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DENOMINATION (Lat. denominare, to give a specific name to)

DENOMINATION (See also:
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Lat. denominare, to give a specific name to) , the giving of a specific name to anything, hence the name or designation of a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person or thing, and more particularly of a class of persons or things; thus, in See also:

ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic, it is applied to a unit in a See also:

SYSTEM

system of weights and See also:

MEASURES

measures, currency or See also:

numbers. The most See also:

general use of " denomination " is for a See also:

BODY

body of persons holding specific opinions and having a See also:

COMMON

common name, especially with reference to the religious opinions of such a body. More particularly the word is used of the various " sects " into which members of a common religious faith may be divided. The See also:

TERM

term " denominationalism " is thus given to the principle of emphasizing the distinctions, rather than the common ground, in the faith held by different bodies professing one sort of religious belief. This use is particularly applied to that system of religious See also:

EDUCATION

education which See also:

LAYS

lays stress on the principle that See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children belonging to a particular religious See also:

SECT

sect should be publicly taught in the tenets of their belief by members belonging to it and under the general See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the ministers of the denomination.

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