:' The word permaculture was coined by Bill Mollison and myself in the mid-1970s to describe an " integrated, evolving system of perennial or self-perpetuating plant and animal species useful to man ".

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

In Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world " the word secular, a label proudly worn 30 years ago, is shunned " and " used to besmirch " political foes.

Elsewhere, " Hellene " or " gentile " ( ethnikos ) remained the word for " pagan "; and paganos continued as a purely secular term, with overtones of the inferior and the commonplace.

A cockfight is a contest held in a ring called a cockpit between two gamecocks or cocks, with the first use of the word gamecock ( denoting use of the cock in game, sport, pastime or entertainment ) appearing in 1646. after the term “ cock of the game ” used by George Wilson, in the earliest known book on the secular sport of cockfighting in The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting in 1607.

However, many adherents of the approach reject the use of the word " secular " as obfuscating and confusing, and consider that the term " secular humanism " has been " demonized by the religious right ... All too often secular humanism is reduced to a sterile outlook consisting of little more than secularism slightly broadened by academic ethics.

The endorsement by the IHEU of the capitalization of the word " Humanism ", and the dropping of any adjective such as " secular ", is quite recent.

Presumably Justice Black added the word secular to emphasize the non-theistic nature of the Fellowship of Humanity and distinguish their brand of humanism from that associated with, for example, Christian humanism.

There is no word for religion in the ancient Egyptian language as mundane and religious world views were not distinct ; thus, Heka was not a secular practice but rather a religious observance.

In its original meaning, the word martyr, meaning witness, was used in the secular sphere as well as in the New Testament of the Bible.

Regarding his belief system, he doesn't " want to provide a category for people to apply to " because he " would not want convictions reduced to a word " and states, " I have never said, although readers have freely informed me I am an atheist, an agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist — which I am ".

Among certain left-wing or liberal circles of Judaic cultural lineage, the word " Hebrew " is used as an alternatively secular description of the Jewish people ( e. g., Bernard Avishai's The Hebrew Republic or left-wing wishes for a " Hebrew-Arab " joint cultural republican state ).

Beginning in the late 19th century, the term " Hebrew " became popular among secular Zionists ; in this context the word alluded to the transformation of the Jews into a strong, independent, self-confident secular national group (" the New Jew ") sought by classical Zionism.

" The word ' soul ' – not always welcome these days in secular culture – is the right word for Buechner.

There is no word for religion in the ancient Egyptian language, mundane and religious world views were not distinct ; thus Heka was not a secular practice but rather a religious observance.

While the Byzantine Eastern Roman Emperors retained full Roman imperium and made the episcopate subservient, in the feudal West a long rivalry would oppose the claims to supremacy within post-Roman Christianity between sacerdotium ( the ' priesthood ', i. e. the clergy ministering the word and will of God ) in the person of the Pope and the secular imperium of the revived Western Roman Emperor since Charlemagne.

Many were the arts and sciences he knew -- holy tradition and secular law ; the Sânkhya, Yoga, Nyâya, and Vaisheshika systems of philosophy ; arithmetic ; music ; medicine ; the four Vedas, the Purânas, and the Itihâsas ; astronomy, magic, causation, and magic spells ; the art of war ; poetry ; conveyancing in a word, the whole nineteen.

In modern language, the word " sermon " can also be used pejoratively in secular terms to describe a lengthy or tedious speech delivered with great passion, by any person, to an uninterested audience.

, ) is the Arabic word ( of Semitic origin ; viz Hebrew midrash ) for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious ( of any religion ).

In the Arabic language, the word simply means the same as school does in the English language, whether that is private, public or parochial school, as well as for any primary or secondary school whether Muslim, non-Muslim, or secular.

Even then, the flexibility of the phrasing suggests that the word comes first in importance.

The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.

The book Hong Kong Action Cinema ( ISBN 0-87951-663-1 ) by Bey Logan suggests the word originated in Hong Kong action movies and eventually migrated to the gaming lexicon.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

According to Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, the term Céad Shamhain or Cétshamhainin means " first half ", which he links to the Gaulish word samonios ( which he suggests means " half a year ") as in the end of the " first half " of the year that begins at Samhain.

The word clock ( from the Celtic words clocca and clogan, both meaning " bell "), which gradually supersedes " horologe ", suggests that it was the sound of bells which also characterized the prototype mechanical clocks that appeared during the 13th century in Europe.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

Tacitus suggests that this was the original way the word " Germani " was used – as the name of a single tribal nation, ancestral to the Tungri ( who lived in the same area as the earlier Germani reported by Caesar ), and not a whole race ( gentis ).

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to the word ' wooden ' but that overall the etymology of this word is unclear.

In Biblical Hebrew the word means literally to settle, inhabit, or dwell, which suggests the concept of a Holy Spirit, and is used frequently in the Hebrew Bible.

If the guessing player suggests a letter which occurs in the word, the other player writes it in all its correct positions.

Justin's mention of the fire on the Jordan without comment suggests that he was relying on an intermediate source for these gospel quotations, and his literal interpretation of a pseudo-etymology of the Hebrew word Satan indicates a dependence on a testimony source with a knowledge of Hebrew, which was probably the Dialogue of Jason and Papiscus.

VII, suggests that the ' dudai ' im ' of Genesis 30: 14 is the opium poppy, because the word ' dudai ' im ' may be a reference to a woman's breasts.

Cameron, suggests that the termination of the word " Malachi " is adjectival, and equivalent to the Latin angelicus, signifying " one charged with a message or mission " ( a missionary ).

An expression ( word, phrase ) that by implication suggests the likeness of one entity to another entity gives style to an item of speech or writing, whether the entities consist of objects, events, ideas, activities, attributes, or almost anything expressible in language.

The medievalist Gaston Paris suggests that Geoffrey chose the form Merlinus rather than the regular Merdinus to avoid a resemblance to the Anglo-Norman word merde ( from Latin merda ), for faeces.

However, in Porphyry's Greek text De Abstinentia (« Περὶ ἀποχῆς ἐμψύχων »), there is a reference to the now-lost histories of the Mithraic mysteries by Euboulus and Pallas, the wording of which suggests that these authors treated the name " Mithra " as an indeclinable foreign word.

* A third theory suggests that Nepal came from compounding the words NE, which means wool, and PAL, which means a tented house ; a long time ago, Nepal used to produce a lot of wool and the houses were used to store the wool — hence the word NE-PAL.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

The demand for new texts might outstrip the availability of parchment in some centers, yet the existence of cleaned parchment that was never overwritten suggests that there was also a spiritual motivation, to sanctify pagan text by overlaying it with the word of God, somewhat as pagan sites were overlaid with Christian churches to hallow pagan ground.

Wittgenstein suggests that, in such a situation, the word " beetle " could not be the name of a thing, because supposing that each person has something completely different in their boxes ( or nothing at all ) does not change the meaning of the word ; the beetle as a private object " drops out of consideration as irrelevant ".

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.