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(Basic), adjective apical, basal, capital, chief, controlling, elemental, elementary, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, indispensable, key, main, necessary, overruling, pivotal, praecipuus, primal, primary, prime, primus, principal, rudimentary, strategic, substantial, substantive, summital, underlying, undermost, uppermost, utmost, vital
Associated concepts: cardinal rule

cardinal

(Outstanding), adjective absolute, all powwrful, best, central, chief, commanding, controlling, dominant, eventful, excellent, finest, foremost, greatest possible, highest, incomparable, inimitable, insurmountable, key, leading, major, maximal, momentous, most important, notable, paramount, praecipuus, preeminent, preponderant, prevailing, prime, primus, second to none, supereminent, superlative, supreme, top, unequaled, unexcelled, unparalleled, uppermost, utmost

CARDINAL, eccl. law. The title given to one of the highest dignitaries of the court of Rome. Cardinals are next to the pope in dignity; he is elected by them and out of their body. There are cardinal bishops, cardinal priests, and cardinal deacons. See Fleury, Hist. Eccles. liv. xxxv. n. 17, II. n. 19 Thomassin, part ii. liv. i. oh. 53, part iv. liv. i. c. 79, 80 Loiseau, Traite des Ordres, c. 3, n. 31; Andre, Droit Canon, au mot.

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This draft legislation involves cardinally new approaches in licensing sphere and is focused on market conditions, the Ministry's press service reported.

German businessmen to visit Kyrgyzstan

However, since the emergence of cloud computing and supporting measures was going, the situation has cardinally changed, because the mentioned features of cloud computing are attractive for business solutions.

Cloud computing application in small and medium-sized enterprises

In addition to public and inclusive dialogues, it is cardinally urged that state pillars such as the judiciary and law enforcement agencies must be fully equipped in objectively and professionally handling these dialogues approaches and outcomes and hence be able to handle them legally and deal with them objectively and professionally.

Tenets of genuine and lasting peace in nation building

Despite these and other adjustments in the work of this organization, its ideological foundations and functional principles did not cardinally change subsequently.

The Russian Orthodox Church and ecumenism

WALTER RING of Napa, California, interviewed Horace Cardinalli at Cardinally home in Pinole, California.

Meanwhile, back in little Sicily... Horace Cardinalli

Utilitarianism presupposes that utility is both cardinally measurable and interpersonally comparable.

Perceptions of equity across cultures and over time: a questionnaire-experimental approach

The post-war ideological self-image differed cardinally from the self-image of the first Soviet occupation.

The construction of the Stalinist post-war (1944-1953) "Soviet people": a concept in the political rhetoric of Soviet Estonia

Ultimately, Arneson thinks that comparative desert can say more--namely that people can be ranked cardinally in terms of the desert base and that receipt should be proportional to desert.

Should desert replace equality? Replies to Kagan

Owing to this, color pictures of cities cardinally change.

Introduction of new technology of fixing traditional colors in the Smolensk architecture (Russia)

Since their characteristics fall into certain dichotomies, which are, in fact, best understood when taken side by side, the most general expression of the mentioned features has been analysed through the comparison of two generalized and, according to Mumford, cardinally opposite models of the cityscape, i.

The cityscape of a contemporary megapolis: changes of text form/Siu laiku megapolio miestovaizdis: teksto formos pasikeitimai

They are based on historical narratives to be cardinally different due to their ways of constructions of the past.

Searchings after the cognitive centre (the case of Belarus)/ Tyrinejimai pagal kognityvini centra (baltarusijos atvejis)