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occasional (iou) and penance (medicine)


occasional (iou)



occasional adjective & noun. LME.
[medieval Latin occasionalis, from Latin occasion-: see OCCASION noun, -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Happening on, made for, or associated with a particular occasion. LME.
occasional conformist Hist. a practitioner of occasional conformity. occasional conformity Hist. the receiving of Holy Communion in the Church of England by a practising Nonconformist in order to qualify for an official position.
N. Frye Lycidas is an occasional poem, called forth by a specific event.
Happening casually or incidentally, incidental. M16-M17.
Occurring or met with now and then; irregular and infrequent; sporadic. M17.
E. Waugh The streets were empty save for an occasional muffled figure. D. Walcott She took an occasional whisky. A. Brink She..only came Home for the occasional weekend.
Constituting or serving as the occasion or incidental cause of something. M17.
occasional cause Philosophy a secondary cause, an occasion.
Of furniture etc.: made or adapted for use on a particular occasion or for irregular use. Of a person: acting or employed for a particular occasion or on an irregular basis. M18.
occasional table a small side-table for irregular and varied use.
b. noun.
An occasional speech or Writing. Usu. in pl. M-L17.
An occasional worker, visitor, etc. M19.
occasionalism noun (Philosophy) the Cartesian doctrine ascribing the connection between mental and bodily events to the continuing intervention of God, either being produced by him on the occasion of the Other M19.
occasionalist noun (a) an occasional conformist; (b) Philosophy an adherent or student of occasionalism: E18.
occasiona'listic adjective of or pertaining to occasionalists or occasionalism L19.
occasio'nality noun the quality or fact of being occasional, esp. of being specially prepared for an occasion M18.

penance (medicine)


penance


1. Repentance.

2. Pain; sorrow; suffering. "Joy or penance he feeleth none."

3. A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. "And bitter penance, with an iron whip." (Spenser) "Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance more will do."" (Coleridge)

Origin: OF. Penance, peneance, L. Paenitentia repentance. See Penitence.

Source: Websters Dictionary