In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The term euphemism itself was used as a euphemism by the ancient Greeks, meaning " to keep a holy silence " ( speaking well by not speaking at all ).

( Matthew avoids using the holy word God in the expression " Kingdom of God "; instead he prefers the term " Kingdom of Heaven ", reflecting the Jewish tradition of not speaking the name of God ).

The term sacrum ( i. e., " holy " in the sense of " consecrated ") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used from 1157, under Frederick I Barbarossa (" Holy Empire "; the form " Holy Roman Empire " is attested from 1254 onward ).

The term " holy spirit " only occurs three times in the Hebrew Bible.

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

Though grammatical gender has no bearing on actual gender in non-personal nouns, the term holy spirit translates in and is used in the masculine form in all the Qur ' an.

As fellow monotheists, Muslims view Jews as " people of the book ", a term that Jews have subsequently adopted as a way of describing their own connection to the Torah and other holy texts.

In western societies the term jihad is often translated by non-Muslims as " holy war ".

In Jewish eschatology, the term came to refer to a future Jewish King from the Davidic line, who will be " anointed " with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age.

The term punned on the Taoist custom of " cleansing / washing the heart / mind " (, xǐ xīn ) prior to conducting certain ceremonies or entering certain holy places.

Two years later in 1157 the term " sacrum " ( i. e. " holy ") first appeared in a document in connection with his Empire.

Beyond this is the D ' bhir or holy of holies ( from which is derived the term " M ' dbha "), and can also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall for occasions as well as offices for bookkeeping.

The term " sacrum " ( i. e. " holy ") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was first used in 1157 under Frederick I Barbarossa.

* Preah is a Khmer term meaning " God " or " King " it can also be a prefix meaning " sacred " or " holy ".

This term describes every creature and object as wakȟáŋ (" holy ") or having aspects that are wakȟáŋ.

The cognate term in Old Norse is urðr, with a similar meaning, but also personalized as one of the Norns, Urðr ( anglicized as Urd ) and appearing in the name of the holy well Urðarbrunnr in Norse mythology.

The Arabic term has a meaning of " sanctuary " or " holy site " in Islam.

In addition, the term is commonly used to refer to certain other holy sites, such as the Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem — though over the protests of some, such as Ibn Taymiya, who declared that the only places which could be legitimately called "" were Mecca, Medina, and probably also the valley of Wajj in Ta ' if ( but definitely not either Jerusalem or Hebron ).

The Presbyterian Church uses the term " Maundy Thursday " to refer to the holy day in its official sources.

A seminal passage in the Book of Isaiah ( 6. 1-8 ) used the term to describe fiery six-winged beings that fly around God's throne singing " holy, holy, holy ".

Messiah (; mashiah, moshiah, mashiach, or moshiach, " anointed ") is a term used in the Hebrew Bible to describe priests and kings, who were traditionally anointed with holy anointing oil as described in Exodus 30: 22-25.

In Jewish eschatology, the term came to refer to a future Jewish King from the Davidic line, who will be " anointed " with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age.

As used in this Act, the term ' saline water ' includes sea water, brackish water, and other mineralized or chemically charged water, and the term ' United States ' extends to and includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories and possessions of the United States.

The term was initially used generally as an adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters.

* Lo mein – The term means " stirred noodles "; these noodles are frequently made with eggs and flour, making them chewier than simply using water.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

The H — OH or H < sub > 2 </ sub > O is then released as a molecule of water, hence the term dehydration.

It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.

A bain-marie (; also known as a water bath in English,,, or ) is a French term for a piece of equipment used in science, industry, and cooking to heat materials gently and gradually to fixed temperatures, or to keep materials warm over a period of time.

Similarly, the somewhat related term " bank " refers to the land alongside or sloping down to a river ( riverbank ) or to a body of water smaller than a lake.

The term is also used as a verb, to describe carbonation: the process of raising the concentrations of carbonate and bicarbonate ions in water to produce carbonated water and other carbonated beverages — either by the addition of carbon dioxide gas under pressure, or by dissolving carbonate or bicarbonate salts into the water.

Ap () is the Vedic Sanskrit term for water, in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural is not an element. v, ( sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ), whence Hindi.

The term is from PIE h < sub > x </ sub > ap water.

Compare the ingredients listed ( spirits, sugar, water, and bitters ) with the ingredients of an Old Fashioned, which originated as a term used by late 19th century bar patrons to distinguish cocktails made the “ old-fashioned ” way from newer, more complex cocktails.

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

Before the 20th century, jewelers used the term water as in " a gem of the finest water " to express the combination of two qualities, color and crystal.

* Bonnet, plumbing term for part of an irrigation sprinkler

: Note: the term " fire control " may also refer to means of stopping a fire, such as sprinkler systems.

Depending on regional nomenclature, the term " Dry riser " may refer to a standpipe, intended to provide water to hose connections, or a vertical main pipe in an automatic dry pipe fire sprinkler system.