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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of "lapsed" in relation to "lapsed Catholic" is "no longer believing or following the teachings of a religion". [ 5] The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus associates the term "lapsed Catholic" as one who is backsliding. [ 6] Lapsing is thus not necessarily connected with a lack of belief. [ 7]
Church membership council. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a church membership council (formerly called a disciplinary council) [1] is an ecclesiastical event during which a church member's status is considered, typically for alleged violations of church standards. If a church member is found to have committed ...
Fraternities and sororities in North America. List of African-American Greek and fraternal organizations. List of fraternities and sororities in France. List of fraternities and sororities in the Philippines. List of fraternities and sororities in Puerto Rico. List of Jewish fraternities and sororities. List of Latino Greek-letter organizations.
v. t. e. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a bishop, priest, or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy . The term defrocking originated in the ritual removal of vestments as a penalty against clergy ...
The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.
A speech error, commonly referred to as a slip of the tongue[ 1] ( Latin: lapsus linguae, or occasionally self-demonstratingly, lipsus languae) or misspeaking, is a deviation (conscious or unconscious) from the apparently intended form of an utterance. [ 2] They can be subdivided into spontaneously and inadvertently produced speech errors and ...
A recall of Boar’s Head products has expanded to include a whopping 7 million additional pounds of deli and poultry items in a deadly multistate outbreak of listeria infections. As of Tuesday ...