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Page 407 - In modern usage, the name consul is given to a person commissioned by a king or state to reside in a foreign country as an agent or representative, to protect the rights, commerce, merchants and seamen of the state, and to aid the government in ]any commercial transactions with such foreign country.
Page 366 - Colures are two great circles, imagined to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the world : one of them...
Page 793 - Arimathea caught up the blood that flowed from His wounds on the Cross; it was brought to England by Joseph, it is alleged, but after a term disappeared; to recover it formed an object of quest to the...
Page 221 - In printing, a sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only.
Page 432 - COUNTER-STOCK, n. That part of a tally struck in the exchequer, which is kept by an officer in that court, the other being delivered to the person who has lent the king money on the account, and is called the stark.
Page 811 - This is a writ for delivering a person from false imprisonment, or for removing a person from one court to another. The act of...
Page 308 - That confusion, or confused mass, in which matter is supposed to have existed before it was reduced to order by the creating power of God.
Page 247 - CAII'HALA, a mysterious kind of science or knowledge among Jewish rabbins, pretended to have been delivered to the ancient Jews by revelation — specifically to Moses on Sinai — and transmitted by oral tradition, serving for the interpretation of difficult passages of Scripture. This science consists chiefly in understanding the combination of certain letters, words, and numbers which are alleged to be significant. Every letter, word...
Page 412 - An indication, from some peculiar symptom or fact, that forbids the method of cure which the main symptoms or nature of the disease requires.