The term thealogy is sometimes used in the context of the Neopagan Goddess movement, a pun on theology and thea θεά " goddess " intended to suggest a feminist approach to theism.

Carol P. Christ used the term in 1987, and further defined thealogy in her 2002 essay, " Feminist theology as post-traditional thealogy ," as " the reflection on the meaning of the Goddess " ( p79 ).

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.

Carol Christ used the term more substantially in " Laughter of Aphrodite " ( 1987 ), acknowledging that those who create thealogy cannot avoid being influenced by the categories and questions posed in Christian and Jewish theologies ( Christ 1987, p. xii ).

Thus the term asteroid has come increasingly to refer specifically to the small bodies of the inner Solar System out to the orbit of Jupiter, which are usually rocky or metallic.

However, since " bronze " is a somewhat imprecise term, and historical pieces have variable compositions, in particular with an unclear boundary with brass, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older objects increasingly use the more cautious and inclusive term " copper alloy " instead.

Associated perhaps initially with Jesus People and the Christian counterculture, born again came to refer to a conversion experience, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in order to be saved from Hell and given eternal life with God in Heaven, and was increasingly used as a term to identify devout believers.

The UP also suffered an increasing number of losses during this term ( including the assassination of presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo ), which stemmed both from private proto-paramilitary organizations, increasingly powerful drug lords and a number of would-be paramilitary-sympathizers within the armed forces.

As Barlow, and the EFF, continued public education efforts to promote the idea of " digital rights ", the term was increasingly used during the internet boom of the late 1990s.

Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.

While the term has remained in use amongst scientific authors when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory.

While sinologists increasingly prefer the term Daoism, traditionalists continue using the well-known Taoism.

The term " computer-assisted learning " ( CAL ) has been increasingly used to describe the use of technology in teaching.

The self-identified fundamentalists also cooperated in separating their opponents from the fundamentalist name, by increasingly seeking to distinguish themselves from the more open group, whom they often characterized derogatorily, by Ockenga's term, " neo-evangelical " or just evangelical.

The term film editing is derived from the traditional process of working with film, but now it increasingly involves the use of digital technology.

The term Scotia would be increasingly be used to describe the kingdom between North of the Forth and Clyde and eventually the entire area controlled by its kings would be referred to as Scotland.

Harkins theorizes that use of the term outside the Appalachians arose in the years after the American Civil War, when the Appalachian region became increasingly bypassed by technological and social changes taking place in the rest of the country.

As the term ' knight ' became increasingly confined to denoting a social rank the military role of fully armoured cavalryman gained a separate term, ' man-at-arms '.

English-speaking scientists most often use the term " killer whale ", although the term " orca " is increasingly used.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

The connotations of " motel " as adult motel or love hotel in both the Spanish and Portuguese languages can be awkward for US-based chains accustomed to using the term in its original meaning, although this issue is diminishing as chains ( such as Super 8 Motels ) increasingly drop the word " motel " from their corporate identities at home.

Widespread usage of the term New Age began in the mid-1970s ( reflected in the title of monthly periodical New Age Journal ) and probably influenced several thousand small metaphysical book-and gift-stores that increasingly defined themselves as " New Age bookstores.

" Talking machine " was the comprehensive generic term, but in the early 20th Century the general public was increasingly applying the word " phonograph " indiscriminately to both cylinder and disc machines and to the records they played.

After electronic disc-playing machines started appearing on the market during the second half of the 1920s, usually sharing the same cabinet with a radio receiver, the term " record player " was increasingly favored by users when referring to the device.

The term Ethiopian Ocean sometimes appeared until the mid-19th century.

The term Al Nesr Al Tair appeared in Al Achsasi Al Mouakket catalogue, which was translated into Latin as Vultur Volans.

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.

The term first appeared in the Russian documents in the seventeenth century in documents from 1688, 1700 and 1714.

In early eighteen century term appeared in Ukranian documents, where it sounded like " balabaika ".

In England the nautical term " clipper " appeared a little later.

The term " countercult apologetics " first appeared in Protestant Evangelical literature as a self-designation in the late 1970s and early 1980s in articles by Ronald Enroth and David Fetcho, and by Walter Martin in Martin Speaks Out on the Cults.

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.

The term caddie or cadie first appeared in the English language in the year 1634.

The term ' democracy ' first appeared in ancient Greek political and philosophical thought in the city-state of Athens.

In England, the term deist first appeared in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ).

The term " disc jockey " appeared in print in Variety in 1941.

The term essentialist first appeared in the book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education which was written by Michael John Demiashkevich.

The term " evidence-based medicine " first appeared in the medical literature in 1992 in a paper by Guyatt et al.

The term esoteric first appeared in English in the 1701 History of Philosophy by Thomas Stanley, in his description of the mystery-school of Pythagoras ; the Pythagoreans were divided into " exoteric " ( under training ), and " esoteric " ( admitted into the " inner " circle ).

By the start of the fourteenth century the word appeared in English texts, indicating all three senses: the most common one, the legal term and the archaic usage.

The term " Golgi apparatus " was used in 1910 and first appeared in scientific literature in 1913.

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The term appeared around the 1st or 2nd century.

The term Levant, which first appeared in English in 1497, originally meant the East in general or " Mediterranean lands east of Italy ".

The term became current in English in the 16th century, along with the first English merchant adventurers in the region: English ships appeared in the Mediterranean in the 1570s and the English merchant company signed its agreement (" capitulations ") with the Grand Turk in 1579 ( Braudel ).

The term first appeared in the 1820s, though there were lexicologists in essence before the term was coined.