(n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A business degree from Heriot-Watt University and a job with Pedigree Petfoods followed.
(2) Heriot Watt and Aberdeen universities have also announced £9,000-a-year fees for non-Scots, but unlike Edinburgh they are capping fees at £27,000.
(3) Degree in business organisation at Heriot-Watt University Career Had trials for Hibernian FC 1984 Graduate trainee, Mars Pedigree Petfood 1986 Media sales, Daily Telegraph 1988 Media executive, Saatchi & Saatchi, made media director in 1990 1995 Joint chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 2000 Chief executive, Football Association 2003 Chief executive, Royal Mail He is on the boards of Camelot and Debenhams Family Married to Annette; two daughters
(4) When assessed at 21 d it was found that treatment with Heriots Crown Wound Powder or Coopers Mulesing Powder offered a significant advantage over leaving the wounds untreated.
(5) In the west,” said Richard Williams of Heriot-Watt University, “we’ve traditionally been more concerned with efficiently capturing and reusing heat.
(6) Heriot Watt also expects that a third of its student from the rest of the UK will be able to get bursaries to help the new fees.
(7) Although Chinese is growing in English universities, it is not available in Northern Ireland at all and only Bangor, Trinity St Davids, Heriot Watt and Edinburgh provide degrees in the subject in Wales and Scotland.
(8) The exodus from the CBI has continued with confirmation from both Dundee University and Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh on Wednesday that they too had quit, to preserve their neutrality in the independence debate.
(9) Professor Steve Chapman, the principle at Heriot Watt, defended the new fees, which will affect about 225 non-Scottish students there each year.
(10) Education George Heriot’s school, Edinburgh; Dundee University, MA, social administration.
(11) Yet this alarming trend has gone largely unnoticed by politicians or the media,” said the study’s lead author, Prof Suzanne Fitzpatrick of Heriot-Watt University.
(12) She enrolled in a course in precis writing at Edinburgh's Heriot Watt College, but did not go to university, partly because her parents could ill afford it, and partly because, according to herself, "many older girls who were studying at Edinburgh University were humanly rather dull and earnest, without adult style or charm".
(13) An earlier version said that Westminster, Leicester and Heriot-Watt offered no single or joint-honours languages degrees.
(14) Last week research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh suggested that, with fewer people now able to buy their own homes, and the decline in social housing, the next 25 years will see rents rise twice as fast as income.
(15) The physics graduate, 26, from Heriot-Watt University defeated Shane Chowen, the NUS vice-president for further education, winning more than 60% of the vote in the final round.
(16) UK's 'gin renaissance' continues with sales set to top £1bn for first time Read more After hiring a couple of distillers from Heriot-Watt University’s esteemed brewing and distilling courses in Edinburgh, Silent Pool sold its first bottle of gin in November 2014.
(17) Heriot Watt said students on "enhanced", five year courses in engineering, physics, chemistry and maths would be charged £9,000 for four years.
(18) Heriot Watt and Aberdeen have also announced new and enhanced bursaries for poorer students from outside Scotland to offset the new charges but the top-rate fees were denounced by the National Union of Students Scotland as "terrible news".
Mortuary
Definition:
(a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
(a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.
(a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(2) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
(3) By late morning, dozens more bloodied corpses had been brought to the town's tiny mortuary, where they lay three to four deep, some burned beyond recognition.
(4) In another trial, 1% 'Virkon' solution proved very effective in decontaminating mortuary tables.
(5) Standing in the forecourt of Cairo's Zeinhom mortuary, waiting to pick up the corpse of his friend, Amr Hussein could scarcely believe he was there.
(6) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
(7) The body was transferred to St Pancras mortuary, where the resident pathologist was Freddy Patel.
(8) The bodies of the three men were collected from the mortuary on Wednesday and taken to the Handsworth Islamic Centre.
(9) The records of 248 female homicides and suicides admitted to the Salt River State Mortuary between January 1990 and July 1991 were reviewed with specific attention to mode of death and blood alcohol concentration (BAC).
(10) Recommendations included improved privacy for families and friends; more sensitive body viewing, mortuary, autopsy and funeral arrangements; and better in-service education for staff and information giving for families.
(11) Occupational exposure was the probable cause of six hepatitis B infections (affecting haematology, biochemistry, and microbiology staff), three of tuberculosis (affecting mortuary and morbid anatomy workers), seven shigella, three salmonella (including one typhoid) and one pseudocholera infection (all in microbiology medical laboratory scientific officers), and a streptococcal infection in a mortuary technician.
(12) Postmortem examinations were carried out by two pathologists working at hospital and public mortuaries in west London.
(13) Amnesty researchers also witnessed emaciated corpses in mortuaries, and one former Giwa detainee told the organisation that around 300 people in his cell died after being denied water for two days: “Sometimes we drank people’s urine, but even the urine you at times could not get.” The conditions for prisoners in Giwa barracks and detention centres in Damaturu were allegedly so overcrowded that hundreds of detainees were packed into small cells where they had to take turns sleeping or even sitting on the floor.
(14) For the moment, though, Isis militants are killing about five or six people a day, the governor said, citing sources inside the city's mortuary.
(15) Brown adipose tissue was investigated in two cases of cot death in which core temperatures were above 40 degrees C on arrival at the mortuary.
(16) The mortuary table population could be a relation for vital potentials.
(17) This discovery constitutes the earliest solid evidence for intentional defleshing of a human ancestor and offers new research avenues for the investigation of early hominid mortuary practices.
(18) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(19) The organisation also obtained evidence that in 2013, more than 4,700 bodies were brought to a mortuary from a detention facility in Giwa barracks.
(20) Their quality can surely be gauged by being the only people in the country who had not heard that Savile dated mortuary corpses, kerb-crawled in a camper van and was an enthusiastic nick-sniffer.