He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined.

To describe this being, Steiner periodically used terms such as the " Representative of Humanity " or the " good spirit " rather than any denominational term.

The term ' Copenhagen interpretation ' suggests something more than just a spirit, such as some definite set of rules for interpreting the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, presumably dating back to the 1920s.

As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.

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

( Found once in Psalm 51: 11 and twice in Isaiah 63: 10, 11 ) Although, the term " spirit " in the Hebrew Scriptures, in reference to " God's spirit ", does occur more times.

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.

The term " hesychasm ", he said, refers to a practice of prayer marked by deep tranquillity of the spirit intent on contemplating God unceasingly by invoking the name of Jesus.

** Petroleum spirit ( North American term: gasoline, British term: petrol )

In contemporary Chinese society, tongzhi ( same goal or spirit ) is the term used to refer to homosexuals ; most Chinese are reluctant to divide this classification further to identify lesbians.

Dawkins apparently did not intend to present a comprehensive theory of memetics in The Selfish Gene, but rather coined the term meme in a speculative spirit.

The term moxie, when used in a common sense, is synonymous with courage or spirit.

However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience.

The first of these uses the term to refer to " anybody who contacts a spirit world while in an altered state of consciousness.

" The second definition limits the term to refer to those who contact a spirit world while in an altered state of consciousness at the behest of others.

What does this term " spirit " mean?

Huxley coined the term " phanerothyme ," from the Greek terms for " manifest " ( φανερός ) and " spirit " ( θυμός ).

In several instances of Etruscan art, such as in the François Tomb in Vulci, a spirit of the dead is identified by the term hinthial, literally "( one who is ) underneath ".

In Latter Day Saints theology, the term spirit world refers to the realm where the spirits of the dead await the resurrection.

First, LDS Church scripture uses the term outer darkness to refer to a condition in the spirit world.

Its name derives from the anglicized version of the Cowlitz Indian term, Cow-e-liske, meaning either “ river of shifting sands ” or “ capturing the medicine spirit .” It was formed on April 21, 1854.

In photonics, the term bandwidth occurs in a variety of meanings:

The term " coastal zone " can be used instead, which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs.

Heisenberg never used the term collapse, preferring to speak of the wavefunction representing our knowledge of a system, and collapse as the " jumping " of the wavefunction to a new state, representing a " jump " in our knowledge which occurs once a particular phenomenon is registered by the experimenter ( i. e. when an observation takes place ).

The identification of libertarianism with neo-classical liberalism primarily occurs in the United States, where some conservatives and right-libertarians use the term classical liberalism to describe their belief in the primacy of economic freedom and minimal government.

An example occurs that involves the term " barney ", which has been used to mean an altercation or fight since the late 19th century, although without a clear derivation.

This process often occurs in English ( e. g. speed or crank for meth ) and is really slang formation, as it often is not intended to substitute a softer term.

The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modern evolutionary synthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.

Transubstantiation is the term used by Roman Catholics to denote what is changed, not to explain how the transformation occurs, since the Catholic Church teaches that " the signs of bread and wine become, in a way surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of Christ ".

Thus in each term ( endothermic & exothermic ) the prefix refers to where heat goes as the reaction occurs.

An early recorded mention of the term " El Niño " to refer to climate occurs in 1892, when Captain Camilo Carrillo told the Geographical society congress in Lima that Peruvian sailors named the warm northerly current " El Niño " because it was most noticeable around Christmas.

This occurs in the context of Irenaeus ' work On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called, ( Greek: elenchos kai anatrope tes pseudonymou gnoseos genitive case, ἔλεγχος καὶ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ) where the term " knowledge falsely so-called " ( nominative case pseudonymos gnosis ) covers various groups, not just Valentinus, and is a quotation of the apostle Paul's warning against " knowledge falsely so-called " in 1 Timothy 6: 20.

It may here be requisite for me to explain, that by the term Hypnotism, or Nervous Sleep, which frequently occurs in the following pages, I mean a peculiar condition of the nervous system, into which it may be thrown by artificial contrivance, and which differs, in several respects, from common sleep or the waking condition.

Neither this term nor the equivalent for " eunuch " occurs in the Qur ' an, but the term does appear in the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad, which have a secondary status to the central text.

The designation " memoirs of the apostles " occurs twice in Justin's First Apology ( 66. 3, 67. 3 – 4 ) and thirteen times in the Dialogue, mostly in his interpretation of Psalm 22, whereas the term " gospel " is used only three times, once in 1 Apol.

The first recorded use of the term ' longbow ', as distinct from simply ' bow ', occurs in a Paston Letter of the 15th century.

An early triumph of Luthor's first term occurs during the Our Worlds at War comic book crossover, in which he coordinates the U. S. Army, Earth's superheroes, and a number of untrustworthy alien forces to battle the main villain of the story arc, Imperiex.

A more practical definition of the term describes it as changes occurring on geological time scales, in contrast to microevolution, which occurs on the timescale of human lifetimes.

When there has also been an osteoporotic fracture ( also termed " low trauma-fracture " or " fragility fracture "), defined as one that occurs as a result of a fall from a standing height, the term " severe or established " osteoporosis is used.

The term occurs only twice in the Septuagint ( 2 Maccabees 8: 12 and 15: 21 ) in its ordinary meaning of arrival.

The term solstice can also be used in a broader sense, as the date ( day ) when this occurs.

In FM broadcasting and other analog radio media, multiplexing is a term commonly given to the process of adding subcarriers to the audio signal before it enters the transmitter, where modulation occurs.

This last occurs in transmission line theory, the term secondary being used to contrast to the primary line coefficients.