Churching of Women
a form of thanksgiving after child-birth, adopted from the Jewish ceremony of purification, and practiced still in the Roman Catholic and Ang Anglican Churches, the latbook.
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Churching of Women, Churchyard, Churn.
Churchyard
It is not difficult to understand how the churchyard has come to be regarded as the special haunt of ghosts. The popular imagination may well be excused for supposing that the spirits of the dead continue to hover over the spot where their bodies are laid. The ancient Greeks thought that the souls of the dead were especially powerful Clairaudience near their graves or sepulchres, because of some natural tie binding soul and body, even after death. The more gross and earthly a soul was, the less willing was it to leave the vicinity of its body, and in consequence, spectres encountered in a churchyard were more to be feared than those met with elsewhere. The apparitions witnessed at the tombs of saints, however, were to be regarded rather as good angels than the souls of the saints themselves.
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Churn
. See Butter
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Chusan
the principal of the group in North American woods from Canada to Virginia.
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Cibber
COLLEY, an English dramatist; born in London, Nov. 6, 1671; he was one of the most successful stagers of plays in the history of the theater. His dramatic works-particularly "Love's Last Shift," a farce; "Love Makes a Man"; "She Would and She Would Not," and "The Careless Husband," comedies-are masterpieces of construction, although their literary qualities are not up to the high level one might expect. He portrayed the fop, however, with an infinite felicity; and not a few of his scenes are unexampled as specimens of effective action unmarred by meaningless detail. He died in London, Dec. 12, 1757.
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Cibitu
a southern island of the Philippine group, 14 miles long and 2 miles wide. It is flat, with a conical mountain in the center, 500 feet high. It is surrounded by coral reefs, with no anchorage to speak of. It was sold by Spain (with Cagayan) to the United States in 1900, upon payment of $100,- 000, having been inac inadvertently excluded from the terms of the treaty of peace.
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Cicely
a popular name applied to several umbelliferous plants. Sweet Cicely, or sweet Chervil, is myrrhis odorata, a plant common in Great Britain and in other parts of Europe. It was formerly used in medicine, and in some parts of Europe is used as an ingredient in soups. Sweet Cicely is found
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Cicero
a city of Illinois, in Cook It is a suburb of Chicago. Pop. co. (1910) 14,557; (1920) 44,995.
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Cicerone
a guide to point out objects of interest to strangers.
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Cid
sid, The Poem of the, the national Spanish epic, and the most ancient epic in any of the Romance languages. This poem recounts the achievements of Rodrigo Diaz who lived 1020-1099. He won the name of Cid from the fact that in one battle five Moorish kings acknowledged him their lord and conqueror, or El Seid, an Arabic word meaning lord, of which Cid is the Spanish equivalent. The Spaniards gave Diaz also the title of El Cid Camppeador, or the Lord Champion, a fitting title for him who was the "dauntless champion of the Christian religion and of the old Spanish monarchy against the Moors." He spent his life in wars against his country's oppressors and his country rewarded him by making him immortal in song and story. His memory is still sacred among his fellow countrymen. The Poem of the Cid contains about 3,000 lines. It dates, probably, from the year 1200. It presents most vividly the manners and the spirit of the eleventh century in Spain. It is natural, full of sympathy and charm. The author, authors, or compilers of the poem are unknown. The French Corneille has made the Cid the subject of one of his most successful dramas. See Epic ; Corneille
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Cid Campeador
THE (real name Don Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar), the national hero of Spain; was born in Burgos about 1040. The facts of his career have been wrapped by his admiring countrymen in such a haze of glorifying myths that it is scarcely possible to detect them. His life, however, appears to have been entirely spent in fierce warfare with the Moors, then masters of a great part of Spain. His exploits are set forth in a special chronicle, and in a poem of considerable interest, written not long after his death. His last achievement was the capture of Valencia, where he died in 1099. His exploits are celebrated in a Spanish poem supposed to have been published in the 12th or 13th century, from which Corneille has taken the subject of his masterpiece, "Le Cid."
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Cienfuegos
a port and city of Cuba, on the S. coast, at the mouth of Iagua bay, about 200 miles from Havana. Cienfuegos is the center of the Cuban sugar trade, and is connected by rail with Havana. There are soap and ice plants and cacao, molasses, sugar, and tobacco are exported. It has one of the best natural harbors in the world. Pop. about 90,000.
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Cigarette
a sort of small cigar by made rolling fine-cut tobacco in thin paper specially prepared for the purpose, or in tobacco leaf. See TOBACCO.
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Cilicia
an ancient division of Asia Minor, now included in the Turkish province of Adana, which lay between the Taurus range and the Cilician sea, while the Amanus range separated it from Syria. The E. portion of Cili of Cilicia was fertile in grain, wine, etc.; the W. and more mountainous portion furnished inexhaustible supplies of timber to the ancients. The pass called by the Turks Gölek Boghaz (anciently Pylæ Cilicia) is that by which Alexander the Great entered Cilicia. In early ages Cilicia was ruled by its own kings; the people, who were probably akin to Syrians and Phœnicians, being notorious pirates. The country fell successively under Persian, Macedonian, and Syrian rule, and was made a Roman province by Pompey in 67 b. c.
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Cimabue
GIOVANNI (che-mä-bö'ā), distinguished Florentine a painter; born about 1240. Very little is known of his life, but he is said to have been a disciple of Giunta of Pisa; and he was one of the earliest painters who left off copying the hard and unnatural drawing the of Byzantine school, studied nature for himself, and contributed powerfully to the revival of art. The colossal "Madonna," which he painted for the Rucellai Chapel, in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, is said to have excited extraordinary enthusiasm, and to have been carried in procession to the church, where it still remains. It was Cimabue who first discovered the genius of Giotto. He died about 1302.
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