Word Finder - condemns

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To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

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The president condemned the terrorists.

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To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.

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To confer eternal divine punishment upon.

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To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.

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The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.

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To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.

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To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

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To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.

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To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

But in 1877, in the M athematische Annalen, xii., he gave a paper " On the Place of Quaternions in the Ausdehnungslehre," in which he condemns, as far as he can, the nomenclature and methods of Hamilton.

It is so with Bernard of Clairvaux (109053), who condemns Abelard's distinctions and reasonings as externalizing and degrading the faith.

He condemns a scientific treatment of history and disregards its philosophy.

He says on Free the one hand, " not only as a man, but as a British subject I pray for the flourishing commerce of Germany, Spain, Italy and even France itself," and condemns " the numerous bars, obstructions and imposts which all nations of Europe, and none more than England, have put upon trade."

He looks upon the form of church government as non-essential, but condemns Nonconformity.

In his first year abroad he consulted Calvin and Bullinger as to the right of the civil "authority" to prescribe religion to his subjects - in particular, whether the godly should obey "a magistrate who enforces idolatry and condemns true religion," and whom should they join "in the case of a religious nobility resisting an idolatrous sovereign."

This pronouncement, indeed, though it certainly condemns the use of ceremonial lights in most of its later developments, and especially the conception of them as votive offerings whether to God or to the saints, does not necessarily exclude, though it undoubtedly discourages, their purely symbolical use.'

Buffon's opinion is, in fact, a sort of combination of views, essentially similar to those of Bonnet, with others, somewhat similar to those of the " Medici " whom Harvey condemns.

Gross exaggerations, such as those in which Valerius Antias indulged, he roundly denounces, and with equal plainness of speech he condemns the family vanity which had so constantly corrupted and distorted the truth.

Just as whatever Plato approves is put into the mouth of Socrates, so whatever the author of the Homilies condemns is put into the mouth of Simon Magus.

Of the many objections urged against the play, perhaps the weightiest is that which condemns the frigid and superfluous part of the Infanta.

The verse translation of a Kempis, indeed, which was in its day immensely popular (it passed through many editions), condemns itself.

Basil, in his work On the Holy Spirit just mentioned, condemns " baptism into the Lord alone " as insufficient.

Similarly, John XXII., in his bull Sancta Romana et Universalis Ecclesia (28th of December 1317), condemns vaguely those "profanae multitudinis viri commonly called Fraticelli, or Brethren of the Poor Life, or Bizocchi, or Beguines, or by all manner of other names."

He names and condemns the "anthropomorphites," who ascribe a human body to God (on Romans i., sub fin.; Rufinus' Latin version).

This Association condemns the prison service for using the increase of boot and shoe allowance to fund extendable batons.

But can the law, which utterly condemns the sinner, can it redeem the sinner?

First, Blair condemns religious extremism, then he says " God " told me to invade Iraq.

The prophet condemns the idolatry of his times, which is making both religion and life an agony to the people.

Capitalism condemns every third child in the world to suffer malnutrition.

The British Methodist Church shares the widespread revulsion at the March 11 th bombings in Madrid, and unequivocally condemns them.

Holding fast then on the one hand to the individual as the only true substance, and on the other to the traditional definition of the genus as that which is predicated of a number of individuals (quod praedicatur de pluribus), Abelard declared that this definition of itself condemns the Realistic theory; only a name, not a thing, can be so predicated - not the name, however, as a flatus vocis or a collection of letters, but the name as used in discourse, the name as a sign, as having a meaning - in a word, not vox but sermo.

He was, in fact, a victim to those " halfmeasures " which Machiavelli condemns as fatal to success.

Luther in his Table Talk condemns them as dealing only with fasting, meats, virginity, &c. "If he only had insisted upon the works of faith and performed them!

The great importance of this work of WH lies in the facts that it not merely condemns but explains the late Antiochene text, and that it attempts to consider in an objective manner all the existing evidence and to explain it historically and genealogically.

If they are not pure, it condemns them.