(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(2) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(5) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(6) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(7) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(8) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(9) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(10) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(11) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(12) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(13) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(14) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(15) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) Analysis of the genetic distance between Romanians and other Europeans who have been studied serologically are consistent with the hypothesis that Romanians descend from Roman ancestors who colonized Dacia between the 1st century B.C.
(18) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(19) "I am a Roman Catholic and it's the backbone of my life.
(20) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.
Rowan
Definition:
(n.) Rowan tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(2) Additionally, rather than listing Davis’s name, it says “city of Morehead”, the Rowan County seat.
(3) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(4) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
(5) The campaign, which wants a skyline commission to examine London's future profile, has also obtained the support of the Observer 's architecture critic, Rowan Moore.
(6) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
(7) The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.
(8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
(9) Read more Speaking about the bill before it was voted on Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and chair of Christian Aid argued in The Guardian that the the UK had to take a lead in protecting unaccompanied minors in Europe .
(10) The Rowan Learning Trust, a small academy trust that grew out of a single school in Wigan, was brought in to turn the school’s fortunes around.
(11) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(12) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(13) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
(14) In 2008, he stirred controversy when he accused the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of being "mistaken and naive" for saying that some aspects of sharia law in Britain were unavoidable.
(15) The eventwill include speeches from celebrities, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bill Gates, as well as a flower installation designed to represent the lives that could be saved if funding for nutrition was improved.
(16) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
(17) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(18) That goal has been achieved.” The ACLU is relying on the representations of Kentucky’s attorney general and Rowan County attorneys that marriage licenses issued henceforth are legal, Sharp said.
(19) Not long after, Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins arrived at the Rowan County clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license around 10.45am – but their efforts did not succeed without a hiccup.
(20) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.