Category: Glossary

Evangelicalism ( e-van-gel-i-cal) noun

A member of the evangelical traditional in the Christian Church.

“In today’s evangelicalism this is where the theological action is: the faith and work”

Fanatical (fa-nat-i-cal) adjective

Filled with excessive and single minded zeal

“But one factor stands out above all others:the fanatical opposition of Americans Republicans”

Advocate (ad-vo-cate) noun

A person who publicly supports a cause of a policy

” In the last few years a range of advocates fighting on behalf of transgender people”

Infrastructure ( in-fra-struc-ture) noun

The basic physical and organizational structure needed for a society

” Our life expectancy are falling, our infrastructure is crumbling, and our politics are in the toilet”

Consecrated (adjective)

Having been made or declared

” Yet all alike are consecrated priests and bishops and every man should be in office”

Culprit ( cul-prit) noun

A person who is responsible for a crime.

“There are, of course , many culprits; action was never going to be easy”

Graphic language

make programming calls to the APIs of the language, and the graphics drivers render the images on the screen or printer.

or

• differs from most spoken language in that it has no direct way of providing feedback for its producer.
• The pictorial branch of graphic language presents a specially difficult problem in this respect because it has no real “language of dialogue.”

source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/graphic-language

Aesthetic

• the philosophical study of beauty and taste.
• concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated.

source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/aesthetics

Euro-centric

ocusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.

• anti-universalist in nature, it presents itself as a universalist phenomenon and advocates for the imitation of a Western model based on “Western values” – individuality, human rights, equality, democracy, free markets, secularism, and social justice – as a cure to all kinds of problems, no matter how different various societies are socially, culturally, and historically.

source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-9160-5_25

Codified

• to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
• to make a digest of; arrange in a systematic collection.

source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/codified