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noun
- An image, picture, or other representation.
- A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
- A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- That man is an in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
- A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
- (linguistics): A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoetic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
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| iconostasis |
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noun
- a wall of icons between the sanctuary and the knave in an Eastern Orthodox church
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| IHS |
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initialism
- w:Indian Health Service, Indian Health Service - a Federal US agency.
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| Illuminati |
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proper noun
- (plural) Any of various societies, sects or other people claiming religious or intellectual enlightenment
- (plural) An alleged global, elite, secret society which has as its ultimate objective the subjugation of humanity (world domination or New World Order)
- The methods of control used by "Ming the Merciless, Rules of the Universe" in the 1980 film Flash Gordon are a metaphor for what some perceive to be the influence of the on the real world.
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| Immaculate Conception |
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proper noun
- The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived free from original sin
- December 8th (The Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary)
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| immersion |
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noun
- the act of immersing or the condition of being immersed
- the total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism
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| impediment |
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noun
- A hindrance. That which impedes or hinders progress.
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing .
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| imprimatur |
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noun (pl2=imprimantur)
- An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
- (context, by extension) Any mark of official approval.
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| incarnation |
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noun
- An incarnate being or form.
- A living being embodying a deity or spirit.
- An assumption of human form or nature.
- (Theology) the Incarnation The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.
- A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like
- The leading dancer is the of grace.
- The act of incarnating.
- The state of being incarnated.
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| independent |
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noun
- A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
- A neutral or uncommitted person.
adjective
- not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
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| indulgence |
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noun
- the act of indulging
- tolerance
- catering to someone's every desire
- something in which someone indulges
- (Roman Catholic Church) a pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution
verb (indulgenc, ing)
- (transitive) (Roman Catholic Church) to provide with an indulgence
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| inerrancy |
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noun - Freedom from error.
- Biblical - the belief that the Bible is without error
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| infallible |
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adjective - Without fault or weakness; incapable of error or fallacy.
- He knows about many things, but even he is not .
- The pope is .
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| infidel |
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noun n
- A non-believer of a certain religion
- One who does not believe in a certain principle
- One with no religious beliefs.
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| infidelity |
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noun (plural: infidelities)
- unfaithfulness in marriage or other moral obligation
- lack of religious belief
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| infinite |
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adjective
- boundless, Boundless, endless, without end or limits, uncountable, innumerable.
- (mathematics) A number which is larger than any given number.
- (figuratively) Very large.
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| infralapsarianism |
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noun Infralapsarianism
- (theology) A doctrine held by certain Calvinists holding that, while the fall of man was inevitable, the identities of the elect and the reprobate were not known until after the fall.
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| inhibition |
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noun
- the act of inhibiting.
- the state of being inhibited.
- something that inhibits.
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| institute |
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noun
- An organization founded to promote a cause
- A medical research
- A institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution
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| insufflate |
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verb (insufflat, ing)
- (transitive) To breathe or blow into or on.
- (context, transitive, medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
- (context, transitive, medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
- 2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. " Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)
- (context, transitive, ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
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| intelligence |
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noun
- (uncountable) capacity, Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.
- (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
- (uncountable) information, Information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activity, activities.
- (countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather such information.
(rfex, particularly "life form")
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| interdict |
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noun
- A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Exteme unction/Anointing of the sick are excepted.
verb
- (transitive) To forbid by church or legal sanction.
- (transitive) To damage, interrupt or destroy enemy lines of communication.
- (transitive) (Roman Catholic) to exclude a person or geographical area from participation in church symbolism and services.
- (transitive) To exclude from church sacraments including burial.
- To invoke a prohibition against contact with another.
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| interim |
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noun - A transitional or temporary period between other events.
- His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the .
adjective
- transitional
- Iraq's government is .
- temporary
- You are manager until he returns from hospital.
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| interstice |
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noun - (noun form very rare): a small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal. "The part that is not there."
- Quotation
- 1999 That he ran the risk of blowing out the stained-glass windows was of no consequence since no one liked them anyway, and the paper mill fumes were gnawing at the interstitial lead. - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon.
- an interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
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| introit |
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noun
- The action of entering or going in; an entrance.
- A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.
- A part of a psalm or other portion of the Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.
- An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service.
- Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.
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| irenics |
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noun
- irenical theology, Irenical theology, opposed to polemics.
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