Axel. See Absalon.
Axioramus ( k^uopa^oQ), given by Josephns (Ant. x, 8, G) as the son (or successor) of Isus, and fa- ther (or predecessor) of Phideas, in the list of the Jew- ish high-priests, apparently instead of Jehoiada (q. v.). See High-priest.
Axle occurs only in 1 Kings vii, 32, 33, as a trans-
Ancient Egyptian • '
the Axle to the W Car.
it, Bhowing the niel
s, to the Pole, and to the Body of the
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lation of "P, yad, hand, in the phrase d^SBIittl Hff, yedoth' ha-ophannim' , Aarads o/" fAe wheels, i. e. their axle-trees, as in the Auth. Vers. ; Sept. X"P££ '" ro't' rpovole, Valg. axes. See Chariot.
Axtell, Henry, D.D., was born at Mendham, N. J., June 9, 1773, and graduated at Princeton in 1796. After teaching several years in New Jersey, he re- moved in 1804 to Geneva, N. Y , where he kept a clas- sical school. In 1810 he was licensed, and in 1812 called to the Presbyterian Church in Geneva. At the time of his ordination in 1812, his church consisted of 70 members ; at the time of his death of about 100. In two revivals his labors had been particularly bless- ed. He died Feb. 11, 1829. His eldest daughter died a few days after him, and was placed in the same grave. — Sprague, A nnals, iv, 454.
Ayah. ' See Kite.
Aydelott, Joseph, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in 1758, and entered the itinerant ministry in the Philadelphia Conference in 1802. After 23 years of active service, he died at Phil- adelphia, in May, 1824. "Perhaps no man gave a more decided character to the purity and excellence of religion. His life, as well as his preaching, was a living comment upon the doctrines and precepts of Christ, and his Master owned his labors." — Minutes of Conferences, i, 47a.
Ayir. See Foal.
Ayliffe, John, D.D., fellow of New College, Ox- ford ; degraded and expelled for the publication of a work said to contain scandalous aspersions, entitled "The Ancient and Present State of the University of Oxford" (2 vols. 8vo, 1714), taken, in fact, chiefly from Wood's Athene. He also published Parergon Juris Canonicl Ang'icani, 1726, and a ''New Pandect of the Roman Civil Law" (Lond. 1734, fol.), one of the most elaborate works in English on the civil law. — New Gen. Biog. Diet.
Aylrner, John, bishop of London, born in 1521, of a good family, in Norfolk. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, but chiefly at the latter ; and after leaving the universities was appointed tutor to the cel- ebrated Lady Jane Grey. In 1553 he was made arch- deacon of Stow, but on the accession of Queen Mary was obliged to leave England, and retired to Zurich. In 15G2 he became archdeacon of Lincoln, and in 1576 succeeded Sandys in the see of London. He seems to have been as vigorously opposed to the Puritans as to the Romanists ; and unhappily, amid many excellen- cies of character, he had a persecuting spirit. On more than one occasion his severity M"as rebuked by the privy council. In the case of a clergyman named Benison, who was imprisoned by Aylrner for a sup- posed irregularity in regard to his marriage, the bishop was desired by the privy council to make him com- pensation, lest in an action for false imprisonment he should recover damages " which would touch his lord- ship's credit." By the Puritans Aylrner was ridiculed in pamphlets, scandalous reports were actively circu- lated to his injury, and frequent complaints of his con- duct were made to the privy council. Aylrner would gladly have exchanged into a more retired diocese, but none of his plans for this purpose succeeded; and he was still bishop of London when he died on June 3d, 1594. See Maitland, Essays on tlm Reformation; Neal, Hist, of Puritans, i, 224, 365, etc.
Aylworth, James P., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one of the fathers of the Oneida Conference, was born in 1783. He entered the minis- try in 1822, serving chiefly in Central New York, un- til his superannuation in 1847 He died in 1848. — Minutes of Conferences.
Aymo. See IIaymo.
Aymon, John, a French writer, lived at the close
of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century. He was at first a Catholic priest, then left the Roman Catholic Church at Geneva, and married at the Hague. He again returned to the Church of Rome, and in 1706 was put by the Cardinal de Noailles in the Sem- inary of Foreign Missions. In 1707 he fled to Holland with a manuscript (the original of the Acts of the Council held at Jerusalem in 1672 and 1673), and had it printed at the Hague under the title Monuments Authentiques de V Eglise Grecque (1708, 4to), reproduced under the title Lettres Anecdotes de Cyril Lucar (Am- sterdam, 1708). Aymon was judicially pursued by Clement, the librarian of the French king, and in 1709 the States-General ordered the restoration of the manuscript. Aymon wrote also Actes Ecclesiastiques et civils de tous les Sy nodes Nationaux des Eglisis Re- formees de la France (Rotterdam, 1710. 4to), and sev- eral works on the Roman Catholic Church. — Hoefer. BiogrcqMe Generate, iii, 900.
A'zael ('A^aj/Aoc), the father of Jonathan, which latter was one of those who superintended the repudi- ation of the Gentile wives after the return from Baby- lon (1 Esdr. ix, 14); evidently the Asahel (q. v.) of the genuine text (Ezra x, 15).