The term " last rites " refers to administration to a dying person not only of this sacrament but also of Penance and Holy Communion, the last of which, when administered in such circumstances, is known as " Viaticum ", a word whose original meaning in Latin was " provision for the journey ".

The term started to get its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's second civil war, making himself the first Dictator in more than a century ( during which the office was ostensibly abolished ) as well as de facto eliminating the time limit and need of senatorial acclamation, although he avoided a major constitutional crisis by resigning the office after about one year due to poor health, dying shortly after.

The first apparent usage of the term " euthanasia " belongs to the historian Suetonius who described how the Emperor Augustus, " dying quickly and without suffering in the arms of his wife, Livia, experienced the ' euthanasia ' he had wished for.

Viaticum is a term used especially in the Roman Catholic Church for the Eucharist ( communion ) administered, with or without anointing of the sick, to a person who is dying, and is thus a part of the last rites.

Despite the unpopularity of the Liberals during the dying days of Gladstone's First Government, he became president of the Oxford Union in the Trinity ( summer ) term of his fourth year.

Presidential nominee Lemke continued to serve in Congress as a Republican, eventually dying in office while serving an eighth term.

In an everyday example, there is a continuity equation for the number of living humans ; it has a " source term " to account for people giving birth, and a " sink term " to account for people dying.

Opponents of this bill want the term to apply only to dying animals who are assisted by medication to die and not to be used for the humane slaughter of animals in shelters.

Unable to convince the state legislature to grant him another term ( U. S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures until the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment ), he returned to his Chattanooga law practice, dying in that city in 1937 and being buried in its Forest Hill Cemetery.

He won the special election and served the balance of Cooper's term and five subsequent ones, dying in the first month of his seventh term.

According to those students, he was such a devoted educator that even as he was dying, he made certain to finish grading their term papers.

Bruce Tremper used the term in The Avalanche Review, stating that being " a man " is best proven by dying " a stupendously violent death.

However, Moravec himself asserts: The term ‘ new tonalist ’ is a little outdated simply because of the passage of time It had more relevance a few decades ago, when late modernism was dying or even dead.

On October 15, 1890, Chief-of-Police David C. Hennessy was shot, and reportedly his dying words informed a colleague that he was shot by " Dagos ", an insulting term for Italians.

Born into a prominent Lincolnshire family, William Hutchinson was the grandson of John Hutchinson ( 1515-1565 ) who had been Sheriff, Alderman, and Mayor of the town of Lincoln, dying in office during his second term as mayor.

Literally meaning ' dead body ' or ' dying body ,' the term is used to describe a wrestler who was not first to fall or touch outside the ring, but who had no chance of winning owing to the superior technique of his opponent.

Waddle's successor, Mr Barnes, served for scarcely a year before dying in office, and between 1947 and 1960 the post was held by a further three relatively short term Principals: Dr Watkin ; Mr Copeman and Mr Cafferky.

The term euthanasia comes from the Greek words " eu "- meaning good and " thanatos "- meaning death, which combined means “ well-death ” or " dying well ".

The name of the god may have been derived from bragr, or the term bragr may have been formed to describe ' what Bragi does '.

Krishna consciousness, for example, is a term used to mean an intimate linkage between the mind of a worshipper and the god Krishna.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The word is from Old English godsibb, from god and sibb, the term for the godparents of one's child or the parents of one's godchild, generally very close friends.

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

The latter term is an extension of " henotheism ", from ( kath ' hena theon ) —" one god at a time ".

The reinterpretation presenting him as an īśvara shows a strong influence of Śaivism, as the term īśvara was usually connected to the Hindu notion of Śiva as a creator god and ruler of the world.

Although the word is sometimes translated as " god " or " deity ", some Shinto scholars argue that such a translation can cause a misunderstanding of the term.

The term is ultimately derived from Latin, and means " Arts of Mars ," where Mars is the Roman god of war.

Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal or anthropomorphic god, but differ in exact interpretation of the term.

Roman Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as " son of a god " via the term divi filius which was later also used by Domitian and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament.

The term theism derives from the Greek theos meaning " god ".

The term is deemed central to Setian philosophy and practice, having been introduced at the founding of the Temple of Set in 1975, when Aquino made the claim that the Egyptian god Set communicated the word Xeper in the sense of " become " to him during the " North Solstice X Working " aka " The Santa Barbara Working.

The term " anthropomorphism " comes from two Greek words, anthropos meaning man, and morphos meaning shape or form ; so " anthropomorphism " describes any belief according to which something non-human, such as a god, an animal, or a plant, is thought of as being like human beings.

The term wolþu-" glory ", possibly in reference to the god, is attested on the 3rd century Thorsberg chape ( as owlþu -),

Unlike the Old English word god ( and Old Norse ), the term () was never adopted into Christian use and survived only in a secularized meaning of " pole, beam, stave, hill " or " yoke ".

Indeed, the term the Egyptians most commonly used to describe the temple building, ḥwt-nṯr, means " mansion ( or enclosure ) of a god ".

But, it is explicitly stated in Buddhist sutras that the worship of an Ishvara ( an ancient South Asian term for a creator god, most likely not referring to the Abrahamic God who may not have been known in South Asia during the Buddha's lifetime, but given the context meaning either Shiva, Kali or Brahma ) is unnecessary to the attainment of Nirvana, as the Buddha believed worshipers are still trapped in an endless cycle of rebirth ( Samsara ).

The term " Seir " was also used by the Egyptians to refer to the constellation Orion, which was considered to be a representation of the god Osiris in the heavens.

William Warde Fowler says these priests should have been concerned with lightningbolts, bidental being both the technical term for the puteal, the hole resembling a well left by strikes onto the ground and for the victims used to placate the god and purify the site.

The earliest known reference to the term " Hunab Ku " ( which translates as " Sole God " or " Only God ") appears in the 16th century Diccionario de Motul, where " Hunab-ku " is identified as " the only living and true god, also the greatest of the gods of the people of Yucatan.

The primary meaning of the term ḥeḥ was " million " or " millions "; subsequently, a personification of Ḥeḥ was adopted as the Egyptian god of infinity.

The basic sense of the term is goddess, the feminine of the Latin word divus ( Italian divo ), someone deified after death, or Latin deus, a god.