Phrases and names, their origins and meanings / by Trench H. Johnson.

  • Johnson, Trench H.
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[1906]
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    Adriatic Sea. After the Emperor Hadrian. Adullamites. Those who in 1866 seceded from the Reform Party. John Bright said they had retired to the Cave of Adullam, there to gather around them all the dis- contented. The allusion was to David’s flight from Saul (1. Sam. xxii. i, 2). Ad valorem. A Customs term for duties levied according to the stated value of goods imported. The duty on various qualities of the same goods may therefore differ. iEdiles. Civil officers of Rome who had the care of the streets and cedes, or public buildings. iEolian Harp. A lute placed in the trees for the zephyrs to play upon, so called after HLolus, the god of the winds. iEsculapius. The generic term for a physician, after the one of this name mentioned by Homer, who was afterwards deified in the Greek mythology. Afghanistan. Pursuant to the Persian stan, the country of the Afghans. Africa. From the Phoenician afer, a black man, and the Sanskrit ac, earth, land, country. This great continent is the natural home of the blacks—the negroes of North America and the West Indian Islands being descended from the slaves carried thither from the west coast of Africa since the time of the original slave trader, Sir John Hawkins, in 1562. Agapse. Love feasts of the Romans, from the Greek agape, love. Agapemonites. An old term which has newly come into vogue in our day. Agapemone is Greek for “ abode of love.” There was such a retreat early in the nineteenth century at Charlynch, Somerset, the seat of the Agapemonists or Agapemonites, followers of Henry James Prince, an ex-Churchman. Agar Street. After William Agar, a wealthy lawyer, who resided in it. See “Agar Town.”
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