Meaning

A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients..

Definitions by Sense

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
4. A group practice of several physicians or other health professionals.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. (obsolete) A bed-ridden person

Example Sentences

A local community group will be holding a legal clinic where low-income residents can consult a lawyer for free.

We'll also be offering music clinics, lessons, and new product demonstrations throughout the year.

We are all Clinicks in this point

The conclusion is inevitable , that pouring or sprinkling was regarded, in the primitive church, as valid baptism; and of course that immersion was not considered essential. It has been objected, indeed, that the clinics were canonically prohibited the priesthood. But why were they prohibited? Not because of the informality of their batism; but because their sincerity had not been sufficiently tested.

Clinic baptism is all that is contemplated by them, and even in this case a clinic was, unless in unusual cases, debarred from orders.

Whitby (on Rom. vi. 4). —"It being so expressly declared here, and Col. ii. 12, that we are buried with Christ in baptism by being buried under water; and the argument to oblige us to a conformity to His death, by dying to sin, being taken hence; and this immersion being religiously observed by all Christians for thirteen centuries, and approved by our church, and the change of it into sprinkling even without any allowance from the author of this institution, or any licence from any refusal of the cup to the laity; it were to be wished that this custom might be again of general use, and aspersion only permitted, as of old, in the case of the clinic, or in present danger of death."

As "baby sprinkling" is an offence which it abhors, so Clinic sprinkling is a sham which it detests.

And as the practice of immersion in baptism in the time of St. Laurence was universal except in the case of a handful of Clinics—so small that they scarcely deserve to be named—the story is unworthy of notice.

Word Forms

• clinics
• clinique

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