In regard to dogma Montanism occupied precisely the same ground as the Catholic church; even upon the trinitarian controversies of the age it took up no sectarian position but went with the stream of the general development.
At the time when Constantine’s conversion so completely changed the aspect of things =Melchiades= occupied the bishopric of Rome, A.
Jerusalem, occupied a place alongside of the Apostles in the government of the church, are without any analogy in the synagogues.
In order to prepare for baptism he withdrew with his mother and some friends to the country house of one of them, where scientific studies, pious exercises and conversations on the highest problems of life occupied his time.
He occupied the chair of St. Peter only for twenty-one days.
The head of the order Raimund du Puy, who occupied this position from A.
In direct opposition to them, another Egyptian monkish order in the Nitrian desert adhered to Origen with enthusiastic reverence and occupied themselves in a pious contemplative mysticism that tended to a somewhat extreme spiritualism.
The rear of the projectile was to be occupied by the mysterious apparatus that was to drive it through space.
Indeed, it would have been a pretty small person who could have concealed himself in the prow of the projectile, occupied as it was with all sorts of mechanism.
Thus the whole crest of the hill was in a blaze of light; and a long line of fires ran down from the summit to the wide and beautiful promenade of the Star, marking the ground occupied by the wild Transylvanian horsemen.
Her lover occupied a chamber near; and his two attendants were placed on a pallet across the lady's door.
She had, indeed, with that natural readiness of the human mind to forget unpleasant occurrences, thought but little about him of late, since her mind had been more fully occupied with other and more pressing things.
As for Jakes and his wife, the only servants on the place, they occupied a room over the washhouse, which was separate from the main building.
He had not been in that room since he had talked to Maria Lee, sitting on that very sofa now occupied by Lady Bellamy's still beautiful form, and he could not but feel that it was a place of evil omen for him.
After this there was silence, and the pair stood facing one another, each occupied with their own thoughts, and each dreading to put them into words.
She knew she had given herself more to do than it was really needful that she should, but what to her mind was needful was that she should be occupied in writing, and leave herself no leisure to think.
Wild languageoccupied the way, until we shook farewell at Combe.
A single bird will alight first, and others follow till the boat is occupied from stem to stern.
It was onceoccupied by a reprobate pair who certainly lived the "simple life" to perfection so far as locality was concerned, but whose simplicity may otherwise be doubted.
Her master discovered this, though then occupied at church, closed his book and dismissed the congregation.
They are all the work of her own hands, and have occupied her time and swallowed up her capital for some months past.
While speaking he had closed the door behind him and had stepped into the quarters occupied jointly by himself and by Midshipman Daniel Dalzell, also of the first or upper class.
Oh, but there was wrath boiling in the quarters occupied by those eight first classmen.
Three doors above that of the roomoccupied by our midshipman friends were opened, one after the other.
In their room, to be occupied but one night more, Dave and Dan finished dressing in their new uniforms at the same moment.
The trunk is not less than eight yards in circumference, and is surrounded by a large wooden divan, almost always occupied by travellers, who use it as a tavern.
The island of that name, lying not far from the gulf and cape of Agrakhan, contains vast establishments for smoking, salting, and drying fish, and numerous dwellings occupied by the fishermen.
These ladies occupied a hut of their own, consisting, like the prince's, of but one room.
At Stavropol, however, the fair occupied our attention much less than General Grabe, who was just a week returned from an expedition against the Circassians.
These peasants occupied extremely fertile regions lying very near Odessa: Ouman, the property of Alexander Potocki, made part of them.
The party was a sad one, for all were occupied with the same thought.
The remainder of Bob's time, as I said before, is occupied in trying to square his establishment returns.
Our early experiences, if considered at all, afford only matter of surprise that we could ever have been seriously occupied in such folly, or actuated by motives now seeming so inadequate.
James, the brother of our Lord, as might, from his relationship, be expected, occupied the position of headship in the Church.
He is full of admiration for the past and of contemptuous disgust at the present; his thoughts are wandering to the things thatoccupied him in his youth, and even in his infancy.
But in Athens, commerce was regarded as being so far from dishonourable that some of the most illustrious men, whose names have descended to us as philosophers, were occupied with mercantile pursuits.
He occupiedhimself not only with mathematical, but also with physical investigation.
Among the Oriental sects there are some who believe that the Supreme Being is perpetually occupied in the contemplation of himself, and that the nearer man can approach to a state of total inaction the more will he resemble God.
The period occupied by the events we have been considering extends over almost twelve centuries.
As if no subjects with which the human mind has occupied itself can be unworthy of investigation, in the Museum were cultivated the more doubtful arts, magic and astrology.
The Oriental monk, at first making selfishness his rule of life, and his own salvation the grand object, though all the world else should perish, in his maturer period occupied his intellectual powers in refined disputations of theology.
His throne was occupied by his nephew, St. Cyril, who had been expressly prepared for that holy and responsible office by a residence of five years among the monks of Nitria.
From the account I have given of Aristotle's philosophy, it may be seen that he occupied a middle ground between the speculation of the old philosophy and the strict science of the Alexandrian school.
With such facts before us, what a crowd of inquiries at once presses upon our attention--inquiries which even in modern times have occupied the thoughts of the greatest metaphysicians.
But the boys noticed that he sat on the next seat to the one they had occupied when trying to row.
The Gospel was introduced here about twenty years ago, by the Wesleyan Methodists; the preaching services were then conducted in a room of the house now occupied by the minister.
In the year 1844 this house was taken down, and the new Chapel erected near to the spot where it had stood; for some years before it having ceased to be occupied by the minister of the place.
He honourably occupied six years in his studies, and then became the pastor of the Church at Northampton.
Whether the place heoccupied as a place of worship was legally secured?
Savage, Kippis, and Rees; and from thence he proceeded to the station which for so many years he has occupied with an unblemished character.
Two or three ministers occupied the pulpit successively until 1827.
There was a house occupied by Mr. Charles Hanscomb, secluded in a narrow yard from the main street, and open to a field in the direction of Mr. Shuttlewood's house.
He was managing director of the Territorial Bank of Corsica, a vast financial enterprise, and had now come to the house for the first time, introduced by Monpavon; he occupied accordingly a place of honour.
Gery, that young secretary of the Nabob who often comes to the Territorial, where he is always occupiedrummaging into the books.
In Paris he had long occupied rooms in the Rue de Bellechasse, where Madame Alphonse Daudet was accustomed to entertain a brilliant company.
Louis, of whose place he was envious, so brilliant was it in comparison with that which he occupied under the noble but worn-out old gambler who was his master.
Locked in his office, he is occupied from morning till evening in the manufacture of shirt-fronts, collars, and cuffs of paper.
The training Daudet required for his novels he got from the sketches and short stories that occupied him during the late sixties and early seventies.
The house was listening religiously to an indignant and lofty denunciation of the scamps who occupied exalted positions, after having robbed their fellows in those depths from which they were sprung.
She occupied herself with the farm, and her invalid.
The Temple of Belus, which stood near the old palace, occupied one entire square.
Arduous, however, as these varied pursuits may seem to common minds, they occupied a part only of Crichton's attention.
Nearly the whole body of the caterpillar is occupied by a capacious stomach.
Many inscriptions have been found at Palmyra, which have occupied much of the attention of the learned.
Besides building and repairing, a great deal of their time is occupied in making necessary alterations in their mansion and its approaches.
Perrot, his friend, once discovered a small nest, occupied by a solitary female, who was attending upon four pupa only.
Having arrived at the place, I remained here five days, during which I was occupied in viewing and examining various parts of the works, of which I shall here attempt to give a general description.
A pleasant sight it was, to behold the prelates occupied in hunting him, for he would not decamp!
From the name of the western tower, it is probable this castle was occupied by the Cummins in the time of Edward I.
Hence, when a hunter sees a gate during a run, his thoughts should be solely occupied in doing his best to aid his rider to open, get through and shut it, or hold it open, if necessary.
Mr. Ensign Somers was the fourth lieutenant of the Chatauqua, and occupied the last state-room on the left, as you enter the ward-room.
He was happy, holding the hand of her who had occupied so large a place in his thoughts, and whose image had fringed with roseate hues his brightest hopes and strongest aspirations.
Illustration] As most of our readers have probably never seen the interior of a ship of war, we present on the adjoining page a plan of that portion of the vessel occupied by the officers.
From his present stand-point, the captain occupied the most difficult and trying place in the ship, and he almost wished he had declined the command offered to him.
The lower story of the building was occupied as a liquor shop, and a further examination of the premises assured him the place was a sailor's boarding-house.
Somers was now the third lieutenant of the Chatauqua, and he moved into the state-room formerly occupied by Mr. Garboard, who had also advanced one grade in his relative rank.
Officers were busy in making the necessary surveys, and the men were occupied in repairing damages and restoring order about the decks and rigging.
The Steerage, occupied by Midshipmen and Masters' Mates.
Somers was occupied in his state-room, putting his books, papers, and clothing in order, which he had not had time to do before to his satisfaction.
But she said she couldn’t be bothered just then; her mind was more than fully occupied in trying to lay the blame for everything on the right person.
There, at the Carmelites', was Therese de Fontenay; she occupied the same cell as Josephine; the same misfortune had made them companions and friends.
The cell she occupied was shared by two companions of misfortune, the Duchess de Aguillon and the beautiful Madame de Fontenay, who afterward became Madame Tallien, so distinguished and renowned for her beauty and wit.
The viscount had now the satisfaction which ten years ago, at the beginning of his married life, he had so intently longed for, the satisfaction of seeing his wife occupied with grave studies, with the culture of her own mind and talents.
Adorned with diamonds and flowers, Hortense appeared to be a stranger to all the pomp which surrounded her, and to be occupied only with her own sad communings.
No, Alexandre de Beauharnais did not bid welcome to Josephine in his father's house, which they had occupied together.
But this occupied his mind less than his solicitude for Josephine.
If he find the house full, he fancies all the places are occupied by gratis tickets (and he is sometimes correct), and he concludes from it that the performance cannot be very amusing.
While occupied with this idea I made active investigations; I applied to the public libraries and their keepers, whom my tenacious importunity drove into despair.
Nearly all the persons present had only seen in this assault on my room a means to obtain places, and each intended to pay for his seat after having occupied it.
The room I occupied formed a portion of the Château d'Avaray, and was situated over an archway, closed by a heavy gate.
During this conversation, the quadrilles were being danced, and, before their termination, the crowd had occupied all the seats for my performance, save those reserved for the royal family and the court.
However, instead of running after fortune, as in the previous year, I occupied myself with changing and improving my performance.
As I have already stated, the room I occupied was to be transformed into a theatre; hence I was carried to an adjacent inn, and placed in a capital arm chair close to an open window.
Although my time was fully occupied here, I managed to continue my pocket practice; and I daily noticed with joy the progress I was making.
Marshal Randon, with his family and suite, occupied the two stage-boxes to the right of the stage, while the prefect and other civilian authorities sat exactly facing him.
Comte's invitation, when they could promise themselves the extreme pleasure of seeing their beloved boys in a box exclusivelyoccupied by crowned heads?
The bed on which I had lain was drawn up through a trap in the ceiling where it occupied a very small space.
This journey would have occupied much time, as I intended to remain a year or two in every city I visited, and France is large!
I, therefore described myself as a singer at the Opera, while concealing the position I occupied there.
Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Queen Dowager, the Duke of Cambridge and the royal children occupied the first rank.
One John Porter used sometimes to be occupied in that goodly exercise, to the edifying of himself as well as others.
In this scheme the Earl of Bedford was to become Lord Treasurer, Pym Chancellor of the Exchequer, Holles Secretary of State, while Lords Essex, Mandeville, and Saye and Sele occupied various posts in the administration.
Spinola beat the troops of the Union back upon Worms, and occupied with ease the bulk of the Palatinate.
Forcing the passage of the Tyne in the face of an English detachment, they occupied Newcastle, and despatched from that town their proposals of peace.
He found the coast occupied by Spanish troops; and while evading direct orders to attack, he sent his men up the country.
Note that the Half, occupiedby the two Counters, settles what is to be the Subject of the Proposition, and that the Cell, occupied by the Red Counter, settles what is to be its Predicate.
The Proposition may be written "All | fully occupied persons | are | persons who do not talk about their grievances".
Those who are fully occupied never talk about their grievances.
All | fully occupiedpersons | are | persons who do not talk about their grievances".
Already the rival army was mustering, and the Yorkist troops occupied the sloping ground to the south, that went by the name of the Red Piece.
I can't find another word to describe it, because he is not a man who falls into disillusionment, and he disdained to be occupied with work at that time.
His earlier essays were principally on botanical subjects; later, he included zoölogy and conchology; and during the last fifteen years of his life the history and antiquities of America appear to have occupied his most earnest attention.
This name does not appear in later authors, but near that site were the Okahoki band, who occupied the shores of Ridley and Crum creeks and the land between them.
The Nanticokes occupiedthe territory between Chesapeake Bay and the ocean, except its southern extremity, which appears to have been under the control of the Powhatan tribe of Virginia.
The valley of the Susquehanna river was occupied by a tribe of Iroquois lineage and language, known as the Susquehannocks, Conestogas and Andastes.
Of these, that which settled in Pennsylvania was the Pikoweu, who occupied and gave their name to the Pequa valley in Lancaster county.
The wanderings of the unstable and migratory Shawnees have occupied the attention of several writers, but it cannot be said that either their history or their affiliations have been satisfactorily worked out.
These latter lay between the position then occupied by the Lenape and the eastern territory where they were found by the whites.
They occupied the Atlantic coast from the Savannah river on the south to the strait of Belle Isle on the north.
The Sanhicans occupied the Delaware shore at the Falls, near where Trenton now stands, and extended eastward along the upper Indian path quite to New York bay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occupied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
