In the context of the English language gnosis generally refers to the word's meaning within the spheres of Christian mysticism, Mystery religions and Gnosticism where it signifies a ' spiritual knowledge ' or religion of knowledge, in the sense of mystical enlightenment or ' insight '.

This should be viewed in the context that there is really no form of original Judaica which does not believe in daily miracles and mysticism, a Jew's whole life technically speaking has always related to mysticism and the Ruach Hakodesh.

Jacob is also the protagonist of the Testament of Jacob, of the Ladder of Jacob and of the Prayer of Joseph, which interpret the experience of this Patriarch in the context of merkabah mysticism.

The work of such writers as Pico Della Mirandola, who attempted to reconcile Jewish Kabbalah and Christian mysticism, brought Hermeticism into a context more easily understood by Europeans in the Renaissance.

Therefore, the Emerging Church is operating in a new context of postmodern spirituality, as a new form of mysticism.

This writing, preserved only in Old Church Slavonic, interprets the experience of Patriarchs in the context of Merkabah mysticism.

Many authors and artists have since used tulpas in their works, both in the context of fiction and in writing about mysticism.

This blending of a pagan sense of the divine into a Christian context stands for much of what appealed to Pound in medieval mysticism.

In the Weltanschauung of Scholem, the research of Jewish mysticism could not be separated from its historical context.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about " Cynara ", the phrase " gone with the wind " alludes to erotic loss.

John Painter states that phrase " who was called Christ " is used by Josephus in this passage " by way of distinguishing him from others of the same name such as the high priest Jesus son of Damneus, or Jesus son of Gamaliel " both having been mentioned by Josephus in this context.

It has often been assumed that, in England, jumping over the broom ( or sometimes walking over a broom ), always indicated an irregular or non-church union ( as in the expressions " Married over the besom ", " living over the brush "), but there are examples of the phrase being used in the context of legal weddings, both religious and civil.

The software analyzing sentences was also self-learning, so one phrase used metaphorically to describe something should not be used in the same context again.

Therefore, supporters of gun rights generally consider the use of the phrase " assault weapon " to be pejorative when used to describe these civilian firearms, and this term is seldom used outside of the United States in this context.

In the following classic examples, as humans, we are able to interpret the prepositional phrase according to the context because we use our world knowledge, stored in our lexicons:

A specific use of the phrase is in the context of the vacancy of the Holy See between the death or resignation of a Pope and the election of his successor.

They have also said that the revision of the words of consecration of the wine invalidates the sacrament by moving the phrase mysterium fidei ( in the English translation, " the mystery of faith "), from the middle of the formula of consecration of the wine to after it and changing its context from, they say, referring to the transubstantiated Sacrament to the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection.

The humor in the punch line may be due to the sudden, unexpected recognition of a familiar saying, since the story has nothing to do with the usual context in which the phrase is normally found, yet the listener is surprised to discover it makes sense in both situations.

4 ", and the phrase " is true " is completely dispensable in this and every other context.

The term Westminster Village, sometimes used in the context of British politics, does not refer to a geographical area at all ; employed especially in the phrase Westminster Village gossip, it denotes a supposedly close social circle of Members of Parliament, political journalists, so-called spin doctors and others connected to events in the Palace of Westminster.

Coleridge coined the phrase in his Biographia Literaria, published in 1817, in the context of the creation and reading of poetry.

Petitio ( from peto ), in the post-classical context in which the phrase arose, means " assuming " or " postulating ," but in the older classical sense means " petition ," " request ," or " beseeching.

** A homophoric reference is a generic phrase that obtains a specific meaning through knowledge of its context.

* Jack Williamson's 1947 novella With Folded Hands features the phrase Prime Directive prominently, however in this context it refers to the attempts by a race of humanoid robots to make all of humanity happy, which leads to a form of pampered slavery.

However, he was prepared for philosophical criticism of this action at a distance, and it was in this context that he stated the famous phrase " I feign no hypotheses ".

Though the term common name is not much used in this context, it would mean a noun ( or a noun phrase ) that is not a proper name ( Swiss cheese, and the common noun bluebird, are both common names in this sense ).

In the context of journalism, a sound bite is characterized by a short phrase or sentence that captures the essence of what the speaker was trying to say, and is used to summarize information and entice the reader or viewer.

Explanatory information takes the form of a present participle phrase, a quoted sentence, or a short statement that is appropriate in context

: When a complete participial phrase is unnecessary in context, a shorter parenthetical may be substituted:

The term " Islamic " refers not only to the religion, but to any form of art created in an Islamic culture or in an Islamic context.

Bandwidth typically refers to baseband bandwidth in the context of, for example, sampling theorem and Nyquist sampling rate, while it refers to passband bandwidth in the context of Nyquist symbol rate or Shannon-Hartley channel capacity for communication systems.

In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term " climate change " often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming.

In an Australian context, the term " Commonwealth " ( capitalised ) thus refers to the federal government and " Commonwealth of Australia " is the official name of the country.

Methanides in general chemical context refers to any compound that hydrolyzes to methane, which might include also salts with hydrogenated anions such as,, and.

However, in the context of explosives, stability commonly refers to ease of detonation, which is concerned with kinetics ( i. e., rate of decomposition ).

In this context the term " professional " ( used for the first category ) as opposed to " amateur " ( used for the second and third ) refers only to the professionalism of the used medium, and not to the professionalism of the language itself or its creator.

The term gaming in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law.

In this context, a " hack " refers to a program that ( sometimes illegally ) modifies another program, often a video game, giving the user access to features otherwise inaccessible to them.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

In this context, the term usually refers to the Shannon entropy, which quantifies the expected value of the information contained in a message.

The word literally means " blown out " ( as in a candle ) and refers, in the Buddhist context, to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished.

The musical terms " piano " and " forte " mean " quiet " and " loud ," and in this context refers to the variations in volume of sound the instrument produces in response to a pianist's touch on the keys: the greater a key press's velocity, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the string ( s ), and the louder the note produced.

In this context, linguists today use jargon to denote a particularly rudimentary type of pidgin ; however, this usage is rather rare, and the term jargon most often refers to the words particular to a given profession.

A sect as used in an Indian context refers to an organized tradition.

In the context of business information exchanges, standardisation refers to the process of developing data exchange standards for specific business processes using specific syntaxes.

In the context of customer service, standardisation refers to the process of developing an international standard that enables organizations to focus their attention on delivering excellence in customer service, whilst at the same time providing recognition of success through a third party organization, such as British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

In a sexual context, scatology refers to the romanticism of fecal matter, whether in passing admiration, the use of feces in various sexual acts, or simply the act of seeing it.

In such constructions tradition refers to specific values and materials particular to the discussed context, passed through generations.