Encyclop<ae/dia Britannica

9th. edition, also 8th

Cited as Encyc. Brit. — 19 quotations

Amt

Each of the provinces [of Denmark] is divided into several amts, answering . . . to the English hundreds.

Cinematograph

The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass.

Collate

If the bishop neglects to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop.

Grace

To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper.

Hydrolytic

Hydrolytic agents, such as sulphuric acid or caustic alkali.

Land League

The Land League, of which Michael Davitt was the founder, originated in Mayo in August, and at a Dublin in October the organization was extended to all Ireland, with Parnell as president.

Panpsychism

Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits, souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members in the soul of the world.

Person

True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.

Pythagorean

The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things.

Pythagoreanism

As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.].

Quaker

Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and lay struggling as if for life.

Salvage

Salvage of life from a British ship, or a foreign ship in British waters, ranks before salvage of goods.

Shire

The Tyne, Tees, Humber, Wash, Yare, Stour, and Thames separate the counties of Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, etc.

Socialism

[Socialism] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy.

Sprint

A runner [in a quarter-mile race] should be able to sprint the whole way.

Vampire

The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church,

Volume

The papyrus, and afterward the parchment, was joined together [by the ancients] to form one sheet, and then rolled upon a staff into a volume (volumen).

Wage

Existing legislation on the subject of wages.