Sentence examples for minor order from inspiring English sources

If that mystery now seems of a minor order, there's no question it influenced generations of artists, from Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons, whose 2013 "Gazing Ball" sculptures are nothing if not Magrittean.

These cycles of minor order were characterised by rapid sea-level rises and gradual sea-level falls that generated depositional sequences spanning different time scales.

The order of markers for the lower coverage linkage groups was fairly consistent with minor order changes probably as a result of missing data.

A number of linkage groups contain minor order discrepancies between the male and the female maps (Additional files 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7).

The minor orders represented church services rendered by persons not ordained.

He took minor orders in 1642 and entered a monastery in 1659.

Numerous minor orders are considered branches of the Aḥmadiyyah and are spread all over the Islamic world.

The Latin church had long recognized four minor orders (porter, lector, exorcist, acolyte) and four major orders (subdeacon, deacon, priest, bishop).

Expelled for his conduct (1775), he nevertheless received minor orders in April of that year and was, six months later, nominated by the King as abbot of Saint-Denis, at Reims.

He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.

References in the poem suggest that he knew London and Westminster as well as Shropshire, and he may have been a cleric in minor orders in London.