The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally " regarding the head " ( referring to execution by beheading ).

The term " bowl " originates from the shape of the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, which was built in 1923 and resembled the Yale Bowl, built in 1915.

The term originates from the ( dēmokratía ) " rule of the people ", which was coined from δῆμος ( dêmos ) " people " and κράτος ( kratos ) " power ", around 400 BCE, to denote the political systems then existing in Greek city-states, notably Athens.

The dumpster diving term originates from the best-known manufacturer of commercial trash bins, Dempster, who use the trade name " Dumpster " for their bins, and the fanciful image of someone leaping head first into a dumpster as if it were a swimming pool.

The term dolmen originates from the expression taol maen, which means " stone table " in Breton, and was first used archaeologically in Théophile Corret de la Tour d ' Auvergne's Origines gauloises.

The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods ; other crimes were called misdemeanors.

The term originates from the bedroom at the time of childbirth.

The term originates in the United Kingdom general elections for the House of Commons.

The term comb originates from the similarities between simple harmonicas and a hair comb.

The word originates from the Latin loco – " from a place ", ablative of locus, " place " + Medieval Latin motivus, " causing motion ", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.

This term originates from the thread-like topological defects observed in nematics, which are formally called ' disclinations '.

The term originates from joining mono ( one ) and rail, from as early as 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway ( Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen ).

Although meritocracy as a term is a relatively recent invention, the concept of a government based on standardized examinations originates from the works of Confucius, along with other Legalist and Confucian philosophers.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

The term " nibble " originates from the fact that the term " byte " is a homophone of the English word " bite ".

The term score originates from tally sticks, and is perhaps a remnant of Celtic vigesimal counting.

The term originates from a 1981 show, " New York / New Wave ", curated by artist Diego Cortez.

The term itself originates from Greek: παλαιός ( palaios ) meaning " old, ancient ," ὄν, ὀντ-( on, ont -), meaning " being, creature " and λόγος ( logos ), meaning " speech, thought, study ".

The title originates in the term " pr-aa " which means " great house " and it describes the royal palace.

The term conflict of laws itself originates from situations where the ultimate outcome of a legal dispute depended upon which law applied, and the common law courts manner of resolving the conflict between those laws.

The term originates from the meaning " alongside ", and psychology.

The term " profane " originates from classical Latin " profanus ", literally " before ( outside ) the temple ".

The term when adopted into ecclesiastical usage retained much of its original significance.

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.

From the Greek paroikia, the dwellingplace of the priest, eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus ( c. 602 – 690 ) applied to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, the ecclesiastical term parish.

A Stated Clerk is elected to a four year term and is responsible for the Office of the General Assembly which conducts the ecclesiastical work of the church.

It did not however impose the Aristotelian theory of substance and accidents: it spoke only of the species ( the appearances ), not the philosophical term " accidents ", and the word " substance " was in ecclesiastical use for many centuries before Aristotelian philosophy was adopted in the West, as shown for instance by its use in the Nicene Creed which speaks of Christ having the same " οὐσία " ( Greek ) or " substantia " ( Latin ) as the Father.

A diocese also may be referred to as a bishopric or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bishop, and the term bishopric to the post of being bishop.

There can be no doubt that the term ' Gothic ' as applied to pointed styles of ecclesiastical architecture was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival of classical literature.

Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical and concert music.

( Although the title " Magistral " was originally granted by Cardinal Cisneros, the building was still technically only a Collegiate Church, and not yet a Cathedral within the ecclesiastical meaning of the term.

In the revision a number of switches were made to the New Testament in the direction of more " ecclesiastical " language ( e. g. introducing the term " charity " into I Corinthians 13 ), but otherwise to correct the text more in line with that found in the Geneva Bible ; and in the Old Testament, the Psalms from the Great Bible were printed alongside those in the new translation — which had proved impossible to sing.

The term " pontiff " was later applied to any high or chief priest and, in Christian ecclesiastical usage, to a bishop and more particularly to the Bishop of Rome, the Pope or " Roman Pontiff ".

Previously, the use of the term had been restricted to an official who recorded the decisions, or ‘ acts ’, of ecclesiastical courts.

Heterodoxy is also an ecclesiastical term of art, defined in various ways by different religions and churches.

When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, the term may be abbreviated to " Pr " or often " Ps.

Some scholars believe that the term, when used in the context of the ecclesiastical courts of England in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, also " meant the law that is common to the universal church, as opposed to the constitutions or special customs or privileges of any provincial church.

The term exarch entered ecclesiastical language at first for a metropolitan ( a bishop ) with jurisdiction not only for the area that was his as a metropolitan, but also over other metropolitans.

The term originated in the medieval church, where it signified a post without any responsibility for the " care of souls ", the regular liturgical and pastoral functions of a cleric, but came to be applied to any post, secular or ecclesiastical, that involved little or no actual work.

Sinecure, properly a term of ecclesiastical law for a benefice without the cure of souls, in the English Church arose when the rector had no care of souls nor resided in the parish, the work of the incumbent being performed by a vicar.

They have as much right to membership there as in any of the other political parties under a free government .... No one would dream of censuring the Democratic Party because the founder of that party, Thomas Jefferson, was an infidel in the ecclesiastical sense of the term.

Winnie functions on the ecclesiastical principle that there is a time for everything and the proper time for certain things to take place is in the daytime, ‘ day ’ being an abstract notion since there is only constant daylight in this place ; she would not think of singing her song after the bell for sleep had gone which is why, when she uses the term, she refers to it as “ the old style ”.

Although the term papash ( literally, ' pope ') is unusual, and the normal Syriac name for China is Beth Sinaye, not Sinistan, there is no reason to doubt that Adam was the metropolitan of the Nestorian ecclesiastical province of Beth Sinaye, created half a century earlier during the reign of the patriarch Sliba-zkha ( 714 – 28 ).

In modern Croatian and Slovenian, the term župa means an ecclesiastical parish.

The term may also refer to the official removal of a clergyman, especially a bishop, from ecclesiastical office.