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TERZA RIMA, or " third rhyme," a form of verse adapted from the Italian poets of the i3th century. Its origin has been attributed by some to the three-lined ritournel, which was an early Italian form of popular poetry, and by others to the sirventes of the Pro ...

... ch is made still more probable by the existence of many low forms in which the primary differences between animals and plants fade out. An animal may be defined as a living organism, the protoplasm of which does not secrete a cellulose cell- wall, and which re ...

... r of a species arc sacred. It is probable that the first of these forms is the primary one and the second in most cases a development from it due to (i.) the influence of other individual cults, (ii.) anthropomorphic tendencies, (iii.) the influence of chiefta ...

... J. E. Harrison (ibid. 100,109, an<i Prolegomena), regarding the Anthesteria as primarily a festival of all souls, the object of which was the expulsion of ancestral ghosts by means of placation, explains mdoiyla as the feast of the opening of the graves (irifl ...

... ycle of mesenteries consists of six couples, each formed in an exocoele of the primary cycle, and in each couple the muscle-banners are vis-a-vis. The third cycle comprises twelve couples, each formed in an exocoele between the primary and secondary couples, a ...

... ms vary with the species of animal, the mode of infection, and the seat of the primary lesion, internal or external. In all its forms anthrax is an inoculable disease, transmission being surely and promptly effected by this means, and it may be conveyed to nea ...

... west man. and much importance has been attached to the discovery of an extinct primate, Pithecanthropus (?.».), which has been regarded as the " missing link." See Huxley's Man's Place in Nature (1863);" Robt. Hartmann's Anthropoid Apes (1883; London, 1885); A ...

... anuary 1892 the split was completed by the withdrawal by the government of the Primary Education bill, which had been designed to place primary instruction on a religious basis. The Conservatives saw their opportunity of posing as the party of Christianity aga ...

... lla made it the seat of a contentus of the Asian province, and it long claimed primacy among Phrygian cities. Its decline dates from the local disorganization of the empire in the 3rd century A.D. ; and though a bishopric, it was not an important 'military or ...

... still used specifically for the tailless, manlike representatives of the order Primates (?.».). The word is now generally a synonym for " monkey," but the common verb for both (as transferred figuratively to human beings) is " to ape," i.e. to imitate.

APOLLYON, the " foul fiend " who assaulted Christian on his pilgrimage through the Valley of Humiliation in John Bunyan's great allegory. The name (Gr. 'AToXXwov), which means " destroyer " (diroXXwii', to destroy), is taken from Rev. ix. n, where it represent ...

... ressed faith," imply the latter alternative; the moral appeal of Christianity, primary and essential; its confirmation by argument, secondary. The view has its difficulties; but it is highly suggestive. The word dToXo-yla is used by Origen (Contra Cel. ii.6s, ...

... postle" often denotes simply an " envoy," commissioned by Jesus Christ to be a primary witness and preacher of the Messianic Kingdom. This wide sense was shown by Light foot (in his commentary on Ctilatiiins, 1865) to exist in the New Testament, e.g. in i Cor. ...

... or, the brother of Pius, the Roman bishop of his day (c. 130-154). In both the primary theme is repentance, as called for by serious sins, after baptism has placed the Christian on his new and higher level of responsibility. Thus both are hortatory writings, t ...

... and ecclesiastical instruction. The Sacramentary of Serapion (c- 35°), The Pilgrimage of Etkeria (Silvia) (c. 385), and The Catechetical_ Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem (348) are also of value in this connexion. In the (so-called) Constitutions through Hippol ...

APURIMAC, a river of central Peru, rising in the Laguna de Villafra in the western Cordilleras, 7 m. from Caylloma, a village in the department of Arequipa, and less than 100 m. from the Pacific coast. It flows first north-easterly, then north-westerly past Cu ...

... Rome, Mediolanum and Capua before it, and called it " moenibus et portu celeberrima." In A.D. 452, however, it was destroyed by Attila, though it continued to exist until the Lombard invasion of A.D. 568. After this the patriarchate was transferred to Grado. ...

... t into the discourse. The second part is divided into two, which are quoted as Prima Secundae and Srcunda Secundae. This second part has often been described as ethic, but this is scarcely true. The subject is man, treated as Aristotle does, according to his r ...

... 3rd century A.D. this larger Aquitania was divided into three parts: Aquilania Prima, the eastern part of the district between the Loire and the Garonne; Aquilania Secunda, the western part of the same district; and Aquilania Terlia, or Novempopulana, the regi ...

... t in imitation of the Dutch style, under the direction of Jer6nimo, marquis de Grimaldi (1716-1788), ambassador of Charles III. at the Hague. A rapid in the Tagus, artificially converted into a weir, renders irrigation easy, and has thus created an oasis in th ...

... Archbishops rank immediately after patriarchs and have the same precedence as primates. The right to wear the pallium is confined to those archbishops who are not merely titular. It must be applied for, either in person or by proxy, at Rome by the archbishop ...

... feated enemy, the Parthian king Artaban; under the horse of Ormuzd, the devil Ahriman, with two snakes rising from his head. In the bilingual inscription (Greek and Pahlavi), Ardashir I. calls himself " the Mazdayasnian [i.e. " worshipper of Ahuramazda "] god ...

... the force of the discharge is moderated by the insertion of resistance in the primary circuit. When with a fairly wide slit the yellow line is no longer visible, the residual nitrogen may be considered to have fallen below 2 or 3 %. During this stage the oxyg ...

... ue," is from a root meaning bright, appearing in Greek dp-yfa, white. From its primary sense are derived such applications of the word as a chain of reasoning, a fact or reason given to support a proposition, a discussion of the evidence or reasons for or agai ...

... e of thit first departure from PUtpnwm was that Ariitotlc became and re mained primarily a metaphyw After PUto's death, coming to hit third jxTiixl he made a further departure from Platonism in hi* didactic works on politic* and rhrt'irt. . wriitrii in> •niiii ...

... itk) or " testimony " ('td&th), the technical terms for the Decalogue (q.v.) ; primarily, however, it would seem to have been called "the ark of Yahweh" (or "Elohim"), or simply "the ark."" The word itself (ardn) designates an ordinary chest (cp. Gen. 1. 26;2 ...

... ns in the country. As the ecclesiastical metropolis and seat of an archbishop (Primate of all Ireland) in both the Protestant and Roman organizations, it possesses two cathedrals and two archiepiscopal palaces. As the county town Armagh has a court-house, a pr ...

... ems certain that Arnold professed moral theology in Paris, and several times reprimanded St Bernard, whom he accused of pride and jealousy. St Bernard, as a last resort, begged King Louis VII. to take severe measures against Arnold, who had to leave France and ...

... s are known, analogous to those of nitrogen and phosphorus, but apparently the primary and secondary arsines, AsHj-CHi and AsII(CHi),, do not exist, although the corresponding chlorine derivatives, AsClj-CHj, methyl arsine chloride, and AsCl(CH,)i, dimethyl ar ...

... use burn the house of his neighbour also, it will be a felony, even though the primary intention of the party was to burn his own house only. The word house, in the definition of the offence at common law, extends not only to dwelling-houses, " but to all out- ...

... S. ARVCLS or ARTHELS (0. None Arfr, inheritance, and ol, A.S. Ale, a banquet), primarily the funeral dinner, and later, especially in the north of England, a thin, light, iweet cake, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, served to the poor at Mich feasts. The funer ...

... but in early manhood grew dissatisfied with idolworship. He undertook many pilgrimages and studied the Vedic philosophy in the hope of solving the old problem of the Buddha, — how to alleviate human misery and attain final liberation. About 1866, when he had ...

... daughter of John, Lord Clifford. When in 1536 the insurrection called the " Pilgrimage of Grace " broke out in Yorkshire, Aske was made leader; and marching with the banner of St Cuthbert and with the badge of the " five wounds," he occupied York on the i6th o ...

... AL) will virtually act in the cue of • satellite When the latter U between it. primary and the tun. the attraction of the Utter tends to draw the satellite away frum the primary. When the utellite is in the <>|>|x»it<- direction from the nun. the ume action te ...

... man continued his advance against Atlanta. His plan of operations was directed primarily to the seizure of the Decatur railway, by which the Confederate commander, General J. E. Johnston, might receive support from Virginia and the Carolinas. The three Union a ...

... in public elementary schools. These are divided into Volksschulen (national or primary schools) and Burgerschulen (higher elementary schools). Attendance is obligatory on all from the age of six to fourteen (in some provinces six to twelve). Religious instruct ...

... llowing topics: (l) De universa ecclesia; (2) De Ecclesia romana et ppntificis primatu ; (3) De universalibus conciliis ; (4) De schismaticis et haereticis. His De conceptime deiparae Mariae, libri viii. (Rome, 1547), was edited with preface and notes by E. B. ...

... unit. It was found that by the manufacture in bulk, even by steam engines, at primary centres the cost could be considerably reduced, and in numerous districts in England large power stations began to be erected between 1003 and 1005 for the supply of current ...

... n a peculiar relation to the man and his work. With all the other prophets the primary function is spiritual teaching: miracles, even though numerous and many of them symbolical like Elisha's, are only accessory. With Elisha, on the other hand, miracles seem t ...

... Arabic geographer of the loth century, but merely as a celebrated place of pilgrimage. The caves differ from those of Ajanta in consequence of their being excavated in the sloping sides of a hill and not in a nearly perpendicular cliff. They extend along the ...