() Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(2) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(3) So she is teaching them not just a new song but a repeatable liturgical practice, as we shall see.
(4) He greeted people warmly - not in a liturgical manner - and asked the people to bless him before he gave a blessing.
(5) The work of liturgical reform has been a service to the people as a re-reading of the Gospel from a concrete historical situation.
(6) · We will develop and distribute liturgical materials on Care for Creation for use in parishes and other places of worship.
(7) All of those composers wrote liturgical music – Francis especially likes Bach's Saint Matthew Passion and Mozart's Mass in C Minor – but the pope also admires a thornier composer: Richard Wagner, the megalomaniacal German genius whose views on Christianity were, to put it mildly, idiosyncratic.
(8) There is a liturgical quality to May’s Brexit creed.
(9) The holy father’s favourite liturgical music – or even his own newly released single – can play through the car’s six speakers via Bluetooth.
(10) To make it go away and relax, I closed my eyes and made every thought disappear – even the thought of refusing to accept the position, as the liturgical procedure allows.
Sanskrit
Definition:
(n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sanskrit; written in Sanskrit; as, a Sanskrit dictionary or inscription.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(2) He talks of not of India but Bharat, a Sanskrit-origin word describing a Hindu civilisation.
(3) In brief, this paper is a review of Sanskrit literature for information on the origin and development of speech and language, speech production, normality of speech and language, and disorders of speech and language and their treatment.
(4) The information collected here is mainly from the Sanskrit texts written between 2000 B.C.
(5) I also deal with the theory of psychological medicine as stated in ancient Sanskrit texts.
(6) A notorious paper written in 1835 by Thomas Macaulay , commenting coolly that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia", called for all printing in Sanskrit and Arabic to be banned, and Hindu and Muslim religious schools outlawed.
(7) This paper aims at highlighting the knowledge of the Sanskrit scholars of ancient times in the field of speech and language pathology.
(8) Mucuna pruriens (Atmagupta, Sanskrit), which contains levodopa, was used in the treatment of Kampavata.
(9) Speaking as the proud host of Britain's most difficult quiz (Mondays on BBC Four etc etc), I watch our contestants – bespectacled, bejumpered, feverishly keen on Shostakovich symphonies or Sanskrit jokes – and I know that, confident in their priorities and passions, they look cool.
(10) Photograph: Alamy A chronicler from the time mentions that Humayun’s fort was built on the hallowed site of Indraprastha Indraprastha appears in one of India’s foundational Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata , as the capital city established by its heroes, the Pandava brothers.
(11) The lectures were fascinating for they demonstrated many lines of kinship between ideas expressed in the ancient Sanskrit texts and ideas afloat still in the modern world.
(12) An attempt is made here to analyse the available drug recipes using this plant from Sanskrit literature in the light of modern scientific knowledge.
(13) The purpose is only to give a glimpse of the knowledge that the Sanskrit scholars of those times possessed.
(14) Tagore helped to choose the baby's name, which means "immortal" in Sanskrit.
(15) The village health culture includes curing practices from the Atharva-Veda (the most ancient Sanskritic literature), Ayurvedic Medicine, Unani Prophetic Medicine, and Western Biomedicine.
(16) This has been verified by spectrographically analyzing 109 Sanskrit sentences as spoken by ten Sanskrit speakers.
(17) The word itself is derived from the Sanskrit "to split", and refers to the split lentils and other pulses from which it is made.
(18) The concept of timing in speech as held by the ancient Sanskrit Scholars is described.
(19) Ashtanga is the focus (this is Mysore after all) but there’s a wide range of other classes to choose from, including hatha, shatkriya (cleansing), backbending and pranayama as well as instruction in Sanskrit and lessons in the yoga sutras.
(20) You don't need to learn yoga or Sanskrit or study any kind of ancient text to be part of Amma's religion, you just need to be able to receive a hug.