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  2. Confirmation - Wikipedia

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    Those being confirmed are known as confirmands. For adults, it is an affirmation of belief. [1] The ceremony typically involves laying on of hands. Catholicism views confirmation as a sacrament. The sacrament is called chrismation in Eastern Christianity.

  3. To be announced - Wikipedia

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    To be confirmed (TBC), to be resolved (TBR), [1] or to be provided (TBP) [2] – details may have been determined and possibly announced, but are still subject to change prior to being finalized. To be arranged , to be agreed ( TBA ), to be determined ( TBD ) or to be decided [ 3 ] – the appropriateness, feasibility, location, etc. of a given ...

  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  5. Confirmation in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts. [3] The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the account in the Acts of the Apostles 8:14–17 as a scriptural basis for Confirmation as a sacrament distinct from Baptism:

  6. Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

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    The participants seemed to test only positive examples—triples that obeyed their hypothesized rule. For example, if they thought the rule was, "Each number is two greater than its predecessor," they would offer a triple that fitted (confirmed) this rule, such as (11,13,15) rather than a triple that violated (falsified) it, such as (11,12,19 ...

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  8. Confirmation of bishops - Wikipedia

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    Under Chapter V (paragraph 11) of the current Constitution of the Church in Wales, a bishop's election is confirmed by the Bench of Bishops (i.e. such of the six diocesan bishops as are in post) "assembled in Synod". [8] As such, an assembly of the bishops in order to confirm an election has become known as a Sacred Synod.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    id est ("that is" / "in other words") Should not be italicised, linked, or written out in full in normal usage. laser: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation: LGBT: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender: Is considered to be intelligible on its own, without explanation.