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APOLOGY (from Gr. airo \oyia, defence), in its usual sense, an expression of regret for something which has been wrongfully said or done; a withdrawal or retraction of some charge or imputation which is false. In an action for libel, the fact that an apology h ...

APOLOGUE (from the Gr. dTroXoyos, a statement or account), a short fable or allegorical story, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for some moral doctrine or to convey some useful lesson. One of the best known is that of Jotham in the Book of Judges (ix. 7-15

ASTROLOGY, the ancient art or science of divining the fate and future of human beings from indications given by the positions of the stars (sun, moon and planets). The belief in a connexion between the heavenly bodies and the life of man has played an importan

... this method " apologetic." Any single effort in apologetics may be termed " an apology." More elaborate contrasts have been proposed between the two words, but are of little practical importance. I. TheWord itself. — In Greek, AroXo-yla is the defendant's rep ...

... earliest Apologists, Aristides and Justin, even as it is itself in substance an apology addressed not to the State, but to thoughtful public opinion. But this only means that we cannot draw a hard and fast line between groups of early Christian writings at a t ...

... g themselves a table common, yet not common " (i.e. unclean). In Justin's first apology (c. 140) we have two detailed accounts of the Eucharist, of which the first, in ch. 65, describes the first communion of the newly baptized: — " After we have thus washed t ...

... by assiduous devotion to his friend, and assisted him in the preparation of an apology for Origen's teaching (Hist. Eccl. vi. 33), the first book of which survives in the Latin of Rufinus (printed in Routh's Reliquiae sacrae, iv. 339 sq., and in Lommatzsch's ...

... rough our testimony." With this answer they left the assembly, and the>sultan's apology overtook them before they had passed the palace gate.1 The same consciousness of independent authority and strength still survives among the ulema. Thus the sheikh ul-Islam ...

... the United States ship " Baltimore " on shore leave were killed and wounded. An apology averted the war which President Harrison threatened. Blaine also asserted, against Canada particularly, the right of the United States to the seals of the Bering Sea; but i ...