(n.) A genus of sea birds, having a large, thick bill; the puffin.
(n.) The mandrill.
(n.) One of a sect in the United States, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mormons; as, the Mormon religion; Mormon practices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The video, which Kester said was taken by a friend of Savannah’s who came to support her, was circulated online this month and featured in a Mormon LGBTQ podcast.
(2) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(3) Finicum, who was killed one day before his 55th birthday, grew up in Page, Arizona, and was an active member of the Mormon church.
(4) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(5) From a young age, Mormon children are given responsibilities such as household duties and the tending of younger siblings.
(6) This study analyzed the 6108 cardiovascular disease deaths between 1969--1971 in Utah of members in the Mormon Church.
(7) In the buildup to the keynote address, the convention listened to a series of tributes from members of his Mormon church, former business colleagues and fellow politicians.
(8) Opponents of the pipeline say draining the desert of groundwater would destroy the livelihoods of the cattle ranchers, Native American tribes, and Mormon enterprises that call this expanse home, and reduce a vast swath of the state to a dust bowl.
(9) Active Mormons are healthier than Mormons as a whole and rank among the lowest in mortality when compared with other groups of healthy males.
(10) Mormons, who have the highest birth rates in the US, have unique childbearing attitudes and practices that should be understood by the health care practitioners who work with this population.
(11) On his own return to the BBC after the war, Chilton made notable programmes on such varied subjects as the General Strike, the Mormons, the American civil war and Demon Drink, detailing the perils of the gin palace in Victorian Britain.
(12) Holder’s announcement was welcomed by campaigners in Utah, a state dominated by the Mormon church, which opposes gay marriage.
(13) Reasons for the relative mortality advantage of Maori Mormons were therefore not clear, although attitudes to health and health services utilization, and the influence of strong social support networks, might be involved.
(14) He can't talk about his life as a Mormon, which, rightly or wrongly, seems weird to most Americans and he can't talk about Massachusetts because the two policies he is known for – legislation against assault weapons and universal health insurance – are anathema to the Republican party.
(15) Social conservatives, some of whom are distrustful of Romney's Mormon religion and his liberal past political views, are less important in the state than in Iowa.
(16) The remaining life expectancy for active Mormon men at age 35 is about 44 years, over 7 years greater than for U.S. white males.
(17) The Triple Package identifies eight groups that are particularly successful in the US at the moment – Indian, Chinese, Iranian, Lebanese, Nigerian and Cuban groups, along with Mormons and Jewish people.
(18) But he said the unauthorized recording and a “disruptive demonstration” by a group of non-Mormon adults who were there were “problematic”.
(19) Religiously active Mormons in California are a nonsmoking population with unusually low risk for cancer.
(20) Paradoxically, non-Maori Mormon mortality rates were similar to those for non-Mormons.
Prophet
Definition:
(n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
(n.) One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.
(n.) An interpreter; a spokesman.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(3) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(4) And it was inevitable that Arabic character should precede over the character of the muhajireen, for the language of the Qur’an is Arabic, and the prophetic hadiths [sayings] are in Arabic and the customs of Islamic society were Arabic in great part, and in view of the nature of the local society of the peoples of Syria it was inevitable that Arabic character should be cultivated in the language and religious culture in the muhajireen and laying aside the foreign identity that bears in its hidden nature hostility to Islam, its culture and its roots.
(5) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(6) And the Prophet (peace be upon him) was considered the master of the global Islamic message; it was necessary for him to be acquainted with what was happening around him in the neighbouring states, and knowing their latest affairs and thus inviting them to Islam.
(7) The opening lines of Hill's first completed (but second to be published) novel, Fell of Dark (1971), were clearly prophetic: "I possess the Englishman's usual ambivalent attitude to the police.
(8) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(9) A prophetic anti-Cosby exchange makes the show all the more relevant.
(10) In a landmark speech in Cairo three years ago, Obama promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between his country and the Islamic world, but that relationship is now at its lowest point since the start of the Arab spring as a result of a YouTube video clip made by an Egyptian American insulting the prophet Mohamed.
(11) Despite what is often said, mostly by those who haven't read it, the book does not take direct aim at Islam or its prophet.
(12) Vilks, 68, outraged many Muslims in 2007 after he depicted the prophet Muhammad’s head on the body of a dog.
(13) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
(14) In the packed cafe area at the top of Libération’s offices, where the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo have been working since Friday, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard held up the new edition of the magazine, which features a picture of the prophet Muhammad crying below the words “All is forgiven”.
(15) Younger persons can facilitate such growth for themselves and their elders by helping the aging to function as "prophets" for the younger.
(16) The prophets of doom will undeniably be proved right in the long run unless their basic assumptions are nullified by concrete acts, and soon.
(17) Also, it’s clear that the prophet Muhammad never specified a punishment for homosexuality; it wasn’t until some years after his death that Muslims began discussing what a suitable punishment might be.
(18) Prenatal care consisted of consultation with a prophet, wearing amulets, using herbal concoctions for bathing and drinking, and injections of herbal power to keep evil spirits away and guarantee safe delivery.
(19) His nom de guerre was Sayyed Zul Fikar: Sayyed indicating a claimed descent from the prophet Muhammad; Zul Fikar being the name of the legendary forked sword of Imam Ali, the prophet’s cousin and one of the most revered figures in Shia Islam.
(20) Taking as a starting point the American painter Alice Neel’s prophetic 1936 painting, Nazis Murder Jews , which depicts a Communist party torchlight parade through the streets of New York City, it collects new and recent pieces that address in different ways our own disorienting political moment.