(a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
(a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
(a.) Approved; conventional.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(3) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(5) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(6) On the regulatory side, Carney's role as chair of the Financial Stability Board suggests an individual cut from relatively orthodox cloth while working at the coal face of implementation on a range of issues.
(7) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
(8) Judge Marina Syrova said she rejected their arguments that they had not intended to offend religious believers but were protesting against the Orthodox church's support for Putin.
(9) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(10) Multiple births were studied in a sample of orthodox Jewesses for whom an estimate could be made of the day of ovulation and the earliest possible day of conception.
(11) The Kremlin's Nashi youth movement spread the news that I personally was out to destroy the Orthodox family.
(12) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
(13) A significantly increased rate of breast-feeding was found among mothers with the following characteristics: those of orthodox religious belief, high educational level, in the academic and paraacademic professions, nonsmokers, those who worked outside of the home during the pregnancy, those who had previous breast-feeding success, and mothers whose husbands' attitude toward breast-feeding was positive.
(14) Extended interviews with users explored motivations for choice of treatment and attitudes towards orthodox and alternative health care.
(15) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(16) But he has made it about himself and so he’s uniting the factions against him.” If the orthodox left has failed to unite behind the prime minister, the right is also in a state of ferment, as it plots eagerly for a post-Renzi era that could arrive before Christmas.
(17) The conclusion is that those mitochondria that do not undergo change in ultrastructure have impairment of electron transport, and that those that do become orthodox have increased membrane lability and undergo degeneration.
(18) This is illustrated by the Schneerson family dynasty, which has led the Lubavich sect of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews since its inception in the 18th century.
(19) The government has just announced emergency aid for the destitute and the Greek Orthodox Church has revealed it is feeding 250,000 people a day.
(20) Sara, 18 Occupation: A-level student Constituency: Hornsey and Wood Green Voting: Probably Labour Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sara: ‘People feel betrayed and upset about the Labour party’s antisemitism.’ Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer I’m Orthodox Jewish and, ideologically, I am a Labour supporter, but a lot of people in my community really hate the Labour party at the moment, and I don’t blame them to be honest.
Quaint
Definition:
(a.) Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
(a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
(a.) Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(2) That merriment is not just tankards and quaintness and mimsy Morris dancing, but a witty, angry and tender fire at the centre of Englishness.
(3) From the quaint market towns to the rolling countryside, this county is one of the many jewels in Great Britain’s crown,” he said.
(4) At the advent of the web, Yahoo quaintly believed it could use editors to catalogue all the content online, but quickly learned that that wouldn't scale, as we say these days.
(5) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
(6) He knew that if he backed away from calling an election, he'd be accused of turning 'frit' - to use that quaint old Lincolnshire word of Margaret Thatcher's - in the face of the opinion polls and a resurgent Conservative party.
(7) Photograph: Alamy With no fewer than four beaches to choose from and a quaint town centre of ice-cream coloured houses and shops, Tenby is an appealing spot for a day at the seaside.
(8) At that time X----- itself was untouched by shot and shell, the old houses in the square with their quaint red-tiled roofs, irregular as peaks of a sierra, and their higgledy-piggledy doors and windows, were as yet intact.
(9) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(10) Quaintly, his second album still riffs on the idea of tertiary education (his first was The College Dropout ).
(11) The problem with news is not a quaint moral cowardice.
(12) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(13) Gillard occupied the office she quaintly terms the gumnut room.
(14) "Nursing" as a verb, like adjudge, is one of football's more quaint usages that we should do more to encourage.
(15) The online world is sunlit and quaint, with a jolly host called Papa, who, when they enter, offers his guests a little girl.
(16) In Alain's work, the mixture of graceful, sometimes slightly quaint French, Congolese rhythm and Parisian street slang is very complex, but it is a complexity achieved by him as a writer.
(17) Quaint language and interesting historical associations are no justification for preserving obsolete statutes in a mummified state.
(18) This will leave the court divided four to four, paralyzed, in all probability, which is clearly nothing that perturbs these persons still quaintly referred to as lawmakers.
(19) Its quaint name makes you wonder if pupils practise deportment and learn the correct way to address younger sons of dukes.
(20) At the school gate, the other women looked somehow quaint.