GLOSSARY.

whip; hence the verb S. b. E. g ( Matt. 27. 26).

He took to hem Jhesu scourgid to be crucified. Wyclif, Matt. 27. 26.

SCRIBES, St. Ste. g; 3 Tr. g, an order among the Jews; trans­cribers, guardians, students, and expounders of Scripture; see Aids ( art. JEWISH SECTS); Lat. scriba ( Vulg.), lit. a writer.

SECT, XXIX. 18, mode of life, sys­tem of opinion; Lat. secta( Vulg.), lit. a path; cp. sequor, I follow. SEDITION, XII.; Th. b. E. g, civil discord, rebellion; Lat. seditio ( Vulg.), lit. a going apart.

SEE, XXVII.( Bishops), the seat of a bishop; M.E. se; O.Fr. se, sed; Lat. sedem, a seat; in Eccles. Lat. the church or city of a bishop ( Ducange).

SEED, Ps. 22. 23, offspring, de­scendants; 0.E. sæd. SENATORS, Ps. 105. 22, lit. elders: so R.V.marg. Lat.senator( Vulg.), lit. a member of the senate, sena­tus, the council of elders, connected with senex, old.

SEPTUAGESIMA, the third Sun­day before Lent, in round num­bers 70 days before Easter; Lat. septuagesima( dies), the seventieth. SERAPHIN, IX.( Te Deum), the highest of the nine Orders of the Heavenly Intelligences, according to the teaching of the theologians of the Middle Ages, representing ardent love; seraphin- Heb. sera­phim( Isa. 6. 2), seraphs, divine beings seen by Isaiah in his vision of heaven, conceived as guards keeping everything that is pro­fane or unclean at a distance. The word has been supposed to mean' the burning ones."

To thee cherubyn and seraphin crien with outen stentinge.

Douce MS.( 1420)( N.E.D. s. v. cherub).

SERMON, xv.; xvI., a public dis­course in church; Lat. sermo, discourse, words( Vulg.). SERVICE( DIVINE), II., the Com­mon Prayers in the Church, an equivalent for Liturgy( which see); Eccles. Lat. servitium for servitus, divine service( Ducange).

SET BY, Ps. 15. 4,' he that setteth not by himself,' to think much of,

to esteem.

His name was muche set by. Geneva, 1 Sam. 18. 30. SEXAGESIMA, the second Sunday

before Lent, in round numbers 60 days before Easter; Lat. sexa­gesima( dies), the sixtieth.

SHAWM, Ps. 98. 7, a mistransla­tion of Heb. shophar, a wind in­strument formed of a ram's horn or cow's horn,' cornet'( R. V.); ' shawm' is properly the name of a reed instrument, and is also written shalme, shalmie; M.H.G. schalmie; O.Fr. chalemie, chalemel, calamel, a reed pipe, dim. from Lat. calamus; Gk. kadáuos,& reed.

With shalmes and sounde of trumpets sing loude before the Lord the King. Geneva.

With shaumes and trumpets and with clarions sweet. Spenser, F. Q. i. 12. 13.

SHINE, Ps. 97. 4, His lightnings gave shine,' lightened; so R.V. I saw a grett lyght with bryght shyne. Cov. Myst.( W.B.W.).

SHIPS OF THE SEA, Ps. 48. 6, the ships of Tarshish; so R.V.; deep­sea ships, such as were built for the foreign trade, especially with Tartessus, a city of the Phoeni­cians in the south of Spain. The Pr.Bk.V. here follows Luther( cp. Isa. 2. 16). See THARSIS.

SHRINKED, Ps. 119, 51, swerved; so R.V.

SINGULAR, St. Barn. c, rare, spe­cial; Lat. singularis, by oneself ( Vulg.).

SLEEP, E. Tu. e, David fell on sleep,' fell asleep, i.e. died.

For David... fell on slepe. Cranmer. SORE, 4 A. c,' sore let and hindered,' grievously; 0.E. sare; cp. Germ. sehr. See Ps. 38. 8.

They were sore amased.

Tindale, Mark 6. 51. SORT, Ps. 62.3, all the sort of you,' company, assemblage.

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Ye shal be slayne all the sorte of you. Mathew's Bible. He chaunst to spy a sort of shepheard Spenser, F. Q. vi. 9. 5. Fr. sorte; It. sorta, condition, kind, manner.

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