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The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
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Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
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A public house; an inn.
adjective
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Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.
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Pertaining to the people as a whole (as opposed to a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc.
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Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community.
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Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
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(of a company) Traded publicly via a stock market.
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Accessible to the program in general, not only to the class or any subclasses.
Examples of public in a Sentence
It's all public record.
I'm beginning to despise public officials.
If she possessed a smile, she never presented it for public display.
Public opinion is ever more in the peace camp because the vast majority of the economy doesn't benefit financially in times of war.
She had it coming, but did he have to make it so public?
And before 1725, readings, both public and private, were given from Cartesian texts in some of the Parisian colleges.
And the Directory of Public Worship has shaped and coloured, perhaps too thoroughly, the ritual and atmosphere of every group of Protestant Anglo-Saxon worshippers throughout the world, except Episcopalians.
Among other public buildings are the assembly rooms, St George's hall, the volunteer drill hall, and the Crichton Institution chapel, completed at a cost of 30,000.
The corporation owns the water supply, public baths and wash-houses and the gasworks.
In public he maintained a bearing of rigid solemnity, and was seen to laugh only three times in the course of his life.
He was appointed a member of an ecclesiastical commission for reforming the church in 1787, in which capacity he was virtually minister of public worship. In 1791-1792 he became a leading member of the financial and general committees of the riksdag.
But although in his father's lifetime he several times filled the office of consul, and after his death was nominally the partner in the empire with his brother Titus, he never took any part in public business, but lived in great retirement, devoting himself to a life of pleasure and of literary pursuits till he succeeded to the throne.
As chief pontiff he inquired rigorously into the character of the vestal virgins, three of whom were buried alive; he enforced the laws against adultery, mutilation, and the grosser forms of immorality, and forbade the public acting of mimes.
He erected many temples and public buildings (amongst them the Odeum, a kind of theatre for musical performances) and restored the temple of the Capitol.
And the Woggle-Bug shall be the Public Accuser, because he is so learned that no one can deceive him.
She was almost tense enough to attack him, public mall or not.
Geneva has a public library, a city hospital and hygienic institute.
This treaty, however, was kept from public knowledge, and Ashley helped Charles to hoodwink parliament by signing a similar treaty on the 2nd of February 1672, which was laid before them as the only one in existence.
Restored to Prussia in 1816 it was again fortified, but in 1862 the fortifications were converted into a public park.
Among the public buildings are the city hall, the court house, the Federal building, the public library and an auditorium.
The other public buildings include two churches, a town hall and a hospital.
This treachery and the harsh treatment by Patterson created a strong public opinion in favour of the Yankees, and the government was compelled to adopt a milder policy.
In 1 457 King Ladislas died suddenly, and public opinion from an early period accused Podébrad of having poisoned him.
The story became public property, and protest was aroused in nearly every European country.
Some reforms were adopted, the public peace was proclaimed without any limitation of time and a general tax was levied.
But he was known as a humorist, and the public, which had learned to expect jokes from him, rejected this little book almost entirely.
Nine years after a monument, raised by public subscription, in the cemetery of Kensal Green, was inaugurated by Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) with a concourse of spectators that showed how well the memory of the poet stood the test of time.
He acted with good sense and moderation, and, although by no means a believer in democratic ideas, he saw the necessity of satisfying public opinion and frankly gave his support to larger measures of reform.
The first public teacher of Cartesian views was Henri Renery, a Belgian, who at Deventer and afterwards at Utrecht had introduced the new philosophy which he had learned Spread of from personal intercourse with Descartes.
This year may be taken as the beginning of his literary activity and public life.
In 1268 he was lecturing now in Rome and now in Bologna, all the while engaged in the public business of the church.
There are a few handsome public buildings, such as the hospital, town-hall and theatre.
His chief innovation was the introduction of payment from the public treasury for state service.
The church of St James dates from 1763, and the other numerous places of worship and public buildings are all modern.
In Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere in Scotland, and in London (through the county council), Newcastle and other English towns, the corporations have laid down greens in public parks and open spaces.
In Scotland the public greens are selfsupporting, from a charge, which includes the use of bowls, of one penny an hour for each player; in London the upkeep of the greens falls on the rates, but players must provide their own bowls.
Among public buildings, the Stephenson memorial hall (1879), containing a free library, art and science class-rooms, a theatre and the rooms of the Chesterfield Institute, commemorates George Stephenson, the engineer, who resided at Tapton House, close to Chesterfield, in his later life; he died here in 1848, and was buried in Trinity church.
The method in Great Britain is almost entirely confined to places of public assembly, but in Warm air FIG.
For large public buildings, factories, &c., heating by steam is generally adopted on account of the rapidity with which heat is available, and the great distance from the boiler at which warming is effected.
These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.
As curule aedile in 58, Scaurus celebrated the public games on a scale of magnificence never seen before.
The second edition in English appeared at Edinburgh in 1611, and in the preface to it Napier states he intended to have published an edition in Latin soon after the original publication in 1593, but that, as the work had now been made public by the French and Dutch translations, besides the English editions, and as he was "advertised that our papistical adversaries wer to write larglie against the said editions that are alreadie set out," he defers the Latin edition "till having first seene the adversaries objections, I may insert in the Latin edition an apologie of that which is rightly done, and an amends of whatsoever is amisse."
Macdonald at Edinburgh in 1889, and that there is appended to this edition a complete catalogue of all Napier's writings, and their various editions and translations, English and foreign, all the works being carefully collated, and references being added to the various public libraries in which they are to be found.
The parks are a fine feature of the city; by its charter a fixed percentage of all expenditures for public improvements must be used to purchase park land.
The kirk-session has oversight of the congregation in regard to such matters as the hours of public worship, the arrangements for administration of the sacraments, the admission of new Members and the exercise of church discipline.
On the whole, the preponderating preference has always been in favour of so-called extemporaneous, or free prayer; and the Westminster Directory of Public Worship has to a large extent stereotyped the form and order of the service in most Presbyterian churches.
It used to be customary among Presbyterians to stand during public prayer, and to remain seated during the acts of praise, but this peculiarity is no longer maintained.
The psalms rendered into metre were formerly the only vehicle of the Church's public praise, but hymns are now also used in most Presbyterian churches.'
The public praise used to be led by an individual called the "precentor," who occupied a box in front of, and a little lower than, the pulpit.
Deacons, in addition to having charge of the poor and sick, might catechize, and occasionally offer public prayer or read a written sermon.