Quasimodogemti is a term sometimes used to denote the lir-t Sunday after Easter. It is of compara- tively late origin, and is derived from the Latin version of 1 Pet. ii. 2: Quasi modo geniii infantes, etc. — "As new-born babes," etc. See i; ister,
Quatember are fasts observed in the Church of Kome. and by other ecclesiastical bodies, among them the Church of England. According to Jewish custom, the four seasons of the year were observed as occasions for fasting. These -were the four fast-weeks: one after Ash-Wednesday, Pentecost, the Crucifixion (Sept. 14), and after Lucia (Dec. 13). The fast-days were Wednes- day. Friday, ami Saturday. Wednesday was the day on which the quarterly offerings were brought, and it was principally called Quatember-day. In the German Protestant Church these fa-Is wire lor a Ion- linn ob- served also.
Quater'nion (nrpaBiov, " body of four). "A quaternion of soldiers" | Acts xii. 1 1 was a detai hmenl of four men. which was the usual number of a Roman night-watch (Veget.Z)« Re Milit.m,8\ Philo, In Flacc. p. 98; Polyb. vi, 33, 37). See Soldier, lYter, there- fore, was guarded by four soldiers, two within the prison, probably attached to bis person, and two outside the doors; and. as the watch was usually changed every three hours, it was necessary that the ••four quater- nions" mentioned in the text should be appointed for (he purpose. See Prison. Or one set of sentinels may have been posted at the door of the cell (which was probably thought to be so secure as not to require a guard within), and another at the outer or street gate (Walch, hi line/is J'lt/i. in bis Dissert, ad loc). See Pkteh.
Quatremere, Ivuknnk Marie, a celebrated French < orientalist, was bom at Paris, Jul)' 12. 1782. He began bis studies at a very early age, and as a youth was noted for his remarkable attainments. In 1807 he was em- ployed in the Imperial Library, and in 1809 was Called to the professor's chair at Rouen. In 1815 he was ap- pointed to the Academy of Inscriptions, and in 1819 in- structor of Hebrew. Cbaldec, and Syriac al the College of France, In 1827 he became professor of Persian. He was now known as one of the greatest ( orientalists in the world, and was especially noted as an Egyptologist, and how well he deserved this distinction appears from his publications in this line of study. In bis religious pro- clivities he was Gallican ami Jansenist lie used bis lien freely against the innovations of tin papists and against their assumptions. We have not room here (o mention his severe satires against the I 'ltramonlanes, but refer the reader who desires to Btudy them to Ke- nan's Essays. Quatremere died Sept, 18, bs.">7.
Quaw, James E., a minister of the Reformed i Dui. In Church, lb- graduated ai the New Bruns- wick Theological Seminary in 1828, and was engaged during hi- ministerial life chiefly in missionary work among feeble churches in \.w \ oik ami Michigan, lie was the author of two remarkable books- -Tlu Cold Water Man, a powerful plea lor total abstinence, and Biblt Baptism, or the Tmmerser Instructed from Various Sources. The latter has passed through n number of editions, and is a real thesaurus of information, and of learned, acute, and valuable discussion of the mode of baptism. The Object i> to place before its readers the
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mersion is not the only scriptural mode of baptism ; that sprinkling is scriptural, and that infants are proper subjects of that ordinances The individuality of the author's character, life, and ministry, and his indepen- dence of thought and treatment of his subject, may be gathered from his prefatory statement : " Many of the materials for the following work were collected while the author was travelling in primitive apostolic style in different parts of the great American valley. In these, his ministerial joumeyings, he usually preached six or eight times a week, while he often travelled on foot without purse or scrip or two coats, sometimes with scarcely one, often for days without bread and occasion- ally without water. But the mighty God of Jacob was always with him. . . . This book was written in a West- ern log-cabin, in a room which at one and the same time answered for a study, a parlor, a sitting-room, a dining -hall, bedroom, and kitchen. The hours which for six or eight months the author could spare from the discharge of the duties of a New-Testament bishop, he has, in this rather romantic study, devoted to this work." Mr. Quaw was lost on Lake Erie in the dreadful wreck of the steamer Erie in 1845. He was a godly and self- denying man, peculiar in appearance and manner, a faithful missionary to the needy, and an able writer. (W. J. R. T.)
Quedara Wardon is a Hindu festival in honor of the goddess Parwati (q. v.). It imposes on him who has once celebrated it the obligation of celebrating it every year. The participants in this solemnity are dis- tinguished by a yellow string, which they carry around their arm. They fast the whole day of the feast. — Voll- mer, Worterb. d. Mythol. s. v.
Quedil is a Hindu feast in honor of the goddess Mariatale. The performances are the same as those of the goddess Mariyammai. Mariatale is probably iden- tical with the latter. — Vollmer, Worterb. d. Mythol. s. v.