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The tradition that the rock cave near Constantino's basilica, S. Maria a Praesepio, is the birthplace of the Saviour dates from the time of St. Jerome (d. 420), when Bethlehem had been a wood- covered wilderness since it was devastated by Hadrian three hundred years earlier.
Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, whose methods of deduction suggested a system that Holmes developed into a science; his stooge Watson was a skit on Doyle himself.
(1) in honour of the Stuarts, whose shield was "cheeky," like a Scotch plaid. <2) In commemoration of the licence granted by the Earls of Arundel or Lords Warrenne. (3) An intimation that a room is set apart for merchants and accountants, where they can be private and make up their accounts, or use their "chequers" undisturbed.
A situation where it's unclear which factor is the cause and which is the effect
Consequences of past actions return to haunt or harm someone.
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
In China, a five-clawed dragon is introduced into pictures and embroidered on state dresses as an amulet.
Lucius Coelius Lac- tantius, a Christian father, who died about 330.
Marco Girolamo Vida (d. 1566), an Italian Latin poet, author of Christias in six books (1535), an imitation of the AZneid.
Those who are known to God alone as His sons and daughters by adoption and grace. See CHURCH VISIBLE.
The Church as consisting of the whole body of believers, who are said to be "waging the war of faith" against "the world, the flesh, and the devil.'* It is therefore militant, or in warfare.
Those who are dead and gone to their rest. Having fought the fight and triumphed, they belong to the Church triumphant in heaven.
All ostensible Chris- tians; all who profess to be Christians; all who have been baptized and admitted into Church
An old irony. Newgate. The City of Bells. Strasburg. The City of Brotherly Love. A somewhat ironical, but quite etymological, nickname of Philadelphia (Gr. Philadelphia means "broth- erly love").
In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, the world of the uncon- verted.
The Church, or whole body of believers; the kingdom of Christ, in contradistinction to the City of Destruction (<7.v.). The phrase is that of St.
A supposititious city in Lucian's Veree Historice, situate somewhere beyond the zodiac. Cp. LANTERN-LAND.
Caerleon-on-Usk, where King Arthur held his court. The City of Lilies. Florence.
Agrippa, in the reign of Augustus, converted Rome from "a city of brick huts to one of marble palaces.
Montreal, in Canada, is so named because all the streets are named after saints. Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., also is known as the "City of the Saints," from the Mormons who inhabit it.
Michael. Dumfries, of which city St. Michael is the patron saint.
Rome, built on seven hills (Urbs septacollis}. The hills are the Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquilme, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal.
Cologne; the reputed burial-place of the Magi (q.v.).
Galway ; because it was anciently the home of the thirteen "tribes" or chief families, who settled there in 1232 with Richard de Burgh.
When a chief doomed a man to death, he struck his shield with the
A favourite sign of a posting-house or stage-coach house.
No danger.
There is no likelihood of interference. It was originally a smuggling term, implying that no coastguards were about.
There are no problems or dangers present
A skilled person often neglects their own needs
Those who should be best served are often the worst off
By some said to be a corruption of the "Cork and Bottle," meaning that wine is sold there in bottles.
A nickname given by Lockhart (see quotation below) to a group of writers including Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Shelley, and Keats. It was a term of opprobrium, on account of the kind of rhymes they used m their verse, which smacked too much of every- day life instead of the classic purity preferred by the critics.
Traditional English proverbial phrase; full definition pending editorial review.
John Opie (1761- 1807), of Cornwall, the painter. It was "Peter Pindar" (John Wolcot) who gave him this name.
The first oecumenical council of the Christian Church, held under Constantino the Great in 325 at Nice, or Nicaa, in Bithynia, Asia Minor, to condemn the Arian heresy, to affirm the consubstantiality of the Son of God, and to deal with points of discipline. The seventh oecumenical council was also held at Nice (787).
A secret tribunal exercising unlimited powers in the old Venetian republic. Instituted in 1310 with ten members, it was later enlarged to 17, and continued in active existence till the fall of the republic in 1797.
True love often faces difficulties and obstacles
A branch of the Court of Arches which had jurisdiction over the "peculiars" of the archbishop of Canter- bury. See above.
James's. The British court, to which foreign ambassadors are officially accredited. St. James's Palace, Pall Mall, stands on the site of a 12th-century leper hospital dedicated to St. James the Less. The Palace was a royal residence from 1698 until 1837, and since then has been used for levees and drawing-rooms.
Minecraft.
Common in the mediaeval ages, and in allusion to St. Peter, or one of the bishops whose cognizance it is — probably the lord of the manor or the patron saint of the parish church. The cross keys are emblems of the papacy, St.
Stephen. The crown of Hungary, this St. Stephen being the first king of Hungary (1000-38). He was a pagan, born at Gran about 969, and was converted to Chris- tianity about 995. During his reign the faith became firmly established in his kingdom. He was canonized by Benedict IX shortly after his death, and is commemorated on September 2nd.
That with which our Saviour was crowned in mockery (Matt, xxyii, 29); hence sometimes used of a very special affliction with which one is unjustly burdened. t Calvin (Admonitio de Reliquiis) gives a long list of places claiming to possess one or more of the thorns which composed the Saviour's crown. To his list may be added Glastonbury Abbey, where was also the spear of Longius or Longinus.
According to Ptolemy, the ninth orb, identified by some with "the waters which were above the firmament" (Gen. i, 7); it was placed between the "primum mobile " and the firmament or sphere of the fixed stars and was held to have a shivering movement that interfered with the regular motion of the stars.
In Scandinavia it was anciently customary at feasts to drink from cups of mead, and vow to perform some great deed worthy of the song of a skald. There were four cups: one to Odin, for victory; one to Freyja, for a good year; one to Niord, for peace; and one to Bragi, for celebration of the dead in poetry.
There is no food or money left.
One who is always on the move and has no abiding place is said to be "cursed with the curse of Cain.
The nine of dia- monds. It may refer to the arms of Dalrymple, Earl of Stair — viz. or, on a saltire argent, nine lozenges of the first. The earl was justly held in abhorrence for the massacre of Glencoe, and he was also detested in Scotland for his share in bringing about the Union with England in 1707.
An event or situation comes to an end
Businesses should prioritize customer satisfaction
The contour or expression of his face A sailor's phrase. The cut of a jib or foresail of a ship indicates her character, hence a sailor says of a suspicious vessel, he "does not like the cut of her jib.
An afternoon tea party, with dancing. Theagenes and Chariclea (the aj' e nez, char i kle' a). The hero and heroine of an erotic romance in Greek by Heliodorus, Bishop of Trikka (4th century).
The earlier centuries of the Middle Ages (<7.v.); so called because of the intellectual darkness thought to be characteristic of the period.
Africa; concerning which the world was so long "in the dark," and which, also, is the land of dark races.
The most difficult moment often precedes a resolution or improvement
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
The procla- mation of James II in 1687 which annulled religious tests and the penal laws against
You are a very demon. What the deuce is the matter ?
a person or thing that causes trouble