To start working at an official appointment to some office.

As the hasty result of strong, passionate feelings and without thoughtful consideration.

(religion) A creed; a (typically formulaic) statement of the beliefs of one's religion, often recited during public prayers or liturgies.

(art, historical) The artistic style of an informal group or school of young British sculptors in the years after the Second World War, characterized by angular, jagged forms thought to reflect post-war angst and guilt.

(chemistry) A region of the chart of nuclides that contains isotopes with a non-standard ordering of single particle levels in the nuclear shell model.

plural of island of inversion

A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive green cup-like circular calyxes, Moluccella laevis

Synonym of path of least resistance

an oath taken before officially taking office

(law) Acting for; acting as an agent of.