(n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
(n.) The nankeen bird.
(n.) The sooty albatross.
(n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(2) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
(3) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(4) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(5) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(6) has only had a couple of performances in Quaker meeting houses, but more are planned in the coming months.
(7) A computerized literature (MEDLINE) search and the Quaker Oats Co identified published and unpublished trials as of March 1991.
(8) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(9) There’s a cosy shared kitchen that serves as an informal gathering spot, as well as a pretty, light-filled library, which is used for reading and weekly Quaker meetings.
(10) Francis used the history of the Quakers who founded Philadelphia to argue that Christians have a special duty to welcome all people of all faiths into a community united by brotherly love.
(11) Quaker Meeting House, Mon to 28 Aug Collisions Dance Company: Intertwine, Edinburgh Intertwine.
(12) His mother was an archaeologist and his father was an English teacher at a private Quaker school, Bootham, in York.
(13) David Lean, on the other hand, was raised a strict Quaker and was always in rebellion against restraint – so he was married six times and, on his own, he might have pushed Laura and Alec a degree or two further than made Coward comfortable.
(14) I think that one of Quaker schools’ strengths is that we do not believe we have a monopoly over the truth and actively encourage our students to question authority.
(15) She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), working with the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the war and with displaced persons in post-war Germany.
(16) They come from a world that is closer to David Cameron's Bullingdon Club than Dench's Quaker roots in Yorkshire.
(17) Between 2014-2016, the Friends Ugandan Safe Transport Fund , a US-based Quakers association, reports that they supported more than 1,800 LGBT individuals to escape Uganda.
(18) There were people from the trade union, the church, from Amnesty and the Quakers, too."
(19) And again I think of the most vivid symbol of this increasingly strange country that I might have ever seen: that shed at the bottom of a garden attached to what used to be a council house, where Quaker Court’s city trader goes about his daily business.
(20) When Carol Steele came to Rhamu, Kenya, in 1983 as a Quaker, Peace, and Service volunteer, there was little or no contact or cooperation between the Government Health Center personnel and the traditional birth attendants of the surrounding villages.
Silence
Definition:
(n.) The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.
(n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.
(n.) Secrecy; as, these things were transacted in silence.
(n.) The cessation of rage, agitation, or tumilt; calmness; quiest; as, the elements were reduced to silence.
(n.) Absence of mention; oblivion.
(interj.) Be silent; -- used elliptically for let there be silence, or keep silence.
(v. t.) To compel to silence; to cause to be still; to still; to hush.
(v. t.) To put to rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction, or the like, especially from the act of preaching; as, to silence a minister of the gospel.
(v. t.) To cause to cease firing, as by a vigorous cannonade; as, to silence the batteries of an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
(4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
(6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
(7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
(8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
(9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
(10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
(11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
(13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
(14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
(16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
(17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
(18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
(19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
(20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.