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.

The word perennial in secular perennialism suggests something that lasts an indefinitely long time, recurs again and again, or is self-renewing.

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.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

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.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

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

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.