The area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing.
Sinônimos
Examples for "sanctuary"
Examples for "sanctuary"
1Millions have fled Middle Eastern trouble spots seeking sanctuary in Western Europe.
2Later, when the current lessened, water filled the sanctuary; the animals drowned.
3We may decide for example to set those up as sanctuary areas.
4New sanctuary laws protecting immigrants went into effect in California in January.
5And there were two doors in the temple, and in the sanctuary.
1The nave is in the Perpendicular style, and the chancel is Decorated.
2The fine mosaics in the chancel were worked by a female convict.
3It hung from the beams of the chancel, before the high altar.
4She went up into the chancel and looked about her in silence.
5She saw them sitting in their pew far down toward the chancel.
1He's the Adonis of the rostrum, the Apollo Belvidere of the bema.
2Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.
3His friends and relatives tried in vain to stop him making himself ridiculous and being dragged down from the bema.
4Up on the bema, the rabbi is welcoming the congregation, and telling them how good it is to worship with everyone.
5Looking out from his place at the foot of the pillar, he saw a man standing far off in the lofty bema.
6His first attempt to speak in public proved a failure, and he retired from the bema amidst the hootings and laughter of the citizens.
7There is a handsome chair for the presiding officer upon the Bema itself.
8There is some little clapping, mixed with jeering, as he mounts the Bema.
9Bema: a raised place in Athens whence the orators addressed assemblies of the people.
10At a nod from the president, he mounts the Bema and assumes the myrtle.
11BEMA Fentanyl is a small, oral adhesive disc applied to the inner cheek lining.
12From a place directly before the Bema a well-known figure, the elderly general, Iphicrates, is rising.
13It met on the Pnyx hill, where the assembled Ecclesiasts were addressed from the Bema, or speaking-block.
14When Iphicrates quits the Bema there is little left of Timon's fine "Earth, Sky and Justice."
15BioDelivery said the product, BEMA Fentanyl, produced a statistically significant reduction in pain at 30 minutes compared with a placebo.
16One-a speedy rumor tells us-is ,earlierand later in the day, a rising comic poet; the other is not infrequently heard on the Bema.