Word Finder - reunion

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The process or act of reuniting.

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It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.

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A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.

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Are you going to the reunion this year?

Bourbon or Reunion had Fregilupus.

The two marshals added to their reputation in the "Reunion War" of 1680-84.

In that reunion of great sovereigns we should have discussed our interests like one family, and have rendered account to the peoples as clerk to master.

Reunion in spiritual matters has, however, been practically effected.

There is also frequent communication with Madagascar, Reunion and Natal.

I attended the 25 year anniversary reunion at a hotel in Radford.

For instance, there are good reasons for believing that the island of Reunion has been subject, since 1840 or thereabouts, to outbreaks under the name of " lymphangite infectieuse."

I want to finish some paperwork before we leave for the reunion.

Reunion possessed the peculiar starling, Fregilupus.

Meanwhile the newly constituted " Party of Right," resting upon a narrow Catholic clerical basis, aimed at the reunion of Dalmatia with CroatiaSlavonia in the so-called Triune Kingdom, within whose bounds it affected to deny the very existence of Serbs.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchere (1600-1653), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

In 1848, when the political air was charged with stimulating elements, he founded the Positive Society, with the expectation that it might grow into a reunion as powerful over the new revolution as the Jacobin Club had been in the revolution of 1789.

A reunion was effected in 1654 through the influence of Roger Williams, and a charter was secured from Charles II.

Under the new Tsar, Nicholas I., the plan of the reunion of the two states was definitely rejected, his ukase of 1839 making of Lithuania the" Sievero-Zapadny Krai "(North-western Province) .

Hellville, the chief town (so called after De Hell, governor of Reunion at the time of the French annexation), is a port of call for the Messageries Maritimes and a centre for the coasting trade along the western shores of Madagascar.

Horse-racing has also come into vogue, and Boitsfort, in the bois, and Groenendael, farther off in the Foret de Soignies, are fashionable places of reunion for society.

His addresses on the reunion of the Churches, delivered at the Bonn Conference of 1872, show that he was by no means hostile to the newly formed communion, in whose interests these conferences were held.

In 1874 and again in 1875, he presided over the Reunion Conferences held at Bonn and attended by leading ecclesiastics from the British Isles and from the Oriental Church, among whom were Bishop Christopher Wordsworth of Lincoln; Bishop Harold Browne of Ely; Lord Plunket, archbishop of Dublin; Lycurgus, archbishop of Syros and Tenos; Canon Liddon; and Professor Ossinine of St Petersburg.

At the latter of these two conferences, when Dollinger was seventysix years of age, he delivered a series of marvellous addresses in German and English, in which he discussed the state of theology on the continent, the reunion question, and the religious condition of the various countries of Europe in which the Roman Catholic Church held sway.

French naval officers having reported on the strategic value of Mayotte, Admiral de Hell, governor of Reunion, sent an officer there in 1841, and a treaty was negotiated ceding the island to France.

From the close of the 5th century the Armenians have remained monophysite, like the Copts and Abyssinians, and have only broken the record with occasional short interludes of orthodoxy, as when in 633 the emperor Heraclius forced reunion on them, under a catholicus named Esdras, at a council held in Erzerum.

Soon after this he published his first work, Examen de livre de la reunion du Christianisme (1671).

Chambers of Reunion were appointed to give an appearance of legality to these proceedings, which culminated, in 1681, in the seizure of Strassburg.

This reunion of the Conservatives became the nucleus of a great reaction against Liberalism.

In the last years of his pontificate he was busied with preparations for a crusade and for the reunion of Christendom, and sent to Constantinople the celebrated Carmelite monk, Peter Thomas, to negotiate with the claimants to the Greek throne.

Nutmeg and mace are almost exclusively obtained from the Banda Islands, although the cultivation has been attempted with varying success in Singapore, Penang, Bengal, Reunion, Brazil, French Guiana and the West Indies.

The soul of man, which as a microcosmos resumes the nature of things, strives by selfabnegation or self-annihilation to attain this unspeakable reunion (which Eckhart calls being buried in God).

In 1681 it was formally annexed to France by a decree of Louis XIV.'s Chambre de Reunion, and remained French till 1871, when it passed with Alsace-Lorraine to the new German empire.

The popes, then, or at least the more politic of them, have been content to lay down as the condition of reunion no more than the acceptance of the distinctive dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the supremacy and infallibility of the pope; the ritus of the Uniat Oriental Churches - liturgies and liturgical languages, ecclesiastical law and discipline, marriage of priests, beards and costume, the monastic system of St Basil - they have been content for the most part to leave untouched.

Exact statistics of the membership of the Churches of the Oriental rite are almost impossible to obtain; the numbers of their adherents, moreover, are apt to vary suddenly with the shifting currents of political forces in the East, for political factors have always played a considerable part in these movements towards reunion or the reverse.

There the vision of a reunion with the Protestants had haunted many Catholic brains ever since Bossuet and Leibniz had corresponded on the subject.

A counter-movement was represented by a bill introduced into parliament in 1886 in order to declare the spiritual independence of the Church of Scotland, in the hope that the way might be opened to a reunion of the Presbyterian bodies.

The Presbyterian Church, whose adherents are found principally in Ulster and are the descendants of Scotch settlers, was originally formed in the middle of the 17th century, and in 1840 a reunion took place of the two divisions into which the Church had formerly separated.

This hearing was to be the long awaited reunion of sorts between Rihanna and Chris Brown.

You're trying to plan your high school class reunion.

Did it suddenly dawn on you that your class reunion is tomorrow night?

As noted in one letter to TVGuide, when President-Elect Obama was declared the winner of the Presidential election, could a Stars Hollow reunion movie be in the offing?

When the show ended, a letter writing campaign to the CW network failed to bring it back to life and actress VanCamp joined the ABC family drama Brothers and Sisters, ending all speculative hope for an Everwood reunion.

Season four also sees the reunion of Amy and Ephram, and Ephram and his long-lost piano.

Fan speculation suggested that following President Obama's election in 2008, Rory should return to Stars Hollow for a reunion movie.

Fans of Viki and Clint will lobby for any bit of information that might suggest a reunion for their favorite couple.

Crazy - Deb/Jane heads off to Jane's high school reunion and uncovers the lonelier side of Jane's existence.

His reunion with his family included a now grown son who moved to Genoa City to be closer to his relatives.

Although Jason and Sookie enjoyed a happy reunion, it isn't long before Jason's charges in Hotshot turned on him.

She told them that the butterfly was Akiko's loving spirit leading the old man to a reunion with his heart's true love.

Make a special souvenir of their reunion by helping your children to create a homemade autograph book that their friends can sign.

Help your child create a simple scrapbook to document this joyful reunion.

You want to lose belly fat quickly for your class reunion, to fit into that swim suit, or to fit back into that red dress, but that stubborn belly fat doesn't seem to budge even when you diet.

If you decide to follow the egg grapefruit diet, to lose pounds quickly before a class reunion or to fit into a bikini before vacation, keep in mind that this is a short-term fix.

Overseas departments and territories--such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia and Reunion, also fly the tricolour, although they also have their own flags.