The term Vascuence, derived from Latin vasconĭce, has acquired negative connotations over the centuries and is not well liked amongst Basque speakers generally.

One of the earliest articulations of the anthropological meaning of the term " culture " came from Sir Edward Tylor who writes on the first page of his 1897 book: “ Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society .” The term " civilization " later gave way to definitions by V. Gordon Childe, with culture forming an umbrella term and civilization becoming a particular kind of culture.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

Druze villages spread and prospered in that region, which under Ma ' an leadership so flourished that it acquired the generic term of Jabal Bayt-Ma ' an ( the mountain of the Ma ' an family ) or Jabal al-Druze.

Later, the term acquired a broader meaning in philosophy, where it is formulated as the problem of limiting the beliefs that have to be updated in response to actions.

Although the term Gulag originally referred to a government agency, the acronym acquired the qualities of a common noun, denoting: the Soviet system of prison-based, unfree labor — including specific labor, punishment, criminal, political, and transit camps for men, women, and children.

Immunosuppressants, such as prednisone may provide long term relief for patients with some forms of the acquired disorder.

Nirvāṇa (;, nibbāna ; ) is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Indian religions to describe the profound peace of mind that is acquired with moksha ( liberation ).

While most cell biologists consider the term organelle to be synonymous with " cell compartment ", other cell biologists choose to limit the term organelle to include only those that are DNA-containing, having originated from formerly autonomous microscopic organisms acquired via endosymbiosis.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

The term social research has also acquired a degree of autonomy as practitioners from various disciplines share in its aims and methods.

By the latter part of the century it had acquired a slightly arcane quality associated with the era of variety, but the term is still in active use .<

Peirce's definition of the term " semiotic " as the study of necessary features of signs also has the effect of distinguishing the discipline from linguistics as the study of contingent features that the world's languages happen to have acquired in the course of human evolution.

The sense the word has in English depends in large part on the sense the Latin and Greek equivalents had acquired in Patristic and medieval Christian usage, though the English term has now spread beyond Christian contexts.

Following the abandonment of the Vehmic courts, the term acquired a connotation of mob rule and lynching.

Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, the term has tended to acquire acquired a negative connotation, and in much academic discourse become shorthand for Western feelings of superiority over, and overlooking of the views of, Asian and North African cultures.

The term was first used in 1895 to explain that evolution occurs solely through natural selection, in other words, without any mechanism involving the inheritance of acquired characteristics resulting from use or disuse.

In the 19th century in Europe, the term athletics acquired a more narrow definition and came to describe sports involving competitive running, walking, jumping and throwing.

This was largely facilitated by the excellent governance of the Republic ( which acquired the term model republic ) and the compensation from the British for the loss of the diamond rich Griqualand area.

The term appears in Marx's article in the New-York Daily Tribune article " The Emancipation Question ," January 17 and 22, 1859, although there the term is used to describe humans who act like a capital to the producers, rather than in the modern sense of " knowledge capital " endowed to or acquired by humans.

The class did not survive the Revolution ; but the courtesy title of abbé, having long lost all connection in people's minds with any special ecclesiastical function, remained as a convenient general term applicable to any clergyman.

It lacks the NH < sub > 2 </ sub > group because of the cyclization of the side-chain and is known as an imino acid ; it falls under the category of special structured amino acids .</ ref > where R is an organic substituent known as a " side-chain "); often the term " amino acid " is used to refer specifically to these.

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.

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

: The term stabistor refers to a special type of diodes featuring extremely stable forward voltage characteristics.

" This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers ( including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and Hanfeizi ), has special meaning within the context of Daoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe.

In practice, this means the government remains in power for close to its full term, and choose an election date it calculates to be in its best interests ( unless something special happens, such as a motion of no-confidence ).

The more technical term, " costume ," has become so linked in the public eye with the term " fashion " that the more general term " costume " has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term " fashion " means clothing generally, and the study of it.

The same experimental data shows that time as measured by clocks in a gravitational field — proper time, to give the technical term — does not follow the rules of special relativity.

Some people use realization for the general notion and reserve the term representation for the special case of linear representations.

The term Holy Orders is used by many Christian churches to refer to ordination or to those individuals ordained for a special role or ministry.

In the 8th century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region.

Politics ( from Greek politikos " of, for, or relating to citizens ") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society.

Impeachment can be pronounced by the High Court, a special court convened from both houses of Parliament on the proposal of either House, should the president have failed to discharge his duties in a way that evidently precludes the continuation of his term.

The term " airmail " or an equivalent is usually printed on special airmail stamps.

Other primary aspects of Japanese science fiction TV are the superhero tokusatsu ( a term literally meaning special effects ) series, pioneered by programs such as Moonlight Mask and Planet Prince.

The broad term " special effects " includes all the techniques here, but more commonly there are two categories of effects.

With the revival of the Roman law in the 14th century in Europe, this Latin term was used to refer to the legal standing of persons ( such as the various " estates of the realm "-noble, common, and clerical ), and in particular the special status of the king.