Being a grandee formerly implied certain privileges, notably that of the ancient uses of remaining covered or seated in the presence of royalty.

Being an Edokko also implied that the person had certain personality traits different from the non-native population, such as being assertive, straightforward, cheerful, perhaps a bit mercantile, ( cf.

Being in a truly fixed state, as opposed to being stable, is not implied in the original Aristotelian usage of this word.

The Triune God manifests as three Persons ( Greek hypostases ), in One Divine Being ( Greek: Ousia ), called the Godhead, the Divine Essence of God.

These three divisions are elaborated further, so that the intelligible moment consists of three triads ( Being, Eternity, and the Living Being or Paradigm from Plato's Timaeus ).

From the standpoint of the doctrine of the Trinity — one Divine Being existing in three Persons — patripassianism is considered heretical because it denies the distinct personhood of the Members of the Trinity.

He has directed three videos for her and she contributed the theme song for Jonze's Being John Malkovich film.

Aside from multiple " made-for-television " versions, The Importance of Being Earnest has been adapted for the English-language cinema at least three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it.

Being the smallest child in his Year Seven class, Hird often got knocked around playing league — the more physical of the three sports.

Being one of the three primitives of robotics ( besides planning and control ), sensing plays an important role in robotic paradigms.

" Being Nobody " reached number three in the UK singles chart.

Being well aware that the war was waged by English and French nobles who disdained the Dutch as a nation of " cheesemongers ", at least three privateers sailed under the name of the Getergde Kaasboer, the " Provoked Cheesemonger ".

The mind in contemplating God has three distinct aspects, stages or grades — the senses, giving empirical knowledge of what is without and discerning the traces ( vestigia ) of the divine in the world ; the reason, which examines the soul itself, the image of the divine Being ; and lastly, pure intellect ( intelligentia ), which, in a transcendent act, grasps the Being of the divine cause.

Being centrally located in southwestern Connecticut, Oxford residents have the choice of three local newspapers: the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport, the Republican-American of Waterbury and the New Haven Register.

Being the largest in the county and having the best opportunities for education, the Atoka Public Schools System has students from all over Atoka County, although there are three other small high schools in Caney, Stringtown, and Tushka.

The videos for both songs were heavily featured on MTV and BET, and three more singles received decent radio play: " Silly Ho ", " I'm Good at Being Bad ", and Edmonds-written ballad, " Dear Lie ".

Being the only surviving member of the group of three, Isaac was sent back with the elephant.

* In Being Human the arch of season three focuses on Lia's prophecy that Mitchell will be killed by a werewolf.

The song is used in episode 16, of the BBC series Being Human, when the hungry " teenage " vampire Adam stalks three teenage girls into a game arcade.

As noted in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures is divided into three divisions ( the Beast Division, the Being Division, and the Spirit Division ) and contains the Goblin Liaison Office and Centaur Liaison Office, though the centaurs, being isolationists, have never interacted with the office since its creation.

Being well-versed in Confucian and Daoist philosophies, Giwha also wrote an important treatise in defense of Buddhism, from the standpoint of the intrinsic unity of the three teachings, entitled the Hyeon jeong non.

Being three times twenty, 60 is called " three score " in some older literature.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Being a star of his age, he would frequently say deceptive things to the public.

This indifference of " things in themselves " ( closely linked with the later notion of " being-in-itself " in his Being and Nothingness ) has the effect of highlighting all the more the freedom Roquentin has to perceive and act in the world ; everywhere he looks, he finds situations imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence.

The 20th century philosopher Heidegger thought previous philosophers have lost sight of the question of Being ( qua Being ) in favour of the questions of beings ( existing things ), so that a return to the Parmenidean approach was needed.

Hence, in The Sophist Plato argues that Being is a Form in which all existent things participate and which they have in common ( though it is unclear whether ' Being ' is intended in the sense of existence, copula, or identity ); and argues, against Parmenides, that Forms must exist not only of Being, but also of Negation and of non-Being ( or Difference ).

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

For, instance Parmenides taught that reality was a single unchanging Being, whereas Heraclitus wrote that all things flow.

The 20th century philosopher Heidegger thought previous philosophers have lost sight the question of Being ( qua Being ) in favour of the questions of beings ( existing things ), so that a return to the Parmenidean approach was needed.

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To clarify, perhaps, by abstract anthropology, as a non-existentialist searching for essences, Husserl rejected the existentialism implicit in Heidegger's distinction between being ( sein ) as things in reality and Being ( Da-sein ) as the encounter with being, as when being becomes present to us, that is, is unconcealed.

Nor was there among them formerly any image or statue of the Divine Being ; during the first one hundred and seventy years they built temples, indeed, and other sacred domes, but placed in them no figure of any kind ; persuaded that it is impious to represent things Divine by what is perishable, and that we can have no conception of God but by the understanding ".

The same author goes on by giving other philosophical writings which are totally compatible with the religion of Islam, as the al-Risālah fil-wujūd (, " Treatise on Being "), written in Arabic, which begin with Quranic verses and asserting that all things come from God, and there is an order in these things.

Bonaventure accepts the Platonic doctrine that ideas do not exist in rerum natura, but as ideals exemplified by the Divine Being, according to which actual things were formed ; and this conception has no slight influence upon his philosophy.

Being that the fungicide budget can be 10 % of the maintenance budget, reductions in the use of fungicides can cause a significant increase in the amount of money to do other things.

He declared the whole universe, mind and matter, to be a manifestation of the Divine Being ; that this manifestation is not an emanation from God, as is the conception of the Kabbalah by Mitnagdim, for nothing can be separated from God: all things are rather forms in which God reveals Himself.

While this doctrine is at odds with experience, where things do indeed change and move, the Eleatic school followed Parmenides in denying that sense phenomena revealed the world as it actually was ; instead, the only thing with Being was thought, or the question of whether something exists or not is one of whether it can be thought.

He had also begun work on script treatments, which since Days of Being Wild he tended to treat as only a very loose basis for his work in order to secure financing, preferring to leave things open to change during the shoot.

Being the engineer that he was, Bordiga displayed a kind of theoretical rigidity which was both exasperating and effective in allowing him to see things differently.