Word Finder - autonomous

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Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.

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Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.

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(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).

The ancient Mexican tribe was composed of twenty autonomous kins.

Each tribe under its chief was autonomous.

Philadelphus, and began to recover itself as an autonomous municipality.

None of the groups became fully autonomous of the project.

Conference between sister churches for counsel is provided for; so that, while autonomous, they do not live as isolated units.

Areas are subdivisions of autonomous systems (AS 's).

For administrative purposes the province is divided into eleven districts and one autonomous municipality, Laibach (pop. 36,547), the capital.

By this peace all the Greek cities on the mainland of Asia with the islands of Cyprus and Clazomenae were recognized as Persian, all other cities except Imbros, Lemnos and Scyros as autonomous.

Sparta was the chief member of the confederacy (hegemon), but the states were autonomous.

They will allow engineers to evaluate the advantages of autonomous spacecraft operation.

In 1868 Transylvania was definitely reunited to Hungary proper, and the town and district of Fiume declared autonomous.

It is true that we find oligarchic government in Chios and Lesbos (up to 428) and in Samos (up to 440), but this is discounted by the fact that all three were " autonomous " allies.

In 1849 Transylvania was divided from Hungary by an imperial decree, and became an Austrian crown-land; but in 1860 Transylvania became an autonomous province, with a separate Diet, and a high executive power of its own.

Errors in policy and in government facilitated the rise of Pontus into a formidable power under Mithradates, who was finally driven out of the country by Pompey, and died 63 B.C. Under the settlement of Asia Minor by Pompey, Bithynia-Pontus and Cilicia became provinces, whilst Galatia and Cappadocia were allowed to retain nominal independence for over half a century more under native kings, and Lycia continued an autonomous League.

It was made autonomous in the 5th century, in recognition of the supposed discovery of the original of St Matthew's Gospel in a " tomb of Barnabas " which is still shown at Salamis.

Most of these new cities were based on older settlements; but the essential point is, that they were peopled by Greek and Macedonian colonists, and enjoyed civic independence with laws, officials, councils and assemblies of their own, in other words, an autonomous communal constitution, under the suzerainty of the empire.

The remainder of the vassal statesCarmania, Susiana, Mesenc were ended by Ardashir; and the autonomous desert fortress of Hatra in Mesopotamia was destroyed by his son Shapur (Sapor) I., according to the Persian and Arabian traditions, which, in this point, are deserving of credence.

The island was presented by Hadrian to Athens, but it appears again at a later date as "free and autonomous."

Their three tribes - Trocmi, Tolistobogians and Tectosages--submitted to Rome (189 B.C.), but they remained autonomous till the death of their king Amyntas, when Augustus erected Galatia into a province.

Arizona became a territory of the first (or practically autonomous) class in 1863.

For administrative purposes Bohemia is divided into ninety-four districts and two autonomous municipalities, Prague (pop. 204,478), the capital, and Reichenberg (34,204).

Her husband Prasutagus ruled the Iceni (in what is now Norfolk) as an autonomous prince under Roman suzerainty.

In general, each tribe is autonomous, but, as already stated, considerable kingdoms have been created by the Luba-Lunda.

These reverses, however, were redeemed by the valour of the British troops, the spirit of the British nation, and the enthusiasm which induced the great autonomous colonies of the empire to send men to support the cause of the mother country.

The great Australian colonies were almost created in her reign; two of themVictoria and Queenslandowe their name to her; they all received those autonomous institutions, under which their prosperity has been built up, during its continuance.

The seminary is now affiliated with Harvard University, though it remains independent and autonomous.

The trade of the city has been unfavourably affected by the political events which have converted former provinces of the Turkish empire into autonomous states, by the development of business at other ports of the empire, owing to the opening up of the interior country through the construction of railroads, and by the difficulties which the government, with the view of preventing political agitation, has put in the way of easy intercourse by natives between the capital and the provinces.

For administrative purposes, the province is divided into 78 districts and 2 autonomous municipalities - Lemberg (pop. 159,618), the capital, and Cracow (91,310).

There were no provincial assemblies, no municipal bodies, no merchant-gilds, no autonomous churches; the people had no means of making themselves heard; they had no place in an administration which was completely in the hands of a central hierarchy of officials of all ranks, from dukes to scabini, with counts, viscounts and centenarii in between.

He was, however, entirely free from personal ambition, and had no desire to be general over a number of dependent houses, so that he desired that _all congregations formed on his model outside Rome should be autonomous, governing themselves, and without endeavouring to retain control over any new colonies they might themselves send out - a regulation afterwards formally confirmed by a brief.

The Berlin treaty was a disappointment to the Gregorian Armenians, who had hoped that Armenia and Cilicia would have been formed into an autonomous province administered by Christians.

There is no concrete data as to when Samuil created an autonomous Macedonian archbishopric.

He held a guest professorship at the same university, where he taught introductory artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.

The autonomous agent enables this extremely time consuming process to be entirely automated.

Control of Autonomous Ground Vehicles Improving factory automation for Siemens A&D by using a radio based location system to control Autonomous Ground Vehicles.

These are largely autonomous, enabling organizations based on specific areas of interest for students.

In this sense the discursive or ideational is only ever relatively autonomous of the material.

It is wholly autonomous, multi-national, non-sectarian and ecumenical in orientation and operation.

The Kurds believe Turkey's goal would be to suppress the creation of a truly autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq.

There are two general arguments in favor of trying to make learners autonomous.

It means we get the benefits of being part of a bigger business, while remaining largely autonomous.

There is a fine balance between encouraging autonomous learning and maintaining adequate supervision.

This generative politics is a partnership of state and society, but one in which both ' sides '; are considered autonomous.

Despite strong police presence on the autonomous bloc there was very little antagonism on the march.

Autonomous Cafe has successfully commandeered EDB Cafe of the University of Sussex on the 31/01/06.

It is hard to avoid this conflation of autonomous sources of income within a rural household economy and break it down to discrete units.

The trade also helps the economy of the autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq.

Today, the town is an autonomous municipality and has earned itself extraordinary success in the panorama of international tourism.

In addition, three other autonomous prefectures are allowed to enjoy the preferential policies the state has adopted for the western regions.

It's an apt, if ironic, tag given that the hotel lies in an autonomous Tibetan prefecture.