In 1991, Steven Fanning argued that " it is unlikely that the term ever existed as a title or was in common usage in Anglo-Saxon England ".

However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

Baldrige sees this usage as acceptable ; Miss Manners writes that " only people of the medical profession correctly use the title of doctor socially ," but supports those who wish to use it in social contexts in the spirit of addressing people according to their wishes.

* Indiana usage of Dr. title SECTION 1.

Baslieus, a title which had long been used for Alexander the Great was already in common usage as the Greek word for the Roman emperor, but its definition and sense was " King " in Greek, essentially equivalent with the Latin Rex.

In general usage, the Byzantine imperial title evolved from simply " emperor " ( basileus ), to " emperor of the Romans " ( basileus tōn Rōmaiōn ) in the 9th century, to " emperor and autocrat of the Romans " ( basileus kai autokratōr tōn Rōmaiōn ) in the 10th.

The popes and Holy Roman emperors protested at the usage of the imperial title as a usurpation of leadership in western Christendom.

Past precedent is that such surnames are dropped from usage in adulthood, after which either title alone, or Mountbatten-Windsor is used when necessary.

The German title satirizes the German custom of giving a subtitle to the name of dramas in the form of " Ein Drama in ... Akten " ( A Drama of ... acts ), which became dictums in colloquial usage for any event with an unpleasant or dramatic course, e. g. " Bundespräsidentenwahl-Drama in drei Akten " ( Federal presidential Elections-Drama in Three Acts ).

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.

A more modern usage prefers the title pro tanto obligation: an obligation that may be later overruled by another more pressing one ; it exists only pro tempore.

In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).

* Sometimes it refers to XSL-FO: this usage can be justified by the fact that the XSL-FO specification carries the title Extensible Stylesheet Language ( XSL ); however, the term XSL-FO is less likely to be misunderstood

" The command commonly produces a humorous response in other Infocom games and text adventures, leading to its usage in the title of the interactive fiction competition, the XYZZY Awards.

Thus, by the time Thoreau's lectures were first published under the title " Civil Disobedience ," in 1866, four years after his death, the term had achieved fairly widespread usage.

" Established as mainstream American English usage, the word colored features in the organizational title of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reflecting the members ' racial identity preference at the 1909 foundation.

The white photographer and writer, Carl Van Vechten, a supporter of the Harlem Renaissance ( 1920s – 30s ), provoked controversy in the black community with the title of his novel Nigger Heaven ( 1926 ), wherein the usage increased sales ; of the controversy, Langston Hughes wrote:

In this usage, it is referred to in the title of the 2002 Wilco album " Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

The title " king " ( basileús ) may have not officially been used by the Macedonian regents until Alexander the Great, whose " usage of it may have been influenced by his ambivalent position in Persia.

Although the usage rabbim " many " ( as 1 Kings 18: 25, ה ָ ר ַ ב ִּ ים ) " the majority, the multitude " occurs for the assembly of the community in the Dead Sea scrolls there is no evidence to support an association with the later title " Rabbi.

Note: A rebbetzin ( a Yiddish usage common among Ashkenazim ) or a rabbanit ( in Hebrew and used among Sephardim ) is the official " title " used for, or by, the wife of any Orthodox, Haredi, or Hasidic rabbi.

This usage lent its title to the 1969 film Rhubarb and its 1980 remake Rhubarb Rhubarb.

It is a testament to the word usage of Sabino Arana that the three words of the title are neologisms he created himself.

Nisse is the common name in Norwegian, Danish and the Scanian dialect in southernmost Sweden ; it is a nickname for Nils, and its usage in folklore comes from expressions such as Nisse god dräng (" Nisse good lad ", cf.

The LRVs were originally meant for SL ( lines 12 & 22 ) in Stockholm, Sweden ( hence the usage of the designation A32 ).

A copy was published by the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå, Sweden and while an accompanying article suggested the runes were a secret cipher used by the tailors ' guild, no usage of futharks by any 19th-century guild has been documented.

Lennart styled himself Prince Lennart Bernadotte, but this usage was never recognised by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Sigvard unilaterally reclaimed the title of Prince of Sweden on May 28, 1983, but this usage was never recognised by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

The variants Ä / ä, Ö / ö are used in Sweden, Æ / æ, Ø / ø in Norway, in accordance with the usage in Swedish and Norwegian, based on computer or type writer availability.

The usage of single embryo transfer is highest in Sweden ( 69. 4 %), but as low as 2. 8 % in the USA.

In the Swedish language, the institute usually promotes the Swedish usage, with the key aim to prevent the Swedish spoken in Finland from straying too far from its counterpart in Sweden.

The scientific schools formed at the Institute: taiga forestry and productivity of forests, permafrost forestry, taxation and forest exploitation, forest morphology, cartography, aerospace information usage, forest genetics and selection, pyrology, zoology, microbiology, physiology and biochemistry of wood plants, dendrology and dendroclimatology and other spheres of forest biological science are the basis for mutual investigations with the scientists of the USA, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belarus, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, China, Korea, Mongolia.

With a total power rating of 3560 MWe, it is the largest power plant in Sweden and generates 24 TWh of electricity a year, the equivalent of 20 % of the electrical power usage of Sweden.

Sweden was exempt from this ban because of the traditionally high usage of snus in that country.

In Sweden, Fredrik first fell into usage in the 14th century, and became increasingly common after the 18th century.

Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive, and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited.

The Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century.

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.

The first abjad to gain widespread usage was the Phoenician abjad.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

In 386 Justina and Valentinian received the Arian bishop Auxentius, and Ambrose was again ordered to hand over a church in Milan for Arian usage.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

Aon said its conduct was not deliberate, adding it had since " significantly strengthened and enhanced its controls around the usage of third parties ".

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

Society at Nauplia was divided into 3 classes: nobles, citizens and plebeians ; and it had been the ancient usage that the nobles alone should hold the much-coveted local offices, such as the judge of the inferior court and inspector of weights and measures.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

Noteworthy in the following statement is the usage of the term " not far " ( non longe ) which was also used to describe the distance between Birka and the Uppsala temple:

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.