Escitrial
Escitrial (the Correct Title Is Er, Real Sitio De San Lorenzo El Real De Escontal), A Famous Monastery Of New Castile, In The Province Of Madrid, And Situated 30 M. N.w. Of The Town Of That Name. This Solitary Pile Of Granite Has Been Called The Eighth Wonder Of The ...
Escrer
Escrer, Jog. Alfred, A Distinguished Swiss Statesman, Was B. At Zurich, 20th Feb., 1819, And Studied At Bonn And Berlin. In 1842, He Was Created Doctor Of Law At Zurich; And Spent The Two Following Years In Paris, Devoting His Attention Chiefly To Studies Connected With Roman Law. On His ...
Eseneecicia
Eseneecicia, A Genus Of Trees Of The Natural Order Diosmace. The Bark Of E. Fe'ori Fuga Is Said To Be Equal In Its Effects To Peruvian Bark. It Is A Tree 40 Ft. High, A Native Of The S. Of Brazil. Ese (gaelic, Uisq, Water), The Name Of Several Small ...
Espalier
Espalier, A Term Borrowed From The French, And Signifying A Railing On Which Fruit Trees Are Trained As On A Wall. Such Railings Are Very Variously Constructed—sometimes Of Wood, Sometimes Of Iron, Sometimes Of Upright Rails Held Together By A Horizontal Rail At Top, Sometimes Chiefly Of Horizontal Rails With ...
Esquire
Esquire (fr. Escuier, A Shield-bearer, From Lat. Seutum, A Shield). The E. In Chivalry Was The Shield-bearer Or Armor-bearer To The Knight, And Hence Was Called Armi Ger In Latin. He Was A Candidate For The Honor Of Knighthood, And Thus Stood To The Knight In The Relation Of A ...
Essenes
Esse'nes (essenoi, Essaiai), A Small Religious Fraternity Among The Jews, Whose Name And Origin, As Well As Character And History, Are Alike Involved In Obscurity. Still, In The Wide Field Of The History Of The Semitic Religions, There Are Not Many Subjects Of Inquiry Of Greater Importance, Or Calculated To ...
Essex
Essex, A Maritime County Of The S.e. Of England, Having The North Sea On The E.; The Thames Estuary, Dividing It From Kent, On The S.; Middlesex And Hertford On The W.; And Cambridge And Suffolk On The North. Its Greatest Length From N.e. To S.w. Is 63 M., And ...
Established Church
Established Church, A Church Established And Maintained By A State For The Teach Ing Of Christianity In A Particular Form Within Its Boundaries. Subsequent To The Refor Mation, Many Of The Opinions Which Had Given Sanctity To The Church Of Rome Still Kept Possession Of Men's Minds; Amongst These Was ...
Estate
Estate. In The Law Of England, An Estate In Lands, Tenements, Or Hereditaments, Signifies Such Interest As The Tenant Bath Therein; So That If A Man Grants All His Estate In Dale To A. And His Heirs, Everything That He Can Possibly Grant Shall Pass Thereby.— Blackstone, Comm. 103. The ...
Estate In Fee
Fee, Estate In, The Largest Estate In Land In Point Of Quantity Of Estate Known To The Law Of England, Being A Freehold (q. V.) Of Inheritance. Estates In Fee Are Divided Into Fee-simple And Fee-tail. A Fee-simple Is Defined By Littleton (1, A.) To Be A Lawful And Pure ...
Este
Es'te, One Of The Oldest And Most Illustrious Families Of Italy, Which, According To The Historian Muratori, Owed Its Origin To Those Petty Princes Who Governed Tuscany In The Times Of The Carlovingians, And Who Were In All Probability Of The Race Of The Longo Bards. The First Whose Figure ...
Esterhazy
Esterhazy, An Ancient Hungarian Family, Afterwards Raised To The Rank Of Princes Of The Empire, The Representative Of Which Is At Present The Richest Landed Proprietor In Austria. The Family Divided Into Three Main Branches—the Esesznek, Aliso111 Or Zol Yom, And Forchtenstein Lines. A Descendant Of The Last Family, Nicholas ...
Esther
Esther (the Word Signifies "the Planet Venus") Is The Persian Name Of Hadassah, Daughter Of Abigail, The Son Of Shimei, The Son Of Kish, A Benjamite. She Is Repre Sented In Scripture As An Orphan, And As Having Been Brought Up By Her Cousin Morde Cai, An Officer In The ...
Ethelbert
Eth'elbert, King Of Kent, And Fourth In Direct Descent From The Great Hengist, Was B. In The Year 552, And Succeeded To The Throne In About The Eighth Year Of His Age. The Representative Of The First Saxon King Who Ruled In England, And Envious On That Account Of The ...
Ether
Ether (otherwise Called Ethylic Ether, Vinic Ether, And Sulphuric Ether) Is Prepared From Alcohol By The Action Of Sulphuric Acid At An Elevated Temperature. On.the Small Scale The Apparatus Which May Be Employed For The Purpose Is The Retort And Receiver, Into Which A Mixture Of Equal Weights Of Spirits ...
Ether_2
Ether, Sometimes !ether, The Name Given To The Medium Which Is Assumed In Astronomy And Physics As Filling All Space. It Was Shown By Newton, That If Light Con Sisted Of Material Particles Projected From Luminous Bodies, These Must Move Faster In Solids And Liquids Than In Air, In Order ...
Ether_3
Ether (ante). The Ancients Had A Shadowy Idea, Or Theory It May Be Called, In Regard To The Medium Which We Term Cosmic, Or Luminiferous, Ether. The Ancient Greeks Personified It, "ether Being, According To Hesiod, The Son Of Erebus And Night, And The Brother Of Day. They Also Regarded ...
Ethics
Ethics, A Word Of Greek Origin, Meaning Nearly The Same Thing As The More Familiar Term Morals. The Science, Treating Of The Nature And Grounds Of Moral Obligation, And Expounding Our Various Duties, Is Called Sometimes By The One Term, And Sometimes By The Other. This Is A Subject Wherein ...
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, The Biblical Kush. Originally, All The Nations Inhabiting The Southern Part Of The Globe, As Known To The Ancients; Or Rather, All Men Of Dark-brown Or Black Color, Were Called Ethiopians (gr. Aitho—ops, Sunburned). Later, This Name Was Given More Particularly To The Inhabitants Of The Countries S. Of ...
Ethnography
Ethnography, A Term Closely Allied To Ethnology (q.v.). Ethnography Embraces The Details, And Ethnology The Rational Exposition, Of The Human Aggregates And Organi Zations Known As Hordes, Clans, Tribes, And Nations, Especially In The Earlier, The Savage, And Barbarous Stages Of Their Progress. Both Belong To The General Science Of ...
Ethnology
' Ethnology (gr. Ethnos, Nation Or Race, And Logos, Discourse), A Term Applied To The Science That Treats Of The Persistent Modifications Of The Human Family Or Group; Their Most Marked Physical, Mental, And Moral Characteristics When Compared One With The Other; Their Present Geographical Distribution On The Globe; Their ...
Eton College
Eton College Is One Among The Most Famous Educational Establishments In Eng Land. It Was Founded In 1440 By Henry Vi. Under The Title Of " The College Of The Blessed Mary Of Eton Beside Windsor." The Original Foundation Consisted Of A Pro Vost, 10 Priests, 4 Clerks, 6 Choristers, ...
Ettpatorium
Ettpatorium, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Compositce, Sub-order Corymbi Ferce, Having Small Flowers (heads Of Flowers) In Corymbs, Florets All Tubular And Hermaphrodite, Club-shaped Stigmas, Imbricated Bracts, A Naked Receptacle, And A Hairy Pappus. The Species Are Numerous, And Mostly American. One Only Is British, The Common ...
Etymology
Etymology (gr.) Is That Part Of Grammar That Treats Of Of Words. It Embraces The Consideration Of The Elements Of Words, Or Letters And Syllables, The Dif Ferent Kinds Of Words, Their Forms, And The Notions They Convey; • And Lastly, The Modes Of Their Formation By Derivation And Composition. ...
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus, A Genus Of Trees Of The Natural Order Myrtaceee, Suborder Leptospermere, Containing A Large Number Of Species, Mostly Natives Of Australia, And Which, Along With Trees Of Nearly Allied Genera, Form One Of The Most Characteristic Features Of The Vegeta• Lion Of That Part Of The World. The Genus ...
Euchre
Euchre, A Game Of Cards Said To Be Of German Origin, But Now Very Popular As A Social Pastime In The United States. Thirty-two Cards Are Used In E., The Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, And Sixes Being Rejected In A Complete Pack. Before The Game Is Started The Players Cut ...
Eugene
Eugene, (le Prince Francois-eugene De Savoie-carignan), Better Known As Prince Eugene, Equally Distinguished As A Gen. And As A Statesman, Was B. At Paris, 18th Oct., 1663. He Was The Son Of Eugene Maurice, Count Of Soissons, And Of Olympia Mancini, A Niece Of Cardinal Mazarin. He Was Intended For ...
Eugenia
Euge'nia, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Myrtacea, Nearly Allied To Myrtus (see Myrtle), And Differing Only In Having A 4-parted Instead Of A 5-cleft Calyx, Four Instead Of Five Petals, And A 1 To 2-celled Berry, With One Seed In Each Cell. The Species Are Trees And ...
Eugenius
Euge'nius Is The Name Of Four Popes, Of Whom The Last Is The Most Important. E. Iv., A Native Of Venice, Became Pope In 1431. The Great Event In His Career Was The Schism Created In The Church By The Proceedings Of The Council Of Basel, Which Had Been Convoked ...
Euphrates
Euphrates (in The Oriental Languages, Frat, Phrat, Or Forat) Is The Largest River In Western Asia, And, With The Tigris, Forms The Most Important River-system Of That Quarter Of The World. It Has Its Source In The Heart Of Armenia In Two Branches—the Kara Su And The Murad, Of Which ...
Euripid2s
Euripid2s, The Latest Of The Three Great Greek Tragedians, Was B. At Salamis, 480 B.c., On The Very Day (23d Sept.), It Is Said, Of The Glorious Victory Gained By The Greeks Over The Persians Near That Island. The Arundel Marble, However, Gives As The Date Of His Birth 485 ...
Europe
Europe, The Smallest, But Also The Most Highly Civilized And Most Populous Of The Three Great Divisions Of The Old Continent. It Is Separated From America On The W. And N.w. By The Atlantic; From Africa On The S. By The Mediterranean; And From Asia By The Archipelago, Sea Of ...
Evangelical
Evangelical Is An Adjective Derived From The Gr. Euangelion, "good News," Or "the Gospel," And Is Applied In General To Anything Which -is Marked By The Spirit Of The Gospel Of Jesus Christ. Thus, We Speak Of An E. Sermon, Of E. Piety, E. Views, Etc., Though It Is But ...
Evangelical Alliance
Evangelical Alliance, An Association Of "evangelical Christians Belonging To Various Churches And Countries," Formed In 1845, "to Associate And Concentrate The Strength Of An Enlightened Protestantism Against The Encroachments Of Popery And Puseyism, And To Promote The Interests Of A Scriptural Christianity." Its Origin Is To Be Ascribed To A ...
Evangelical Alliance_2
Evangelical Alliance (ante). This Voluntary Association Of Christians Belonging To Various Denominations And Countries, Had Its Origin In A General And Strong Desire For A More Practical Union Among Protestants In Order To Promote The Cultivation Of Christian Fellowship And The Extension Of Christian Faith. After Full Conference And Correspondence ...
Evangelical Association
Evangelical Association (ante), Called Sometimes, Incorrectly, The German Methodist Church, Is A Sect Of American Christians, Originally Of German Descent, Formed Under The Influence Of The Rev. Jacob Albright, Who, Looking With Regret On Certain Doctrines And Habits Prevalent Among The German Churches Of Eastern Pennsylvania, Endeavored To Reform Them. ...
Evans
Evans, Lieutenant-general Sir De Lacy, G.c.b., B. At Moig, In Ireland, 1787; Entered The Army As Ensign In 1807; In 1812, Joined The 3d Light Dragoons, With Whom He Saw Much Peninsular Service. In 1814, He Was Present As Brevet Lieut.col. Of An Infantry Regiment At The Capture Of Washington, ...
Evans_2
Evans, Miss Marian, Known Under The Nom De Plume Of " George Eliot," Was B. In Warwickshire About The Year 1820. Before She Became Known As The Author Of The Remarkable Series Of Fictions With Which Her Name Is Popularly Associated, She Had Already Acquired Reputation In The Literary Circles ...
Evaporation
Evaporation, The Conversion Of A Fluid Or Solid Into Vapor. Steam, Vapors Of Alcohol, Camphor, Iodine, Etc., Are Familiar Instances. All Fluids Arc Surrounded By Vapor At Common Temperatures; But For Every Substance There Is A Limiting Temperature, Below Which No E. Takes Place. The Pressure, Or Tension, Of A ...
Evelyn
Ev'elyn, Jonx, A Well-known Writer Of The 17th C., Was B. Oct. 31, 1620, At Wotton, The Seat Of The Evelyn Family, In Surrey. He Was Educated At The Free School Of Lewes, And Subsequently At Balliol College, Oxford. In 1640, He Entered The Middle Temple, And In The Following ...
Evening Schools
Evening Schools May Be Divided Into Two Classes: 1. Those Which, Either In The Form Of Lectures Or Lessons, Carry Further The Education Received At School; 2. Those Which Exist To Supplement The Defects Of Early Training, Or, It May Be, To Give The Sim Plest Rudiments Of Elementary Instruction ...
Evergreens
Evergreens Are Those Trees And Shrubs Of Which The Leaves Do Not Fall Off In Autumn, But Retain Their Freshness And Verdure Throughout The Winter, And Perform Their Functions During More Than One Season. Evergreen Leaves Are Generally Of Thicker And Firmer Texture Than The Leaves Of Deciduous Trees And ...
Evidence
Evidence (ante), In Law, Embraces All Statements Which A Court Permits Or Requires To Be Made By Witnesses In Relation To Matters Of Fact Pertaining To The Case On Trial, And All Documents Produced For The Inspection Of The Court. The Former Is Dis Tinguished As Parol, The Latter As ...
Evidences Of Christianity
Evidences Of Christianity. Christianity Is The Religion Growing Out Of A Divine Revelation The Giving Of Which, In Successive Stages, Extended From A Remote Period In The Past To About One Hundred Years After The Birth Of Jesus Christ. From The Beginning Of The Revelation To The Present Time It ...
Evil
Evil May Be Generally Defined As That Which Is Opposed To The Divine Order Of The Universe. It Requires Only A Superficial Observation To Perceive, That There Are Many Apparent Exceptions To The Pervading Harmony And Happiness Of Creation: There Are Convulsions In The Physical World; There Are Suffering, Decay, ...
Evil Eye
Evil Eye. Both In Ancient And Modern Times, The Belief That Some Persons Have The Power Of Injuring Others By Looking Upon Them, Has Been Widely Diffused. The Greeks Frequently Speak Of The Ophtlealmos Baskanos (or E. E.), Which They Conceived To Be Especially Dangerous To Children; And The Romans ...
Evive
Evive, A Sea-loch In The N. Of Argyleshire, Running Inland From The Firth Of Lorn, E. And Le., With A Breadth Of A Quarter It Is Bordered By Granite In Its Upper Part, And By Trap In Its Lower. Near Its Mouth, There Is Mica-slate On The N. Side, And ...
Evolute
Evolute Awn Involute. See Curvature And Osculating Circle. The Evo Lute Of Any Curve Is The Locus Of The Center Of Its Osculating Circle, And, Relative To Its Evolute, The Curve Is Called The Involute. This Is The Simplest Definition That Can Be Given Of An Evolute And Involute, Which ...
Evora
Evora (ancient Mora), A City Of Portugal, Capital Of The Province Of Alemtejo, And, After Coimbra, And Perhaps Thomar, The Most Interesting City In The Country, Is Beauti Fully Situated On A Fertile And Elevated Plain, 48 In. W.s. W. Of Badajoz, And About'80 M. C. Of Lisbon. It Was ...
Ewtyches
Ewtyches, A Byzantine Ecclesiastic Of The 5th C., And A Zealous But Unskillful Repre Sentative Of The Dogmatic Opinions Of Cyril Of Alexandria. In Opposing The Doctrines Of Nestorius, He Fell Into The Opposite Extreme, And Taught That After The Union Of The Two Natures In Jesus Christ, The Human ...
Examinations For Tile Public
Examinations For Tile Public Service. Up To The Year 1855, All The Junior Appointments In The Several Branches Of The Civil Service Were Made Upon A System Which Was Practically One Of Simple And Unchecked Nomination. Examinations Nomi Nally Existed In A Few Of The Departments, But They Had Degenerated ...
Exarch
Exarch Was The Title First Conferred By Justinian On His Commander-in-chief And Vicegerent In Italy. The Conquest Of Italy By The Goths In The Early Part Of The 0th C. Was A Severe Blow To The Byzantine Pride; And Justinian Determined To Wipe Out The Disgrace, And Recover The Imperial ...
Exchange
Exchange, A Term Applied To Buildings Or Places Of Resort For Merchants. The Name Bourse (purse) Is Applied In France And Belgium To A Resort Of This Kind; And In Berlin, Hamburg, And Other German Cities, There Is The Equivalent Word Horse. Exchanges Have Usually Comprehended An Open Quadrangle, Surrounded ...
Exchange_2
Exchange, In Political Economy, Is Sometimes Applied To The Conversion Of The Money Of One Country Into Its Equivalent In The Money Of Another—as By Stating The Relation Which French Napoleons And Francs Bear To British Pounds. The Technical Meaning Of The Word Has Now, However, Come To Be The ...
Exchequer Bills
Exchequer Bills, Bills Issued At The Exchequer Under The Authority .of Acts Of Parliament, As Security For Money Advanced To The Government. They Contain An Engagement On The Part Of The Government For The Payment Of The Principal Sums Advanced With Interest. These Bills Form The Chief Part Of The ...
Excise
Excise', The Name Of A Tax On Commodities, From The Latin Excises, Cut Off, As Being A Portion Of The Value Of The Commodity Cut Off And Set Apart For The Revenue Before The Commodity Is Sold. This Is Not Its Actual Nature, However, For The Manufacturer Who Looks To ...
Excommunication
Excommunica'tion Is Exclusion From The Fellowship Of The Christian Church. The Ancient Romans Had Something Analogous In The Exclusion Of Persons From The Temples And From Participation Of The Sacrifices, Which Persons Were Also Given Over With Awful Ceremonies To The Furies. The Mosaic Law Decreed E. In Case Of ...
Execution
Execution Ox Civil Process (ante), The Writ Which Directs And Authorizes The Officer To Carry Into Effect The Final Judgment Or Decree Of A Court Upon The Person Or Estate Against Whom Judgment Has Been Given. It Is Usually, Though Not Always, A Writ For The Recovery Of Money For ...
Execution Of Criminals
Execution Of Criminals. See Capital Punishment. Executions Took Place Publicly In The United Kingdom Till 1860, When It Was By An Act Of Parliament Made Law That All Executions Should Take Place Within The Precincts Of A Prison, In The Sight Of Certain Officials, Newspaper Reporters, And Others Invited To ...
Execution Of Deed
Execution Of Deed, The Performance Of The Ceremonies Required By Law In Order To Make A Deed Binding And Effectual. These Ceremonies Inengland Consist In Signing, Sealing, And Delivering. According To The Ancient Common Law Of England, Signature Was Not Necessary To A Deed. By 29 Car. Ii. C. 3 ...
Execution On Civil Process
Execution On Civil Process Is The Method Whereby The English High Court Enforces Its Judgment On The Person Or Estate Of Those Against Whom Judgment Hasbeen Given. The Common Law Of England Allows Four Different Writs To Issue Against Refrac Tory Debtors—viz., A Fieri Facias (called Commonly A Fi. Fa.), ...
Executioner
Executioner, The Official Who Inflicts Capital Punishment. In England, It Is The Province Of The Sheriff To Perform This As Well As Every Other Ministerial Duty Enjoined By The Criminal Courts, But Practically He Acts By His Servants Or Officers, And Lie Only Attends To See The Law Properly Carried ...
Exegesis
Exege'sis (from Gr. Eks, Out Of, And Egeomai, I Lead) Properly Signifies The Exposition Or Interpretation Of Any Writings, But Is Almost Exclusively Employed In Connection With The Interpretation Of Sacred Scripture, To Which, Therefore, The Subjoined Remarks Specially Apply. The Expositor Or Interpreter Is Called An Exegete. To Interpret ...
Exeter
Exeter (the Car-18c Of The Britons, The Bea Damnoniorum Of The Romans, Evan Cester Of The Saxons), A City, Episcopal See, Separate County, Parliamentary And Munici Pal Borough, And River-port, In The S.e. Of Devonshire, And The Capital Of That County. It Lies Ou An Activity On The Left Bank ...
Exodus
Exodus (" The Departure"), The Name Given To The Second Book Of The Pentateuch. It May Be Regarded As Composed Of Two Parts—the First Historical, And The Second Legisla Tive. The Historical Extends To The End Of The 18th Chapter. It Embraces A Narrative Of The Various Preparations, Natural And ...
Exorcism
Exorcism (from Exorkizo, To Conjure), I.e., Conjuration In The Name Of The Gods, The Term Used By The Fathers Of The Church To Denote The Act Of Conjuring Evil Spirits, In The Name Of God Or Christ, To Depart Out Of The Person Possessed. The First Christians Adjured Evil Spirits ...
Expenses Or Costs Of
Expenses Or Costs Of A Lawsuit. The Arrangements Adopted In England With Reference To Charges Exigible From The Parties To Lawsuits Are Stated Under Costs. In Scotland, These Charges Are Commonly Spoken Of As Expenses, And In The Present Article We Shall, Consequently, Confine Ourselves To The Scottish Practice. In ...
Explosives
Explosives. There Is A Question As To The Influence, Direct Or Indirect, Upon Modern Civilization Of The Introduction Of Explosive Agents For The Purpose Of War. Some Eminent Authors Have Gone So Far As To Consider The Invention Of Gunpowder As Next In Importance, In Its Ultimate Effects, To Those ...
Extension
Extension, In Logic, Is A Word Put Into Contrast With Another Term, Comprehension, And The Two Mutually Explain Each Other. A General Notion Is Said To Be Extensive According To The Extent Of Its Application, Or The Number Of Objects Included Under It. Thus, Figure Is A Term Of Very ...
Extent
Extent (in Scotland). There Were No Taxes In Feudal. Times. The King Was Sup Ported By The Rents Of His Property Lands, And By The Occasional Profits Of Superiority— Ward, Non-entry, Marriage, Escheat, And The Like—which Were Known By The General• Name Of Casualties (q.v.). Beyond These, And The Expenses ...
Extraction Of Roots
Extraction Of Roots. See Evolution. The Roots Which Have In Practice To Be Most Frequently Extracted Are The Square And Cube Roots. It Is Proposed To Explain The Rule For Their Extraction As It Is Given In Books Of Arithmetic. And First Of The Square Root. The Square Of A ...
Extreme Unction
Extreme Unction, A Sacrament Of The Roman Catholic Church, Which, As The Other Sacraments Supply Spiritual Aid Iu The Various Circumstances Of Life, Is Believed To Impart To The Christian In Death Grace And Strength To 'encounter The Struggle, As Well Spiritual As Bodily, Of The Dying Hour. The Right ...
Eyck
Eyck, Ilunent And Jan Van, Two Illustrious Painters Of The Old Flemish School. Much Discussion Has Arisen As To The Time Of The Birth Of These Brothers, And The Various Dates Assigned Range From 1350 To 1400. Some Maintain That Hubert Was Born In 1366, And Jan In 1370; While ...
Ezeriel
Ezeriel (meaning "god Will Strengthen," Or "strength Of God "), One Of The Hebrew Prophets, Was The Son Of The Priest Buzi, And Along With Jelloiachin, King Of Judah, Was Carried Captive, When Still A Young Man, To Mesopotamia, By Order Of Nebu Chadnezzar, About,598 B. C. He Was A ...
Fabius
Fa'bius, The Name Of One Of The Oldest And Most Illustrious Patrician Families Of Rome. Three Brothers Of This Name Alternately Held The Office Of Consul For Seven Years (485-479 N.c.). In 479, The Fabii, Under K. Fabius Vibulamis, Migrated To The Banks Of The Cremera, A Small Stream That ...
Fable
Fable (lat./au-la) Is A Word Of Twofold Signification. First, It Is Employed By' Some Writers In A General Sense To Denote Any Fictitious Narrative, As, For Example, The Incidents In An Epic Or Dramatic Poem. At One Time Also, When The Myths Of The Greeks And Romans Were Thought To ...
Fabliau
Fabliau, Plur. Fabliaux (from The Latin Fabulari, Fatellare, To Speak Or To Tell), Was The Name Given In The Old French Literature To A Class Of Short Metrical Narratives, Intended Merely For Recitation, And Which Had For Their Subject-matter The Talk And News .of The Day In The Middle Ages. ...
Fabricius
Fabric'ius, Emus (fabrucms) Luscncus, A Roman Gen., Elected Consul 282 B.c., Aad Again In 280., He Was Sent, After The Defeat Of The Romans By Pyrrhus, To Treat For The Ransom And Exchange Of Prisoners. Pyrrhus Endeavored To Bribe Him, But All Offers Were Rejected. At A Later Period, He ...
Factor
Factor, In Its Most General Sense, Is The Term Applied To Any One Who Is Employed To Do Business For Another. Factory Differs From The Mandate Of The Roman Law In Not Being Gratuitous. In Mercantile Transactions, The Sale Of Goods Is Generally Effected Either By Factors Or Brokers, Both ...
Factor_2
Factor (ante), A Man Employed To Sell The Goods Of Another; In The United States Usually Called A Commission Merchant, Because He Has His Compensation In A Commission Or Percentage Upon The Goods He Sells. He Differs From A Broker In That He Has Actual Possession Of The Goods Of ...
Factories
Factories Are Establishments Where Large Numbers Of Persons Co-operate In The Production Of Some Article Of Consumption, The Principle Of The Division Of Labor Being In All Cases Applied, And Generally Machinery To A Greater Or Less Extent. The Factory System Is Opposed To The Practice Of Individual Labor At ...
Factory Acts
Factory Acts. From Motives Of Humanity, Several Statutes Have Been Passed In Recent Years For Regulating The Hours Of Work, Preserving The Health, And Promoting The Education Of Young Persons Employed In Mills And Factories. The Leading Act Is 7 And 8 Vict. C. 15; Though Much Had Already Been ...
Factory Acts
Factory Acts. In 1873, The Royal Commission On Factory And Workshop Acts Reported That Previous Legislation Had Been To A Large Extent Successful; And That, While Some Occupations Were Still Undoubtedly Unhealthy In Spite Of The Sanitary Regulations Of These Acts, The Cases In Which Young Children Were Employed In ...
Fagging
Fagging' Is The Name Given To A Usage Peculiar To The Great Public Schools Of Eng Land, The Nature Of Which Will Be Presently Described. The Origin Of The Practice Cannot Be Traced. No School Statutes Refer To It, No School Traditions Speak Of A Time When It Was Not. ...