LACTICINIA
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LADD
Lacticinia, a term used in the Church law of fasts to deiKitc whatever is obtained as an article of (bod from the nianinialia, viz. milk, butter, grease, cheese. Eggs are usually incliuied with these articles. Abstinence from such food ^vas required in the Western Church during Lent, while the more stringent customs of the Creek Church extended the prohibition to all other fasts. Thomas Aquinas uses the following language:
Ihy Servant since ihe Time of his heJieving and professing himself inspii-ed (London, 1708, small 8vo). lie is also supposed to be the author of The general Delusion of Christians touching the Wai/s of God revealing himself to and by the Prophets (1713, 8vo) ; reprinted a few years since. See Darling, Encyclop. Bihliogr. vol. ii, s. v.
Lad ("l"3, na'aV, often rendered "young man," etc.; N. T. Traicdpiov, a little child, the last occurrmg only
" In jejunio quadragesimali interdicunter universaliter j jJi^„\,;^ g^ ^^,1 »' child" in Matt, xi, 16; both terms be-
ing originally without respect to sex). The Heb. word occasionally thus rendered in the Auth.Yers., although occasionally standing for a girl or maiden (Gen. xxiv, 14, 16, 28, 55; xxxiv, 3, 12; Deut. xxii, 15 sq.), for which the fem. noun (iTl"J, naaruh') is usually em- ployed, properly denotes a hoy, being prob. a primitive word. It is spoken of an infant just born (Exod. ii, 6 ; Judg. xiii, 5, 7; 1 Sam. iv, 21), of a boy not yet full grown (Gen. xxi, 10 sq. ; xxii, 12; Isa. vii, 10; viii, 4), and of a youth nearly twenty years old (Gen. xxxiv, 19; xli, 12 ; 1 Kings iii, 7 ; 2 Sam. xviii, 5, 29). See Child, etc.
Iia'dau (Ta^c'iv v. r. A.a\av, and even 'Acrni', Yulg. Dalarns), one of the Temple servants whose descend- ants had lost their pedigree after the exile (1 Esdr. v, 37) ; evidently the Delaiah (q. v.) of the Hebrew text (Ezra ii. 60). '
Ladd, Francis Dudley, a Presbyterian minister,
ctiam ova et lacticinia, circa quorum abstinentiam in aliis jejmiiis diversae consuetudines existuiit a])ud diver- sos." The Laodicean and Trullan (A.D. 691) councils made stringent requirements on the subject. Certain papal dispensations, granted as late as A.D. 1344 and A.D. 1485, show that even in certain parts of the West- ern Church this abstinence was practiced in many fasts besides Lent. In some Catholic countries general dis- pensations on this point have become permanent by long custom and positive decree, especially on the ground of health and necessity.
In tlie English Church the only abstinence that was ever enforced was from tlesh-meat, in the reign of queen Elizabeth ; but its object -was rather the promotion of state interests, " to promote fisheries, to maintain mari- ners, and set men a fishing ;" and was dispensed with by virtue of licenses, which were sold, according to the rank of the ajiplicants, bj' the curates, under an act of Parlia- ment passed in the fifth year of her [Elizabeth's] reign (Walcott, Sacred A rchwol. p. 273, Fasts ; comp. Hook, Ch. Diction- ary, article Abstinence). " AVith us," says Wheatly (Hook, Chiti-ch Diet. p. 9), " neither Church nor State makes any difference in the kinds of meat ; but, as far as the former determines in the matter, she seems to recommend an en- tire abstinence from all manner of food till the time of fasting be over; declaring in her [Ch. of Engl.] homilies that fasting is a withholding of meat, drink, and all natural food from the body f(ir the determined time of fast- ing." See Wetzer und Wclte, Kirchen-Lex. s. v. See also Ab- stinenxe; Fasts.
Lacunary Roofs. The
ceiling of churches in early times was often composed of lacunary work, i. e. it was divided into sev- eral jiancls called laquearia or la- cnnaria, and these were richly gilded and otherwise ornament- ed. Jerome often speaks in his M-ritings of the lacunar}- golden roofs. Sec Farrar, Eccl. Diet. s. v.
Lacu'nus (rather Laccu- Nl'S, ArtfOKori'or, Vulg. ('(ileiis\ one ''of the sons of Addi," who ha<l married a foreign wife afler the exile (1 Esdr. ix, 31); doubt- less the Ciielal (q. v.) of the Hebrew text (Ezra x, 30).
Lacy, John, an English mys- tical writer, nourished in the be- ginning of the 18th century. He joined the French prophets upon their appearance in London, and ]irofessed to have supernatural revelations. His principal works are. Warnings of the Eternal Spir- Aucioiit Etryptians assailing a Fortress with the Testudo and Laddcis.
it III/ the Mouth of his Servant l, 2, 3, 4, liesi.'in-rs i.roteclini; liv the lestudn armed wnrrinrs, a, h. c. d, at tlie base of the fort, f
r 1 if /T „„ 1 drivinir a spike hetween the ioii'its of the stones along the u|i)ier courses of Ihe foundation walls,./, to
John, SUrimmed Lacy (London, p„n the foot of the senHna-lidder; 6,7,8, warriors contendinR with the defenders of the tir, -
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the Dealings oj God to las lancor- the standard, n.
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