Moreover, although Reverend Peters claimed that the term blue law was originally used by Puritan colonists, his work has since been found to be unreliable.

* Some use the term " Catholic " to distinguish their own position from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Reformed-Protestantism.

the writings of William Bradshaw who adopted the term " Puritan " as self-identification, and the beginnings of congregationalism.

At this point, the term Dissenter came to include " Puritan ", but more accurately describes those ( clergy or lay ) who " dissented " from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.

The word " Puritan " is applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches ( and religious groups within the Anglican Church ) from the later 16th century onwards, and Puritans did not originally use the term for themselves, considering that it was a term of abuse that first surfaced in the 1560s.

" This was the Puritan term for the verse ascription used at the conclusion of every hymn, like the " Gloria ," at the end of a chanted psalm.

In the Millenary Petition of 1603, the Puritan clergy demanded, among other things, the abolition of confirmation, wedding rings, and the term " priest ", and that the wearing of cap and surplice become optional.

The term " little England " predates its political usage ; the expression " this little England " was used in the Gunpowder Day sermon of the English Puritan preacher Thomas Hooker ( 5 November 1626 ).

While many groups are referred to by this term, it is more commonly used for tribes that were organized into villages, known as praying towns by those such as Puritan leader John Eliot, and Jesuit Missionaries of St. Regis and Kahnawake ( formerly known as Caughnawaga ) and as well as the Missionaries among the Hurons in western Ontario.

" By some lights, these clergy constituted an emerging Puritan faction, and that word was indeed first recorded as being in use at this time as term of abuse for nonconformists.

Freeman is a term which originated in 12th century Europe and is common as an English or American Colonial expression in Puritan times.

no sort of pricing at all for any goods or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

When used in the broader sense, the term can include many different groups.

The term " alphabet " is used by linguists and paleographers in both a wide and a narrow sense.

The term android was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam in his work Tomorrow's Eve ( 1886 ).

From such uncertainties, that characterize ongoing work, stems the unavailability of a definition of algorithm that suits both concrete ( in some sense ) and abstract usage of the term.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

The term " ataxia " is sometimes used in a broader sense to indicate lack of coordination in some physiological process.

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

In Germany, the term Asatru is used in the wider sense of Germanic neopaganism.

Anti-realism in the sense that Dummett uses the term is also often called semantic anti-realism.

Nowadays, " Afghan " is usually not used as an ethnic term, but as a national demonym for all citizens of Afghanistan, while " Pashtun "-the native ethnonym of this people-is largely used in a linguistic sense to refer to native speakers of Pashto.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

He argues that the term " anti-globalization " is a term coined by the media, and that radical activists are actually more in favor of globalization, in the sense of " effacement of borders and the free movement of people, possessions and ideas " than are the IMF or WTO.

In some cases, the term admiralty is used in a wider sense, as meaning sea power or rule over the seas, rather than in strict reference to the institution exercising such power.

Duns Scotus ( 1300 ) and Durandus of Saint-Pourçain ( 1320 ) admit the term Filius adoptivus in a qualified sense.

The term is also used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world scenario.

In Australia, the term barratry is predominantly used in the first sense of a frivolous or harassing litigant.

In later Theravāda literature, the term " bodhisatta " is used fairly frequently in the sense of someone on the path to liberation.

The term epískopos was not from the earliest times clearly distinguished from the term presbýteros (" elder ", " senior ", nowadays used to signify a priest ), but the term was already clearly used in the sense of the order or office of bishop, distinct from that of priest in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch ( died c. 108 ), and sources from the middle of the 2nd century undoubtedly set forth that all the chief centres of Christianity recognized and had the office of bishop, using a form of organization that remained universal until the Protestant Reformation.

An explanation suggests that the delegates were bishops in the actual sense of the term, but that they did not possess fixed sees nor had they a special title.

This article will restrict the use of the term ' asteroid ' to the minor planets of the inner Solar System.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced the term " judicial activism " in a January 1947 Fortune magazine article titled " The Supreme Court: 1947.

However, the term came into wide use only after the publication of a review article by O. Jacobsen in the chemical dictionary of Albert Ladenburg in the 1880s.

The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".

This article uses the term " content control ", a term also used on occasion by CNN, Playboy magazine the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times.

* 1988 — Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy publish the article An architecture for a business and information system in IBM Systems Journal where they introduce the term " business data warehouse ".

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

A 1995 news article includes an early usage of the term by Jim Garvin, a Vietnam veteran who became a Trappist monk in the Holy Cross Abbey of Berryville, Virginia, and went on to lead the economic development of Phoenix, Arizona.

Barth also shows that the term was primarily popularized by the patriotic German newspaper Deutsche Tageszeitung that repeatedly quoted the Neue Zürcher article after Hindenburg had referred to it in front of the parliamentary inquiry commission.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

The term has also been used to describe the analysis of the genetic code information encoded in DNA-see the Human Genome Project article for more on this.

While the term is applied to events and conditions without agency, the forms of evil addressed in this article presume an evildoer or doers.

Dyson says that he used the term " artificial biosphere " in the article meaning a habitat, not a shape.

Many recent examples are " backronyms " ( acronyms made up to explain a term ), as in " snob ", and " posh " for " port outward, starboard homeward "; many other sourced examples are listed in the article on backronyms.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

The first use of the term has been dated to a 1 April 1963 syndicated newspaper article about the first stages of computerization of the US Internal Revenue Service.

Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title " Stalking the Wily Hacker ", an article by Clifford Stoll in the May 1988 issue of the Communications of the ACM.

An article from MIT's student paper The Tech used the term hacker in this context already in 1963 in its pejorative meaning for someone messing with the phone system.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The term identity element is often shortened to identity ( as will be done in this article ) when there is no possibility of confusion.

See the spacecraft propulsion article for a discussion of a number of other technologies that could, in the medium to longer term, be the basis of interplanetary missions.

The term " kluge " as an overly-complicated or obscure contraption dates back at least to 1947, as evidenced by the article in the New York Folklore Quarterly, but the term must have been in use long before that for the story to have any sense.

See the electromagnetic radiation article for the general term.