Most religious organizations depend on the eleemosynary actions of their members for financial and material aid. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : an eleemosynary educational institution. From Dictionary.com.
Yesterday's term was eleemosynary, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #2!] Reference
Also "eleemosynary", though not in the same sentence. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference
An eighth-grade pupil at Jordan School, Clapp became champion by correctly spelling "eleemosynary" and "herbaceous.". From Wordnik.com. [Sunjournal - Connecting you with your Community] Reference
The CI was not, however, an eleemosynary organization. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Anarchists: An Exchange] Reference
Case Proven: A bank is not a eleemosynary institution. From Wordnik.com. [It’s their world, not mine « Scripting News Annex] Reference
It was not wise to discourage eleemosynary establishments. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
Merchants do not accept cards as an eleemosynary function!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bank of America to Impose Annual Fees on Transactional Users Credit Cards:] Reference
He was a business visionary; she was an eleemosynary visionary. From Wordnik.com. [We Remember - Isabelle Charlotte Weinstein Goldenson, 1921 - 2005] Reference
It looks like the man is about to something of an eleemosynary nature. From Wordnik.com. [Heteroclite.] Reference
“The visit of the tour to Washington was not an eleemosynary gesture”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Mr. Roberts & Mr. Jackson:] Reference
Adopting the Brahmanical profession, they began to lead an eleemosynary life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Hmm, a tie between babymoon and eleemosynary (I've always LOVED that) for me. From Wordnik.com. [Pretentious Pecksniffian Cruft] Reference
Is it to the presidency of a board of visitors of an eleemosynary institution?. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
Any caps in NC on how much one can go after an eleemosynary institution or municipality for?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Corrupt Legal Culture] Reference
And keeping Krishna with her, those foremost of men all went the round of eleemosynary visits. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
"It was a big word, a word like eleemosynary or phantasmagoria," he told Elizabeth Farnsworth of PBS. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
What man would close to her the charitable institutions and eleemosynary establishments of the country?. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
A group of persons might establish a corporation for an eleemosynary purposefor example, a hospital or a school. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Capitalism] Reference
Fortunately, it only took me a few seconds to come to my senses and my better, more eleemosynary angels to take over. From Wordnik.com. [Every Hill Deserves a Name] Reference
Insane at St. Joseph, the work of the Missouri board of charities and correction, and other eleemosynary institutions. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Second, dynasties are not really a big issue in America today and the eleemosynary impulse is strongly ingrained in our society. From Wordnik.com. [How Does Confiscation Encourage Wealth Creation?] Reference
Well was it for me, as it proved, that my necessities drove me to the dead-house to forget hunger, and obtain eleemosynary warmth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
An ascetic named Durvasas, who is of the regenerate order and who is full of wrath, came to my father's house for eleemosynary charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
One who associates with such a person for two years must wander over the earth, devoting himself to penances and living upon eleemosynary charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
But Mr Crawley would almost have preferred that the boy should work in the fields, than that he should be educated in a manner so manifestly eleemosynary. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference
Bharata race, in course of his eleemosynary round among the houses of persons of good lineage, the Brahmana entered one such house that he knew from before. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
One is not to be called a mendicant for his having only renounced his possessions, or for his having only adopted a life of dependence on eleemosynary charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Later Americans took it on as an eleemosynary effort, donating money for packages to be sent to very general specifications such as a "school teacher in Germany.". From Wordnik.com. [Kate Kelly: Summer Care Packages Have Honorable Heritage] Reference
So far from caring whether it rains or snows, or whether the dust flies, when you have got on one of these eleemosynary coats, you are rather pleased than otherwise. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
And beholding the capital, as also the fort, they took up their quarters in the house of a potter, Adopting the Brahmanical profession, they began to lead an eleemosynary life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Bhima, that grinder of all foes, and Jishnu, and the illustrious twins, on returning from their eleemosynary round in the evening, cheerfully gave everything unto Yudhishthira. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Hospitals and eleemosynary institutions were nearly unknown. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The bounteous alms of John the eleemosynary were dictated by superstition, or benevolence, or policy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4] Reference
I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Subjects for "moral improvement" would be addressed by private eleemosynary organizations, as was the case in the Nineteenth Century. From Wordnik.com. [Eternity Road] Reference
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