The Buddha defines the sixth section of the path more fully than those which precede.
Footnote 364: The Dhamma-sangaṇī defines courtesy as being of two kinds: hospitality and considerateness in matters of doctrine.
The dictionary defines pessimism as the doctrine which teaches that the world is as bad as it can be and that everything naturally tends towards evil.
Each incident and difficulty that arises is reported to him and he defines the correct practice.
The religious sense he defines as "the feeling of unwholeness, of moral imperfection, of sin, to use the technical word, accompanied by the yearning after the peace of unity.
The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonize with its temporary intellectual prepossessions.
It amplifies and definesour faith, and dignifies it and lends it words and plausibility.
In compound words it is the first term that defines or particularises the second.
Nevertheless, as the one only explains or defines the other, the construction is the same as if the idea were single.
The word I merely defines the expression by stating who the master is.
Bentham defines the "Lettre de Cachet" as "an order to punish, without any proof, for a fact against which there is no law.
We may certainly know a past or present event, but our knowledge of its existence definesnothing as to the manner in which it came to exist.
Edwards defines necessity under two points of view:-- 1.
If it be said that infinite wisdom has promulged a law which defines clearly what is essentially right, and that it is a fact that volitions do transgress this law, still this cannot affect what is said above.
Will he defines as the desire, the affections, or the sensibility.
Minshew also defines the expression 'to presse souldiers' by the German soldatenwerben, and explains that here the word werben means prepare (parare).
This defines the great principle of offensive defence.
It is an infinite, an indistinct, where each consciousness defines and sets a limitary form.
To realise by fancy the many-coloured radiance of the temples, and the rich dresses of the votaries illuminated by that sharp light of a Greek sun, which defines outline and shadow and gives value to the faintest hue, would be impossible.
A certain austerity defines it from more picturesque hill-cities with a less uniform history.
In the third chapter Yama defines what part of our being dies and what part is deathless, what is mortal and what is immortal.
The Ruler of Death defineshere the innermost essence of our being.
In this verse the teacher defines the effulgent nature of the Soul, whose light is pure like a flame without smoke.
In Allan Cunningham's Glossary to Burns, I find Primsie, which hedefines to mean demure, precise.
Johnson defines Frenzy to be "Madness; distraction of mind; alienation of understanding; any violent passion approaching to madness.
The learned Beale defines Sibyl as thought, therefore a woman in possession of God's thought.
Nor is it accident, for that which defines and separates the existing thing is truly called substance rather than accident; and this is what unity does.
He defines reward as the soul's tranquillity and infinite joy in the world to come in compensation for the sojourn in this world which she endured and the self-control she practiced in abstaining from the pleasures of the world.
Accordingly Crescas defines unity as something essential to everything actually existing, denoting the absence of plurality.
It regulates and defines conduct, and makes it uniform for old and young, intelligent and unintelligent.
The soul, Aristotle defines as the first entelechy of the body.
But when we consider that Aristotle defines motion in terms of potentiality and actuality, the fourth proof is identical with the first.
Hillel accordingly defines the soul as "a stage of emanation, consisting of a formal substance, which subsists through its own perfection, and occupies the fourth place in the emanatory process, next to the Active Intellect.
And if so, he does not deserve reward for belief, since belief, as Albo defines it elsewhere (Pt.
Euclid defines unity as that in virtue of which we call a thing one.
He defines the Gospel to be[58] "the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.
He defines Christ [107] "to be the wisdom of God, and the power of God.
It is in the shape of a penal law, and the crime it defines is the harboring and concealing of alien enemies.
How Apuleius defines the gods who dwell in heaven, the demons who occupy the air, and men who inhabit earth.
The people" he defines as being not every assemblage or mob, but an assemblage associated by a common acknowledgment of law, and by a community of interests.
The ceremony was not unlike that at Cambridge, but had one peculiar feature: the separate special investment of the candidate with the hood, which Johnson defines as "an ornamental fold which hangs down the back of a graduate.
Cockeram's English Dictionary defines the comma, colon, and period, but not the semicolon.
Grose has this word in his Slang Dictionary, and defines it "a concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.
The phrase to sell a bargain, which Bailey defines "to put a sham upon one," is now scarcely ever heard.
One writer defines a bolt in these words:--"The promiscuous stampede of a class collectively.
A writer in the Yale Literary Magazine thus humorouslydefines this word: "Fizzle.
Someone defines it as follows: "A magazine is a small body of literature, entirely surrounded by advertising.
She herselfdefines it as "An heroic fable," or "An epic in prose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
