Abbotsford
the home of Sir Walter Scott, situated on the S. bank of the Tweed, and a few miles above Melrose. It takes its name from a ford formerly used by the monks of Melrose.
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Abbotsford, Abbott, Abbott.
Abbott
ALEXANDER CREVER, an American hygienist, born in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 26, 1860; was educated at the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Munich and Berlin. He is a member of numerous scientific societies, and, since 1897, has been Professor of Hygiene and director of the laboratory of hygiene in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Abbott
BENJAMIN VAUGHAN, an American lawyer and legal writer, born in Boston, Mass., June 4, 1830. He published a number of able works on legal subjects, among them a revision of the United States Statutes. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1890.
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Abbott
EMMA, American dramatic soprano, born in Chicago, Ill., in December, 1849. She sang in opera with great success. She died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 5, 1891.
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Abbott
JACOB, an American writer, born in Hallowell, Me., Nov. 14, 1803. His works, comprising over 200 titles, chiefly of stories for the young, were widely read in his own day. Among the best known are "The Rollo Books" (28 vols.); "The Franconia Stories" (10 vols.); "The Marco Paul Series" (6 vols.). He died in Farmington, Me., Oct. 31, 1879.
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Abbott
CHARLES GREELEY, an American astrophysicist, born in Wilton, N. H., in 1872. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894 and in the following year joined the staff of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, of which institution he became director in 1907. He is a member of many astronomical and other scientific societies, and has done valuable research work in connection with solar phenomena. He published "The Sun" (1911).
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Abbott (LYMAN an American clergyman)
LYMAN, an American clergyman, born at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835. At first a lawyer, he was ordained minister of the Congregational LYMAN ABBOTT Church in 1860. After a pastorate of five years, in Indiana, he went to New York, and rose rapidly to distinction through his contribution to periodical literature. He was pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in 1888-1898, being the immediate successor of Henry Ward Beecher. He was associated with Mr. Beecher in the editorship of the "Christian Union," and in 1893 became editor of "The Outlook," formerly the "Christian Union." His writings include "Jesus of Nazareth" (1869); a "Life of Henry Ward Beecher" (1903); "In Aid of Faith" (1886); "Christianity and Social Problems" (1896); "Life and Letters of Paul" (1898); "The Rights of Man" (1901); "The Great Companion" (1904); "The Spirit of Democracy (1910); "Letters to Unknown Friends" (1913); etc. ABBREVIATIONS. See APPENDIX in last volume.
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Abdal-Malek
or ABDULMELECH, the son of Mirvan, and the fifth caliph of the race of the Ommiades. In his reign the Indies were conquered in the East, and his armies penetrated Sp Spain in the West; he likewise extended his empire toward the South by making himself master of Medina and Mecca. He began his reign in the 65th year of the Hegira, A. D. 684; reigned 25 years and four of his sons successively enjoyed the caliphate.
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Abdallah
BEN-ABD-EL-MOTTA- LIB, father of Mohammed, born at Mecca, A. D. 545; died 570. The paternity of the Prophet is Abdallah's sole claim to distinction.
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Abdelazys
An Arabian astrologer of the tenth century, generally known in Europe by his Latin name of Alchabitius. His treatise on astrology was so much prized that it was translated into Latin and printed in 1473. Other editions have since appeared, the best being that of Venice (1503) entitled Alchabitius cum commento. Translated by John of Seville. (Hispalensis.)
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Abdera
A city of Thrace, at the mouth of the Nestus. Though Abdera was the birthplace of some famous men, among them Anaxarchus, Democritus , and Protagoras , yet the citizens of this place in general had such a reputation for stupidity that Cicero styles Rome, on account of the stupidity of the Senators, another Abdera (Ep. ad Att. 4, 16); and Juvenal calls Abdera itself "the native land of blockheads." Under the Romans Abdera became a free city, and continued so as late as the time of Pliny. 2026 Editor's Note: Abdera was a major Greek polis on the Thracian coast that produced influential philosophers. Protagoras , born there, argued that respecting diverse opinions based on individual experience was necessary for democratic communities. The ancient reputation for stupidity, cited by Cicero and Juvenal, contrasts sharply with the city's actual role as a center of philosophical innovation in pre-Socratic thought. (Ed: BR 2026-06-01)
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Abdication
the relinquishment of an office, and particularly the throne, without a formal resignation. It differs from resignation, which is applied to the giving back by a person into the hands of a superior an office to which that superior appointed him; while in abdication one, theoretically without an earthly superior in the country, relinquishes what came to him at first by act of law. ABDOMEN (1) That portion of the trunk which in man commences beneath, and in mammalia behind, the diaphragm, and terminates at the extremity of the pelvis. The abdominal cavity is the largest in the human body. It is lined with a serous membrane, called the peritoneum. It contains the liver, with the gall-bladder, under its right lobe, the stomach, the pancreas, the spleen, the two kidneys, the bladder and the intestines. The more highly organized of the inferior animals have a similar struc ture. (2) In entomology, the whole posterior division of the body of an insect, united to the thorax by a small knot or attachment, well seen in the wasp. It includes the back as well as the parts below. Externally it is made up of a series of rings.
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Abdominals
an order of malacopterygious fishes, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals, as the trout. They comprehend the greater part of fresh water fishes, and constitute the fourth order of the fourth class of animals in the Linnæan system.
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Abduction
the act of abducing or abducting; a taking or drawing away, and specifically an unlawful taking. In law, the forcible and fraudulent taking away of women or girls.
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