The Greek Church holds that marriage is dissoluble in case of adultery, but not till a probationary period has elapsed during which a bishop or priest mediates with a view to reconciliation.
A further question then arises: Shall the man return to his home at once or first undergo a probationary period?
The probation department arranged for the couple to live apart in the early stage of probationary treatment.
Unfortunately Oriel was not only gaining great honour, but was very jealous of it; and the probationary Fellows were subjected to a most rigid system of observation, which seems to have gone near to espionage.
The Pursuits of Literature, though mainly devoted to the subject of its title, is also to a great extent political; the Rolliad and the Probationary Odes, intensely political, were also to no small extent literary.
In default, however, of any grave objection to the presentee, he was next summoned by the presbytery to what really was a probationary act at their bar; viz.
Thus Languedoc was divided into seven districts, and to each of those a proposant or probationary preacher was appointed.
Probationary Odes (which is unmarked in the Sunning-hill Park copy) was written by Dr.
The good nature of the royal pair might have softened even the authors of the "Probationary Odes,"(17) and could not but be delightful to a young lady who had been brought up a Tory.
Probationary Odes," that, in the midst of all my flutter, I was really hardly able to keep my countenance.
Probationary Odes for the Laureateship," a volume of lively satirical verse published after the appointment of Sir Thomas Warton to that office on the death of William Whitehead, in 1785.
He entered on his probationary services in May, 1848, and was ordained in the month of April in the following year.
During two years, the congregation at Daventry was supplied by neighbouring ministers and probationary candidates.
Lewis commenced a probationary course of labour, and afterwards settled as the pastor.
To me, there is no doctrine so infinitely absurd as the idea that this life is a probationary state--that the few moments spent here decide the fate of a human soul forever.
Lamb subsequently altered the conclusion of this paragraph to: "as if, like Spenser, he were singing his own Epithalamium, and not a strain of probationary courtship.
The probationary trials of Tamino and Papageno are continued.
It's for such men as are admitted to the Department on trial, 'probationary firemen' chiefly; but the old hands have had a deal of good out of it.
It can well be fancied that Seth did not neglect his duties after having been admitted to the probationary class.
Could it have been a probationary residence permit or something of that sort.
I had thought, my impression was, that it was kind of probationary citizenship.
Nature is not ripe for judgment so long as a probationary process is pending, if there is yet something to wait for ere judgment can take its course.
A lot of you are only probationary members, anyhow, and can't vote.
As far as he could see it was composed in the main of lads who were only probationary members of the school society--lads without voting power.
The resolution, however, with which they both separated, was worthy of the purity of their mutual affections, and they agreed to pass the probationary year in a cheerful submission to their lot.
I went up to college to pronounce my probationary oration.
It is the usage to require of every one, to be admitted actual fellow of Magdalen College, what is called a probationary exercise.
This is not the place to discuss the question of the probationary character of life and its educative purpose; it is sufficient to recognize that in Nature is discoverable no definite and final answer to the questionings of doubt.
Absolute certainty in all things spiritual being thus established, free will becomes but a name, and the probationary character of life is at an end.
That in its probationary character lies its educative influence.
On the other hand, it is supposable that, possessed with all the memories of this probationary state, blessed by the companionship of our earthly friends, we may aspire together along the interminable gradations of the world to come.
The Christian, amid all his domestic enjoyments, does not realize that his home is his rest, but that it is only a probationary state, the foretaste and anticipation of the rest that remaineth for the people of God.
The acting assistant-surgeons are those who have not as yet served the probationary year, or been confirmed.
That probationary year I consider more than a grievance, it is a cruel injustice.
