Adjective:

(ஆச்சரியத்தாலோ (அ) வியப்பாலோ) வாய் திறந்த நிலையில் இருக்கிற, (ஆச்சரியத்தாலோ (அ) வியப்பாலோ) வாய் திறந்த நிலையில்,

agape's Usage Examples:

Toby's mouth was agape, Katie's face blanching.

In his capacity as head of the church, " and president of the Christian agape," as St Ignatius of Antioch would have said, the pope was considered to be the supreme president and moderator of the oecumenical assemblies.

692) forbade the holding of symposia known as agapes in church.

The early Christian agape admitted of adaptation to the older funeral and sacrificial feasts, and was so adapted.

Baptism and the agape took their rise in Palestine, and in their origin certainly owed little or nothing to outside influences.

In the east Syrian, the Armenian and the Georgian churches, respectively Nestorian, Monophysite and Greek Orthodox in their tenets, the agape was from the first a survival, under Christian and Jewish forms, of the old sacrificial systems of a pre-Christian age.

) he complains that the young men misbehaved with the sisters after the agape.

4), the latter taxes the Catholics with having turned the sacrifices of the heathen into agapes, their idols into martyrs, whom they worship with similar rites.

In the old Egyptian church order, known as the Canons of Hippolytus, there are numerous directions for the service of the agape, held on Sundays, saints' days or at commemorations of the dead.

The history of the agape coincides, until the end of the 2nd century, with that of the eucharist, and it is doubtful whether the following detailed account of the agape given in Tertullian's Apology (c.

Jessi's mouth was agape at the erotic poses Laurencio called for them to do.

Edith Shipton looked up in shock, mouth agape.

Her mouth was agape again, as it had been when he told her he was expelled.

Synonyms:

gaping, opened, open,

Antonyms:

bolt, lock, seal, closed,