Stuttgart
Stuttgart, The Royal Residence And Metropolis Of Wiirtemberg, Is Beautifully Situated In A Widening Of The Nesenbach Valley, The Hills Forming A Semicircle Of Emi Nences Clothed With Vineyards, Orchards, And Gardens. The Basin In Which Stuttgart Nestles Is 897 Ft. Above The Sea-level, And Enjoys A Mild And Healthy ...
Styria
Styria (ger. Steiermark), A Duchy Forming One Of The German Crown-lands Of Aus Tria, Is Bounded On The Upper And Lower Austria, E. By Hungary And Croatia, S. And W. By Carniola, Carinthia, Salzburg. Its Area Is 8,671 English Sq.m., And Pop. '70, 1,137,990, Who Are Partly Of German And ...
Suabia Swabia
Swabia, Suabia (ger. Schwaben), Or Suevia, An Ancient Duchy, In The S.w. Of Ger Many, So Named From A Horde Of Suevi, Who Spread Over It In The 5th C., And Amalga Mated With The Alemanui, Its Previous Inhabitants. It Existed As A Great Duchy Of The Frank Empire Till ...
Sublime
Sublime. Objects Indicating Great Power, Vast Expanse, Or Lofty Elevation, Excite In The Beholder A Feeling Of Pleasurable Elation; And The Name "sublime" Is Applied Both To The Objects And To The Feeling. The Precise Quality In Things That Arouse This Mode Of Pleasurable Excitement Has Been Variously Assigned. According ...
Substance
Substance, A Word Connected With Certain Discussions In Logic And Metaphysics. Substance Is Correlative With Quality Or Attribute. Every Substance Must Have Attri Butes, And Every Attribute Must Be The Attribute Of Some Substance. The Substance Gold Has The Attributes Weight, Color, Etc. But As Every Power Or Property Of ...
Substitution
Substitution Is One Of The Three Principal Methods Employed In Examining The Chemical Composition Of Organic Bodies, And In Tracing Their Relation To Other Com Pounds; The Two Other Methods Being Those Of Oxidation And Of Reduction. Although The Term Is Restricted To Organic Chemistry, The Ordinary Method Of Preparing ...
Subways
Subways. The System Of Engineering Beneath The Public Streets Has Not By Any Means Yet Reached Its Full Development. Subways For Foot Passengers Are Occasionally Constructed In Connection With Railway Termini : One Such Connects The Bishopsgate Street Station Of The Metropolitan Railway With The Liverpool Street Station Of The ...
Succession
Succession Is A Legal Term Used In Scotland, But Not Used Technically In England, Where The Same Subject Is Spoken Of Under The Name Of Next Of Kin (q.v.), And Descent; See Also Intestacy, Statutes Of Distributions, Executors, Administrator. In Scotland The Term Is Used To Denote The Taking Of ...
Succession Acts
Succession Acts. Frord A Comparatively Early Period In English History, Parliament Occasionally Exercised The Power Of Limiting Or Modifying The Hereditary Succession To The Throne. The First Instance Of Such Interference Occurred In The Reign Of Henry Iv., Who Possessed Himself Of The Crown, To The Prejudice Of The Descendants ...
Succulent Plants
Succulent Plants Are Those Plants Remarkable For The Thick And Fleshy Or Succu Lent Character Of Their Stems And Leaves. This Character Prevails In The Natural Orders Sactacece, Mcsembryacece, And Crassulacece, But Frequently Appears Also In Genera Of Other Natural Orders, As In Aloes And- Some Other Liliaeecs. It Consists ...
Sudden Death
Sudden Death May Be Induced By Natural Or By Violent Causes, And The Detection Of The True Cause Is Obviously Of Very Great Importance, Since The Acquittal Or Conviction Of A Suspected Person May Depend Upon It. Sudden Death May Occur Naturally From Syncope (fainting Or Swooning), From Asphyxia (literally ...
Sudra
Su'dra Is The Name Of The Fourth Caste Of The Hindus. See Caste. Sue, A Well-known French Novelist, Was Born At Paris Dec. 10, 1804. His Father, Jean-joseph Sue, Was One Of The Household Physicians Of Napoleon, And He Educated His Son For His Own Profession. At The Age Of ...
Suevi
Sue'vi, First Mentioned By Caesar, In Whose History (de Hello Gallko) The Name Is Employed As The Collective Designation Of A Great Number Of Germanic Peoples. They Occupied A District Of Indefinite Extent On The Eastern Side Of The Rhine, And May Have Been The Same Tribes As Those Subsequently ...
Suez Canal
Suez Canal. In The Former Article On This Subject, The Nature Of The Scheme Wail Briefly Described, And Illustrated By A Small Map; And The Progress Of The Works Noticed Down To The Year 1865. In This Place, Some Of The Features Will Receive A Little Further Explanation, Now That ...
Suffrage
Suffrage (lat. Suffragium, Derivation Uncertain), A Right To Vote, And More Par Ticularly The Right Possessed By The Citizen Of A State Where Representative Government Exists To Vote For A Member Of The Legislative Body. The Idea That The Universal Enjoyment Of Political Suffrage Is A Right By Natural Law, ...
Sufism
Sufism (from Sufi Or Soft, The Greek Sophos, A Sage; Erroneously Also Derived From Arab. Sof Or Suf, Wool, And Thus Designating An Individual Who Wears Nothing But Woolen Garments) Designates A Certain Mystic System Of Philosophical Theology Within Islam. Its Devotees Form A Kind Of Ecclesiastical Order Somewhat Similar ...
Sugar
Sugar (lat. And Gr. Sacehar-, Sans. Saykara, Pers. Schakar, Arab. Sokkar Or Assokkar, Sp. Azucar, It. Zucchero, Fr. Sucre, Ger. Sucker) Is A General Term Applied By Chemists To A Number Of Neutral Carbohydrates, Possessing A More Or Less Sweet Taste, For The • Most Part Crystallizable, And Produced By ...
Suicide
Suicide (lat. Self-murder) Is A Heinous Crime,ty The Law Of The United Kingdoms Though It Was Treated As Venial By The Roman Law, And Was The Subject Of Panegyric By Stoic Philosophers. The Law Of England Treats It As A Felony, And Hence There May Be Accessories To It, So ...
Suliots
Su'liots, A Tribe Who Inhabited The Valley Of The Acheron, In The Pashalik Of Janina (epirus) In European Turkey, Are A Mixed Race, Being Partly Of Hellenic And Partly Of Albanian Origin. They Are The Descendants Of A Number Of Families Who Fled From Their Turkish Oppressors To The Mountains ...
Sully
Sully, 3iaxrxtruen De Bethune, Duke Of, The Celebrated Minister Of Henry Iv. Of France, Was The Second Son Of Francois, Baron De Rosny, And Was Born At Rosny, Near Mantes, In 1560. The Rosny Family, An Offshoot From The Great House Of Flanders, Was Never Possessed Of Much Wealth Or ...
Sulphur
Sulphur (symb. S, Eq. System, 32--sp. Gr. Of Rolled Sulphur, 1.98 [see Atomic Werourrsj, And Of Amorphous Sulphur, 1.957; Sp. Gr. Of Vapor, 6.617 At 824°, And 2.2 At 1900°, Atmospheric Air Being The Unit Of Comparison For The Vapor) Is One Of The Most Important Of The Non-metallic Elements. ...
Sulphuric Acid
Sulphuric Acid, Or, More Correctly, Hydrated Sulphuric Acid (80,,h0), Is The Chemical Name Of The Liquid Commercially And Popularly Known As Oil Of Vitriol.* It Is A Dense, Colorless, Oily Liquid,without Smell, Of A Spec. Gray. Of 1.846 At A Temperature Of 60°, And Of An Intensely Acid Taste And ...
Sulphurous Acid
Sulphurous Acid Some Years Ago Became One Of The Most Popular Articles In Our Pharmacopceia. This Sudden Popularity Was Mainly Due To The Researches Of A Scottish Provincial Physician, Dr. Dewar, Of Kirkcaldy,who, From Beginning His Experiments On Cattle, During The Period Of The Cattle Plague Of 1866, Extended Them ...
Sulphurous Acid Or Sulphurous
Sulphurous Acid Or Sulphurous Anhydride Occurs Under The Ordinary Relations Of Temperature And Pressure As A Colorless Gas, Possessing The Suffocating Odor Of Burning Sulphur. In Its Concentrated Form It Is Quite Irrespirable, And In A Diluted State It Excites Cough, And Produces The Symptoms Of An Ordinary Catarrh. It ...
Sumptuary Laws
Sumptuary Laws (lat. Sumtus, Expense), Laws Passed To Prevent Extravagance In Banquets, Dress, And Private Expenditure. They Abound In Ancient Legislation. The Locrian Legislator, Zaleucus, 450 B.c., Ordained That No Woman Should Appear In The Streets Attended By More Than One Maid-servant, Unless She Were Drunk, Or Wear Gold Or ...
Sun And Fire Worship
Sun And Fire Worship. All Investigation Tends To Show That Nature-worship Was The Basis Of All Polytheistic Religions, And That The Chief Deities Of The Several Mytholo Gies Were Originally Personifications Of The Sun, Or Of Particutar Influences Of The Sun. The Original Solar Nature Of Jupiter, Zeus,'odin, Baal, Amen ...
Sunday
Sun'day, See Sabbath; Lord's Day; Public-nousxs. Were Founded About The Close Of The Year 1781 By Robert Raikes, A Printer In Gloucester. Business Leading Him Into The Suburbs Of The Town, Inhabited By The Lowest Class Of The People, He Was Struck With Concern At Seeing A Group Of Children, ...
Sunday Scuools
Sunday-scuools (ante). The First Permanent Sunday-school Organization In The United States, Of Which There Is Authentic Record, Was The First-day Or Sunday-school Society, Formed In Philadelphia, 1791. It Was Composed Of Members Of Different Denom Inaticins Including The Society Of Friends. Its Constitution Required That The Instruction Given In Its ...
Sunderland
Sunderland, A Thriving Municipal And Parliamentary Borough And Sea-port, In The County Of Durham, 13 M. N.e. Of The City Of That Name, At The Mouth Of The Wear. The Town May Be Said To Be Co-extensive With The Parliamentary Borough, And To Include The Suburbs Of Bishop-wearmouth On The ...
Superannuation
Superannuation Is A Retiring Allowance Granted Under An Act Of 1859, 22 Vict. Cap. 26, To All Persons Not Being Weekly Laborers Employed Permanently In The Civil Ser Vice Of The Country. Before The Age Of 60, Retirement Can Only Take Place From Broken Health (or Ostensibly So), Or From ...
Supporters
Supporters, In Heraldry, Figures Placed On Each Side Of An Armorial Shield, As It Were To Support It. They Seem To Have Been, In Their Origin, A Purely Decorative Inven Tion Of Medueval Seal-engravers, Often, However, Bearing Allusion To The Arms Or Descent Of The Bearer; But In The Course ...
Suppuration
Suppuration Is A Morbid Process Which Gives Rise To The Formation Of Pus (q.v.), As Is Well Known, Is One Of The Commonest Products Of Inflammation. There Are Two Doctrines As To The Origin Of Pus. The Opinion Universally Adopted Till Very Recently Was, That It Was Formed From An ...
Supra Renal Capsules And Their
Supra-re'nal Capsules And Their Diseases. The Supra-renal Capsules Are Two Small, Flattened, Glandular Bodies Of A Yellowish Color, Situated, As Their Name Implies, Immediately In Front Of The Upper End Of Each Kidney. In Weight They Vary From One Two Drams. They Belong To The Class Of Ductless Glands, And ...
Surat
Surat' (sans. Saurashtra, Good Country), A Large But Declining City Of British India, Capital Of A District Of The Same Name, 150 M. N. Of Bombay, And About 17 In. From The Mouth Of The Tapti, In The Gulf Of Cambay. It Is 6 Rn. In Circumference, And It Is ...
Surgery
Surgery. There Can Be No Rational Doubt That Surgery (gr. Cheir, The Hand; Ergon, Work, Signifying The Manual Interference, By Means Of Instruments Or Otherwise, In Cases Of Bodily Injury, As Distinguished From The Practice Of Medicine, Which Denotes The Treat Ment Of Internal Diseases By Means Of Drugs) Is ...
Surmullet
Surmullet, Mullus, A Genus Of Acanthopterous Fishes Of The Family Mullidce, A Small Family Formerly Included In Percidce, But Distinguished By Having Two Dorsal Fins Widely Separated From One Another, The First Spinous; And Large, Easily Detached, Strongly Ciliated Scales On The Head And Body. The Genus Nndlus Has No ...
Surrey
Surrey (sax. Sath-rice, The S. Kingdom), An Inland Co. In The S. Of England, Bounded On The N. By Middlesex, And On The E. By Kent. Area, 483,178 Acres; Pop. '71, 1,091,635. The Middle Of The County Is Traversed From W. To E. By A Well-marked Ridge Of The North ...
Surveying
Surveying. Land-surveying May Be Considered The Earliest Practical Application Of The Art Of Geometry Or Earth Measurement, And Must Have Been In Some More Or Lees Rude Form Coeval With Agriculture And The Division Or Appropriation Of The Soil. In Rome, Surveying Was Considered One Of The Liberal Arts, And ...
Susa
Su'sa, A City Of Northern Italy, Province Of Turin, Stands On The Right Bank Of The Dora Riparia, At The Foot Of The Cottian Alps, 32 M. W. Of Turin. It Is An Episcopal See, And Has A Cathedral Consecrated In 1028, With A Baptistery Of One Single Block Of ...
Suspension Bridges
Suspension Bridges. In These Bridges The Roadway Is Suspended From Chains Passing Over Piers Or Towers, And Firmly Fixed At Their Extremities. When The Roadway Is Equally Loaded Over Its Length, The Curve Of The Chain Is A Parabola. The Weight Of The Roadway Being Known, The Strain Upon The ...
Sussex
Sussex (south-saxons), A Maritime Co. In The S. Of England, Bounded On The N. By Surrey And Kent, On The S. By The English Channel, And On The W. By Hampshire. Area, 936,911 Acres; Pop. '71, 417,456. The South Downs (see Downs) Traverse The County From W. To E., Ending ...
Sustentation Fund
Sustentation Fund, A Fund Provided In The Free Church Of Scotland For The Sup Port Of The Ministers Of The Church. The Idea Of Such A Fund Was Probably Derived By Dr. Chalmers From The System Of The Wesleyan Methodists, And A Scheme Devised By Lum Was Made Public Before ...
Sutherland
Sutherland, A Co. In The Extreme N. Of Scotland, Is Bounded On The E. By Caithness And The North Sea, On The N. And W. By The Atlantic, And On The S. By Ross And Cromarty. Area, 1,207,188 Acres; Pop. '71, 23,686, Or 123- Per Sq. Mile. The Coast-line Is ...
Sutra
Sutra (from The Sanskrit Sir, To Sew, Literally, Therefore, A Thread Or String) Is, In Sanskrit Literature, The Technical Name Of Aphoristic Rules, And Of Works Consisting Of Such Rules. The Importance Of The Term Will Be Understood From The Fact, That The Groundleorks Of The Whole Ritual, Grammatical, Metrical, ...
Suttee
Suttee' (an From The Sanskrit Sail, A Virtuous Wife) Means The Practice Which Prevailed In India, Of A Wife Burning Herself On The Funeral Pile, Either With The Body Of Her Husband, Or Separately, If He Died At A Distance. The Practice Of Suttee Is Based By The Orthodox Hindus ...
Suture
Suture (let. Sutura, A Seam) Is A Term Employed Both In Anatomy And Surgery. In Anatomy, It Is Used To Designate The Modes Of Connection Between The Various Bones Of The Cranium And Face. A Suture Is Said To Be Serrated, When It Is Formed By The Union Of Two ...
Suxach
Su'xach, Laus, A Genus Of Small Trees And Shrubs,of The Natural Order Anacardiacav Having Small Inconspicuous Flowers In Panicles Or In Corymbs; A 5-parted Calyx, 5 Petals, Springing From Beneath A Large Orbicular Disk; 5 Stamens; A 1-celled Germen With 3 Stig Mas; The Fruit A Small, Nearly Dry Drupe, ...
Svlphocyanogen A The Sulphocyanides
Svlphocyan'ogen A The Sulphocy'anides. The Former Of These Terms Is Given To A Monobasic Radical, Or Cys,, Which Has Never Yet Been Isolated, But Which Forms An Acid Compound, Known As Hydrosulphocyanic Acid (ii,cns,), With Hydrogen, And Yields Numerous Metallic Salts. These Salts, Known As Sulphocyanides, May Be Represented By ...
Swallow
Swallow, Iiirundo, A Linntean Genus Of Birds Of The Order Insessores, And Tribe Fissirostres, Now Divided Into A Number Of Genera, Which Form The Family Hirundinides. This Family Consists Of Birds Which Prey On Insects, Catching Them In The Air, And Have Great Powers Of Flight, Now Soaring To A ...
Swan
Swan, Cygnus, A Genus Of Birds Of The Duck (q.v.) Family (anatiche), Constituting A Very Distinct Section Of The Family. They Have A Bill About As Long As The Head, Of Equal Breadth Throughout, Higher Than Wide At The Base, With A Soft Cere, The Nostrils Placed About The Middle; ...
Swansea
Swan'sea (welch, Abertalry), A Market T., Municipal And Parliamentary Borough, And Sea-port Of The County Of Glamorgan, South Wales, Stands On The Right Bank And At The Mouth Of The Tawe, 60 M. W.n.w. Of Bristol. The Harbor Is Formed By Means Of Piers Of Masonry Projecting From Either Side ...
Sweat A S
Sweat (a. S. Swat, Sansc. Svaidas, Lat. Sudor; Gr. Hydor, Moisture; Let. Ud(us) = Wet), Or Perspiration. The Nature, Composition, And Uses Of This Fluid In The Normal State Have Been Sufficiently Noticed In The Article Skln. It May Be Additionally Remarked, In Connection With The Physiology Of Sweat, That ...
Sweating Sickness
Sweating Sickness, Thh, Is The Term Given To An Extremely Fatal Epidemical Dis Order, Which Ravaged Europe, And Especially England, In The 15th And 16th Centuries. It Derives Its Name "because It Did Most Stand In Sweating From The Beginning Vntil The Endynw," And " Because It First Beganne In ...
Sweden
Swe'den, Sverige, The Eastern Portion Of The Scandinavian Peninsula, Constitutes With Norway (q.v.) One Joint Kingdom. It Is Situated In 55° 20'-69° 3' N. Lat., And 11° —24° E. Long., And Is Bounded On The N. And W. By Norway; On The Extreme S.w. And S. By The Cattegat. Which ...
Swedenborgians
Swedenborgians Organized Their First Congregation In The United States At Baltimore, 1792; And Their General Convention In 1817, Incorporated Under The Law Of Illinois, And Having Associations, Societies, Or Members, In Nearly All The States. It Holds Annual Sessions In Different Cities, Has A Publishing House In New York, A ...
Swift
Swift, G'ypselzts, A Genus Of Birds Of The Swallow Family. The Distinctive Of The Group, Of Which The True Swifts Are The Type, Are Noticed In The Article Swallow:. The Swifts, Like The Swallows, Are Widely Distributed, And Some Are Only Found In Trop Ical Countries; Others Are Birds Of ...
Switzerland
Switzerland (ger. Schweiz; Fr. Suisse; It. Svizzera)is An Inland Country Of Europe, Situated Between 45° 48' To 47° 49' N. Lat., And 5° 55' To 10° 30' E. Long. It Greatest Length From E. To W. Is 180 M., And Its Greatest Width From N. To S., 130 Miles. Its ...
Sybaeis
Sybaeis, And Or Crotona, Two Celebrated Greek Colonies In Magna Grtecia (q.v.). The Former—founded 720 B.c., By Acliseans And Trcezenians—was Situated In The S. Of The Lucanian Territory, Between The Rivers Crathis (orate) And Sybaris (coscili) About 3 M. From The Tarentine Gulf; And The Latter—founded 710 B.c., By Achicans—about ...
Sydney
Sydney, The Capital Of New South Wales, And The Oldest City In Australia, Is Situ Ated On The Southern Shores Of Port Jackson, In Lat. 32° 52' S., Long. 151° 11' E. The First Party Of British Settlers That Reached New Holland Were Landed At Botany Bay On Jan. 20, ...
Syllogism
Syllogism, A Name Expressing A Principal Branch Or Department Of Logic. When I We Reason, Or Get At Truth By Means Of Inference, We Are Said To Proceed Either Inductively (see Induction) Or Deductively. Deductive Reasoning, When Fully And Methodically Expressed, Takes The Form Called The Syllogism. "this Thing Will ...
Sylphs
Sylphs, In The Fantastic System Of The Paracelsists, Are The Elemental Spirits Of The Air, Who, Like The Other Elemental Spirits (q.v.), Hold An Intermediate Place Between Imma Terial And Material Beings. They Eat, Drink, Speak, Move About, Beget Children, And Are Subject To Infirmities Like. Men; But, On The ...
Sylvester
Sylvester, The Name Of Two Popes, And Of A Third Who Was An Anti-pope. The Pon Tificate Of The First Immediately Succeeded That Of Melchiades In 314, And Is Memorable For The Great Council Of Niema, In Which The Heresy Of Arius Was Condemned. Sylvester Himself Did Not Attend The ...
Symmetry Of Organs
Symmetry Of Organs. Throughout The Animal Kingdom, A Symmetry Of Organs Very Generally Prevails In The Two Sides Of The Body. This Is The Case In Man And In All The Vertebrate; More Perfectly, However, In The External Than In The Internal Organs, The Two Sides Of The Body Presenting ...
Sympathy
Sympathy (gr. Sympatheia, Fellow-feeling) May Be Defined As The Assumption By Different Individuals, Or By Different Parts Of The Same Individual, Of The Same Or An Analogous Physiological Or Pathological State At The Same Time Or In Rapid Succession. The Late Dr. Todd (art. "sympathy" In The Cyclopedia F Anatomy ...
Symptoms
Symptoms (gr. Sympiplein, To Concur), In Medicine, Are The Morbid Phenomena By Which The Physician Becomes Aware That Derangements Of Some Kind Have Taken Place In The Economy; But It Requires A Mental Effort To Convert These Symptoms Into Signs Of Disease. A Symptom Thus Converted Into A Sign Of ...
Synagogue
Synagogue (gr. — Ecclesia; Heb. Betls-hakkeneseth, House Of Assembly), A Jewish Place Of Worship. The Origin Of This Institution Is Probably To Be Traced To The Period Of The Babylonian Captivity, Although Tradition Finds It In The Patriarchal Times. When, At The Time Of Ezra, And Chiefly Through Ezra's Instrumentality, ...
Synonym
Synonym. When Any One Of Several Words Will Serve To Name Or Express The Same Thing, That Thing Is Said To Be Polyonymous, Or Many-named, And The Words Are Called Synonyms (gr. Names Together, Or In Company). In This Wide Sense, Man, Soldier, General, Frenchman, Might Be Called Synonyms, As ...
Synovial Membranes And Fluid
Syno'vial Membranes And Fluid. In Every Joint In Which A Considerable Range Of Motion Is Required, The Osseous Segments (or Contiguous Extremities Of Bones) Are Sep Arated By A Space, Which Is Called The Cavity Of The Joint. The End Of Each Of The Bones Entering Into The Composition Of ...
Synthesis
Synthesis (gr. Synth'isis, Making A Wt Ole Out Of Parts) Is A Term Employed In Chem Istry To Designate The Building Up Of A More Or Less Complicated Product From Its Ele Mentary Constituents. As The Synthesis Of Inorganic Compounds Is Usually Very Simple, We Shall Confine Our Remarks To ...
Syphilis
Syphilis, Is According To Dr. Farr's System Of Nosologica] Classification, To Be Regarded As Belonging To The Enthetic Order Of Zymotic Diseases (see Nosology And Zymotic Diseases). Belonging Diseases Have The Common Property Of Being Developed In The System After The Introduction By Inoculation Or Implantation Of Specific Poisons. The ...
Syphilization
Syphiliza'tion Is The Term Used To Designate An Operation Which Has The Double Object Of Eradicating Syphilis Already Existing In The System, And Of Securing Permanent Immunity From Any Future Attacks, By Means Of Repeated Inoculations Of Syphilitic Poison. As Long Ago As The Year 1844, A French Physician, Auzias ...
Syracuse
Syr'acuse, Anciently The Most Famous And Powerful City Of Sicily. Situated On The South-eastern Coast Of The Island, 00 In. S.s.w. Of Messina, Was Founded By A Body Of Corinthian Settlers Under Archias, One Of The Bacchiadm, 734 B. C. The Original Colonists Seem At First To Have Occupied Nothing ...
Syria
Syria (arab. E'sham, Turk. Soristan), A Division Of Asiatic Turkey, Bounded On The N. By Portions Of Asia Minor, On The W. By The Levant, And On The S. By Arabia Petrwa; On The E. And S.e. Its Boundary Is Rendered Indefinite, In Great Part, By The Sands Of The ...
Syriac I
Syriac. I. The Language Is A Dialect Of The Aramean, Anciently Spoken Through Out Syria, The Form Preserved In Literature Being Probably That Of Edessa. After The Mohammedan Conquest, 636 A.d., It Was Gradually Displaced By The Arabic; And Since The 13th C. It Has Been Used Only As An ...
Syrian Rite
Syrian Rite, Ciruitch Oe, That Portion Of The Oriental Church Which Had Its Seat In Syria, And Which Was Anciently Comprehended In The Patriarchate Of Antioch, And (after That Of Jerusalem Obtained A Distinct Jurisdiction) In The Patriarchate Of Jerusalem. The Syrian Church Of The Early Centuries Was Exceedingly Flourishing. ...