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Our manifold points of contact with the East, the necessity that has thus arisen of representing oriental words to the western world by means of an alphabet not its own, with the manifold discussions on the fittest equivalents, all this has brought with it the need of a word which should describe the process, and 'transliteration' is the result. Dict.
Cellars under ground were unknown to the Romans. See Beck. Gal., and Smith's Dict. Ant. Ignorantur fallunt. XVII. Sagum. A short, thick cloak, worn by Roman soldiers and countrymen. Fibula==figibula, any artificial fastening; spina==natural. Si desit. Observe the difference between this clause, and si quando advenit in the preceding chapter.
In the legend of the Culloo the frost giantess can only be killed by a crooked horn thrust into her ear. The horn darts out at once into incredible, irregular length, and evidently means lightning. In the Edda the he-goat is, on account of his horns, the symbol of lightning and storm. Dict Scan. "Miolner, the hammer of Thor, with which he kills frost giants, is the lightning."
Ver. 4, 82; Tac. Ann. 4, 27. The orators were in the habit of working over their speeches carefully for publication and preservation. IUS AUGURIUM etc.: 'the law pertaining to the augurs and pontifices'; i.e. the principles applied by them in the performance of their duties. The pontifices had the general oversight of religious observances. See Dict. of Antiq.
Brande.. The word bailiff is also applied in England to the chief magistrates of certain towns and jurisdictions, to the keepers of castles, forests and other places, and to the stewards or agents of lords of manors. Burrill's Law Dict. The office, as well as the name, appears to have been derived from the French," &c;. Brewster's Encyclopedia.
In a legal sense, a sentence or decision pronounced by authority of a king, or other power, either by their own mouth, or by that of their judges andofficers, whom they appoint, to administer justice in their stead." Chambers' Dict. "Judgment. In law, the sentence or doom pronounced in any case, civil orcriminal, by the judge or court by which it is tried." Webster's Dict.
Iohn Leland syllab. ant dict. Hum. Also by the witnes of Humfrey Llhoyd, there is an Iland néere vnto Wales, called Insula Bardorum, and Bardsey, whereof the one name in Latine, and the other in Saxon or old English, signifieth the Iland of the Bardes or Barthes. Thus farré the gouernement of the Celts in this Ile. Bodinus writeth vpon report, that the British and Celtike language was all one.
William Barwick Exam, capt. did etc. anno super dict. coram me. S. Dawson, Mayor An Account of the Conviction and Execution of Mr. WALKER, and MARK SHARP, for the Murder of ANN WALKER
"The law of nature is that which God, at man's creation, infused into him, for his preservation and direction; and this is an eternal law, and may not be changed." 2 Shep. Abr. 356, also Jac. Law Dict. "All laws derive their force from the law of nature; and those which do not, are accounted as no laws." Fortescue. Jac. Law Dict.
The Wonderfull Worke of God shewed upon a Chylde, whose name is William Withers, being in the Towne of Walsam ... Suffolk, who, being Eleven Yeeres of age, laye in a Traunce the Space of Tenne Days ... and hath continued the Space of Three Weeks, London, 1581. Written by John Phillips. This pamphlet is mentioned by Sidney Lee in his article on John Phillips in the Dict. Nat. Biog.
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