The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri].
- Louis Moréri
- Date:
- 1701
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Credit: The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary; being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history. Containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Jews; of the apostles, fathers, and doctors of the church; of popes, cardinals, bishops, &c. ... Together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders, and the lives of their founders. As also, the fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes. The description of empires, kingdoms, commonwealths, provinces, cities, towns, islands, mountains ... The whole being full of remarks and curious enquiries, for the illustration of several difficulties in theology, history, chronology and geography. Collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery, D.D. his eighth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in two volumes in folio. To which are added, by way of supplement, inter-mix'd throughout the alphabet, the lives, most remarkable actions, and writings of several illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility, and gentry, and most famous men of all professions, arts and sciences: as also, an exact description of these kingdoms; with the most considerable occurrences that have happened to this present time / [Louis Moréri]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![tlK f aults of Mmirters and Members; and afferted, That the Jews knew nothing of Eternal Life ; and their Proinifcs and Adminiftration had no other prolpeQ: but to Temporal Advantage. Put our Englijh Anabaptiils arc not to be judged of by any of thole Defcriptions : They are gene¬ rally for the Independant way of Chufch-Governmenf, which, together with the denying of Infant-baptilin, and notlinging of Pfalms, Cwhich yet Ibme of them praftile) are the only things they differ in from other Proteftants tho’ there are among them who alfo deny the Lawfulnefs of Oatlis, maintain Free-will, the Seventh day Sabbath, and the Thoiifand years Reign. Thole that defire to be more fully fatished, may have recourfe to a ConfelTion of Faith Publilhed by the Reprefentatives of above loo of their Congregations in 1689. being the fame in fubftance with the Allcmbly’s, or iVefiminfter Confeilion, except as before excepted. The Praftile of Re-baptizing is charged upon Marcion, who maintain’d a third Baptifm for Expiation of Sins; and that the ihme might be adminiftred by Women. Epifhan. H^r. 42. T)^Q- Cata^hryginns, Novatians,‘in.6.Do7ta- tijls, Re-baptized thofe of their Communion; and Jn. 2^6. thofe of Cilicia, Cajipadocia, Galatia, and the Neighbouring Provinces, declared in an AlTembly, Tltat the Baptifm of Hereticks w^as null. Firmilian Bilhop of C^farea, and St. Den¬ nys of Alexandria, w’ere Patrons of this Opinion, and upon this Head wrote to Stephen Bilhop of Rosne, wdro declin’d Communion with the Eaftern Churches on that account, lays Eufebiiis. Anno 25S. St. Cyprian call’d a Council at Car¬ thage, wdiere they agreed that Baptifm' adminiftred without the Church was invalid, which the Bilhop of Rome oppofed. Tertullian, in his Book of Baptifm, held. That Baptifm con¬ ferred by Hereticks was Invalid ; And Agrippinas, w^ho liv’d 40 years, or above, before St. Cyprian, was of the fame Opinion. This created a deal of Trouble in the Church ; fo that this Method to allay the fariie w^as found Out by the Council of Arles, Can. 8. njiz. To Re-baptize thofe newly Converted, if fo be it was found that they had not been Baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft : And ip the Firft General Council of Nice, Can. ip. ordered, That the or Followers of Paul Samofatenus, and the Cataphrygians, Ihould be Re¬ baptiz'd. The Council of Laodicea, Can, 7. and the Second of Arles, Can. 16. Decreed tlie fame as to feme HeretiOks. Auguft. Ub. 2. de Bapt. Cent. Donat. Eufeb. 1. 7. c. 4. Barbn. An. C. 217, 218. In Theodojttis's Code, and that of Jiijlinian, it is obfefved that thofe Emperors put Anabaptilfs to death, L. 7. ZP. 5. Bapt. Her, L. 2. God. Jujlin. ANACALIPTERIA, certain Feftiyals among the Ancient Pagans, after , the Nuptials were over, when the Married Woman laid afi-de her Veil, and Ihewed her Face to all the World. Callus ^hed. Philojb-atus. ANACANDRIANS, a Family in the jllland of Ua- dagafear, defcended frorri one Roandrian, a White Prince, who broke the Cuftom of his Country, by Marrying a Woman beneath his Quality. Fldcourt. Hiftoir de Madagafcar. ANACHAMOUSTI, a People in the Ifland of Ma¬ dagafcar, North of Manttmhoiile ; The Country abounds in Cartel Rice, and other Provifions, and is well Peopled. Flacoiirt, Hift. Madagafcar. ANACHARSIS, a Scythian Philofopher, who Tra¬ velling to Athensi improv’d himfelf by converfing with Solon, and became famous for his Knowdedge, his Contempt of Riches, and Aufterity of Life. He w^as wont to fay, That Law's not duly obferved, W'ere like Spiders Webs, that only caught the little Flies ; and that the Vine bare Three forts of Fruits, Drunkennefs, Pleafure, and Re¬ pentance. He was kill’d by his Brother, King of the Country, for endeavouring to introduce the Athenian Law's among the Scythiatts. He is faid to be the Inventor of the Potters Wheel. Herodotus, Cicero. ANACHIS, one of the Four Penates or Houlhold Gods, which, as the Egyptiasis believ’d, accompanied every Man ’from his Birth, and took particular Care of him, which they called Dymon, Tyches, Heras and Anachis: O- fhers believe the Words fo. be corrupted, and that they ought to be read, Dynahns, .Power; Tyche, Fortune; Eros, Love ; and Anante, Necellity. Alexander ab Alexand. ANACLETUS, Pope in the 103d year of Chrift, ordered. That every Bilhop Ihould be ordained by Three Bilhops at leall, and that no Priefts Ihould let their Hair or their Beards groiv; He fat Eleven years, and was crown’d with Martyrdom in the Reign of .Tr/y'/iw. This Anacletus is properly Anencletus, and the fame with Cletus the Predecellbr of Clemens. See Pearfan and Dodwell. Pla- iina. ANACLETE, an Antipope, who contefted with In¬ nocent II. and getting the better of his Adverfary, fat Eight years, and died in the year 1134- He called a Council at Rome, where he Excommunicated/»»«««? II. who alfo Ex¬ communicated him in Councils held in France ; but Anaclete died pollelled of the Chair. Baronins. Anacreon, a Native of r(?or, a city of Ionia, and eminent Greek Lyric Poet, flourilh’d about the Sixtieth Olympiad ; He was highly belov’d by Piffiratus, Tyrant of Athens, who fent a Gaily of 50 Oars for him and Po¬ ly crates, Tyrant of Samos ; from whom having got 3000 Crowns, he was never quiet till he was rid of ’em, Vo¬ luptuous to excefs, and at length choak’d with a Grape- Bone. Herodotus, Paufanias. ANACTORIA, fuppos’d to be Voniza, a Town of Epirus, upon the Gulph of Zarta, w'hich formerly be- lojig’d to the Corinthians and the in common J and was often the Pretence of War among the Greeks. The Athenians once made thcmfelves Mailers of it, and Peopled it w'ith the Acamanians, that allifted ’em to take it. Thacyd. Lib. 1. d? 2. Paufan. lib. j. ANACTORIA, a Town m letiia, call’d afterwards Miletusn. •Piin. lib. 5. cap. 29. ANACUIES, a People of America in Brafil, near the Dominions of the Portuguefe, under the Name of the Ca- pitany of Seregippa. ANAD \ OMENE, the Name of a Piflure drawn by Appefles, of a Nenus coming out of the Sea. This Piece was given by Augufus, to the Temple of Julius Cafar. Plutarch, 8cc. ANiETIS, a Goddefs formerly in fuch Veneration among the Lydians, Perjlans, and Armenians, bordering upon Tartary, that they did nothing but under her Aufpices, and held their moll Important Confultations in her Temple. She was ferv’d only by Female Priefts, who were the molt beautiful Virgins in all the Country, and who thought it an Honour to prollitute thcmfelves to thofe that came tc? Sacrifice to their falfe Deity; and, in effeft, the blind Idolaters thought the better of ’em, and would the fooner Marry them. The Fellivals of this Idol were Annually celebrated with all manner of Debaucheries j fome think they were inftituted by Cyrus King of Perfia, in Memory of the Viftory which he obtain’d over the Snee, by aban¬ doning his Camp, which was full of Provifions, where¬ with that People had furfeited thcmfelves fo, that they were eafily furpriz’d. Herodotus, Paufan. Plin. ANrETIUS, one of the 30 Tyrants of Athens, fet up by Lyfander, General of the Lacedamonians, after he had conquer’d this Country. Aneetius, with his Colleagues, was defeated by Thrafybulas, the Athenian, and afterwards banilh’d. Zenophon. ANAFA, Anfa, a celebrated Town on thss. Atlantick Ocean, in the Proyince of Tetnefna, in the Kingdom of Fez, built by the Romans, 60 miles from Azamur to the jN. E. and 40 from Rebat to the W. in a fruitful Soil as to Corn, on the edge of a Plain 80 miles over ; and having ’excellent Gardens, and plenty of Fi'ults; They drove 2 ■ good Trade with the Portuguefe and Enjglijh : The Portuguefe f^ Fleet againft it of 50 Sail, by whom it was laid deiolate and burnt down, becaufe of its incurfions 'upon the Chriftians ; fo that Leo Afneanus faith,, he dc- Tpaired of ever feeing it again inhabited, Page no. The Portuguefe endeavoured to raife a Fort there, upon the River of Mamora, in 1515. but were prevented by the King of Fez, Marmol. ® ■ANAGHELOMEj Lut. a fhnal] Town in Irela^, in the Province of Uljler, and County of Down, on the River Ban. ^ * ANAGNIA, Anagni, sen Epifcopal City of Italy, in St. Peters Patrimony, or La Campagna di Roma, hs Virgil called the Rich Anagnia. And here if was that Mark-AHthOnf after he had linked himfelf to Cleopatra, Coyned Money with her Stamp : No lefs fignal for being the Place of the Nativity of.Four Popes, Innocent III. Greg. IX. Alex IV znA Boniface Yllh now gone to decay, and very thinly in¬ habited. Alberti Deferip. of Italy. AN AG YRDS, a Place famous m Attica, fo named. Stephen ivfs, itom a certain Plant which ftinks abomi¬ nably when handled; w-lience the Proverb, Anagyrim commoves : Others fay from Anagyrus, a certain Deity, who deitroyed the Society for prophaning his Temple. And W revenge the fame injury on an old Man, iiifpir’d his Concubine with Luftful Defires after his Son, whom £he accus’d of defigning a Rape, becaufe he would not con- ftnt to her: Whereupon his Father threw him from a Rock, and HangM himfelf quickly after on difeovery of his Son’s Innocence. Suidas. ^ AN AH, the Son of Zibeon theHorite, recorded in Scrip¬ ture to have been the firft: w ho made known to the World the Generation of Mules by the Copulation of A lies with Mares, as he fed his Father’s Afles in the Wildernefs. What we render Mules, tbe Vulgar Tranflate Mineral Wa¬ ters. Torniel.St.Jhome. A N A LIU S, the Fifth King of the Ajfyrians, fucceeded his Father AneSy and Reign d -40 years from the year of the World 2is8, to 2198, which W'asthe ii5th of Ahra- hafrss Life. Eiifebius. AN AM, and Save-Sirei, Tw'o Rabbins, W'ho liv’d in the Eighth Century, and reviv’d the Seft of the Sadduces. Genebrard. in Chrort. ANA-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30456320_0001_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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