impure

" the Arabic " An example of the Arabic script, which is an impure abjad.

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

He wrote extensively on proportions in music, and on the three different subjective levels on which plainchant could work on the human soul: purging of the impure ; illumination leading to contemplation ; and nourishing perfection through contemplation.

Peter has a vision in which a voice commands him to eat a variety of impure animals.

When Peter objects, the voice replies, " Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.

For this they used the sun's rays focused with mirrors or lenses and not impure triggers.

Stromeyer noted that some impure samples of calamine changed color when heated but pure calamine did not.

It is said that the craving for sex and impure thoughts are the reason for the whole trouble in the universe today.

The untouchables were considered impure by birth, and had to live in isolation away from rest of the community.

Some of the outcast occupations involved human and animal waste, dead carcasses, leather work, human corpse rituals, postpartum blood rituals, and such work ; for this, the Chinese outcasts were considered a polluted and irreversibly impure segment of the society.

These were people of the same race, same religion and same culture as their neighbors yet were considered morally impure by birth, repulsive and shunned, just like the Burakumin caste of Japan and Osu caste of Nigeria.

In 1948, Sweden witnessed Tattarkravallerna Jönköping, where the prejudices for this social strata led to speeches on how these people were degenerate, impure, parasitic and corroded from within, triggering violence and cleansing.

Authorities considering it " objectionable " do so because of the contact between the supposedly impure fluids emitted during intercourse and the mouth.

It fuses traditional Islamic anti-Judaism with Western conspiracy myths, Third Worldist anti-Zionism, and Iranian Shiite contempt for Jews as ' ritually impure ' and corrupt infidels.

Though Baldung has been commonly called the Correggio of the north, his compositions are a curious medley of glaring and heterogeneous colours, in which pure black is contrasted with pale yellow, dirty grey, impure red and glowing green.

In the city of Gobir, Usman dan Fodio ( 1754 – 1817 ) accused the Hausa leadership of practicing an impure version of Islam and of being morally corrupt.

The English word incest is derived from the Latin incestus, which has a general meaning of " impure, unchaste ".

The Tanakh describes circumstances in which a person who is tahor or ritually pure may become tamei or ritually impure.

Some of these circumstances are contact with human corpses or graves, seminal flux, vaginal flux, menstruation, and contact with people who have become impure from any of these.

The piece calls for some instruments ( harp, piano, samplers ) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are impure.

Soon it was found that it was better to coat the exterior of the jar with metal foil ( Watson, 1746 ), leaving the ( accidentally ) impure water inside acting as a conductor, connected by a chain or wire to an external terminal, a sphere to avoid losses by corona discharge.

Johan Gottlieb Gahn was the first to isolate an impure sample of manganese metal in 1774, by reducing the dioxide with carbon.

( Note that while Mercury does allow impure functionality, it is not necessary in most software, and serves primarily as a way of calling foreign language code.

Also, all impure code must be explicitly marked.

Operations which would typically be impure ( such as input / output ) are expressed using pure constructs in Mercury using linear types, by threading a dummy " world " value through all relevant code.