One of the newer and more colourful terms is “rat-licker” — slang for someone who would wilfully or carelessly catch or spread disease.

The congregation has the right and duty to vocate a pastor, who must be of the Evangelical Lutheran confession, to honor him, to submit to his official acts as long as they are based on the Word of God.

The table was piled with odorous lilies.

You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.