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  • 21Canonical Faculties —     Canonical Faculties     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Canonical Faculties     (Lat. Facultates)     In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function. In a broad sense, a faculty is a certain power,… …

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  • 22Generation — • Definitions include: a definite period of time, with a special reference to the average length of man s life; an indefinite period of time, of time past; the men who lived in the same period of time who were contemporaries; a race or class of… …

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  • 23term — A word or phrase; an expression; particularly one which possesses a fixed and known meaning in some science, art, or profession. A fixed and definite period of time; implying a period of time with some definite termination. First Citizens Bank &… …

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  • 24Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… …

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  • 25Ecclesiastical Censures —     Ecclesiastical Censures     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical Censures     Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part …

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  • 26Oral tradition and the historical Jesus — Sermon on the Mount Jesus (like other rabbis) would have expounded and debated the Torah orally, though some may have made private notes (megillot setarim) The Oral Tradition, is the cultural material and traditions transmitted orally from one… …

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  • 27term — 1. A definite or limited period. 2. A name or descriptive word or phrase. SEE ALSO: terminus, t. infant. [L. terminus, a limit, an end] * * * terminal * * * term tərm n the time at which a pregnancy of normal length terminates <had her baby at …

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  • 28regular employment — Employment for a definite and more or less extended period of time; or of a continuing nature, although for no definite period. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 92. The consistent employment of a working force by an industry over a given period of time.… …

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  • 29termination of offer — The expiration of the period of time during which the offer is to remain in effect, whether such be a definite period as fixed by the terms of the offer or by custom or usage of trade, or the reasonable period of time during which an offer… …

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  • 30Variable star — A star is classified as variable if its apparent brightness as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star s actual luminosity, or to variations in the amount of the star s light that is blocked from… …

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