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SYLVESTER, an American novelist and theologian; born in West- 1813. He hampton, Mass., July 23, 1813. He Margaret" Margare wrote a remarkable novel " and "Richard Edney," another romance, "Philo" a poem, and "The Church," dista, Mn., Jan. He died in Augusta, Me., Jan. courses. 20, 1853. JUDE. See JUDAS.
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the head of the bureau of justice in the Army. He is, in the United States, the legal adviser of the Secretary of War and holds the rank of brigadier general . He keeps the records of all trials by court-martial, and of all the reports of military commissions. Unlike the United States, the Judge -Advocate-General in England is selected from the civil one to
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BOOK OF, the 7th book in order of the Old Testament . It was named Judges because at the period to which it refers Israel was ruled by men of that designation (See JUDGE). It consists of five sections : a first introduction (i-ii:5), a second one (ii: 6iii: 6), the main portion or consecutive narrative (iii: 7-xvi: 31), the first appendix (xviixviii.), and the second one (xix-xxi.), Two authors seem to have been at work on it, each falling back on ancient documents. It has been always accepted as canonical. In the New Testament it is referred to in Acts xiii: 20 and Heb xi: 32.
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in law, a determination, decision, or sentence of a judge or court in any case, civil or criminal. In logic, the comparing together in the mind twe of the notions, or ideas, which are the objects of apprehension, whether complex or incomplex, and pronouncing that they agree or disagree with each other, or that one of them belongs or does not belong to the other. Judgment is therefore af firmative or negative; as, snow is white ; all white men are not Europeans. In metaphysics, that faculty of the human mind by which judgments are formed. Kant defines it as "the faculty by which the particular is conceived as contained under the universal ." In Scripture, (1) Singular: (a) The sentence of a judge. (b) Justice (Is . xxxiii: 5) . (c) The punishment which justice inflicts; specially, a calamity sent by God as a penal infliction on account of national or other sin (Exod. xii: 12; II Chron. xx: 9, xxii: 8). (2) Plural: The civil and criminal enactments of the Mosaic code, as distinguished from the ceremonial and the moral laws (Exod. xii: 12; Ps. cxix: 7, 13, 20, 39 , 43, 62 , etc.) Judgment of God, a term applied to several of the old forms of trial by ordeal, as single combat , walking upon red-hot plowshares, etc. as a
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whom a court of law has awarded a certain sum of money as damages , etc., payable by the other party in the case.
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a debt secured to the creditor by a judge's order, and in respect of which he can at any time attach the debtor's goods and chattels. Such debts have the preference of being ecured to paid in full, as compared with simple contract debts.
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the 4th of the apocryphal books. The narrative opens with the "twelfth year in the reign of Nabuchodonosor, who reigned in Nineve, the great city." That potentate, finding his armies thwarted in their progress to the W. resolved to take signal vengeance. His chief opponents were the Israelites, who fortified themselves in Bethulia. While Holofernes, his general, was besieging this stronghold, the heroine of the book, China Medical Board, 1914. Judith, the beautiful widow of Manasses, include: " Cæsar's Army, went forth to the Assyrians, pretending the Military Art of the Bethulle that she had deserted her people. She (1885); "Europe in the Nineteenth Assyrian fascinated Holofernes, who after a time Century"; "The Growth of the Ameriinfii took her to his tent, where, as he was can Nation." book lying drunk, she cut off his head, escap-
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one who practices or ex- American hibits tricks by sleight of hand. The JUDSON, EDWARD, an clergyman; born in Moulmein, Burma, juggler's art is one of great antiquity, Dec. 27, 1844; son of Adoniram Judson; and in early times was employed as a came to the United States in 1850; was means of sustaining the power of the graduated at Brown University in 1865; priesthood. The magicians of the an- Professor of Latin at Colgate University cient Egyptians, Persians, etc., were of in 1867-1874; pastor of the First Bapthis class; and doubtless most of the tist Church of Orange, On N. J., in 1875miracles ascribed to the heathen deities 1881. He then accepted the charge of were effected by sleight of hand. In the the Berean Baptist Church of New York East, particularly in India, and China, City, where he later built the Judson jugglery is largely practiced, and Memorial Church, becoming its pastor. brought to great perfection as an art. Published a "Life" of his father in 1899. Many of the tricks of modern Eastern jugglers have not yet been found out. Died in 1914. 1 JUDSON, HARRY PRATT, an Amer-
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A distinguished Numidian who went with a body of troops to the assistance of Scipio who was besieging Numantia. Jugurtha endeared himself to the Roman general by his bravery and activity. His uncle Micipsa appointed him successor to the throne, with his two sons Adherbal and Hiempsal, the latter of whom was slain by Jugurtha, and the former had to fly to Rome for safety. Caecilius Metellus was sent against Jugurtha, who was betrayed, and delivered into the hands of the Romans. He died in prison, в. c. 106.
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the popular name of a genus of spiny and deciduous shrubs or small trees, genus Zizyphus, natural order Rhamnaceæ. The species are numerous, and of several the fruit, which is bloodsweet saffron-colored with or red a granular pulp, is wholesome and pleasant to eat. The common jujube (Z. vulgaris) is a native of Syria, from which it was introduced into Europe. The article fruit is dried and forms an of asurab te commerce. Z. Lotus, a shrub two or three feet high, is a native of Persia and we of Persi the N. of Africa. Z. spina Christi, or rina Christ Christ's thorn, is said to have furnished have furn the branches of which our Saviour's our Savi crown of thorns was made. Also a conde. Also fection made of gum arabic or gelatine, ahie or gele sweetened and flavored.
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