- Marriage announcement - Public declaration of a marriage - Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church,
or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object,
if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution;
often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more
generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. - That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed;
that which is enjoined or bestowed - A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained
and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and
Christian dispensations. - The relaxation of a law in a particular case;
permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something
enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from
some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred
of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
- A formal religious or public occasion or celebration - Formal act or ritual - Pomp - You might stand on it at a formal event - Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical
character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of
important matters, as in the performance of religious duties, the
transaction of affairs of state, and the celebration of notable events;
as, the ceremony of crowning a sovereign; the ceremonies observed in
consecrating a church; marriage and baptismal ceremonies. - Behavior regulated by strict etiquette; a formal method
of performing acts of civility; forms of civility prescribed by custom
or authority. - A ceremonial symbols; an emblem, as a crown, scepter,
garland, etc.
- A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century
by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who
taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the
divine testimone passively recived by the understanding." The English
and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after
Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass.