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A writer or composer of sacred songs a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms...
Lection
A lesson or selection especially of Scripture read in divine service...
Scripture
Anything written a writing a document an inscription...
Scripturist
One who is strongly attached to or versed in the Scriptures or who endeavors to regulate his life by them...
Apostacy
Apostacy, a total renunciation of Christianity, by embracing either a false religion or no religion at all (4 Bl. Com. 43). A person educated as a Christian who denies the truth of Christianity, or the Divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, is liable to heavy penalties under the 'Blasphemy Act.' See BLASPHEMY.Means a crime against religion consisting in the total renunciation of Christianity by one who had previously embraced it, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 93....
Benefit of clergy
Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes and states, anciently converted to Christianity, granted to the clergy very bountiful privileges and exemptions, and particularly an immunity of their persons in criminal proceedings before secular judges. The clergy, afterwards increasing in wealth, number, and power, claimed this benefit as an indefeasible right, which had been merely a matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture: 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' They obtained great enlargements of this privilege, extending it not only to persons in holy orders, but also to all who had any kind of subordinate ministration in the church, and even to laymen if they could read, applying it to civil as well as criminal causes. These exemptions at length grew so burthensome and scandalous, that the legislature from time to time interfered, by making par...
Bible
Bible. For punishment of persons (brought up, etc., as Christian) denying 'the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of divine authority,' see 9 Wm. 3, c. 32 (Ruff)....
Canterbury, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Archbishop of, the Primate of All England: the Chief Ecclesiastical Dignitary in the Church; his customary privilege is to crown the kings and queens of England; he is an ex-officio trustee of the British Museum. The Archbishop of Canterbury has, by 25 Hen. 8, c. 21, the power of granting dispensation in any case not contrary to the Holy Scriptures and the law of God, where the Pope used formerly to grant them, which is the foundation of his granting special licenses to marry at any place or time. By the Jews Relief Act, 1858, (21 & 22 Vict. C. 49), s. 4, the right of exercising the official ecclesiastical patronage of a Jew is vested in the Archbishop for the time being....
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Om
Om, the expression 'Om' is respected by the Hindus generally and has a special significance in the Hindu scriptures. It is recited at the commence-ment of the recitations of Hindu religious works. Macdonell in his 'A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary' states that 'Om' is the sacred syllable used in invocations, at the commencement of prayers, at the beginning and the end of Vedic recitation, and as a respectful salutation: it is a subject of many mystical speculations. In the Sanskrit-English Dictionary by Monier-William it is said that 'Om' is a sacred exclamation which may be uttered at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or previously to any prayer; it is also regarded as a particle of auspicious salutation. To 'Om' high spiritual or mystical efficacy is undoubtedly ascribed; but its use on a flag ('Om Dhwaj') does not symbolise religion, or anything religious, Jagdev Singh Sidhanti v. Pratap Singh Daulta, AIR 1965 SC 183: (1964) 6 SCR 750....
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