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TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure), the allowance of freedom of action or judgment to other people, the patient and unprejudiced endurance of dissent from one's own or the generally received course or view.

TOLENTINO (anc. Tolentinum Picenum), a town of the Marches, Italy, in the province of Macerata, n m. by rail W. by S. of that town. Pop. (1901), 5111 (town), 13,197 (commune). It is situated on the Chienti, 735 ft. above sea-level, and was once a fortified tow

... rivals, and it became necessary to pass an act in 1543 for their protection and toleration. As many of these practitioners kept shops for the sale of medicines, the term " apothecary " was used to designate their calling. In April 1606 James I. incorporated th ...

... he uniformity it exacted provoked a reaction. Coornhert could not plead for the toleration of heretics without assailing the dominant Calvinism, and so he opposed a conditional to its unconditional predestination. The two ministers of Delft, who had debated th ...

... thful ally he became. This attachment to Wallenstcin, and a spirit of religious toleration, were the leading motives of a strange career of military and political inconstancy. Thus the dismissal of Wallcnstein and the perilous condition of German Protestantism ...

... ective provinces, and the rector of the local university. Religion. — Religious toleration was secured throughout the Habsburg dominions by the patent of the I3th of October 1781. but Protestants were not given full civil rights until the issue of the Protesta ...

... nd this recognition of the principle of compromise prepared the way for a wider toleration. Moreover, the petty principalities of the Empire, which numbered over 300, were allowed the right of concluding alliances with any foreign power, of making their own la ...

... ptured by the Normans under William II. of Sicily, Eustathius secured religious toleration for the conquered. He died about 1193. His best known work is his Commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (rapcx^oXoi. critical compilations), valuable as containin ...