Definitionadj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
Last update: September 22, 2015
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Episcopatus, the office of a bishop, episcopus), the general term technically applied to that system of church organization in which the chief ecclesiastical authority within a defined district, or diocese, is vested in a bishop. As such it is distinguished on the one hand from Presbyterianism, government by elders, and Congregationalism, in which the individual church or community of worshippers is autonomous, and on the other from Papalism. [Please select]
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Only a free being gives laws to itself, just as an autonomous being alone is free. [Please select]
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The units of the body are generally admitted by physiologists to be autonomous. [Please select]
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Name the peoples of Austria-Hungary who wish autonomous development, or complete independence. [Please select]
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George Washington was the only President elected by such an autonomous group. [Please select]
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These German cities are also, unlike American cities, autonomous. [Please select]
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Christianity, looked at from a certain viewpoint,--and I think the proper viewpoint,--is the most individualistic of religions, since its basic principle is the development of the individual into an autonomous being. [Please select]
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