NOUN
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
How To Use bema In A Sentence
- My favorite load for turkeys is Beman ICS Hunter arrows fletched with Bonning Blazer vanes and tipped with Vortex Pro-Series 100 grain 2.25 broadheads. Which load do you use for turkey
- He already owns several luxury golf courses, including Trump National in Loudoun County, and Albemarle House once had a nine-hole golf course designed by Arnold Palmer on its grounds, which is now fallow. Va. winemaker's painstakingly built empire crumbled in months amid recession
- Host plants are mallows, including cheeseweed, sidalceas, hollyhocks, and globemallows (Sphaeralcea); also occasionally nettles (Urtica).
- Meanwhile, an autopsy was under way Tuesday on the body of a 23-year-old woman who was shot at a known gang house in Hobbema, which is the hub of four native reserves south of Edmonton. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- With the expansion of corporate title sponsorships in the 1980s, however, Beman was able to offer the networks a package with all production costs covered and a large percentage of the ads often 40% presold to the sponsor. The Man Who Groomed the Game
- Indigenous Peoples - held in Hobbema, Canada last year, where I was given this picture of Geronimo and his warriors carrying guns, and the caption below which read: Archive 2007-11-01
- Preceding the apse was a bema, or altar podium, measuring 5.63 meters. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 1
- The only light which I can throw on this remarkable difference in the inhabitants of the different islands is that very strong currents of the sea running in a westerly and W.N.W. direction must separate, as far as transportal by the sea is concerned, the southern islands from the northern ones; and between these northern islands a strong N.W. current was observed, which must effectually separate James and Albemarle Islands. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- MY DEAR FRIEND: I received by the last post a letter from Abbe Guasco, in which he joins his representations to those of Lord Albemarle, against your remaining any longer in your very bad lodgings at the Academy; and, as I do not find that any advantage can arise to you from being 'interne' in an academy which is full as far from the riding-house and from all your other masters, as your lodgings will probably be, I agree to your removing to an 'hotel garni'; the Abbe will help you to find one, as I desire him by the inclosed, which you will give him. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
- The word altar (sometimes spelled oltar) is used in the Old Slavonic and Russian languages to denote the entire space surrounding what we know as the altar, which is included behind the iconostasis, and is the equivalent of the Greek word bema. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize