Quarrel (Fr. carre, square) is a technical term em- ployed in architecture to describe a diamond -shaped pane of glass, or a square one placed diagonally. It is also the name of a small piercing in the tracery of a window. A wax taper (q. v.) used in churches is also called " quarrel."
Quarry P^pS, pesil, but only in the plur.; Sept. ykvTCTa, Vulg. idold). In the account of the exploit of Ehud in Judg. iii, 19, 26, for the "quarries that were by Gilgal" of our version, or, as the Syriac and the Chal- dee read, stone-pits or quarries, the primary signification of images of false gods may be intended, as in Deut. vii, 25; Isa. xlii, 8; Jer. viii, 19; li, 52; Hos. xi. 12. etc., and it is so understood by the Sept. and the Vulg. in the above text. W^e have no knowledge of any quar- ries at Gilgal, in the plain of Jericho; and Booth- royd conjectures that idols might have been erected at Gilgal by Eglon, and that the sight of them there in- spired Ehud with new ardor to execute his purpose. Kosenmiiller, after Rashi, adheres to the above inter-
Enormous Stone in the Quarry near Baalbek.
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pretation of quarries, and in this Fnrst and Keil agree. The last-named interpreter remarks that the Gilgal in- tended cannot be the one mar the Jordan, but that in the hills of Ephraim. See Gilgal. Gesenius regards
Pesilim as tin- name of a place. Casscl. in Lance's I \int- mentary, understands by it boundary -stones, i. e. "ter- mini," of an idolatrous form. That the ancient Canaan- ite> had extensive quarries is evinced by the eyclopean blocks at i be foundation of the temple at Baalbek (q. v. >.
Quarterly Fast. See Pasting.
Quarterly Meeting. See Meeting, Qi vk-
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Quartodecimani, a name in ecclesiastical his- tory lor those Christians of Asia .Minor who. in the first ages of the Church, annually commemorated the death of Christ at the 11th of Nisan, the time when the Jews celebrated the Passover j see Paschal Controversi I. and three days after the resurrection of Jesus, totally ignoring the regard for the day of the week usually taken as the one on which this event is believed to have occurred. This difference it was determined to adjust at i In < ouncil of Nice in A.D. 325, when it was decreed that the practice of observing Friday as the day of cru- ciiixion (q. v.), and the following Sunday as the day of ascension (q. v.), should prevail. Those who refused to accept this decision of the council were denominated (>iiiirtinli ciinani, because of their contending for the fourteenth day of the first Hebrew month as the proper time for observing Easter, quartadecima haws, on the fourteenth day of the moon. They are sometimes called PaschUes. The Audseans, Montanists, Novatians, and other sects were Quartodecimani. See Schaff, Ch. Mist. vol. ii; Kiddle, Christ inn. Antiquities} Waterland, Works, vol. vi.
Quar'tus ( Graecized Kovaproc, for the Latin quar- tus, fourth), a Christian resident at Corinth, and. from his name, apparently a Roman, whose .salutations Paul communicated to the Church of Koine in his epistle thereto (Rom. .\\i. 23). A.D. cir. 50. There is the Usual tradition thai be was one of I he seventy disciples; and ii i- also said that he ultimately became bishop of Berytus (Tillemont, i, 334).
Quas laudes tibi nos, Pater, canemus, is the beginning of one of the hymns written by the "precep- tor Germanise," Philip Melancthon (q.v.). It was com- posed in the year 1527, and is based on 1'sa. cxi. It is found with his oilier poems, of which he composed al- i about 400, in Bretschneider's Corpus Reforma- torum (Hal. Sax. 1842), VOL x. A selection of about fifty-one, together with a German metrical translation
was published by I tberhey. Mehltichtkon's Gedichte, OUS-
gewahii und ubersetzl (Halle, bei Mllblmann, 1862). See Koch, Geschickte des deutscken Kirclu nli< <h .>■. i, ~lb\K (Ii. P.)
Quaser. The Scandinavian Edda tells us that the divine families of the Ascs and Vanes, having warred against each oilier fur many years, fell tired at last of these never-ceasing disputes, and determined to create a being on whose wisdom they might safely rely, and whom they would take for their umpire. Ases 8»d Vanes spat into a common vessel, ami formed Quaser. He was bo wise that no one could ask him a question which be was not able to answer. Therefore, having pronounced his sentence in the quarrel of the gods, be travelled about in the world to imparl bis wisdom to
men. Bul two g nes. l'ialar and ( ialar. killed him.
mingled In- bl 1 with honey, and lluis prepared a de- licious mead, which made poets ol all those \\ bo tasted ii. 'lie- gods having shown some anxiety as to what had become ol the ureal sage, the gnomes managed to
spread the rumor thai Ouaser had been choked by bl- own wisdom (a phra-e which has become proverbial in the north), as nobody could relieve him of ii by his questions. Shortly afterwards the same dwarfs killed the giant Gilling and In- w ife by crushing them \\ itb a
mill-stone while sleeping. The giant Suttung, Gil- ling's son, avenged his father by exposing the murder- ers on a deserted island, to die there ol starvation. In this extremity they offered him. to ransom their Uvea, their poetical mead. Suttung listened to their propo- sition, set them free, and had the precious liquid care- fully guarded by his beautiful daughter Gunloda in the interior of a mountain. Odin, by a stratagem, pene- trated into the mountain, gained the favor of the young giantess, and drank the mead to the last drop. — Voll- mer, Worterb. d, Mythol. >. v.