These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Tephillin, Tephramancy, Teplitz.
In the Hebrew tongue means "attachments." They were originally prayer thongs worn by the Jews at morning prayer-one on the left arm and another on the head. They came to be regarded as talismans and were used in many traditional ceremonies. The Talmud says: Whoever has the tephillin bound to his head and arm 66 is protected from sin."
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A mode of divination in which use is made of the ashes of the fire which had consumed the victims of a sacrifice.
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a watering place in Bohemia; situated in a beautiful valley near the Erzgebirge; 20 miles N. W. of Leitmeritz. The baths are supplied from about a dozen hot alkalo-saline springs, are taken exceedingly hot, and have great virtue in restoring persons afflicted with gout, rheumatism, etc. One of the springs is used also for drinking. Pop. about 27,000.
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or TURRYE Catholic Relief Bill, and in his last speech he made a vow that if the Reform Bill, that "appalling bill," passed, he would never again take his seat as a peer. He fell ill at Bristol, while presiding at the trial of the mayor for misconduct during the Reform riots, and died suddenly, Nov. 4, 1832.
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or TURRYE, the name of the narrow strip of swampy jungle which uniformly underlies the lowest ridge of
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or TURRYE the Himalaya mountains in the N. of India, continuously from Kumaon to Assam. This is about 15 miles wide, and is kept perpetually moist by rivulets. It is overgrown with jungle and enormous grasses, the home of tigers and other wild beasts. Proceeding from the W., the first portion lies in the Rohilcund division of the northwest provinces, forming the district of Terai, with an area of 920 square miles; the chief town Kashipur. The next portion, bordering Oudh and Behar, lies chiefly within Nepal territory. The third piece was annexed from Bhutan after the War of 1864, and is known as the East and West Duars.
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in Jewish antiquities, household gods, like the Roman penates. The "images" which Rachel stole from her father Laban are called in Hebrew teraphim (Gen. xxxi: 19, 34, 35). Perhaps they were the "strange gods" given up by Jacob's household, and by him hid under the "oak" at Shechem (xxxv: 2,4). Again, the "image" which Michael put in David's bed, and which was intended to be mistaken for him, is called in Hebrew teraphim, a plural form, though apparently only with wit a singular meaning. It was probably of the human form and size (I Sam. xix: 13). Samuel denounced them (I Sam. xv: 23), and Josiah put them away, with wizards, idols, etc. (II Kings xxiii: 24). The English reader must have recourse to the Revised Version to find where the word teraphim occurs in the Old Testament, as in all but one passage (Hosea iii: 4) the Authorized Version translates it by other words.
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Of the nature of oracles. The teraphim were taken away from Jacob by his daughter, Rachel, and this mention of them in the Bible is the earliest record we have of "magical" apparatus. Their form is not known, nor the exact use to which they were put; but from an allusion to them in Hosea III., 4, they were evidently not idols. Spencer maintains that they were the same as the Urim of Mosaic ritual at any rate it seems likely that they were used as a means of divination..
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the study of malformations or abnormal growths, animal or vegetable. Deformities of the animal kingdom may involve the whole body, as shown by the dwarf; may involve shape, as clubfoot or hairlip; may involve color, as in the albinos. Those of the vegetable world deal with abnormal forms, like the four-leaved clover; production of double-flowering plants; bulbous modification of the roots; the metamorphosis of the organs, etc., as well as changes in the form of plants brought about by the skill of gardeners and agriculturists.
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FIELD MARSHAL, COUNT SEIKI, a Japanese statesman; born in Choshu, in 1852, and a member of the famous Choshu clan, of which Prince Ito and Prince Yamagata were also members. He died in Tokio, in 1919, his death being reported a month before its actual occurrence, on account of the state of unconsciousness which preceded it. He entered the army in 300 TERCENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 1871, and rose rapidly in rank, becoming a major in 1879. For a short period he went abroad and studied the military systems of France and Germany. In 1882 he became secretary to the Minister of War. In 1897 he was made Inspector- General of military education. During the war against Russia, in 1904-1905, he was Minister of War, and the remarkable efficiency shown by the Japanese armies in the field and their systems of supply was largely due to the administrative skill of General Terauchi. After the war, he was sent to Korea to administer that country as a Japanese dependency. In 1916 he became Premier, which post he held until 1918, when he and his whole cabinet were compelled to resign on account of their reactionary policies.
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in chemistry, a metal, supposed by Mosander in 1843 to exist, together with erbium and yttrium, in gadolinite. Subsequent investigations have thrown considerable doubt on its existence, and it is now believed to be yttria contami contaminated with the oxides of the cerium metals.
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one of the two legal life rents in the law of Scotland, being a real right constituted without covenant, or sasine. By it a widow, who has not accepted any special provision, is entitled to the life rent of one-third of her husband's heritable (real) estate, provided the marriage has lasted for a year and a day, or has produced a living child. If special provision is granted by a husband to his wife by any antenuptial or postnuptial contract or other deed, the wife shall be thereby excluded from her terce, unless the contrary be provided in the same deed. The life rent bears its proportion of burdens affecting the estate. The mansion house is not subject to the right of terce.
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