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The Douai Bible (q.v.). 1609, is sometimes so called, because it has in Jer. vni, 22: "Is there noe rosin in Galaad." The Authorized Version translates the word by "balm," but gives "rosin" in the margin as an alternative. Cp. TREACLE BIBLE below.
Certain poems written by Thomas Chatterton (1752-70), and said by him to have been the work of a 15th-century priest of Bristol named Thomas Rowley, who, in fact, was purely fictitious. Chatterton began to write them before he was 15, and after having been refused by Dodsley, they were published in 1769. Many f prominent con- noisseurs and litterateurs, including Horace Walpole, were hoaxed by them.
The three lions passant gardant were introduced by Richard Cceur de Lion after his return from the third Crusade; the lion rampant in the second quarter is from the arms of Scotland, it having first been used in the reign of Alexander H (1214-49); and the harp in the fourth quarter represents Ireland; it was assigned to Ireland in the time of Henry VIII; before that time her device was three crowns.
The game re- ferred to by Goldsmith (Deserted Village, 232) as being present in the ale-house —
See OAK-APPLE DAY. Sir Philip Sydney's Oak, near Penshurst, was planted at his birth in 1554, and was commemo- rated by Ben Jonson and Waller.
Blaise de Montluc (1502-77), a Marshal of France, distinguished for his cruelties to the Protestants in the reign of Charles IX.
When a plan or idea is put into action and its effectiveness is tested.
The College of Car- dinals (q.v.) at Rome.
The "Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus" owes its origin to a French nun of the 17th century, St. Mary ^ Margaret Alacoque, of Burgundy, who practised devo- tion to the Saviour's heart in consequence of a vision. The devotion was sanctioned by Pope Clement XII in 1732, and extended to the whole Church by Pius IX in 1856. It is observed on the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi.
In Greek history, one of the wars waged by the Amphictyonic League in defence of the temple and oracle of Delphi.
See VIA SACRA. The Sacred Weed, Vervain (see Herba Sacra), or — humorously — tobacco.
A law derived from the Salic Code limiting succession to the throne, land, etc., to heirs male to the exclusion of females, chiefly because certain military duties were con- nected with the holding of lands.
Properly, the elect; the perfect, or those approaching perfection (see Matt, v, 13).
The "Salutation" (which refers to the angel saluting the Virgin Mary) is the sign of the house, and the "Cat" is added to signify that arrangements are made for playing cat or tipcat.
A playful remark addressed to children who are tired and "sleepy-eyed." Cp. DUSTMAN.
Time is getting short; there will be little opportunity for doing what you have to do unless you take advantage of now. Often used in reference to one who evidently has not much longer to live. The allusion is to the hour-glass.
Reminiscent of the Crusades; adopted probably by some Crusader after his return home, or to excite sympathy with these quixotic expeditions.
A laugh caused, it was supposed, by a plant growing m Sardinia, of which they who ate died laughing. — TRENCH: Words> lecture iv, p. 176.
So Southey called Byron, Shelley, and those of their followers who set at defiance the generally received notions of religion. See the Preface to his Vision of Judgment.
The 2nd Dragoons, so called from the colour of their original facings of stone grey. They have also for many years been mounted on grey horses.
Alexander Scot, who flourished about 1550.
Patrick Nasmyth (born at Edinburgh, 1787, died 1831), the landscape painter, was so called.
So Pope, m the Dunciad (m, 149), called Giles Jacob (1686- 1744), a very minor poet, who, in his Register of the Poets, made an unprovoked attack on Pope's friend, Gay.
The new Adam, etc. Jesus Christ is so called.
Seven contem- porary poets m the reign of Louis XIII, very inferior to the "first Pleiad " They are Rapm, Comrmre, Larue, Santeuil, M6nage, Dupener, and Petit.
The bill passed by the Long Parliament in 1645 ordering that Members of either House should give up then military commands and civil appointments within forty days; the reason being the sus- picion that the Civil War was being prolonged for personal ends.
Luther's German translation of the New Testament, published anonymously at Wittenberg in September,
The Sanctus "Holy, holy, holy" (Is. vi, 3), which was sung by the seraphim.
Cleopatra, so called by Antony. He's speaking now, Or murmuring "Where's my serpent of old Nile?" For so he calls me.
The frame or mount, of gold or silver surrounding a jewel in a ring, brooch, etc.
An expedition in Greek legend fabled to have taken place against Thebes of Bceotia before the Trojan
Pride, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, and Sloth.
A mediaeval term for the whole group of studies, viz. Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric (the Trivium), with Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy (the Quadrivium).
An astrological sign of the Middle Ages.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
See HE BIBLE. "Sin on" Bible. The first Bible printed in Ireland was dated 1716. John v, 14 reads "sin on more" instead of "sin no more " The mistake was not found out until the impression of 8,000 copies had been printed and bound.
Henry, tenth Lord Clifford (d. 1523), sent by his mother to be brought up by a shepherd, in order to save him from the fury of the Yorkists. At the 'accession of Henry VII he was restored to all his rights and seigniories.
The ostensible author of a Weather Guide (published 1744).
So Sir Walter Raleigh is called by Spenser- — When I asked from what place he came, And how he hight, himselfe he did ycleape The Shepheard of the Ocean by name, And said he came far from the mam-sea deepe. Colin Clout's Come Home Again* 64.
The scarlet pimper- nel, which opens at a little past seven in the morning and closes at a little past two. When rain is at hand, or the weather is unfavourable, it does not open at all.
The twelve loaves representing the twelve tribes of Israel.
The perfectly plain shield given to a young warrior in his maiden campaign. As he achieved glory, his deeds were recorded or symbolized on it.
Referring to Sir Cloudesley Shovel, a favourite admiral in Queen Anne's reign.
The English counties whose names terminate in -shire; but, in a narrower sense, the Midland counties noted for fox- hunting, especially Leicestershire, Northamp- tonshire, and Rutland.
To give something precious or one's last possession
Diarrhoea.
Situations are now reversed, with roles or advantages changed.
Those who provide for others often neglect their own needs
Events or activities must continue despite problems or difficulties
Giovanni Meli (1740-1815). Anachronism (Gr. ana chronos, out of time). An event placed at a wrong date.
An obsolescent journalistic expression for the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September), when, through lack of news, the papers had to fill their columns with trivial items — such as news of giant gooseberries and sea serpents — and long correspondence on subjects of evanescent (if any) interest.
The second of the Ages of the World (tf.v.), according to Hesiod and the Greek and Roman poets; fabled as a period that was voluptuous and godless, and much inferior in simplicity and true happiness to the Golden Age.
A kidnapper. "To play the silver cooper," to kidnap. A cooper is one who coops up another.
A name given in amused contempt (about 1830) to the novelists who were sticklers for the etiquette and graces of the Upper Ten and showed great respect for the affectations of gentility. Theodore Hook, Lady Blessington, and Bulwer Lytton might be taken as representatives of it.
A mode of living in which the object is to eliminate as far as possible all luxuries and extraneous aids to happiness, etc., returning to the simplicity of life as imagined by the pastoral poets.
Money set aside by the Government for paying off a part of the national debt. This money is "sunk," or with- drawn from circulation, for the bonds pur- chased by it are destroyed.
An Act of Parliament passed in 1539 (repealed 1547) enjoining belief in (1) the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; (2) the sufficiency of communion in one kind; (3) the celibacy of the priests; (4) the obligation of vows of chastity; (5) the expediency of private masses; and (6) the necessity of auricular confession, and decreeing death on those who denied the doctrine of
An old name for the Court of Chancery because there were six highly paid clerks connected with it.
The confederacy of North American Indian tribes consisting of the Five Nations (#.v.) and the Tuscaroras (formerly of North Carolina but now of New York and Ontario) who joined about 1715.
Altar lights, eucharistic vestments, the eastward position, wafer bread, the mixed chalice, and incense. These were sanctioned in the Church of Eng- land in the time of Edward VI, and, it is held by many, were never forbidden by competent authority.