Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Roman historians ( like Ptolemeus ) considered that all actual Morocco until the Atlas mountains was part of the Roman Empire.

Some historians believe the Roman frontier reached actual Casablanca, founded by Romans as a port.

He says that "... an indubitable residuum of things Persian in the Mysteries and a better knowledge of what constituted actual Mazdaism have allowed modern scholars to postulate for Roman Mithraism a continuing Iranian theology.

Roman road builders aimed at a regulation width ( see Laws and standards above ), but actual widths have been measured at between 3. 6 ft ( 1. 1 m ) and more than 23 ft ( 7 m ).

Eastern Orthodoxy does not have the concept of " validity " when applied to Sacraments, but it considers the form of Roman Catholic Sacraments to be acceptable, if still devoid of actual spiritual content.

It was as a military commander that Trajan is best known to history, particularly for his conquests in the Near East, but initially for the two wars against Dacia — the reduction to client kingdom ( 101 – 102 ), followed by actual incorporation into the Empire of the trans-Danube border kingdom of Dacia — an area that had troubled Roman thought for over a decade with the unfavourable ( and to some, shameful ) peace negotiated by Domitian's ministers.

* Stilicho, Roman general ( magister militum ), controls the young emperor Honorius as his regent and becomes the actual ruler of the Western Roman Empire.

and fairy tales appear, now and again, in written literature throughout literate cultures, as in The Golden Ass, which includes Cupid and Psyche ( Roman, 100 – 200 AD ), or the Panchatantra ( India 3rd century BCE ), but it is unknown to what extent these reflect the actual folk tales even of their own time.

Vulgar Latin, on the other hand, is the actual speech of the common people during the late Roman Empire.

He was in reality a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent Ricimer, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad.

The actual Christmas season continues until the Feast of the Baptism of Christ, which in the present form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on the Sunday after 6 January.

* Roman artists begin attempting to produce the illusion of thin slabs of colored marble covering the walls, which are set off by actual architectural moldings and columns, in private houses.

Nominally, the Holy Roman Emperor was overlord and the Bishop of Genoa was president of the city ; however, actual power was wielded by a number of " consuls " annually elected by popular assembly.

In Roman histories, prodigies are clustered around perceived or actual threats to the equilibrium of the Roman state, in particular, famine, war and social disorder, and are expiated as matters of urgency.

Liber entered Rome's historical tradition soon after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the establishment of the Republic and the first of many threatened or actual plebeian secessions from Rome's patrician authority.

Pope Stephen IX, who was unable to take actual possession of Rome due to the Roman aristocracy's election of an antipope, Benedict X, sent Hildebrand of Sovana and Anselm of Lucca ( respectively, the future Popes Gregory VII and Alexander II ) to Germany to obtain recognition from Agnes.

This scene is not in either the Iliad or the Odyssey but is in the Aeneid ; it is central to the perspective Virgil builds ( in support of the actual Roman sentiment ) of the Greeks as cunning, deceitful, and treacherous.

At some time around 493 BC, soon after the expulsion of Rome's last King and the establishment of the Roman Republic, the Roman senate provided a temple for the so-called Aventine Triad of Ceres, Liber and Libera, patron deities of the Roman commoners or plebs ; the dedication followed one of the first in a long series of threatened or actual plebeian secessions.

However, the actual process of change is not considered to begin at this moment, but begins with the Liturgy of Preparation -- it is merely completed at the Epiclesis.

Commencing two hours before sundown according to the written rubrics, although generally in the late morning in actual practice, is great vespers with the Divine Liturgy.

Many of the complicated rubrics ( or instructions ) that had governed recitation of the Liturgy were clarified, and the actual method of praying the office was made simpler.

The reason for this is because the elements carried in the Great Entrance are not simply bread and wine ( as at the normal Liturgy ), but have already been Consecrated, and are believed to be the actual Body and Blood of Christ.

Orthodox prefer simply to use the term " change " ( Greek: metaballo, the term used in the Epiklesis of the Divine Liturgy ) to describe the transformation of the bread and wine into the actual Body and Blood of Christ.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Eucharistic celebration is known as the Divine Liturgy and is believed to impart the actual Body and Blood of Christ to the faithful.

The actual moments of contact are vitally important.

and this first section was somehow preserved ( there are always these annoying little mysteries about the actual facts of Malraux's life ) when the Gestapo destroyed the rest.

Mileage allowances for state employees are of two types: ( A ) actual mileage and ( B ) fixed monthly allowances.

With few exceptions travelers on state business are allowed actual travel expenses and $15 per day subsistence.

The agencies of government are now billed for the actual cost of services provided to each passenger car rather than the prior uniform charge for all cars.

The section is violated whether or not actual restraints or monopolies, or the substantial lessening of competition, have occurred or are intended.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

During the first pass of Phase 3,, references to the actual addresses of index words and electronic switches are collected and the availability table is updated.

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

In actual practice, the values most readily amenable to measurement are the cutting force Af and the shear angle Aj.

True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.

But this in turn means that decisions are not merely imposed from the top but that there be some actual mechanism of faculty participation.

Supplementing the actual art are memorabilia -- correspondence, diaries, books from the artist's library, etc..

Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way.

In the Orthodox Church, only actual monastics are permitted to be elevated to the rank of Archimandrite.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

This ensures that ΔG and ΔH are nearly the same over a considerable range of temperatures and justifies the approximate empirical Principle of Thomsen and Berthelot, which states that the equilibrium state to which a system proceeds is the one which evolves the greatest amount of heat, i. e. an actual process is the most exothermic one.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

semantics are very strong: they guarantee that the read and write operations to the variable behave exactly as if they happened instantaneously in some point in time which is within the actual time where the operation took place.

Warhol ’ s famous Brillo Boxes are nearly indistinguishable from actual Brillo boxes at the time.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

An abettor differs from an accessory in that he must be present at the commission of the crime ; all abettors ( with certain exceptions ) are principals, and, in the absence of specific statutory provision to the contrary, are punishable to the same extent as the actual perpetrator of the offence.