Word: imprimature
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...many Spaniards, the term Protestant has been made to stand for something shameful and dangerous. A pamphlet recently published by a Catholic organization, with the Church's imprimatur, denned Protestantism as a "means invented by a monk named Luther to marry a nun" and as a "diabolical sect invented by the devil...
...20th round, with eight contestants still hanging on, the judges had exhausted their original list of 615 words, had to call time out while they scrabbled in their dictionaries for more stickers. Imprimatur, encomium, umbrage, charlatan and eident eliminated all but three. In Round 29, Jim Bernhard, 12, of Houston, Texas, who had plowed successfully through such words as effluviography, went down on haruspex (he ended it specs). Only plump, wavy-haired Diana Reynard, 12, of East Cleveland, Ohio, and pale, lanky Colquitt Dean, 14, of College Park, Ga., were left...
...Take the General Education Report," he ventures. "The outstanding fact was hardly in its Intrinsic newness, for similar approaches had been attempted else where, but in its tremendous effect among faculties all over the country. Only the imprimatur of Harvard University can get that effect. Why at Cal there's been desultory discussion for years: the Report was like yeast in the place. Committees have been set up, they're holding meetings, something will be done...
...most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been doing its quiet work...
...August issue of the undenominational Christian Herald presents a question-&-answer analysis of the Catholic position. The Herald asks the questions, takes its answers verbatim from the pamphlet Freedom of Worship, published by the Paulist Fathers with the imprimatur of Cardinal Spellman. Excerpts...