high unemployment, economic gloom and disenchantment with the way representative democracy works.
(5) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(6) Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum praised the “glorious operation” and called for more such attacks.
(7) "They are happy because, at a time when talk of war, intimidation and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of Iran is spoken here through her glorious culture."
(8) They must have thought they had wrested control of this contest having started the second half with such urgency, the excellent Sergio Agüero – "a powerful tank," according to Mourinho – darting behind Gary Cahill to collect Samir Nasri's pass and thump a glorious finish high beyond Petr Cech at his near post.
(9) On Wednesday night Food Glorious Food was beaten by BBC1's unheralded Holiday Hit Squad, presented by Angela Rippon, which had 3.8 million viewers, a 17.7% share, between 8pm and 9pm.
(10) It's dropping in, the ball flying along a glorious arc.
(11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(12) However, as Captain Black articulated frankly in Catch-22’s Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade : “The important thing is to keep them pledging … It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not.
(13) We don't know too many cardinals, but we know what she means: this is gloriously tasty food, to be cooked for those you really love.
(14) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.
(15) Sterling squandered a glorious chance to restore Liverpool's lead in a second half where they remained dangerous on the break, but Everton maintained overall control.
(16) Adam Lallana and Sterling squandered glorious chances to put the game beyond QPR in the second half and their profligacy was punished when Fer vollied Joey Barton’s corner down the centre of Mignolet’s goal.
(17) After a glorious few days, Nick Clegg has had a less than sparkling Monday morning, according to Rachel Younger on Adam Boulton's blog on the Sky News website .
(18) Some might say it is a harsh assessment with which to go public, not least because Di Canio had earlier accused the South Korean of cowardice, suggesting Ji had ducked out of a first-half header when presented with a glorious opportunity to equalise after Sunderland had gone a goal down.
(19) First, Anastasia Myskina carried off the French Open title four weeks ago, and now Sharapova, the thirteenth seed, gloriously and unexpectedly annexes the Wimbledon crown.
(20) If, like me, you’re having a lifelong love affair with adrenaline, then it’s glorious.
Receive
Definition:
(v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.
(v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.
(v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.
(v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.
(v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
(v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.
(v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.
(v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.
(v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.
(v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combination therapy was most effective in patients receiving HCTZ prior to enalapril.
(2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(4) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(5) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(6) Arterial oxyhaemoglobin saturation (SaO2) was monitored continuously during normal labour in 33 healthy parturients receiving pethidine and nitrous oxide for analgesia.
(7) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(8) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(9) Therefore, we undertook a follow-up study on the survivors of 57 infants who received IUT's between 1966 and 1975.
(10) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
(11) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(12) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
(13) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(14) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
(15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(16) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(17) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(18) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(19) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(20) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.