Clare
Clare names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Clare ST., born in 1193
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ST., born in 1193, of a noble family of Assissi; in 1212 retired to the Portiuncula of St. Francis, and in the same year founded the order of Franciscan nuns, which spread rapidly through Europe. She died Aug. 11, 1253. Two years afterward, she was canonized by Alexander IV.; her festival falls on Aug. 12. The NUNS OF THE ORDER OF ST. CLARA (also called the Poor Clares) at first observed the strictest Benedictine rule, but the austerity of this rule was mitigated by St. Francis in 1224, and further modified by Urban IV. in 1265. Several convents adhered to the first and strictest rule; but the arge proportion of the nuns adopted Urban's rule, and are distinguished as URBANISTS. The existing convents are chiefly devoted to the education of girls.
Clare ST. called "biological." Mesmeric somnamfirst bulism and Clairvoyance were
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ST. called "biological." Mesmeric somnamfirst bulism and Clairvoyance were brought to notice by Puysegur in 1784. The clairvoyant is usually in a state of trance, which may be induced by mesmeric passes. In this state he is sometimes conscious only of his mesmerizer; in others, his Clairvoyance is unrestricted; but the Clairvoyant may enter the trance state spontaneously, or he may even be in possession of his ordinary faculties. In "second-sight," as found in Denmark, k, parts of Germany, and especially in the Highlands of Scotland, the seer is not in a state of trance similar to that in other forms of Clairvoyance. See PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.
Clare JOHN, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an English poet; born in Helpstone, near Peterborough, July 13, 1793. He was an agricultural laborer, absolutely uneducated; and wrote "Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery," in which a talent not far removed from genius attains many fervent and moving effects. He died in Northampton, May 20, 1864.
Clare a maritime county of the province of Munster
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a maritime county of the province of Munster, Ireland. There coal fields, fisheries, and are extensive sheep and cattle pastures. Chief town, Ennis. Area, 1,332 square miles; pop. about 100,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the four Clares Collier's listed in 1921, two have moved sharply. Pius XII named St. Clare the patron saint of television in 1958, an office unimaginable to the encyclopedia's compilers; John Clare, dismissed there as "absolutely uneducated" with "a talent not far removed from genius," is now read as a major Romantic poet, his asylum years in Northampton (unmentioned in 1921) and his unpunctuated manuscripts central to modern editions. Clairvoyance has gone the other way: the mesmeric trance states described as matters for "psychical research" found no support in later experimental work and sit outside science today. County Clare's population, given as "about 100,000," bottomed out mid-century and has since climbed past 125,000, with Shannon Airport (opened for transatlantic traffic in the 1940s) and the Cliffs of Moher now the county's best-known features.
Written for this edition, 2026.