Word Finder - fraternity

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The quality of being brothers or brotherly; brotherhood.

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A group of people associated for a common purpose.

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A social organization of male students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.

This latter aspect of the fraternity was to be satisfied by the contribution from each fellow of five dollars by way of initiation fee.

Jacopo Niccolini, one of a religious fraternity dedicated to consoling the last hours of condemned men, remained with him.

Otherwise, they boot me out of the fraternity.

In 1892 he founded the clerical fraternity known as the Community of the Resurrection.

In 1795, as grandmaster of the Masonic fraternity, he laid the cornerstone of the new State House in Boston, and in this year also founded the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, becoming its first president.

The religious element was more prominent in Orcy's gild at Abbotsbury and in the fraternity at Exeter; their ordinances exhibit much solicitude for the salvation of the brethren's souls.

And in their indifference to the distinctions of race and nationality they merely accommodated themselves to the spirit which had become characteristic of chivalry itself, already recognized, like the church, as a universal institution which knit together the whole warrior caste of Christendom into one great fraternity irrespective alike of feudal subordination and territorial boundaries.

The Denominational.-The course of denominational work may be seen in the way in which the London Society and the American Board were gradually left to the Congregationalists, it being recognized that while fraternity was maintained, the widest results could only be obtained as appeal was made directly to the members of each separate denomination.

It sought as well to encourage revolutionary measures against the monarchy and the old regime, and it was it especially which popularized the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."

His first successor in the rectorship of the Maulawi fraternity was Husam-uddin himself, after whose death in 1284 Jalal-uddin's younger and only surviving son, Shaikh Bahaudd-In Ahmed, commonly called Sultan Walad, and favourably known as author of the mystical mathnawi Rababnama, or the Book of the Guitar (died 1312), was duly installed as grand-master of the order.

The fraternity possessed also a jargon of their own (Ramasi), as well as certain signs by which its members recognized each other in the remotest parts of India.

This is to represent his association with the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

Remember to make friends outside of your sorority or fraternity.

Piety, Fraternity and Power Detailed investigation of the religious gild, showing its importance to all aspects of medieval life.

A fraternity is a student organization with a selective membership.

Potential members must "rush" a fraternity, and they are referred to as pledges.

During the rush process, sometimes designated as Rush Week, students attend informational meetings and social events to learn more about fraternity life.

Hazing is also a hot-button topic in fraternity life.

In 1913, the first fraternity began at NDSU.

In most sorority or fraternity houses, life is a whirlwind of activity.

The Association of Fraternity Advisors offers publications, an online community and professional development for chapter advisors.

Fraternity and sorority life led to its high ranking.

Many of these students enjoy party colleges because of the easy access to alcohol-low prices, bars open late, and fraternity and sorority parties that encourage drinking.

He created commemorative rings and marketed them to fraternity and sorority members at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

The four UCLA fraternity brothers instead wanted to build an underwater restaurant.

While he had no formal training under his belt other than a few acts in a handful of fraternity shows, Brad had a gut-feeling he belonged in the movies.

In the 1940s and 1950s, couples often exchanged class rings or fraternity pins as symbols of their relationship, and those tokens were interpreted as promises to remain together and faithful.

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - John Belushi stars as a college guy whose early 1960s fraternity is all about partying.

In the 1980s, American daytime drama One Life to Live featured the internal soap opera Fraternity Row.

Not to be outdone by their print siblings, network television and radio also have a home in Llanview including WVLTV station, which aired Fraternity Row, One Life to Live's soap opera within a soap opera and WVLE radio.

It was revealed that the two knew each other in college, where they were members of the same fraternity.

In the fraternity and sorority Greek system, the crests of several groups include a star and moon combination such as Delta Delta Delta and Lambda Chi Alpha.

As host of a party where you expect a lot of drinking to be happening, you should be prepared with the numbers of taxi services or to allow people to spend the night if your party is at a fraternity or sorority house.

Toga parties have become a part of college history, like the one thrown by the Delta Tau Chi fraternity in the 1978 film Animal House.

Educated at Reading school and at Winchester college, Henry Vansittart joined the society of the Franciscans, or the "Hellfire club," at Medmenham, his elder brothers, Arthur and Robert, being also members of this fraternity.

He hoped, by organizing a fraternity of armed laymen as pioneers, to restore fertility to the Sahara; but this community did not succeed, and was dissolved before his death.

He, like his predecessors, openly attacked all distinctions of caste, and taught the equality of all men who would join him, and he instituted a ceremony of initiation with baptismal holy water by which all might enter the Sikh fraternity.

Such a fraternity was commonly called a "mistery" or "company" in the 15th and 16th centuries, though the old term "gild" was not yet obsolete.

In some towns all the crafts were thus consolidated into a single fraternity; in this case a body was reproduced which regulated the whole trade monopoly of the borough, and hence bore some resemblance to the old gild merchant.

The fraternity of White Penitents buried the body with great ceremony, and performed a solemn service for the deceased as a martyr; the Franciscans followed their example; and these formalities led to the popular belief in the guilt of the unhappy family.

According to the Thuggee and Dacoity Report for 1879, the number of registered Punjabi and Hindustani Thugs then still amounted to 344; but all of these had already been registered as such before 1852, and the whole fraternity may now be considered as extinct.

Some recommended marriage, others enlistment as a soldier in the civil wars; one "ancient priest" bade him take tobacco and sing psalms; another of the same fraternity, "in high account," advised physic and blood-letting.

Hence arose the powerful fraternity of the "Umiliati," who established their headquarters at the Brera, and began to develop the wool trade, and subsequently gave the first impetus to the production of silk.

He entered the order of the friars preachers of St Dominic in 1244, and besides preaching with success in many parts of Italy, taught in the schools of his own fraternity.

The most remarkable, perhaps, of his foundations was the fraternity of the Oblates, a society whose members were pledged to give aid to the church when and where it might be required.

Lacordaire strove to show that Catholicism was not bound up with the idea of dynasty, and definitely allied it with a well-defined liberty, equality and fraternity.

Some years before his death he entered a religious fraternity.

The increasing number of her adherents, and her inexperience of government on such a vast and complicated scale, obliged her to comply with political necessity and to adopt the system of the state and its social customs. The Church was no longer a fraternity, on a footing of equality, with freedom of belief and tentative as to dogma, but an authoritative aristocratic hierarchy.

Sorry to hear about your brush with Dundee's criminal fraternity; I'm sure they'll get the bugger eventually.

Home to some truly spectacular peaks, they are renowned throughout Europe to the climbing fraternity.