In modem usage the word charm (Lat txtrmem, a song) denotes a spell, in a form of words, geneiaUy in verse, supposed to possess, when recited, some occuh power, either hurtAil or beneficiaL When written oo paper or parchment, and worn on the person, dianas are to be classed with amulets (q. ▼.). See also Is-
GANTATION; MaoIO.
Char'mis {XapfUg v. r. XaX/u£c; Vulg. Charmi). son of Melchiel, one of the three ** ancients" {v^io^v- repot) or "rolers" {dpxovrec) of Bethulla (Judith vi, 19$ viii, 10; x, 6). See Brthulia.
Chamel-houae (med. Lat. camarittm), a place in the neighborhood of a church-yard or other cemeteiy, usually vaulted, where the dry bones of the dead, whidi the grave-digger had thrown up, were carefully laid in order. Afterwards a chapel was built over it, where- in interment could be made, monuments erected, and masses (see Chantry) be sung. In this case the t< (^arael-house" was a vault under the chapeL The chapeb of cathedrals sometimes had such chanwl- houses under them.
Chamook, Stephen, D.D., an eminent Eng^ Nonconformist, was bom in London in 1628. He re- ceived his earliest education ftom his fiither, and when very young he entered Emanuel C<^eg^ Cambridge, under Dr. William Sancroft. He commenced his labors as a minister in Sonthwark, but soon obtained a fellow- ship in New College, Oxford, and in 1652 became sen- ior proctor of the university. In 1668 he went to Dublin, and his ministry there was eminently success- fuL About 1660, ejected by the Act of Uniformity, he retumed to England, and spent fifteen years in and about London in study and preaching, but widiout t settled congregation until about 1675. He died Johr 26, 1680. "His sermons constitnte the chief of h^ works ; and while on the doctrines they contain, hmg
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decidedly CUvfauBtic, a vaiiety of opinions are enter- tained, yet it is nmyerBally admitted that they are diitingaiBhed by great originality and genios, and are well deserving of the widely-spread attention they liave so long receiyed. His reasonings are nanrons and his appeals affecting. His judgment was sound, his taste correct, his imagination lively, his piety nndlssembled. He was grave without being doll, and perspicoous without being wearisome. His Trtatm oh the Attributes of God is acknowledged to be tlie best in the English language" (Jones). His Works wero republished in 1816 (Lond. 9 vols. 8vo), with a life prefixed, by Edward Parsons. There is an American edition of the AttrilnUeSy with a life of Char- nock, by Symington (N. Y. 2 vols. 8vo), and a new edition of his Works is now going on at Edinburgh (Nichols), 1866, vols, i-v, 8vo. See Jones, Christian Biograpki/, p. 106; Symington, Choios Works ofChar- wkk, with his Ufs (N.Y. 12mo) ; Middleton, Eodes. Bi- ospraph^^ iii, 443 ; Calamy, Non^onformises Memorial (Lond. 1778), i, 159 sq. Char'ran (Xo/^ f»av), another mode (Acts vii, 2, 4) of An- gtiwrfng the name Harak (q. v.).
Charter-houBe (a oormption of Char- treuse^ L e. Carthusian house) is a hospital, chapel, and school - honse in London, es- tablished in 1611 by % Thomas Sutton. It had originally been a Carthusian monas- tery, but after the dis- solution of monastic es- tablishments by Hen- ry VIII it fell into va- rious hands, and was finally purchased from Lord Suflblk by Sir Thomas Sutton for £18,000, who endowed it with the revenues of upward of 20 man- ors, lordships, and oth- er estates in various psits of England. This ^'masterpiece of Protestant English chsrity," as old Fuller cslls it, serves three uses-^t Is an asylum ffx poor brethren, an educational, and a re- ligious institution ; hence Bacon terms it a "triple good." The Charter-house school is memorable as the place where Barrow, Addison, and John Wesley received their esriy education. — Chsmbers, Eiicifdapc^
*0, S.V.
Chartom. See HxoiciAif. Chaxtophylax.
See CiSIMELIABCHiB.
Chartreuz. See Carthusians. Chartsan. See
KsRNIELfl.
Chaml. See Nbttlb.
Chase (^^ac, Z\y^^ SnitKUy etc.). The practice of hunting wild animals early prevailed among the no- made Hebrews (Gen. xxv, 28 ; xxvH, 8 sq.), and con- tinued to later times to be a common employment (Lev. xvii, 18 ; Prov. xii, 27 ; Josephus, War, i, 21, 18), both for the sake of the flesh of the game (Sirach xxxvi, 21 ; but in the Sabbatical year it was allowed to mul- tiply, Exod. xxiii, 11 ; Lev. xxv, 7 ; comp. Michaelis, Mos. Rechtj iii, 178 sq.), and also for the extermination of noxious beasts (2 Sam. xxiii, 20), of both which there was no lack in Palestine (see Harmar, i, 828 sq.). The means employed in this pursuit were usually the bow (Gen. xxvii, 8), the spear or javelin (comp. Stra- bo, XV, 784), the net (t^^'J, *^??», ^"i^t^ ; which was likewise used for the larger kinds of animals, as ga- zelles, Isa. 11, 21, and even for lions, Ezek. xix, 8), the sling (D*^13$, ng, \Sg'l», Eccles. ix, 12; Psa. xd, 8), and the pitfall (TinD, MtTS, Plin. x, 64 ; comp. Ezek. xix, 4 ; 2 Sam. xxUi, 20), the last especially for the
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Ancient Chsae in the Desert of ThebaTd (Wilkinson). To the left of A vaa the chasaeur in hia chariot shooting with the bow, now d^aeid.
Ifi, la Gazelles. 2, 11. Hares. 8. Female hynna with its yonng. 4^ 18. Foxes. S. Pofcnpine. 8. My«na arrived at the top of a hill and looking towards the " * "*