A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Volume 1; Including the Latest Improvement and Discovery and the Present States of Every Branch of Human Knowledge (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ... dispensation, and take two benefices with cure of souls. A chaplain must he retained by letters testimonial under hand and seal; for it is not sufficient that lie serve as chaplain in the family. CHAPLET, a string of beads used by the Roman catholics to count the number of their prayers. The invention of it is ascribed to Peter the Hermit, who probably learned it of the Turks, as they owe it to the East Indians. Chaplcts are sometimes called pater-nostcrs, and arc made of coral, of diamond, of wood, &c. The common chaplet contains fifty ave-marias and five paternosters. CHAPPE', in heraldry, the dividing an escutcheon by lines drawn from the centre of the upper edge to the angles below, into three parts, the sections on the sides being of a different metal or colour from the rest. CHARA, a genus of the monanclria order, in the moncecia class of plants. There is neither male calyx nor corolla; and theanthera is placed under thegermen. The female calyx is tetraphyllous; no corolla; the stigma quin quefid, with one roundish seed. There are 4 species. CHARACTER, in a general sense, denotes any mark whatever, serving to represent either things or ideas: thus letters are characters, types, or marks, of certain sounds; words, of ideas, &c. See Letter, &c. Character. If one person apply to another for the character of a third person, and a good character as to his solvancy be given, yet if, in consequence of this opinion, the party asking the question suffix loss through the person's insolvency, no action lies against him who gave the character if it were fairly given. 1 Esp. Rep. 442. But if a man w ickedly asserts that w hich he knows to be false, and thereby dra s his neighbour into a loss, it is actionable. 3 T. R, 351. But if the party giving credi...