caliphal

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Adjective
  • When the consolidation was announced in 2022, the college faced a record $8.8 million deficit and rabbinic student enrollment had dropped by 37% over the previous 15 years.
    Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As Dante struggles with his poem, he is sent to a wise man who can guide him, a rabbinical figure called Isaiah (not his real name, we’re told).
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Rose Glass' directorial debut is an ecclesiastical horror that offsets the fine line between devotion and delusion, all while stirring the painful emotions of loneliness and trauma.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Her historic appointment—a first in the 1,400 years since Saint Augustine founded the diocese after landing in England—will fuel the long-running debate not only in the Anglican church, but also other Christian churches, about the ecclesiastical role of women.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Delas Francois de Tournon is named for the monastic order of Jesuits who resided in this area in the 17th century.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2025
  • With a frill-less monastic setting, this institution has several London locations, but Smithfield is the OG, serving signature dishes like roasted bone marrow and oven-hot madeleines available by the dozen and half dozen.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Think of it like an ecclesiastic LinkedIn.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Forbidden passion fueled the plot of The Thorn Birds in which the late Richard Chamberlain, played the priest Ralph de Bricassart, a heartthrob in ecclesiastic wear.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, Alexander Pope also suggested the follow up - to forgive divine.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This divine angel food cake's rich, moist texture is unlike any other.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • This has given the conflict a religious coloration, and political elites have also chosen to politicize the conflict to negotiate power and other interests, which has complicated the problem.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Seyfried spoke to the real-life Ann Lee's experience losing all of her children at a young age, which influenced her religious views.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The abrupt appearance and disappearance of the mendicant pilgrim is part of her power.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 Apr. 2023
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 9 Nov. 2025.

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