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McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 2
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Section 1141
Druida (Lat. Druidm or Dnddesj Gr. ^tftdai or ApovUai), Various etymologies have been given of this word, all indicative of some characteristic of Dru- idism, viz. (1.) the Greek word dpvg, an oak; (2.) the Celtic words deru or derw, an oak, and udd, lord or master, or httd, an incantation f (8.) the Celtic com- pound …
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From other classic authors we learn that they held the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, which, as they taught, does not perish, fafot paaes aiks into other bodies, either directly or iftsa time. They used this belief as an iaeeetin te %| among their countrymen, since death vas o^ tk* trance-way to a higher and…
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LiUrature, — Csesar, De BeL Gall, vi, ia-18; Pliny, $t. Nat, xvi, 95 ; xxiv, 62 ; xxx, 4 ; Lucan, Pharsal. [44 sq. ; iii, 899 sq. ; Tacitus, Atmals, xiv, 30; Am- dnus Marcellinns, xv, 9,8; Pomponius Mela,i>e situ Hs^ iii, 2 and 6 ; Suetonius, De vita Catarum^ v, 25 ; iodorus Siculns, Bibltoth. Hist, ii, 47 ; v, 81 ; St…
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DRUSES 900 DRUSES Hakim himself was the real author of this impious assumption, and that the others became his agents of proeelytism by the promise of a royal reward. The sect grew in influence, until the cadi, when in the mcMque, was summoned to embrace the new faith ; but the attempt was &tal to the neophyte who m…
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olic clergy as possessors of many coDTatfullacs^ of the other religions parties, of the lidi IndvwK^ and of the Turki^ offidals. A terrible octte^ 1^ occurred in May, 1860. Throughout the Lebucs t^ Druses attacked the Maronites, ptoadcred fid ^ their villages, and massacred a large noabercf^ sons without distinct…
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in his coimtry. He replied that there were, and that they read the BLoran. He was requested to show how they prayed. * Who is without prayer ?* was the re- ply. But the sheik then wished to know in what manner prayer ought to be presented to God. The okkal proceeded to say : * When I enter the house of God,'l endeavor …
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III. Ltterorfure.— Wolff (Philip), Dk Drusenundihre Vorlaufer; Gibbon, Decline and Fall (Boston, 1850, 12mo), V, 531 (and especially Milraan's note) ; De Sacy, JExposi de la KeUffion det Druaet (Paris, 1838, 2 vols.) ; G. W. Chasseaud, The Druses of the Lebanon; their MannerSy Customs^ and History (London, 1855, 8vo) ;…
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Dmthmar, CHRisriAir, a monk b Ae iW«y^ Corbey in the ninth centniy, was bora ia '*??[j and afterwards taught in the monastcnefl d?^ and Malmedy, in the diocese of L^ Hekft>(» mentaiy on St. Matthew (Stra8bnrg,]M4,' ^H"^ 1530, fol.). "It contains some opiniow i«P<*^ transubstantiation decidedly opposed to tlioM ^ J^ em …
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2. DuaUsm in the Christian J^.— This Oriental Du- alism, carried out into the various departments of na- ture and mind, and embellished by innumerable beau- tiful fancies, had a great charm for the imagination of even the prhnitive Christian mind ; and it seemed also to form a certain khid of natural and easy alliance …
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Du Bartas, Guillaumb db SiiLLnsTE, a French Protestant poet of the sixteenth century, bom about 1644, near Auch, in France ; died 1690. His poem on the Creation obtained so great celebrity that in the course of six years more than thirty editions of the first *^ Semaine'* were published. It was translated into Latin, I…
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pupil, and fbr that end connived at all his excesses. Finally he succeeded, in 1692, in inducing the duke to marry Mademoiselle de Blois, a legitimized daughter of Louis XIV, who revrarded him for this service by giving him the abbey of St. Just. We now find him mixed in all the political events of the time. Two years …
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Dubonrg, Axxs, one of the most interesting char- acters of French Protestantism, is noteworthy on ao- coant of his accomplishments, his lovely character, and his tra;^cal end. He was bom in the year 1521, of one of the best families in the Aovergne. In early life he devoted himself to the study and practice of law, and…
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DUCHAL 907 DUCHOWNY 9ai gur Ja me et IcM ouvrages de Dueamge (Par. 1852); lefer, Nowv, Biog. GeniraU, xiy, 911. Duohal, Jambs, D.D., an Independent divine, waa m in Ireland in 1697, and waa educated at tlie Uni- rsity of Glasgow. He served an Independent con- igation at Cambridge for ten years, and afterwards other …
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Pobirochin considered and called himself one of the righteous, and a son of God. Of his followers he se- lected twenty-four of the most trustworthy and able- bodied ; twelve of them he called archangels, and the other twelve mortiferous angels. The duty of the lat- ter was to dispose of such as would backslide. They re…
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Dudith, Andreas Sbardellati, was bom at Bu- da, in Hungary, in 1588, and became bishop of Tina, in Dalmatia, in 1560. He was afterwards appointed successively bishop of Csanad, then of FQnf kirchen, secretary of the Hungarian chapter, and in 1562 was sent to the Council of Trent as the representative of the Hungarian …
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Dnkiphath. See Lapwing. Dul^oimer (Chald. h^SBTailD, mmponydh'; Sept vfi^iavia,Y\i\g, symphonia), a musical instrument, not a. use among Uie Jews of Palestine, but mentioned in )an. iii, 5, 15, and at ver. 10 under the shorter form tf K^aa'^D (syphonya', where the text correctively K>iDts i<^a9^D), along with several o…
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DULIA 010 DUMB cate the newlj-converted masses of heathen in Chris- tian life and dutv, were obliged to accept riches, and siiow the heathen how to apply the goods of this worid to the honor of God. Bat seal waxed cold, and the lore of the world increased, until a reaction appear- ed in the Order of St. Benedict. As…
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2. (Sept 'Pifivd V. r. *PovfM ; Vnlgate ^^\} town in the mountain district of Judah (JoA.n.2i in the group west by south of Hebroo (M,G*^ in loc.). Eusebius and Jerome (OnomaM. i. ▼■^'^ Duma) say it was then alarge viDage (niflFT^JJ 17 miles ftt>m Eleutheropolis (BeitJibrin), is *e * trict of Daroma Q: e. "the south," …
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Dunash (Adonim) ben-Tanlm, the Babylomany bom arirlkk about A.D. 900, was educated at Keira- w4n by the celebrated Isaac IsraSli (q. v.), and died about 960. At the age of twenty he had become so proficient in Hebrew learning that he was able to write an elaborate critique of the works of Saadia, be- sides writing also…
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DuNO-OATB (n'iDdfi<n ^Td, sha^ar ha-ashpoth', Neh. iU, 14, or ntt^KH 1?123, ii, 18 ; xii, 81 ; contract- ed nifi^n -l?b, ska'ar korshephoty, iii, 18, L e. gate of the dmg-hiUs; Sept. i) wvXrj [v. r. in xii, 81, to ril- Xog] TTJQ Koirqiag ; Vulg. porta sterquilirm or [ii, 13] etercoris; A.V. "dung-port" in ii, 18), a ga…
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Dong-gate; Dunghill; Dnnef-port. Seeun- o'Duxo. Du'^ra (Chal. Dura', fi<'J^^, the cirele, i. q. Hebrew n, 80 the Sept. renders, rb vtpifioXov, but v. r. At- pa ; Vulg. Dura), the plain where Nebud^^ezzar it up his golden colossus to be adored (Dan. iii, 1). iterpreters usually compare Dura to a city mention- 1 by Ammi…
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Dunken. See Baptists (Gbrmak). Dmm, Thomas, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was bom in Virginia in 1774 ; while young emigrated to Ohio; entered the Ohio Conference in 1885, and died at Cindnnati hi April, 1850. '* in 1887 Mr. Dunn addressed a note to the Wetter* CkrMcm Advocate^ in which he called attentitm to the co…
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42, jM. 4). With Duns the will is cntiitljjto with libenm arbitriwn; what it does is cerfif' evkable, while the mtellect obeys neccoitjC^^Cna ii, d. 26). The function of Uie latter is to faa*' the will the material which it combines, tkfi|«^ ity being given to it of willing entire op|sA«*' ? Oxon. I, dut, 89)" (Erdmann…
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tistic to call it ddectatio (Rep. Paris, iv, d. 49, qu. 1 and 2).' How he disposes of the Biblical authority, ac^ cording to which eternal life consists in knowing God, has been mentbned above. As, through his stronger emphaiuzing of the will, he separates himself from Ar- istotle^s deification of theoiy, naturally wit…
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Duneter, Henrt, a Congregational minister, the place and date of whose birth are unknown. He was a native of England, and was a student at Emanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, where he became B. A. 1680, and M. A. 1684. He fled to New England on account of his non- conformity in 1640, and was appointed president of Harvard, b…
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opposition to the proper authority of the apostolical .' Dnpin afterwards met with trouble under the ency on account of the correspondence which he d with Dr. Wake, archbishop of Canterbury, which 1 for its object the formation of a union between the arch of England and the Church of France. Du- drew up a Commottiiori…
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DU PLESSIS-MORNAY 918 DURAND the Bomftn Catholics, by meanB of reciprocal ooncet- sions diflcuBsed and accepted in a sort of grand coun- cil. Henry lY seemed to approve of this plan, and even advised Momay to consult with the most learned Protestant ministers. Bot, while the sealoos Protest- ant was calling even the…
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Doxaras. J^ Dubt. Duran, the name of a &mily ori^nsDr dh vence, afterwards settlers In Spain, and itaem^ in Algiers, which produced seveml men wl» mi garded as ornaments to Rabbuucal leamiag. ^ Duran, 1891, wrote a ComwtaUarg om Jek, vfti ai troduction on the principles npon wluch itihMff expounded (Yen. 1590) ; and S…
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which he upholds and redeems men in nature and in grace that he cannot work without them. They are instruments and means of grace, however, since, ac- cording to an appointment of God, every one who re- ceives the sacrament receives also grace (provided he offers no impediment), but not fiom the sacrament, but from God…
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Durham, James, a Scotch. divine, was bom in West Lothian about 1622, and was educated at St An- drews. He was ord^ed at 80, and was a popular preacher and (fh>m 1650) professor of divinity in Glas- gow. He died in 1658. He published An Esepodtion of the Book of Job (Glasgow, 1649, 12mo):— il» Eapo- tition of the Song (…
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DuBt (nsnally *1&^, aphar'; bat p^M, atbak^puU •ulencA, in Exod. ix, 9 ; Isa. v, 24 ; xxix, 5 ; Ezek. ;vl, 10; Nah. i, 8; "powder,** Dent, xxxviii, 24; d pno, shach^akj or fanpalpable dost, Isa. xl, 15 ; ^'Ij dakak\ to <nteira<e, 2 Chron. xxxiv, 4; Gr. n>- )pr6c ; bat x<^» <^) ^ Mark yi, 11 ; Rev. xyiii, ). In the imme…
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Dutton, Aaron, a Congregational minister, was bom at Watertown, Conn., May 21, 1780. He gradu- ated at Tale College in 1808, entered the ministry 1805, and was ordained pastor of the Fnrst Church, Guilford, Dec. 10, 1806. He resigned June 8, 1842, and a year after was sent as missionary to Iowa by the Amer. Home Miss. …
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\ which the AsmmUie GinhrUe ct Hx VnaA6aff^. proved and ordered to be printed (Petri AwA^ logi opera, jussu et impemeis deri ^alBevm itmmk cmn editOf Parisiis, 1611 ; new edit. IGlfS). and Jansenius soon alter decided to fooi tion of their own. They attempted to via em^ fathers of 4lie Oratory, and bad made mbc p^pai …
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Dwelling (ink, bsQT, "nsia^, a^aio, Tiao, rir^, l^^Pi etc. ; jcaroJici7<nc> etc.). The dwellhig- houses of Palestine (see generally Harmer, i, 152 sq. ; Faber, Archacl. i, 865; on Egyptian architecture, Ro- »ellini, Monum. civ, ii, 878 sq.) were usually (Hanner, i, 165) built of burnt or merely dried bricks, W'A^ (Ni…
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opened the door to them (Acts, xii, 18 ; comp. libs, xiv, 614). (See Stuck, Aniiq^ commv. p. 249 ; Sapdr Dejanuis vett. Jen. 1694, ch. 16 ; also Eisner, OlieiT. : 411 sq., in Graevii T^csatrr. vi.) Princes, hownr had guards at the palace gates (1 Kings xiv, 27)l TV windows 0*^^?)» ^^ account of the street dnst, gvK- al…
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Dwight, Timothy, D.D., LL.D., grandson of Jonathan Edwards the elder, was bom at Northamp- ton, Mass., May 14, 1752, and was graduated at Yale College at a very early age in 1769. Two years after his graduation he was elected a tutor in his college, and held the office during six years. Near the end of his tutorship he…
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Dwight. William T., D.D., a Congregationalist minister, was a son of President Dwight, and was bom at Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1795. He graduated at Tale College in 1818, and was distinguished for his scholarship in a class ot many able scholars. From 1817 to 1819 he was a tutor in the college, and then removed to Ph…
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The following statemento are from Winer,!, SI There are many kinds of hues, both nataial aad in> fidal, mentioned in the Bible as fashionaMe or Imwt among the Hebrews ; besides white O^b) and blsci C^httj or D^n), there were : 1, principally red (£3 brownish-red), crimson (^3^, h^'Q^^^^pmrpkorrvki- red Cl^J'^K), orange…
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Chanaan Chanaanite Chancel Chancellor Chancellor (ecdeei- aatical) Chandler, Edward. . Chandler, Samuel.. Chandler, llios. B.. Chandler, WUUam Penn Changer oi Money. . Channel Channing. ChanmuuBos Chant Chant (chareh) Chantry (G.F.C).. Chaos Chapel (O.F.G.).... Chapel (drefls) Chapelle ardente. . . …
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