caliphal

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Adjective
  • Uram also praised those efforts, while emphasizing that JTS is more than a rabbinical and cantorial school.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
  • Most importantly, the High Court of Justice’s decision recognized that women have achieved high levels of education in rabbinic law.
    Michal Raucher, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Walsh’s ruling gave the OCA, which is the largest of three Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical bodies in the United States, authority to govern the parish and the judge ordered the parish’s former leaders to vacate the property by June 2025.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026
  • These final days of Lent, constituting the most solemn season of the ecclesiastical year, will commemorate the passion and death of Christ.
    From staff reports, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Mindfulness meditation was not widely practiced by the non-monastic Buddhist laity.
    Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Otherwise, rooms are almost monastic in their lack of decorative elements and rely on the interplay of shadows and sunlight for interest.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This will be followed by a final period in Florence to learn the technique and historical evolution of egg tempera, to acquire ancient handweaving skills and expand her knowledge of its applications in the ecclesiastic context.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • Back then, Kennedy was constantly fending off accusations from Protestant ecclesiastic types who were wary that his nomination meant the pontiff, John XXIII, was already packing his bags for a move into the White House.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Doors can open in your professional life, whether through charm and strategy or divine timing.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Riefenstahl was an expert at using lighting and shadows, of creating a sense of patriotism and glory and even divine mandate.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The office also pointed to efforts to expand security funding for religious institutions, strengthen hate crime laws and support Holocaust and genocide education initiatives.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Inspired by Renaissance paintings, Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli reimagined Yai as the Black Madonna, a figure seen throughout religious art.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • One was that literary journalism anthology the mendicant had flipped through.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.
    Matt Seyler, ABC News, 10 May 2022
  • The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.
    New York Times, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2017
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“Caliphal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caliphal. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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