Kutassy, Johannes, a very prominent Hungarian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, flourished to- wards the close of the 16th century as archbishop of Grau. He was in great favor at the court of the emperor Rudolph II, and was employed on several important diplomatic missions. He died about 1601. — Allgemeines Hist. I^exikon, iii, 69.
Kuvera, the Hindu Plutus, or god of wealth. He owes his name — which literally means " havmg a wretched {hi) body (vei-a)"- — to the deformities with which he is invested by Hindu mythology. He is rep- resented as having three heads, three legs, and but eight teeth ; his eyes are green, and in the place of one he has a yellow mark ; he wears an earring, but only in one ear; and, though he is properly of a black color, his belly is whitened by a leprous taint. He is seated in a car (pushjKika'), which is drawn by hobgoblins. His resi- dence, AJaka, is situated in the mines of Mount KaUa- sa, and he is attended by the Yakshas, Mayus, Kinnaras, and other imps, anxiously guarding the entrance to his garden, Chaitraratha, the abode of all riches. Nine treasures — apparently precious gems — are especially in- trusted to his care. Ilis vdfe is a hobgobUn, Yakshl, or Yakshini, and their children are two sons and a daugh- ter. As one of the divinities that preside over the re- gions, he is considered also to be the protector of the north. — Chambers, Cyclopcedia, s. v.
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Kuypers, Gerardus Arextse, D.D., an emment minister of the Keformed (Dutch) Church, was born of Hollandish parentage in the island of Cura^oajW. I., Dec. 16, 1766. His father, Rev. Warmoldus Kuypers, was a clergyman, educated at the University of Groningen, and removed to this country, where he settled as pastor of the churches at Rhinebeck, N. Y., and Hackensack, N. J. He died in 1799. His son Gerardus was educated by the celebrated Dr. Peter Wilson, who was then the most popular and able classical teacher in New Jersey. His theological course was pursued under the care of his fa- ther and Drs. Hermanus Mayer and Dirck Komeyn. He was licensed to preach in 1787, ordained in 1788 as co- pastor at Paramus, N. J., and in 1789 became one of the ministers of the Collegiate Keformed Dutch Church in Ne\v York, where he remained until his decease in 1833. Dr. Kuypers was a Christian gentleman, and a theolo- gian of the old school, remarkably conversant with the Bible, and possessed of high pastoral qualifications. He is described as an evangelical, practical, lucid, and su- perior preacher, a man of peace and prudence, and a liv- ing chronicle of past events, whose decisions on matters of usage and precedent were for many years received as final. His death was triumphant. He left unfinished a volume of Discourses on the Heidelberg Catechism. — Dr. Knox's Memorial Discourse (1833) ; Sprague's ^1??- nuls ; Corwin's Manual Ref. Ch. p. 130 ; Life of Dr. J. II. Linnffston. (W. J. K. T.)
Kvasir is the name of a mythic personage mention- ed in the Norse legends. " He was so wise and know- ing that no one could ask him a question which he could not answer. He was, however, entrapped and slain by two dwarfs who had invited him to a feast. With his blood they mingled honey, and thus composed a mead which makes every one who drinks of it a skald, or wise man." See Thorpe, Northern Mythology, vol. i.
Kyderniinster (or Kidderjiinster), Eichard, an English monk, greatly celebrated both as a preacher and scliolar, born in Worcestershire, flourished in the first half of the 16th century. He was abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and died in 1531. He wrote Tructatus contra Doctri- num Lutheri (1521); also a history of his monastery. See Wood, A then. Oxon. ; Allibone, Dictionary of Eng- lish and A merican A uthors, ii, 1046.
Kypke, George David, a distinguished German Orientalist, was born at Neukirk, Pomerania, Oct. 23, 1724. He studied at the universities of Konigsberg and Halle, took his degree in the department of philosophy in 1744, in 1746 was appointed professor extraordinary of Oriental languages at Konigsberg, and was promoted to the full professorship in 1775. He died Maj' 28, 1779. Kypke wrote Observationes sacrce in Novi Fmderis libros, ex auctoribus Greeds et antiquitatibiis (Breslau, 1755, 2 vols. 8vo) ; a successful attempt to illustrate many pas-
sages of the New Testament by examples drawn from Greek classic authors. '• Of all the expositions of the New Testament conducted on principles like these, I know of none that are superior, or, indeed, equal to that of Kypke" (JNIichaelis). See Kotermund, Suppl. zu Jocher ; Hoefer, jVowi'. Biog. Generide, xxviii, 312.
Kyrie (Kupis), " O Lord" (in Church music), the vocative of the Greek word signifying Lord, with which word all the musical masses in the Church of Home commence. Hence it has come to be used substantive- ly for the whole piece, as one may say, a beautiful Ky- rie, a Kyrie well executed, etc.
Ktrie Eleeison (KvpiE iXerjaov, Lord have mercy [_U2)on w«]), the well-known form of earnest and pathetic penitential appeal of the Scriptures, of frequent occur- rence in the services of the early Church, and in the liturgical formukc of the Eastern and Western church- es, and since the Reformation retained even in many Protestant churches.