In its narrow sense, the term is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

The rapid spread of the term may be related to the almost exclusive use of this script to publish sacred Sanskrit texts.

The term " deposit of faith " refers to the entirety of Jesus Christ's revelation, and is passed to successive generations in two different forms, sacred scripture ( the Bible ) and sacred tradition.

Some traditional Catholics have used the term following Vatican II, particularly in defence of the Latin mass and sacred tradition.

Eventually, the largest school of Islamic scholarship applied this term to all non-Muslims living in Islamic lands outside the sacred area surrounding Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The term tree of life may also be used as a synonym for sacred tree.

The term derives from the sacred white elephants kept by Southeast Asian monarchs in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

The term libretto is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as Mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet.

The term priest is derived from the Greek presbyter ( πρεσβύτερος, presbýteros, elder or senior ), but is often used in the sense of sacerdos in particular, i. e., for clergy performing ritual within the sphere of the sacred or numinous communicating with the gods on behalf of the community.

Cheris Shun-ching considers cults to be new religious movements that focus on the individual experience of the encounter with the sacred rather than collective worship, and to that end describes Falun Gong as an " NRM with cult-like characteristics " ( Chan defines a " cult " differently than as the term is usually understood.

Translators who consider the term to be a sacred tree or grove, often render it " terebinth ", a tree notable for its size and age in dry landscapes of the region.

The first use of the term " baritone " emerged as baritonans late in the 15th century, usually in French sacred polyphonic music.

Her name is derived from the Celtic root nemeto -, referring to sacred areas, and is related to nemeton, a term designating Gaulish religious spaces.

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

In the Sioux way of life, Wakan Tanka ( Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka ) is the term for " the sacred " or " the divine ".

In Shamanism, Eliade argues for a restrictive use of the word shaman: it should not apply to just any magician or medicine man, as that would make the term redundant ; at the same time, he argues against restricting the term to the practitioners of the sacred of Siberia and Central Asia ( it is from one of the titles for this function, namely, šamán, considered by Eliade to be of Tungusic origin, that the term itself was introduced into Western languages ).

The term may also be used on religious tax used for maintenance of temples and other sacred places.

The term ' sacred poets ' has been applied, with an argument that they fall between two schools:

" The term was coined as an antithesis to the word hierarchy ( literally, sacred rules ).

The ancient Hebrews perceived that there were poetical portions in their sacred texts, as shown by their entitling as songs or chants passages such as Exodus 15: 1-19 and Numbers 21: 17-20 ; a song or chant ( shir ) is, according to the primary meaning of the term, poetry.

" Film critics sometimes use the term " pejoratively to connote an unrealistic, pathos-filled, campy tale of romance or domestic situations with stereotypical characters ( often including a central female character ) that would directly appeal to feminine audiences.

The Gaelic triangular, wire-strung harp has always been known by the feminine term cruit but by 1204 was certainly known by the masculine term ' clàr ' ( board ) and, by the 14th century, by the feminine form of ' clàr ', i. e., ' clàirseach / clàrsach '.

The term host is most often used to describe a male ( hostess in feminine form ) presenter for an event.

In Arabic language the word " Holy Spirit " does not translate as سكينة Sakinah used in a feminine term.

Women are accorded full status as renunciates and are often called sadhvi, the feminine of the term often used for male munis, sadhu.

The poet Alcman used the term aitis, as the feminine form of aites — which was the official term for the younger participant in a pederastic relationship.

Latina is the feminine form of the term Latino.

As such, the term thealogy has also been used by feminists within mainstream monotheistic religions describe in more detail the feminine aspect of a monotheistic deity or trinity, such as God / dess Herself, or the Heavenly Mother of the Latter Day Saint movement.

In Old Norse, ( or, plural ; feminine, plural ) is the term denoting a member of the principal pantheon in the indigenous European religion known as Norse paganism.

A feminine version of the term in Hebrew, " ba ' alat ha-bayith ", means " the woman of the house ", and traditionally had the connotation of a strong, even dominant, woman, who maintains the household in an effective and result-oriented manner, the Yiddish version of the term being " baalabusta ".

Since there was no feminine Old English or Old Norse equivalent for the term, " Countess " is used ( an Earl is analogous to the Continental count ), from the Latin comes.

The term for an abbess is the feminine form of abbot ( hegumen )— Greek: hegumeni ; ( Igumanija ); Russian: игумения, ( igumenia ).

In the Septuagint the Hebrew term " sin " is sometimes directly translated as " sin "-either by the Greek feminine noun hamartia (" sin " ἁμαρτία ), or less commonly by the neuter noun hamartemata (" result of sin ," " sinful thing " ἁμάρτημα ) thereby duplicating the metonymy in the Hebrew text.

In Early Christianity, the Greek term Εβραία ( feminine ) Εβραίες ( plural ) Εβραί ( masculine ) refers to Christianizing Jews, as opposed to the gentile Christians and Christian Judaizers ( Acts 6: 1 among others ).

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.

* Rota, the feminine form of the Chilean term roto

The growth in the male pantyhose market ( sometimes termed, " mantyhose ", a term coined by the media coverage of this emerging trend ), has been chronicled in a number of popular blogs that have arisen as men have become more open in their wearing of this once only feminine garment.

Rāginī ( Devanagari: र ा ग ि न ी) is a term for the " feminine " counterpart or " wife " to a rāga.

However, the term may also be modified to address a person in the masculine and feminine singular form, the dual form, or the feminine plural form.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The term enquetes demographiques, previously used for the supplementary investigations carried out in connection with the administrative censuses, was used for the new investigations.

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 ''.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

Engages must be loyal to the concessionaires, and must serve until the term provided in the engagement was ended.

The September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible `` irregularities '' in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr..

When the crowd was asked whether it wanted to wait one more term to make the race, it voted no -- and there were no dissents.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

or `` Carmine Theater, 1912 '', the only canvas with an ash can ( and foraging dog ), although Sloan was a member of the famous `` Eight '', and of the so-called `` Ash-Can School '', a term he resented.

The term was introduced into optics by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1760 work Photometria.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.