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Naturalism – Necromancy

Naturalism

in theology, the name given to all forms of belief or speculation which deny or ignore the doctrine of a personal God as the author and governor of the universe. It is opposed to Theism.

NATURAL SELECTION

Nature Worship

a generic term

Nautilus

in ordinary language, a name popularly applied to two very different animals: the paper nautilus-the nautilus of poets, hich belongs to the ① ② ④ 5

Nave

that part of an ecclesiastical edifice to the W. of the choir, and in which the congregation assemble; the part of a church between the aisles.

Navel

in anatomy, the cicatrix of the umbilicus which causes a narrow and deep impression on the surface of the abdomen; it marks where the fœtus was attached to the placenta by the umbilical cord.

In ordnance, a perforated lug or the underside of a carronade which is engaged by a through bolt and thereby secured to the carriage.

Nawanagar

one of the Bombay states of India. It has an area of 3,791 square miles. Pop. about 350,000.

Naxos

or NAXIA, an island of the Grecian Archipelago, the largest of the Cyclades; length 18 miles; breadth, 12 miles; area, 164 square miles; pop. about 15,000. It is hilly, but extremely productive. The chief products are fruits, wine, oil, cotton, silk, cheese, honey, and wax. Chief town is Naxia (or Naxos).

Nazarenes

a Jewish sect mentioned a by Epiphanius. They aimed at patriarchal religion in place of a Mosaic Judaism, and rejected the history of Genesis and the Mosaic Law. They were found in Galaaditis, Basanitis, and other parts beyond Jordan.

Nazarite

in the Jewish Church, a man or woman set apart by a vow for the service of God, either for a definite period or for life. The hair was allowed to grow, the fruit of the vine in any shape was forbidden, and no Nazarite might approach a corpse.

Neap Tides

those tides which happen in the middle of the second and fourth quarters of the moon, taking place about four or five days before the new and full moons. They occur when the attractions of the sun and moon act on the waters of the ocean at right angles to each other.

Nebuchadnezzar

or LASSAR, a king of Babylon, who reigned from 626 to 605 B. C. He united with Astyages in the conquest of Syria, and founded the second Syrio-Babylonian empire.

Necromancy

the divination of the future by questioning the dead. This superstition originated in the East, and is of the highest antiquity. Mention is made of necromancy in the Scriptures, where it is strongly condemned. In the "Odyssey" Homer has made Ulysses raise the shade of Tiresias from the infernal regions. See SPIRITUALISM.

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