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A style of office or form of address, also called manner of address, is an official or legally recognized form of address for a person or other entity...

A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune...

The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be...

A ḥāl (Arabic: حَال, meaning "state" or "condition", sometimes anglicized as haal; plural أَحْوَال aḥwāl, sometimes anglicized as ahwaal) is a special-purpose...

Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Somewhat...

A harvest festival is an annual celebration that occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region. Given the differences in climate and crops...

Satguru (Sanskrit: सत्गुरु), or sadguru (Sanskrit: सद्गुरु), means the 'true guru' in Sanskrit. The term is distinguished from other forms of gurus, such...

The following is a list of national founders of sovereign states who were credited with establishing a state. National founders are typically those who...

Incardination is the formal term in the Catholic Church for a clergyman being under a bishop or other ecclesiastical superior. It is also sometimes used...

Hildisvíni (Old Norse: [ˈhildeˌswiːne], “battle swine”) is Freyja's boar In Norse mythology. The story of Hildisvíni appears in Hyndluljóð, an Old Norse...

In Christianity, ministry is an activity carried out by Christians to express or spread their faith, the prototype being the Great Commission. The Encyclopedia...

Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of...

Liber AL vel Legis (Classical Latin: [ˈlɪbɛr aː.ɛɫ wɛl‿ˈleːgɪs]), commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. Aleister...

People v. Murray (The People of the State of California v. Conrad Robert Murray) was the American criminal trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician...

Look up rigour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rigour (British English) or rigor (American English; see spelling differences) describes a condition...

The Fifth Chapter of the Vaisheshika Sutras of Kanada deals with the notion of action and the connected concept of effort; and also deals with the various...

The Pontifical Council for the Laity was a pontifical council of the Roman Catholic Curia from 1967 to 2016. It had the responsibility of assisting the...

The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus Christ: his trial, suffering and death. The viewing of and...

The Dunciad /ˈdʌnsi.æd/ is a landmark, mock-heroic, narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728...

In Scientology, an implant is a form of thought insertion, similar to an engram but done deliberately and with evil intent. It is "an intentional installation...