What's the difference between manifestation and pentecost?
Manifestation
Definition:
(n.) The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(4) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(5) Tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a polypeptide produced by mononuclear phagocytes, has been implicated as an important mediator of inflammatory processes and of clinical manifestations in acute infectious diseases.
(6) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(7) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(8) A clinically manifest disease could be found in 13 patients, meningosis was additionally detected by autopsy in 32 patients.
(9) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(10) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(13) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(14) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
(15) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
(16) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(17) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(18) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(19) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(20) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
Pentecost
Definition:
(n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
(n.) A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.
Example Sentences:
(1) In any period, however, there seem to have been marked individual and cultural differences in outlook; some of these differences are still evident today in the survival of belief in demonic possession in pentecostal sects.
(2) Aaron says his brother, who is a pentecostal Christian, disappeared five years ago when the military raided a house where he was praying with friends.
(3) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
(4) I wouldn’t describe myself as religious, although I was raised as an evangelical Pentecostal Christian in the south – a unique and fraught position.
(5) Then the delivery, reminding me by the end of my mother's out-of-body sermon crescendos as she preached with me in tow from church to Pentecostal church.
(6) Another Australian, Jasper Lawson, who was at Sara airstrip in the north of Pentecost island with fellow volunteers Robin Baker, from Wales, and Reuben Fremmer, from England, said that damage from the cyclone had been limited on Pentecost and the volunteer teachers “want to stay because the communities need help here”.
(7) Signatories included the Sydney Anglican archbishop Glenn Davies, his Catholic counterpart, archbishop Anthony Fisher, heads of Pentecostal and orthodox churches, senior rabbis and leaders from the Sunni and Shia Islamic communities.
(8) During the same period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals rose from 26 million to 42 million, and from 15% to 22% of the population.
(9) Brazil’s newest and most spectacular Pentecostal church, the Temple of Solomon, has been drawing throngs of worshippers and curious onlookers to its daily services since the $300m (£185m) building opened earlier this year and immediately became a symbol of the rising power of evangelical Christianity in this largely Catholic nation.
(10) As Pentecost suggests, it's a difficult community to categorise, partly because "the Russians" have become almost as large a group as "the French" or "the Americans" in London.
(11) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
(12) In her spare time, Biniam, now aged 17, sings in the choir at a Pentecostal church.
(13) This strange ceremony, known as the Ducasse de Mons, has medieval origins and is held every year on the first Sunday after Pentecost (that’s 31 May this year) on the main square.
(14) He has also called on the church to reflect on why it has lost so many former followers to secularism and Pentecostal faiths in recent years.
(15) Pentecost that "it is an established fact that 1 or more terminations of pregnancy are liable to result in more women coming in at 26 weeks with ruptured membranes" needs to be challenged.
(16) Even after psychosocial factors such as gender, age, race, socioeconomic status, negative life events, and social support were controlled for, the likelihood of major depression among Pentecostals was three times greater than among persons with other affiliations.
(17) But more than being a proselytist, this seems to be a pope that works toward unity, who adopts a new ecumenism, who embraces the Pentecostals – as he did as a cardinal in Argentina.
(18) Pentecostal, Methodist and other evangelical groups are also making inroads.
(19) Pentecost has lived in southwest London for 12 years and has Russian, British and Canadian passports.
(20) Jobs is a great showman, with the charisma of a Pentecostal evangelist or an Indian guru.