1871, art. iii; Oct. 1873, art. vii; Contemp. Rev. Jan!
1872, art. ii. (J.H.W.)
Nones, a service of the ninth hour, or three in the afternoon, the usual time of the Jewish sacrifice. Chry- sostom exhorts to this service by telling us that at that
hour paradise was opened for the thief, and the great sacrifice was offered. Some derive the term noon from Nones, because the sacrifice was often antedated, and held at mid-day. See Ninth Hour.
Non-essentials. See Fundamentals.
Non-Intrusionists. Non-intrusion had its for- mal origin in the following motion, proposed to the General Assembly in 1833— moved by Dr. Chalmers and seconded by lord Moncrielf :
" Tliat the General Assembly, having maturely wei<,'hed and considered tlie various overtures now before them, do find and declare that it is, and lias been ever since the Keformation, a fixed principle in the law of this Churcli tliat no minister shall be intruded into any pastoral charge contrary to the will of the congregation ; and consideriug that doubts and inisaiiprehensious have existed on this important subject, whereby the just and salutary opera- tion of the said princi]ile has been impeded, and in many cases defeated, the General Assembly further declare it to be their opinion that the dissent of a majority of the male heads of families resident within the parish, being mem- bers of the congregation and in communion with the Church at least two years previous to the day of modera- tion (of the call), whether such dissent shall be expressed with or without the assignment of reasons, ought to be of conclusive effect in setting aside the presentee (under the patron's nomination), save and except when it is clearly established by the patron, presentee, or any of the minority, that the said dissent is founded in corrupt and malicious combination, or not truly founded on any objec- tion personal to the presentee in regard to his ministerial gifts and qualifications, either in general or with refer- ence to that particular parish : and in order that this dec- laration may be carried into full efi'ect, that a committee shall be appointed to prepare the best measure for carry- ing it into effect, and to report to the next General As- sembly."
The motion was lost, there being a majority of twelve against it; but it was carried into effect in the next as- sembly.— Eadie, Eccles. Cycl. s. v. See the articles Scot- land, Free Church of, and Veto.
Nonius (or Nunez), Fernan, also called El Pinci- ano, from Pintia Vacca?orum, the former name of Valli- soletum, now Valladolid, where he was born, of noble parentage, about 1470, was, although a knight of the militarj' order of Sant' lago, devoted with much ardor to literary pursuits and the diffusion of learning in Spain, where he promoted the study of the Greek, after that of the Latin language had been rendered easy by Nebrisensis (Antonio Lebrija). Among the many emi- nent literary persons who followed Nebrija's steps, Pin- ciano stood conspicuous, even before he went to Italy to receive further instruction from Philippus Beroakhis and Govian, a celebrated Greek refugee. On his return to Spain, Nunez brought back numerous Greek books with him ; and cardinal Cisneros, who admired his tal- ents, appointed him and Demetrius the Cretan profess- ors of Greek at the University of Alcala, and moreover intrusted to him and to Lope de Astuiliga the Latin version of the Septuagint. Endowed with a lofty spirit and a high patriotic feeling, which were fostered by the writings of antiquity which he expounded, he fought in 1521 with the unsuccessful Commons of Castile against the tyranny of Charles V, or rather his court- iers, a set of unprincipled foreign adventurers, who took advantage of the young prince's vanity and inexperi- ence. Being obliged to leave Alcala, he took refuge at Salamanca, in which university he taught Greek, Latin, rhetoric, and the natural history of Pliny. He died in 1553, above the age of eighty, at Salamanca, and left to that famous seminary his select library. Pie wrote for himself the following epitaph: "Maximum vitas, boniim mors." Besides the share that he had in the Conijilutensian Polyglot, Nufiez published Annotati- ones in Senecce Philosophi Opera, the text of which writer he restored: — Observationes in Pomp. Melani : — Observat. in Hist. Nat. C. Plin., which have often been reprinted: — Glosa sobre las Obras de Juan de Mena, which is full of classical learning: — Letters to Zurita: Refranes y Proverbios Glosados, which he left incom- plete in the midst of his infirmities, a valuable book to
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the commentator of Cervantes, as Nunez was well ac- quainted with Spanish proverbs, and skilful in applying them.— l,"w//(^7i Cycloi). s. v.
Nonjiirants, a party iu the Church of Scotland who in 1712 refused to take the oath of abjuration, an oath which, abjuring the Pretender, promised to sup- port the succession to the crown as settled by act of Parliament, one condition being that the sovereign should belong to the Church of England. See Abju- ration. Many stumbled at the oath as being wholly inconsistent with the Covenant. See Covenant. Prin- cipal Carstairs and others took it, but along with a dec- laration and a protest. The jurants were branded as traitors by the nonjurants, and all the features of a schism were rapidly multiplying. Woodrow, Boston, and many well-known evangelical preachers belonged to the nonjurants. The Assembly had twice to interfere to preserve peace, and after live years the oath was al- tered. In 1719 the oath was modified, in accordance with- an address from the Nonjurors themselves; but a few (including T. Boston, who ^vrote Reasons fur Refus- ing the Abjuration Oath in its latest Form) still reso- lutely declined it. — Eadie, Ecclcs. Cycl s. v. See Cam- ERONiANS ; Marrow Men ; Oath.