(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
(v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of those called to hear the announcement, the Mexican prelate Monsignor Dr Oscar Sánchez, said none of the cardinals had expected it.
(2) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(3) Both prelated, lyophilized tissue lenses and freshly cut lenticules have been employed with good results.
(4) The frequency of iron deficiency--prelatent, latent or manifest anemia -- can be understood from the peculiarities of iron metabolism in this early period of life.
(5) The speculation peaked in February when, soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed he had decided to step down after receiving a dossier investigating the Vatileaks scandal containing details of a network of gay prelates , some of whom were vulnerable to blackmail.
(6) Training caused an initial depletion of body iron stores (prelatent iron deficiency).
(7) The prelate can also demand to see any document he cares to inspect.
(8) On 15 June, the pope appointed Monsignor Battista Ricca, an Italian cleric and former Vatican diplomat, to be "prelate" of the bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR).
(9) Since information pertinent to the effect of prelatent or latent iron deficiency on tissue iron is scare, the present study was aimed at producing this stage of iron deficiency in rats by phlebotomy and to determine whether the mitochondrial iron-containing enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) were affected.
(10) I’m labeled as ultra-conservative because I’ve been outspoken on issues that are politically unpopular and on the conservative side of the political spectrum,” said Cordileone, a balding man with water-colored blue eyes who serves as prelate to the approximately 500,000 Catholics in the San Francisco area, and was a key force behind the state’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage that was ultimately overturned by courts.
(11) Nicola Gratteri, who has battled Calabria's shadowy 'Ndrangheta mafia , said on Wednesday that Francis's attempt to bring transparency to the Vatican was making the white collar mobsters who do business with corrupt prelates "nervous and agitated".
(12) He joked about Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a prelate alleged to have tried to fly €20m in cash into Italy illegally, saying he "didn't go to jail because he resembled a saint".
(13) Six women and two men had ferritin levels below 28 ng X ml-1, which suggests prelatent iron deficiency.
(14) One month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria , officials say they still have no idea what has happened to the missing prelates.
(15) And one of the first actions Pope Francis took was to visit perhaps the most high-profile corrupt prelate on the planet, Cardinal Bernard Law, who remains a powerful church official despite having been drummed out of Boston for hiding and enabling crimes by hundreds of child molesting clerics," Dorris said in a statement.
(16) They also have to swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(17) The null hypotheses were that there are no differences in the manifestations of sexual and aggressive drives during the prelatency and latency as well as the latency and postlatency stage groups.
(18) • Pope Shenouda III (Nazir Gayed), prelate, born 3 August 1923; died 17 March 2012
(19) The increased diagnostic 59Fe2+ absorption is a reliable and sensitive indicator of at least depleted iron stores or prelatent iron deficiency as caused by iron malnutrition or maldigestion, increased iron requirement in pregnancy, infancy, urogenital or gastrointestinal blood loss.
(20) New members are also meant to swear to defend the monarch against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
Prolate
Definition:
(a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.
(v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.
Example Sentences:
(1) The uterine volume was measured in 30 patients 24 hours before hysterectomy by ultrasonography using the prolate ellipsoid formula.
(2) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
(3) Uterine volume, based on the ultrasound data, was calculated, utilizing the formula for a prolate ellipsoid, before and after treatment.
(4) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
(5) The left ventricle was modeled as a three-dimensional, prolate ellipsoidal shell.
(6) Several previous studies had indicated that S1 is a highly extended protein which can be modeled by a prolate ellipsoid with an axial ratio of 10 to 1.
(7) The length-to-width ratios of bacteriophage T2 and T4 heads and stereometric angles specifying the prolate icosahedral T2 capsid were evaluated on electron micrographs recorded from samples prepared by a variety of methods.
(8) The frictional ratio (2.14) is consistent with a prolate ellipsoid of axial ratio 24, corresponding to an apparent length and width of 516 and 21.5 A, respectively.
(9) The mutations of the three core genes (genes 67, 68, and 22) affect the width mainly by lateral outgrowths of the prolate particle, although small and large isometric particles are also found.
(10) This feature may be important in morphogenesis since the mean volume of prolate vesicles is larger than that of spherical vesicles.
(11) Assuming constancy of surface area and approximating red cell shapes by both prolate and oblate ellipsoids of revolution, values are determined for cell shape factor and volume under a variety of conditions.
(12) Consequently, more adsorption occurred at larger surface hydrophobicities, smaller size molecules, and for prolate orientation of ellipsoidal molecules.
(13) It had a prolate head and non-contractile tail and produced large haloes around plaques.
(14) In addition, although phase microscopic image analysis revealed that virtually all of the cells displayed a squamous morphology within 1 hour after exposure to FBS or TGF-beta 1, observations made 48 to 72 hours later showed the presence of clusters of small prolate spheroid-shaped cells surrounded by many involucrin-positive squamous-appearing cells.
(15) The paper explains how the formulas for calculating the surface area of the prolate spheroid, which a nucleus resembles, can be changed by suitable substitutions into formulas based on measured diameters l and k [mm] of the nucleus approach side surface, magnified 3.000 times, and on a mixed cyclometric function dependent on the axial ratio.
(16) Because high solvent content and weak diffraction are indicative of an extended flexible structure, we examined the molecular shape of the recombinant CD4 with ultracentrifugation and found that it has an axial ratio of roughly 6, when modeled as a prolate ellipsoid.
(17) The octamer is a prolate ellipsoid 110 angstroms long and 65 to 70 angstroms in diameter, and its general shape is that of a rugby ball.
(18) This area is about twice that calculated from a prolate ellipsoid model for prothrombin.
(19) Very simple formulas are deduced for the NSAR of a prolate spheroid or cylinder with R greater than 6.
(20) Vt is analogous to the equilibrium volume (V0), determined as the volume intercept of the logarithmic passive pressure-volume (P-V) relationship using LV volume estimated from LV weights (V0 nl = 37.6 + 4.4 ml), or the volume intercept of the linearized P-V relationship calculated from a prolate spheroidal model using measured minor and major diameters (V0 l = 44.5 + 3.5 ml).