Onental Out dooi ^ edb foi Ladies.
at the time the translation was made, and was not a bad representative of the original. The word occurs in Spenser:
"For she had laid her mournful stole aside. And widow-like sad loimple thrown away."
"But (she) the same did hide Under a veil that loiwpled was full low ; And over all a black stole she did throw, As one that iuly mourned."
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Oriental In-door Veils for Ladies.
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WIMPLE, in ecclesiastical phrase, is a name for a hood or veil, especially the white linen cloth bound about the forehead, and covering tlie necks of nuns (q.v.).
Wimr, in Norse mytholooy, is the river through wtich Thor waded when he journeyed towards Geir- rodsgard. The daughter of ttie giant made its waters so high that they reached to his neck.
Winchelsey, Robkkt, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Winclielsea, and educated at Canterbury. From Canterbury School he proceeded to Paris, and there his success was remarkable. At an early age he received his degree of A.JL, and soon after was appointed rector of the university. On his return to Englantt he became a member of Merton College, Ox- ford. In 1288 he was appointed chancellor of Oxford. He was also appointed archdeacon of Essex. He was translated to Canterburj- in 1293, and enthroned in grand style by Henry, prior of liis church at Canterbury, in 1295. It seems that of all the primates of all Eng- land, none was ever so unpopular as archbishop Robert. He was so self-willed and haughty that he placed him- self, as it were, in opposition to the country just when the nation was rising to national independence. He %vas so unscrupulous in the means he adopted and the measures he proposed that he at length involved him- self in the guilt of high-treason. Towards the close of his life, he divided his time between Oxford and Canter- bury. " Whatever may have been saiil of his faults as a public character — and they were many and great — all his contemporaries bear testimony to his worth in pri- vate life." He exercised boundless charities to the poor, and their gratitu<le invested him with the character of a saint. He died at Otford, j\Iay 11, 1313. See Hook, Lives of the Archhishojis of Cunierburi/, iii,368 sq.
Winchester, Elhanan, a Universalist minister, was born at Brookline, Mass., Sept. 30, 1751. He was of Welsh descent, the son of a respectable and industri- ous mechanic, the eldest of a family of fifteen children ; was very precocious, naturally of a feeble constitution, and remarkably amiable; received a careful religious training and excellent educational privileges; joined the Baptists in 17G9, united in marriage the same year, and soon after began his ministerial career. In 1771 he preached at Rehoboth, Mass., where his j'outh, ex- traordinary memory, eloquence, apparent zeal, and sin- gular dress excited interest and drew multitudes to his meetings. His subsequent appointments were: Graf- ton, 1772 ; Hull, 1773-74 ; Welch Neck, S. C, 1775-79, meanwhile travelling and preaching extensiveh' every summer in the Middle and Eastern States; Philadelphia, Pa., 1780, where and when he accepted the Restoration theorj'. He sailed to England in 1787, and continued his journeys in Europe until about 1795, when he returned to Philadelphia. He died of hemorrhage of the lungs in Hartford, Conn., April 18, 1797. Mr. Winchester was gentle and zealous in temperament; diligent and faith- ful by habit; exemplary in life; a thoroughly scriptu- ral and evangelical and unusually fascinating preacher; and a voluminous, clear, captivating writer. His writ- ings embrace, A Collection of Hymns (1784) : — A Seri- ous Address to Youth on the Worth of the Soul (1785) : — Dialogues on Universal Restoration (1788) : — Lectures on the Pro])hecies (1790-91, 2 vols. 8vo):— The Process and Empire of Christ, a Poem (1793): — Ten Letters to Thomas Paine, in Reply to his Age of Reason (1794) : — Political Catechism : — Hymns on the Restoration (1795) : — besides many sermons. See ^.tone, Biography of Rev. Elhanan Winchester (Boston, 1836).
Winchester, Samuel Gover, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Rock Run, Hartford Co., ]\Id., Feb. 17, 1805. He received a good academical train- ing; began the study of law, but afterwards studied theoh)g}' in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. ; was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Baltimore in 1829 ; and was ordained and installed pas- X.— S s s
tor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa., May 4, 1830. In 1837 he resigned his charge and was employed as an agent of the General Assembly's Board of Domestic Missions; in the autumn of the same year he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Natchez, Miss., where he continued in the faithhd dis- cliarge of his duties until his death, Aug. 31, 1841. Mr. Winchester was the author of Companion for the Sick (1833), altered from Willison's Afflicted Alan's Compan- ion, Avith additions : — Christian Counsel to the Sick (183t)):— .4 Discourse at Oakland College (1838):— rAe Theatre (Phila. 12mo) : — Importance of Family Religion, with Prayers and Hymns (1841, 12mo). See Sprague, Annuls of the Amer. Pulpit, iv, 754; AUibone, Diet, of Brit, ajul Ainer. Authors, s. v. (J. L. S.).
Winchester, Thomas, D.D., a learned English divine, was born in the County of Berks about the be- ginning of the 18th century. He was educated at Mag- dalen College, Oxford ; was a tutor there for many years ; received a fellowship in 1747 ; became rector of v^pple- ton, Berkshire, in 1761 ; held for some years the curacy of Astley Chapel, near Asbury, in Warwickshire; and died May 17, 1780. He published A Dissertation on the X V'Ifth A rticle of the Church of England, etc. (1773). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.