Sentences with phrase «of archaic words»

Of course, it's important that he be understood, and that students aren't mired in a swamp of archaic words.

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Back then, this mysterious, magical piece of smart technology seemed like the gateway to only fun and positive things: Words with Friends, a star chart app and an archaic version of Instagram, at the time designed for nothing more than applying cool filters to your low - res camera phone photos.

The Christian is being challenged to show that when he uses religious language, and in particular, when he uses the word «God», he is speaking in a meaningful way, and is not simply repeating an archaic form of words which belonged to the old world, and which is no more relevant to the new world than goblins and fairies.

The reason we and the rest of the world as a matter of fact, is in the sad shape we're in is an archaic word called «sin».

In the most archaic sense of the word, of course, as well as the traditional!

The prayer is kind of written in an archaic style, so he even went through the prayer line by line to teach us what the words meant.

By clearing faith of its archaic supernaturalism, Bultmann argued in Jesus Christ and Mythology, «demythologization will eliminate a false stumbling block and bring into sharp focus the real stumbling block, the word of the cross.»

So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.

word and sacrament, and the perennial problem of archaic language.

As I listened to the reporting on AC 360 regarding Pastor Worley's message I agree that his words and his way of communicating his theological stand were unwise and archaic.

DAN... calling all religions cults is rather shortsighted as you are not differentiating between the archaic definition of the word «cult» from the modern usage.

In other words, symbols bound up with recent phases of culture are themselves constituted after the same manner as the most archaic symbols, that is, as the result of existential tensions and of ways of totally grasping the World.

Here's the difference between you and I. I view the bible as the word of God (I know rather archaic huh) and as such it is my starting point for determining my moral absolutes.

When the English translators of the King James version of the Bible encountered the Hebrew words hupakouo / hupakoe and shema / lishmoa they discovered that there wasn't an exact English equivalent, so they chose the word hearken in their translations which subsequently became an archaic term and was later changed to obey.24 So, what exactly do the original words in the Bible mean?

The word seems to be archaic these days — it is not to be found in my 1974 edition of Dorland's Medical Dictionary, although, curiously, it does appear in my much more recent Webster's Unabridged.

The archaic vocabulary of Shakespeare necessitates a lot of looking up of words and phrases.

Adding to this is the talent of his translator, whose careful choice of words instills the text with an archaic feel that perfectly matches the story's timeline.

Deriviation of cobble: the diminutive of the archaic English word «cob», meaning «rounded lump», originally referred to any small stone rounded by the flow of water

To «toll» in duck hunting parlance is to entice or lure, a rather archaic definition of the word most associate with road and bridge fees and ringing bells.

He can read archaic dialects of other languages, but he doesn't know an uncommon but not outdated English word?

The name Pink is confusing these days as it is an archaic use of the word.

The billboard looked more like a sleek advertisement for a new product than an archaic, forgotten word (at the time of Weist's encounter with the term, there were no Google search results for parbunkells).

Use of an archaic status symbol such as a fountain pen these days is paramount to saying «I'm important / rich enough to have someone else do the transcription to word processor!».

Using space normally left unoccupied best describes the strategy at the heart of Matheus Rocha Pitta's recent exhibition «Nau,» whose title is an archaic Portuguese word for ship.

Sinthome — the archaic spelling of the word symptom in French — refers not only to the creative process, but also to the work of art itself.

Law Now: In the Nov / Dec 2011 edition of Law Now, Peter Bowal and Kelsey Horvat describe blasphemous libel (Section 296) as one of three laws which «remain the most serious form of crimes (indictable), and contain broad, archaic wording which makes their criminal application and enforcement difficult as well as controversial today.»