Crossword clues for vocation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vocation \Vo*ca"tion\ (v[-o]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. vocatio a bidding, invitation, fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F. vocation. See Vocal.]
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A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous?
--Dryden. -
Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
He would think his service greatly rewarded, if he might obtain by that means to live in the sight of his prince, and yet practice his own chosen vocation.
--Sir. P. Sidney. -
(Theol.) A calling by the will of God. Specifically:
The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel. ``The golden chain of vocation, election, and justification.''
--Jer. Taylor.-
A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Every member of the same [the Church], in his vocation and ministry.
--Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "spiritual calling," from Old French vocacion "call, consecration; calling, profession" (13c.) or directly from Latin vocationem (nominative vocatio), literally "a calling, a being called" from vocatus "called," past participle of vocare "to call" (see voice (n.)). Sense of "one's occupation or profession" is first attested 1550s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An inclination to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; often in response to a perceived summons; a calling. 2 An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
WordNet
n. the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: career, calling]
a body of people doing the same kind of work [syn: occupational group]
Wikipedia
A vocation is an occupation to which a person is specially drawn or for which she/he is suited, trained, or qualified. Though now often used in non-religious contexts, the meanings of the term originated in Christianity.
Vocation is a Swedish jazz vocal ensemble founded in 2000. Accompanied either by a quartet, a big band or just a cappella, Vocation's music is a modern six harmony vocal jazz in a traditional form. The Choice of the Audience Award was given to Vocation at the International Vocal Group Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 2002. Vocation shared the stage with Al Jarreau at the Pescara Jazz Festival in Italy in 2005, and with Povel Ramel at the memorial concert for Monica Zetterlund in Stockholm the same year. Vocation performed at the concert tribute of Povel Ramel in 2007, the group along with Mikael Ramel, Svante Thuresson, Stephan Lundin and Monica Dominique.
Vocation is a poem written by Rabindranath Tagore. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a vocation.
Usage examples of "vocation".
At noon the worthy prelate was shewn up to my room, and began by complimenting me on the good reputation I had at Zurich, saying that this made him believe that my vocation was a real one.
And somehow she understood that Bibbs had given up the mysterious vocation he had hoped to follow--and that he had given it up for ever.
Cathan would carry on the MacRorie name in this generation, leaving Joram free to pursue the religious vocation that had been denied Camber.
I told the prelate that I did not feel in me the vocation to die within a few months a martyr in this miserable city.
This Giustiniani had a great influence upon me, although I did not know it, for I thought my vocation was sure.
My vocation was to study medicine, and to practice it, for I felt a great inclination for that profession, but no heed was given to my wishes, and I was compelled to apply myself to the study of the law, for which I had an invincible repugnance.
Capuchins, and if you wish to please her, you had better follow your original vocation.
I gave him, but with proper caution, some of the particulars of my life, for I wanted him to be satisfied that, if I had at first entered the career of the holy priesthood, it had not been through any vocation of mine.
Nevertheless, the idea of the marriage state, for which I felt I had no vocation, made me tremble.
He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in his solitudeif that other Immensurable Loneliness which was God stretched forth Its hand to touch his own tiny human loneliness and to mark his vocation there.
It has been found, however, that the operation of the draft, with the high bounties paid for army recruits, is beginning to affect injuriously the naval service, and will, if not corrected, be likely to impair its efficiency by detaching seamen from their proper vocation and inducing them to enter the Army.
Numerous genuinely progressive and liberatory discourses have emerged throughout history among elite groups, and we have no intention here ofquestioning the vocation of such theorizing tout court.
Deserted children on a deserted landscape, they swoop above the ruins, a flying orgy, a rainbow saturnalia, an ecstasy of soaring poseurs, punks, and wiggers, who consecrate their youths to a scorned and ancient vocation: to transcend their mortality, to wrest one moment from eternity and soar above the defeated earth.
But in Germany, poets, romancists, and scientific men write almost as many works connected with religious questions as on topics within their own chosen vocation.
Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.