I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

A word taken in its dictionary meaning, a photographic image of a recognizable object, the mere picturing of a `` scene '' tends to lose experiential vividness and to connote such conventional abstractions as to invite neutral reception without the incitement of value feelings.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.

Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

We have been using the word `` public '' in quotation marks, that is, in its vernacular connotation with reference to the odd-lot index theory.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

Either way, the Robert Shaw chorus sings them in fine style with every colorful word and its musical frame spelled out in terms of agreeable listening.

In the third verse ( see above ), the author scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

Strictly speaking, these national languages lack a word corresponding to the verb " to spell " ( meaning to split a word into its letters ), the closest match being a verb meaning to split a word into its syllables.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

There is the standard way to sign the word learn that seems to be used by most speakers of ASL in Canada, and there is also an Atlantic regional variation.

Since in oral languages the elements of sound are for the most part produced linearly in time ( that is, in a word like cat the a sound comes after the c sound, and the t sound comes after that ), they can generally be easily written in a linear ( one-dimensional ) writing system such as an alphabet.

But this extremely ingenious theory would at most explain only the mystic word Abracadabra, whose connection with Abrasax is by no means certain.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The most well known example is the capital, Canberra named after a local language word meaning " meeting place ".

* Full stops / Periods in abbreviations: Americans tend to write Mr., Mrs., St., Dr .; the British will most often write Mr, Mrs, St, Dr, following the rule that a full stop / period is used only when the last letter of the abbreviation is not the last letter of the complete word.

Both printed and written Arabic are cursive, with most of the letters within a word directly connected to the adjacent letters.

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

As balls are one of the most familiar spherical objects to humans, the word " ball " is used to refer to, or to describe, anything spherical or near-spherical.

The name " baryon " comes from the Greek word for " heavy " ( βαρύς, barys ), because, at the time of their naming, most known elementary particles had lower masses than the baryons.

In most other European vernaculars and in Latin ( as Bohemi ), the word " Bohemian " or a derivate was used.

The word " tumors " is used in most English translations to describe the sores that came upon the Philistines.

The original meaning of the word " neuron " in Greek is " vegetable fiber " and recent research has shown that most of the intraorganismic plant communication processes are neuronal-like.

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

This is the most common usage of the word.

This is the most common usage of the word.

To most philosophers, the word " consciousness " connotes the relationship between the mind and the world.

Possibly the most common usage of the word " community " indicates a large group living in close proximity.

Therefore, most Chicanos do not agree that " Chicano " was ever derived from the word " chicamo ".

The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

The most common derivation provided in English dictionaries is from the Alpine French dialect pronunciation of the word Chrétien ("( a ) Christian "), which was a greeting there.

The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the B soprano clarinet, by far the most common type.

The word distance is used here in a rather general sense ; ;

The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.

A period ( full stop ) is sometimes written after an abbreviated word, but there are exceptions and a general lack of consensus about when this should happen.

However, Bragning is often, like some others of these dynastic names, used in poetry as a general word for ' king ' or ' ruler '.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.

However, Ogden prescribed that any student should learn an additional 150-word list for everyday work in some particular field, by adding a word list of 100 words particularly useful in a general field ( e. g., science, verse, business, etc.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

In the most general sense of the word, a cement is a binder, a substance that sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together.

For example, the abstract general idea or concept that is designated by the word " red " is that characteristic which is common to apples, cherries, and blood.

The abstract general idea or concept that is signified by the word " dog " is the collection of those characteristics which are common to Airedales, Collies, and Chihuahuas.

The general Jain code of ethics requires that one do no harm to any living being in thought, action, or word.

The word catholic ( derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective ( katholikos ), meaning " universal ") comes from the Greek phrase ( katholou ), meaning " on the whole ", " according to the whole " or " in general ", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning " about " and meaning " whole ".

In theory, general dictionaries are supposed to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them.

Balancing these two considerations is what eventually leads to rules regarding the correct placement of the caesura and breaks between words ; in general, word breaks occur in the middle of metrical feet, while accent and ictus coincide only near the end of the line.

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.

The word encyclopaedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία, from Greek, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning " general education ": enkyklios ( ἐγκύκλιος ), meaning " circular, recurrent, required regularly, general " + paideia ( παιδεία ), meaning " education, rearing of a child ", but it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts.

The word " ecumenical " derives from the Greek language "", which literally means " the inhabited world ", – a reference to the Roman Empire that later was extended to apply to the world in general.

While, in general, word comprehension is preserved, meaning interpretation dependent on syntax and phrase structure is substantially impaired.

Successively, the word elf, as well as literary term fairy, evolved to a general denotation of various nature spirits like Puck, hobgoblins, Robin Goodfellow, the English and Scots brownie, the Northumbrian English hob and so forth.

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.