(n.) Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
(n.) The books of the Old and the new Testament, or of either of them; the Bible; -- used by way of eminence or distinction, and chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A passage from the Bible;; a text.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you don't know the scriptures you can't understand why.
(2) "The Remembrance Sunday Service at the Cenotaph has always contained prayers and readings from scripture, and the fact that it continues to be so central a part of our public life would suggest that it is meeting people's pastoral needs," said the Venerable Peter Eagles, archdeacon for the army.
(3) Unofficial Guardian scorecard Pacquiao 10 - 9 Bradley Manny's mom is getting to work in supporting her son - there's a lot of scripture and crosses involved - a spectacle.
(4) However, the age at which a mother has sole responsibility for her children is determined by scripture.
(5) It also tells us – on the firm foundation of Holy Scriptures – that policies intended to slow the pace of climate change represent a "dangerous expansion of government control over private life".
(6) Phil Johnson explains the continuing faith in these stories by reference to scripture: “The Bible says people like fables.
(7) The key point here is that while the words of scripture are fixed and unchangeable they are always subject to human interpretation, and interpretations may vary according to time, place and social conditions.
(8) The way I read scripture … I’m not sure what their values are and why they want to exclude, if we’re called to love one another and even love an enemy,” she said.
(9) There’s a passage in the scriptures that says, ‘Let the work that I do speak for me.’ “And Jeb’s record speaks for him.
(10) He later studied creative writing and religious studies: "It was scriptural interpretation, mainly, reading the Bible in different translations.
(11) In such a way, Poussin compressed his consummate knowledge of Rome's buildings, artworks and landscapes, and his deep, careful reading of scripture, epics, histories and science, into forms that would pass permanently out of his sight – since after 1642, he made no move to visit his native land again.
(12) That included Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist college in South Carolina that claimed a scriptural basis for segregation.
(13) My comments that you may have read are from the holy scriptures, and this is what I live from.
(14) John quotes him as writing in a letter to a friend: "By the end of the 80s I had definitely come to the conclusion that Scripture was not dealing with the predicament of persons whom we should recognise as homosexual by nature.
(15) Trouble was that, according to the scriptures, lending was a sin.
(16) The traveling religious workers who died, or were injured, would visit immigrant Sikh communities in America to help with duties such as reciting of the scriptures at the gurdwaras, and perform rituals in other community events like marriages.
(17) This is the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.” Carson said he had leaned on scripture to weather tempests on the campaign trail.
(18) The conference passed a resolution “rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture” but also calling on “all our people to minister pastorally and sensitively to all irrespective of sexual orientation and to condemn irrational fear of homosexuals”.
(19) Some traditionalists fear the act of participating in the “shared conversations”, which are aimed at “good disagreement” within the church, implies an acceptance that differing interpretations of biblical scripture are possible.
(20) C of E fears talks on gay rights could end global Anglican communion Read more But the leaders of six African provinces are expected to walk out in opposition to any interpretation of the scriptures that could lead to greater acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, causing a de facto split between conservatives and liberals.
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Definition:
(n.) A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary.
(n.) The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence.
(n.) A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
(n.) Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
(n.) A style of writing in large characters; text-hand also, a kind of type used in printing; as, German text.
(v. t.) To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(2) Sara Tomlinson, 45, received a text message from her 16 year old daughter Katie at about 3pm.
(3) It is of particular interest that in this paraprotein the major component is a biantennary complex-type oligosaccharide that lacks a fucose residue and an oligosaccharide with the structure (Formula: see text) exists as one of the most abundant components.
(4) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
(5) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
(6) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(7) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
(8) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(10) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(11) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(13) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
(14) The O-polysaccharide was found to be a high molecular weight polymer of a repeating pentasaccharide unit composed of D-mannose, D-galactose, L-rhamnose, 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucose, and 2-acetamido-2,3-dideoxy-3-formamido-D-rhamnose residues (1:1:1:1:1) and had the structure: [formula: see text]
(15) Patterns of change and variability in text recall performance were assessed in seven elderly women by testing them weekly for up to 2 years.
(16) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
(17) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(18) Usually the condition for quasi-equilibrium is expressed in terms of the rate constants around EHR: (formula: see text) i.e.
(19) Subjects read text passages and occasionally responded to lexical-decision probes.
(20) Purified U3B RNA was subjected to various enzymatic digestion procedures, including digests of 32P-labeled U3B RNA, RNA ligase, and polynucleotide kinase labeling, for determination of its primary sequence which is: (formula: see text).