These societies aimed at continuing the ascetic practices of the Flagellants, and at prolonging their passion of penitence in a more sober spirit.
We have to trace their origin in the religious practices of the Laudesi, from which a species of dramatic performance was developed, and which placed the sacred drama in the hands of these lay confraternities.
Religious ideas and practices had to satisfy his immediate needs or they had no meaning to him at all.
In their religious services, as in most other things, the Jewish boys liked practices which reminded them of home.
There are creeds which are nobly true, others which are false and feeble--practices which are beautiful and elevating, others which are petty and unprofitable.
In this Memorial the Principal was invited to ease the public mind with respect to rumours (widely prevalent) concerning certain practices in the laboratories under his charge, either by denying them or inviting a public inquiry.
The Swiss in recent years have brought their economic practices largely into conformity with the EU's to enhance their international competitiveness.
Mineral extraction, principally diamond mining, dominates economic activity, though tourism is a growing sector due to the country's conservation practicesand extensive nature preserves.
When someone defends such practicesby saying: "But the rules!
Boys who were generally in the habit of lying in bed till the chapel bell began to ring had been up at six for a week past, to look at the practices on the river.
The latter was all very well, but even cricket, when it means three practices a day presided over by a strict senior, gets to be a little wearisome.
Of course, there's the second-eleven practices still going on for the Templeton match, but I'll turn up here all the same.
It was one of a series of training practices in anticipation of the school regatta, which was to come off on the second of June, in which the rival four-oars of the three houses were to compete for the championship of the river.
The idea of his steering the schoolhouse boat had never occurred either to himself or Fairbairn when he first undertook these practices at the solicitation of his friend.
No sentence must come forth from our lips having any tendency to undermine or subvert the principles and practices of true religion.
Yet it is plain that such practices must very largely have destroyed the tribal custom of succession--at least in the higher ranks of society.
On the other hand there is evidence from later times for offerings at the grave, necromancy and all other practices usually associated with the cult of the dead[607].
The resemblances between the athletic contests, so far as they have any existence at all, are due to practices which are worldwide.
How far the two practices were associated with different conceptions of immortality, as in the North, it is impossible to tell.
But references to practices such as cremation which, though heathen, had long ago passed out of use, would not excite the same repugnance and consequently might be allowed to stand.
But the fact that such practices are ignored in the Iliad and Odyssey, while later poets had a special affection for them, renders it probable that their presence in the Cyclic poems is due to popular influence.
The people always reserves the right to cooperate with its mandatories, which right it practices daily in the galleries.
These practices we pronounce to be the result of a popular delusion--a false sense of obligation to the spirit of war.
Militarism we have thrown to the scrap heap of practices discredited and vicious.
I shall assume here that the reader is already sufficiently familiar with the practices of the Jews, as recorded thruout the Old Testament, concerning this matter of blood atonement, to render it unnecessary to go into further details.
To him all the traditions and practices of his people were at least of divine origin; and hence must have a meaning of eternal significance.
Yet, I still held rigidly to the doctrine that immersion alone was baptism, and that with all its defects, the Baptist Church was the most scriptural and orthodox in its doctrines and practices of any church in existence.
Then, by parity of reasoning, the good men of ancient times might safely have concluded that certain other practices were good and would endure, which we know were not good, and were not to last.
You will freely admit, we presume, that certain practices are authorized by your slave laws, in which you must not indulge even so long as by any necessity you hold slaves.
That infamous volume was aimed at the whole missionary body in China, Roman Catholic as well as Protestant; it attributed the foulest crimes, the most disgraceful and disgusting practices to the missionaries.
The British merchants, as a body, have no interest in the opium trade; nor are any of them engaged in smuggling or in any practices detrimental to the natives of China.
There is, in truth, about as much difference in the two practices as there is between drinking, say, a pint of ardent spirits and bathing the surface of one's body with the same stimulant.
The Chinese are too wise and thrifty to while away their time in such luxurious practices during working hours.
Mr. Turner in his book speaks of the Chinese Government as a paternal Government, which, the moment it finds any practices on foot injurious to the people, at once takes steps to put them down.
It is clearly evident that school practices admirably adapted to the social conditions in one country may be far from desirable in another.
The natives of the country, who do virtually all of the hunting for feathers, are not provident in their nature, and their practices are of a most cruel and brutal nature.
The ante-purgatory appears as a creation of the poet, influenced by certain passages of the Aeneid and by ancient disciplinary practices which kept the penitents waiting outside the church.
No more did Gerbert, an earlier instance of catholic interest in profane knowledge, though legends of questionable practices were to encircle his fame.
In these and doubtless many other cities[375] students were instructed in legal practices and formulae, and some substance of the Roman law was taught.
THE humanitarian spirit, born 1900 years ago, effectually checked all inhuman practices for disposal of the unfit.
There can be no essential ethical difference between constant continence, prior to marriage, and intermittent continence subsequent to marriage, both practices having a similar motive.
It is not surprising that out of such an atmosphere and among such practices a powerful passion for unity has arisen, based on something far stronger than sentiment, and having in it some of the fire of revelation.
Notable among them were the local officials, called jefes politicos, whose control of the police force enabled them to indulge in practices of intimidation and extortion which ultimately became unendurable.
Unable to make them subside, Santa Anna fell back upon an expedient which recalls practiceselsewhere in Spanish America.
Spaniards are conservative; they cling to practices that are no longer necessary, and the carrying of knives and pistols is one of those quixotic characteristics of the race, which will probably survive for several generations.
There are malodours here and there, owing to the insanitarypractices of the people; but the inhabitants of these quarters are seldom ragged, and they do not appear dejected, dirty and degraded.
For some time I was fearfully anxious lest the newly-enkindled emotions of my heart should die out, and that I should again be left to go back into my old practices of evil, and possibly re-occupy the seat of the scorner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: code; ethos; moral
