These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Abyssinian Church, Abyssum, Academia.
the father of Ayesha, wife of Mohammed, was a man of great influence in the Koreish tribe; and in 632, when Mohammed died, was made the first caliph or successor of the Prophet. After defeating his enemies in Arabia, and warring successfully against Babylonia, Syria, and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, Abu-Bekr died 634 A. D., aged 63. He was surnamed "The Just."
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the name of a sect of the Christian Church established in Abyssinia. The forms and ritual of the Abyssinian Church are a strange compound of paganism, Judaism, and Christianity. It is governed by a bishop, who is styled abuna.
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A herb used in the ceremony of exorcising a haunted house. It is signed with the sign of the cross, and hung up at the four corners of the house.
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A public garden or grove in the suburbs of Athens , about six stadia from the city, named, according to Pausanias , from Academus, who left it to the citizens for gymnastics. Here Plato opened his school of philosophy, and hence arose the Academic sect, and the name Academy has descended even to our own times.
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series of philosophers who taught in the Athenian Academy, the scene of Plato's discourses.
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AMERICAN Berytus, in Phoenicia, in which jurists were principally educated. Academy is the name, also, of a society or an association of artists, linked together for the promotion of art, or of scientific men, similarly united for the advancement of science, or of persons united for any more or less analogous object.
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the gymnasium in the suburbs of Athens in which Plato taught, and so called after a hero, by name Academus, to whom it was said to have originally belonged. The word is also applied to a high school designed for the technical or other instruction of those who have already acquired the rudiments of knowledge; also a university. Anciently, there were two public academies: one at Rome, founded by Adrian, in which all the sciences were taught, but especially jurisprudence; the other at
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THE ROYAL, Society of London. a British institution for the encouragement of painting, sculpture, and design-
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NATION- "Evangeline." AL, an American institution, in New York City, founded in 1826, conducting ACANTHACEÆ, an order of monoschools in various branches of the fine petalous exogens, with two stamina; or, arts, and holding semiannual exhibitions if there are four, then they are didynaat which prizes are awarded. The memmous. The ovary is two-celled, with bership consists of academicians, who hard, often hooked, placentæ, and has are the corporate body and use the title from one or two to many seeds. There N. A. (National Academicians), and are often large, leafy bracts. The acanthe associates, who use the title thaceæ are mostly tropical plants, many of them being Indian. They have both a resemblance and an affinity to the Scro-
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THE NArett Wendell, Gari Melchers, Elihu Root, TIONAL, an American institution, char- Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul tered by Congress in 1863, consisting of Shorey, Charles Platt, Maurice Francis 150 members, elected from among the most Egan, Archer Huntington. distinguished scientific men of the United S States; analogous to the Royal
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a silver sulphide classed BELLES LETTRES, an institution by Dana under his chalcocite group. founded at Paris by Colbert in 1663, un- Composition AgS. It has about 86.71 of der the name of Petite Académie. It was silver and 12.70 of sulphur. It is orcomposed originally of four members, thorhombic; the crystals are generally chosen by the ministry to belong to the Académie prisms with slender points. Française. In 1702 the Academy assumed its definitive form; 40
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a genus of perennial herbs native in the countries of the Mediterranean. The acanthus family contains some 1400 species of herbs and shrubs, chiefly tropical. The name is from the Greek and signifies a thorn. It has reference to the spines which terminate the lobes of the leaves of certain species. The acanthus proper includes several species, the chief of which are the soft-leaved and the spiny-leaved acanthus. These and other species are cultivated for borders and window plants. The flower stem springs to a height of three feet from the center of a rosette or cluster of handsome, dark green, shining leaves, and bears a spike of large monopetalous, irregular white or yellowish flowers. The stem, leaves, and roots of the plant are mucilaginous. A deep blue dye is obtained from a kindred species growing in Assam. The acanthus is known in British gardens as bear's breech. The acanthus leaf is noted in art. The leaves that adorn the capital of the Corinthian column are the conventionalized foliage of the spiny-leaved acanthus known to botanists as Acanthus spinosus. The acanthus leaf was a favorite design for the ornamentation of the cornice and frieze not only in Grecian but in Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance architecture. The acanthus leaf was employed also in decorating vases, drinking cups, platters, and furniture. An acanthus design was adopted for embroidery and other needlework and was used by the house decorator for walls. Acanthus spinosus
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a genus of plants, the typical one of the order acanthaceæ , or acanthads. In English it is inelegantly termed bear's beech, or, more euphoniously, brank ursine. In architecture , it is the imitation, in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders, of the leaves of a species of acanthus, the A. spinosus, which is found in Greece. The acanthus first copied is supposed to have been growing around a flower pot; and the merit of adopting the suggestion thus afforded for the ornamentation of the capital of a pillar is attributed to Callimachus.
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the name of three anacademicians were named. In 1803 the cient cities: (1) in Egypt, (2) in Caria, Academy was reconstituted and became and (3) in Macedonia. The latter city the third class of the Institute. Comis noted for the construction, across the parative philology, Oriental, Greek, and neck of the peninsula of Mount Athos, Roman antiquities and epigraphy have of the great canal through which sailed received the attention of the Academy. the fleet of Xerxes on its way to Greece.
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