GLOSSARY.

STRAW, 1 A. g, to spread; so R.V.; SWEAT, THE, XXI. r, the Sweat­

a form of strew.

ing Sickness, Sudor Anglicus, a dreadful pestilence which visited England five times between A.D. 1485 and 1551, destroying thou­sands.

Other cut doune braunches from the trees, and strawed them in the waye.

Tindale.

SUBSISTING, XI.= Lat. subsistens, being always, continuing. SUBSTANCE, XI.; XV.( Nicene Creed)= Lat. substantia, the ren­dering of the Gk. ovoía, essence. Substantia means lit. standing under,' and expresses, in the lan­guage of the Schoolmen, the invi­sible reality which underlies the visible object. It should be noted that in theological language sub­stance does not mean visible matter' as it does in ordinary parlance. See TRANSUBSTANTIA­

TION.

SUBTILTY, xII., subtlety, acute­ness, fine craft; Lat. subtilitas from subtilis, fine, precise, subtle. The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtiltie. Geneva, 2 Cor. 11. 3. SUFFER, Ps. 16. 11, to permit; O.Fr. suffrir( now souffrir); Lat. sufferre, to endure. SUFFRAGE, XXVII.

( Bishops), a short petition, such as is found in the Litany; Eccles. Lat. suffra­gium, a prayer to the saints ( Ducange), in Lat. a vote, the right of voting.

SUNDAY, the first day of the week = Lat. dies Solis, the pagan name of the day, mentioned by Justin Martyr, and retained by Constan­tine, who in A.D. 321 issued an edict for the general observance of Sunday. The division of the month into weeks of seven days was an Accadian and Babylonian institution, the names of the days being connected with the names of the sun, moon, and five planets. SUNDAY LETTER, see p. 25.

SUPEREROGATION, XXIX. 14, ' Works of supererogation,' volun­tary works besides, over and above God's commandments; Lat. su­pererogatio from supererogare, to pay out over and above( Vulg.). SURCEASE, XXVII.

( Deacons), to delay, desist from; cp. O.Fr. sursise, a delay( a law term), from Fr. surseoir, to pause; Lat. supersedere, to forbear.

All in maner as soone as the sweat tooke them, or within a short tyme after yelded up the ghost. Holinshed( W.B.W.).

SYNAGOGUE, St. Ste. g, a Jewish place of assembly; Lat. synagoga ( Vulg.)= ovvaywyn, a bringing together, an assembly.

SYNODALS, II., Canons of Pro­vincial Synods; Eccles. Lat. syno­dale, a letter to the faithful from a synod( Ducange), from synodus; Eccles. Gk. úvodos, a Christian assembly, lit. a coming together.

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TABERNACLE, Ps. 78. 61,' the tabernacle in Silo,' the dwelling­place of Shiloh; Lat. tabernacu­tum( Vulg.), a tent; also among the Romans in religious language the place wherein auspices were observed.

TABLE, THE, xv., also the Lord's

Table, the holy Table;' the word is borrowed from 1 Cor. 10. 21, and is a liturgical term of great antiquity. So among the Romans the word' mensa' was used of a sacrificial table.

TABRET, Ps. 81. 2& 149. 3, timbrel ( A.V.), tambourine; see Aids( art. MUSIC); tabret, tabouret is a di­minutive of tabour; O.Fr. tabour; Span. tambor; Arab. tambur.

TALENT, 22 Tr. g, the Attic talent, a sum of money, worth about £ 200; Lat. talentum( Vulg.)= τάλαντον.

TARRY, Ps. 27. 16,' O tarry thou the Lord's leisure,' wait patiently on Jehovah.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. Shaks. Troil. i. 1. 16.

TE DEUM LAUDAMUS, IX., the hymn is so called from the first three words of the Latin original, which mean, We praise Thee ( Christ) as God.'

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