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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.
(2): ( n.) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(better known as abbot Chaffrey), a Roman Catholic French writer, was born at Abries in 1813. In 1839 he received holy orders, and was appointed professor at the seminary in Embrun. He was honorary canon of different chapters, and died at Paris in 1872. He published, Le Panorama des Predications (1851-55, 3 volumes: 8th ed. 1864): — La Bibliotheque des Predicateurs (1867-68, 4 volumes): — Theologie Morale en Tableaux (1857): — Repertoire de la Doctrine Chretienne (1857; 2d ed. 1859-63, 3 volumes): — Portraits Litteraires des Plus Celebres Predicateurs Contemporains (1858): — Mois de Alarie des Predicateurs (eod. 2 volumes): — Sermons Nouveaux sur les Mysteres de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ (1860, 2 volumes): — Vies des Saints a l'Usage des Predicateurs (1861-68, 4 volumes). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
The name of five Popes:
ope from 649 to 655;
ope from 882 to 884;
ope from 942 to 946;
ope from 1281 to 1285;
ope from 1417 to 1431, distinguished for having condemned Huss to be burned.
