DAY
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(see Canabon ad Strab. i, 36 ; Ukert, Geogr, d, Griech. u. Rdm, 1, ii, 58). Bat the ancient writers seem to have fixed on the average of what waa usually per- formed by foot-travellers (Herod., ill) 9 i i^* 9)* He- rodotus ki one place sayv (iv, 401) a day's joomey amoonts to 200 stadia (comp. Polyb. ill, 8 ; Livy, xzi, 15) ; in another (v, 58) to 150 (comp. Paosaniaa, x, 83, 2). According to Vegetius (MU. i, 9), twenty Boman miles, that is, 160 stadia, were reckoned for a day's journey. In the Arabian geografAers the leng^ of a day's journey is equally variable ; yet among them, as in the East at the present day (Tavemier, i, 48), it may be stated generally at about seven leagues, oi from eighteen to twenty English miles, which is probably not &r from the distance intended by that expression in Scripture, which occurs chiefly in the Pentateuch (Gen. xxx, 36 ; xxxi, 28 ; Exod. v, 8 ; viii, 27 ; Num. xi, 81 ; Deut i, 2), but also elsewhere (1 Kings xix, 4 ; 2 Kings iii, 9), and even in the Apoc- rypha (1 Mace. T, 24, 4^ vii, 45 ; Tobit vi, 1), in the New Test. (Luke ii, 44 ; Acts i, 12), often in Josephns, (iln/. xii, 4, 6 ; il/). ii, 9 ; life, 52), and in the Talmud (see Otho, Lex, Rabb, p. 421). See Joubnet.
Day, Jeremiah, D.D., president of Tale College, was bom in New Preston, Conn., August 8, 1773, and was educated at Tale College, where he graduated in 1795. After some years spent as tutor at Greenfield School, Williams College, and Tale, he was licensed as a minister of the Congregational Church in 1800, and in 1801 he was elected professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Tale College. His health fail- ing, he spent a year or two in travel rfnd retirement, and did not begin his labors in college until 1808. He held that office nntil 1817, publishing meanwhile a ■ series of mathematical text-books well-adapted to the wants of the time, and which had great success. On the 22d of April, 1817, he was chosen president of Tale College, and held that ofiice till 1846, when his sense of the infirmities of age induced him to resign, against the judgment and wishes of his colleagues, as his judg- ment and governing faculties were yet in abundant vigor. Notwithstanding chronic feebleness of consti- tution, his careftil habits of life, formed after physio- logical study of his own constitution, enabled him to preserve his intellectnal vigor, and a fair degree of bodily health, up to the year of his death, which oc- curred August 22, 1867. Besides his mathematical works, president Day wrote An Inqtdry respecting the telfdetermming Power of the WiU (1838 ; 2d ed. 1849), which was substantially a refutation of Cousin's view of the will as given in his Psychology: — Excamnation ofEdwardt on the WiU (1841, 12mo), which is "an ab- stract of Edwards, made in a lucid and truth-loving spirit." He also contributed numerous articles to re- views and journals. As a college officer, his moral and intellectual qualities combined to make him a model. See an admirable sketch by president Wool- sey, New Engkmder, Oct. 1867, art. v.
Daysman 0!?'^3i73, moki'tu^ an adjudicaior), ** an old English term meaning umpire or arbitrator (Job ix, 83). It is derived from dc^, in the specific sense of a daj faced for a tried (comp. 1 Cor. iv, 8, where dv- Opiovivri rffikpa — ^lit. man^9 day^ and so given in Wyc- liffe's translation— is rendered * mail' 8 judgment* in the A. v.). Similar expressions occur in German (eine Sache tagen=U) bring a matter before a court of jus- tice) and other Teutonic languages" (Smith). " The primitive meaning of the verb na|^ (according to Gese- nius, Thes, p. 592) is * to be clear or manifest;' and in Hiphil *to make manifest;- also 'to convince, to con- fute, to reprove or rebuke ;' by these last two words the word is rendered in nearly every passage of the A. v., including the ten instances of the Hiphil par- ticiple n*^3i73. It is not easy to conjecture why in '''^b ix, 89 alone the translators resorted to the not
then common word dagftmam. Tbe ing umpire seems to convey beet the in tbe passage, * some one to oompoae ear ^kem and command silence when either of as tamkt bounds' (Patrick, in loc). Ffirafa tom, Bthtim {Handworttrb, p. 809), very well expressM t^ of authoritative arbitration. As to the «id Ldi noun daysmcMy Johnson's definitum, aicre^ ii ka borne out by his solitary quotation frtwi Spefi»ri/i ri€ Queene, ii, 8); arbUrator or nmfire woidd i« express the sense. In Holland's old iMnug (p. 137), Dayeamm and XJmpiten are uedii a onymes. In the Bible of 1551, 1 Sam. ii, 3? ii ill employed' ' (Kitto). In primitive times soeb v appears to have been appointed to pieecribe jut^ to such as were immoderate in their detnawit. isi terpoee his authority with those who exceeded tit » signed bounds of their cauae. The laying tb b« on both may allude to some particular cerenMOT; b it evidently also refers to the power of ooerdnT^ the daytmcm could exercise over both paztka. » Mediator:.