Though this office owned no imperium, meaning no lictors for protection, they were allowed to wear the toga praetexta.

Though " president " and various monarchic titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes ( usually republics ), the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning " leader " in the national language, such as Nazi Germany's single party chief and head of state and government, Adolf Hitler Führer ( see that article for equivalents ).

Though the original armiger may have placed particular meaning on a charge, these meanings are not necessarily retained from generation to generation.

Though initially sarcastic and self-possessed to the point of arrogance ( Leiko is actually a Japanese name meaning " arrogant ") her relationship with her new lover causes her to become more contemplative.

Though in the United States, naturism and nudism have the same meaning, in Britain there is a clear distinction.

Though the broad outline of the process is generally agreed, there is a considerable diversity of views held by specialist scholars on detailed issues concerning the development, categorization and meaning of the arabesque.

This concept of meaning differs from the concept of signification: Though an expression is signifying, for instance " The gold mountain is in California ", it may nevertheless be discursively meaningless and therefore have no existence within a certain discourse.

Though less commonly it was originally also used to indicate a riddle either in verse or prose, of which the listener must guess the meaning, often given syllable by syllable — see riddle.

Though the spelling has changed, the pronunciation and meaning of the word have remained relatively stable ever since.

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

Though Hopper claimed that he didn ’ t consciously embed psychological meaning in his paintings, he was deeply interested in Freud and the power of the subconscious mind.

Though critics and viewers interpret meaning and mood in these cityscapes, Hopper insisted “ I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism .” As if to prove the point, his late painting Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ) is a pure study of sunlight.

Though the literal meaning of the words could include anyone who fights for the cause of freedom, in common use it may be restricted to those who are actively involved in an armed rebellion, rather than those who campaign for freedom by peaceful means ( though they may use the title in its literal sense ).

Though once Tuurngaq simply meant " helping spirit ", it has, with Christianisation, taken on the meaning of demon in the Christian belief system.

Though this meaning would seem to be consistent with the intention of the word " pussy " when used as an insult toward a man, it is a false cognate unrelated to the Germanic derivations of puss and pussy.

Though its name in the Ojibwe language is " Obaashiing " meaning " At the narrows ", " Ponemah " is derived from another Ojibwe word baanimaa, meaning " later ( on ), after ( wards )", as used in The Song of Hiawatha.

Though there is no solid historical evidence for any of the various theories, the most commonly given origin for the name Wyckoff, which was the origin accepted by the town committee when the town was established, is that the name is from the Lenape word wickoff, meaning " high ground ", or that it is from wickok meaning " water ".

Though the meaning of a parable is often not explicitly stated, the meaning is not usually intended be hidden or secret but on the contrary quite straightforward and obvious.

Though these forms consist of lyric-based verses, musicians improvise raga phrases in free rhythm, like an alapana, so both the sound value, and the meaning of the text, guide the musician through elaborate melodic improvisations.

Though the laws also affected adherents of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ( who were concentrated in Ulster ), their principal victims were members of the Roman Catholic Church, meaning over three quarters of the people on the island.

Though the normal German spelling is Spaßguerilla, Teufel's spelling became known as the " teuflische Schreibweise " ( a pun meaning either " Teufelian " spelling or " diabolical spelling "; Teufel in German means devil ).

Though the local folklore may have tainted its true meaning over the years there is still a possibility that this was once a Walpurgis night.

Though the origin is ambiguous, the draughtsman of the charter issued by Æthelstan used the term in a way that can only mean ' wide ruler '.

Though nowadays most cardinals are also bishops, the term Cardinal bishops only refers to the cardinals that are titular bishops of one of the " suburbicarian " sees.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though the term " Cathar " has been used for centuries to identify the movement, whether the movement identified itself with this name is debatable.

Though the term " democracy " is typically used in the context of a political state, the principles also are applicable to private organizations.

Though such use is not encouraged by the company, the common use of the name as a generic term has put the trademark in jeopardy.

Though used earlier in papers and discussions, the term 4GL was first used formally by James Martin in his 1982 book Applications Development Without Programmers to refer to non-procedural, high-level specification languages.

Though grammatical gender has no bearing on actual gender in non-personal nouns, the term holy spirit translates in and is used in the masculine form in all the Qur ' an.

< sup > δ </ sup > Though this term is non-standard usage – by " left ", agorists mean " left " in the general sense used by left-libertarians, as defined by Roderick T. Long, as "... an integration, or I'd argue, a reintegration of libertarianism with concerns that are traditionally thought of as being concerns of the left.

Though many types of improvised explosive devices (" IEDs ") can technically be classified as land mines, the term land mine is typically reserved for manufactured devices designed to be used by recognized military services, whereas IED is used for makeshift devices assembled by paramilitary, insurgent, or terrorist groups.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

Though the country has dissolved, the islands are all still under the Kingdom with different legal status and the term is still used to refer to these Dutch Caribbean islands.

Though the term nihilism was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev ( 1818 – 1883 ) in his novel Fathers and Sons, </ i > it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( 1743 – 1819 ).

Though the notion appears frequently throughout Nietzsche's work, he uses the term in a variety of ways, with different meanings and connotations, both positive and negative.

Though the term has fallen into disfavor among botanists as a formal way to categorize " useless " plants, the informal use of the word " weeds " to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is illustrative of the general tendency of people and societies to seek to alter or shape the course of nature.

Though such reactors could be built with current or near term technology, they trigger little interest for reasons of economics, practicality, or safety.

Though the term Pantheism was not coined until after his death, Spinoza is regarded as the most celebrated advocate of pantheism.

Though many Post-structuralists were referred to as Postmodern in their lifetimes, many explicitly rejected the term.

Though the term DHT is commonly used to refer to the structured overlay, in practice, DHT is a data structure implemented on top of a structured overlay.

Though the term had a wide range of application ( as a memory technique or compositional exercise, for example ) it most often referred to the " seats of argument "— the list of categories of thought or modes of reasoning — that a speaker could use in order to generate arguments or proofs.

Though the term " retcon " did not yet exist when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian regime depicted in that book is involved in a constant, large-scale retconning of past records.

Though the term itself has a tradition of more than 100 years, there is no consensus on its explicit content.

Though he insisted that animals are not capable of language, he expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems, thus raising some of the issues addressed by philosophy of mind and coining the term zoosemiotics.

Though the term today is used almost exclusively for ancient warships, modern historians also refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three banks of oars per side as triremes.

Though UFO sightings have occurred throughout recorded history, modern interest in them dates from World War II ( see foo fighter ), further fueled in the late 1940s by Kenneth Arnold's report of a close encounter, which led to coining of the term flying saucer, and the Roswell UFO Incident.