(n.) A service for the soul of a deceased person on the anniversary of the day of his death.
Example Sentences:
(1) In legal terms, her entire judgment was obiter , meaning that it was not part of the court's ruling and not binding on anyone else.
(2) When Robert Harris read this as part of his research for The Ghost , he sought permission to quote some of Crofts's obiter dicta ("Of all the advantages that ghosting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity to meet people of interest") as chapter-heads.
(3) Another email to Entwistle when he was running BBC Vision from Jan Younghusband, the commissioning editor for BBC music and events, sent on the day after Savile's death in October 2011, said: "I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story ...
(4) When interviewed by Pollard last month Vaughan-Barratt explained that by "dark side" he meant: "We haven't got an obit for him.
(5) Those emails prompted Younghusband to reply to the two executives: "'I gather we didn't prepare the obit because of the darker side of the story.
(6) This work was carried out in 50 hearts of human adult cadavers of both sexes, whose obit causes were not related to diseases which could have been directly involved with the heart.
(7) Vaughan-Barratt told Entwistle in the email in May 2010: "We have no obit and I am not sure we would want one ... My first job in TV was on a JS show, I saw the complex and sometimes conflicting nature of the man at first hand ...
(8) We have a crisis in Yemen that is intractable and a burgeoning crisis on Egypt, and those are to my mind far more important than any obiter dicta you may have disinterred from 30 years of journalism.” The event was probably Johnson’s bumpiest ride since his appointment as foreign secretary less than a week ago, although he was booed by a section of the audience after speaking at the French ambassador’s party on Bastille Day.
(9) ('I'm sorry I'm going to be a bit technical - the ruling was obiter dictum rather than the ratio meaning that it was a passing remark ...').
Omit
Definition:
(v. t.) To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
(v. t.) To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(3) KCl thus appears to induce an intermediate which is either nonexistent when omitted or in such low concentration as not to be readily detected.
(4) Sixty-one percent of all discharge summaries omitted the diagnosis of diabetes.
(5) Collier usually attends in his place, but Guardian Australia has been told he was not invited to next month’s meeting, in the hope that omitting him might encourage Barnett to board a plane.
(6) This "activation" process does not take place if any of the three factors is omitted from preincubation (and added subsequently) or when ATP is replaced by a nonhydrolyzable analog.
(7) Insulin (bovine) decreased protein degradation in the EDC and UL muscles by 11.3 and 10.5%, respectively, when glucose was present in the incubation medium and by 11.0 and 10.3% when glucose was omitted.
(8) The effect on dopamine was readily diminished if MPP+, after a 15 min incubation, was then omitted from the medium.
(9) Hybridoma cell lines, producing supernatants which reacted not only with amyloid substances but also with normal human tissues, were omitted from the subjects of recloning, and one hybridoma cell line (Am-1) producing a specific monoclonal antibody (MAb) against the immunized amyloid substance was finally obtained.
(10) From normal human leukocytes, acid RNase was purified about 400-fold by the same procedure described previously except that rechromatography on Sephadex G-75 was omitted.
(11) Using solutions with tubocurarine from which calcium was omitted and an electrode filled with CaCl2 a late slow negative response component was recorded.
(12) The current was not blocked by external 4-aminopyridine or tetraethylammonium, and it was still present if external potassium was omitted and internal potassium was replaced by cesium.
(13) The author draws attention to the advantages of the omitted diagnostic method which can be used by all ophthalmological departments.
(14) Modulation of cellular senescence by growth factors, hormones, and genetic manipulation is contrasted, but newer studies in oncogene involvement are omitted.
(15) Perhaps he modified his language for the NY Times reporter, but the more likely explanation is that his swearing added nothing and was therefore omitted by the writer or edited out; in America, even in liberal New York, profanities still need to be argued into print.
(16) The Huddersfield half-back, who is on a shortlist of three to be crowned Man of Steel as the outstanding player of the Super League season on Monday night, has never been a favourite of the England coach, Steve McNamara, who omitted Brough from the 30-man training squad announced in March .
(17) In conclusion, induction chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy may omit radical surgery, without compromising survival, in some patients with locally advanced cancer of the oral cavity, oropharynx and hypopharynx.
(18) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(19) When either the DEAE-dextran or the sonicate was omitted, no significant transformation was found.
(20) Omitting methanol during transfer, the equilibration step is avoided and the same buffer is used in electrophoresis and transfer.