Sesha
in Hindu mythology, the king the serpent race, on which Vishnu reof clines on the primeval waters. It has 1,000 heads, on one of which the world rests. The coiled-up Sesha is the emblem of eternity.
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Single-source entries: S (69)
These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Sesha, Sessa, Session.
Sessa
a town of southern Italy in the province of Caserta; on the crater of an extinct volcano, and on the road from Gaeta to Capua; 16 miles N. W. of the latter. It contains the ruins of an amphitheater, and ancient medals and bronzes have been found.
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Session
the sitting together of a body of individuals for the transaction of business; the sitting of a court, cou council, legislature, academic body, or the like, or the actual assembly of the members of such or like bodies for the transaction of business. Also the time, space or term during which a court, council, legislature, or the like meets for business, or transacts business regularly without breaking up or dissolving. The session of a judicial court is called a term. Sessions is used as the title of some courts of criminal jurisdiction in the United States and England.
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Sesterce
a Roman coin, the fourth part of the Denarius, and thus containing at first two asses or libræ. The name is an abbreviation of the Latin semis-tertius, which was their mode of expressing two, and their custom was to derive the names of all their coins from the foundation of their money system, the As. The symbols for it were indifferently HS or IIS, the former being only a modification of the latter, which expresses two units, and S for the additional half-unit (semis). In the Latin classics, the phrase sestertius-nummus, or merely nummus, is frequently employed to denote this coin. When the Denarius was made to contain 16 asses, the relation between it and the sestertius was preserved and the latter from that time contained 4 asses, though the name, which was now no longer significant, was preserved. The sum of 1,000 sestertii was called sestertium, which, after Augustus, was eg equal to about $43, and was the "money of account" (never a "coin") used in the reckoning of large sums of money.
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Set
or Seth, in Egyptian mythology, the god of evil and so the bitter enemy of Osiris. He was originally a warlike god and looked upon as either the brother or son of Osiris, whom he opposes in every possible way, although he was at times friendly to mankind. Later he was expelled from a place among the gods, but was still looked upon as the symbol of evil. He was represented with the body of an ass, the muzzle and ears of a jackal, and the tail of a lion. Set was identified by the Greeks with their Typhon.
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Sethites
a Gnostic sect that existed in Egypt in the 2d century and bore some resemblance to that of the Ophites. They worshiped Seth, the son of Adam, as the son of God, but not of the creator of Adam and Eve, and maintained that he had reappeared in the person of Jesus Christ. They pretended to have several books written by him. SETHOS I., or SETI, an Egyptian monarch, the second Pharaoh of the XIX. dynasty; which lasted from 1326 b. c. to 1203 B. C. He seems to have been one of the shepherd race in the E. part of Delta. He was distinguished as a builder and a warrior, erecting the the temples of Osiris at Abydos, the "hall of columns" in his palace at Karnak, and establishing the power of Egypt over western Asia. He reigned about 30 years. THOMPSON-SETON.
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Sethos
A diviner, who was deprived of his sight by the Emperor Manuel because of his addiction to Magic. It is said that the Emperor Andronicus Comnenus obtained through him by hydromancy an answer to the question of who was to succeed him. The evil spirit gave the letters "SI" in reply; and on being asked when, said before the Feast of the exaltation of the Cross. This prediction was fulfilled, for before the date mentioned Isaac Angelus had thrown Andronicus to be torn in pieces by the mob. When the devil spells, he spells backwards, so that "SI" may quite fairly be taken to represent Isaac according to the laws of magic!
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Seton
ROBERT, an American Roman Catholic archbishop, born in Pisa, Italy, in 1839. He graduated from the Ecclesiastical Academy of Rome, in 1867, having been appointed the year previous private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX. From 1876 he was rector of St. Joseph's Church, Jersey City. In 1903 he was appointed archbishop of Heliopolis. He was lecturer at the Catholic University of Washington, and at Seton Hall College. ge. He wrote "Memoir, Letters and Journal of Elizabeth Seton" (1869); "Roman Essays" (1882); and "An Old Family" (1899).
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Seton Hall College
a Roman Catholic institution for higher education, at South Orange, N. J. It was founded at Madison, N. J., in 1856, and was removed to South Orange in 1860. There were, in 1919, 21 instructors and 321 students. President, J. F. Mooney.
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Seton, Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (1860-), an author and artist. He was born in England; he studied at the Royal Academy, London; he spent three years in zoological study in Manitoba, and later studied in Paris under French artists. His works have been published in the United States , so that he is rather cosmopolitan. He is known for his numerous drawings of animals and birds, and for his paintings of wolves. His writings on animal subjects have been popular, and display marked literary merit. They have been criticized for inaccuracy in matters of natural history. The author himself states that his aim has been to "emphasize our kinship with the animals by showing that in them we can find the virtues most admired in man." He also states that his accounts of animals are true, "The chief liberty taken is in ascribing to one animal the adventures of many." Wild Animals I Have Known, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The Biography of a Grizzly, Lives of the Hunted, are among Seton's books, and well repay the reading. Seton is one of the writers whom Roosevelt and Burroughs characterize as "nature-fakirs."
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