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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 134 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACE (derived through the See also:Lat. as, from the Tarentine See also:form of the Gr. etc)  , the number one at See also:dice, or the single point on a See also:die or card; also a point in the See also:score of See also:racquets, See also:lawn-See also:tennis, tennis and other See also:court See also:games . . ACELDAMA (according to Acts i . 19, " the See also:field of See also:blood "), the name given to the field See also:purchased by Judas Iscariot with the See also:money he received for the betrayal of Jesus See also:Christ . A different version is given in See also:Matthew See also:xxvii . 8, where Judas is said to have See also:cast down the money in the See also:Temple, and the priests who had paid it to have recovered the pieces, with which they bought " the See also:potter's field, to See also:bury strangers in." The MS. See also:evidence is greatly in favour of a See also:form Aceldamach . This would seem to mean " the field of thy blood," which is unsuitable . Since, however, we find elsewhere one name appearing as both Sirach and Sira (ch = se), Aceldamach may be another form of an See also:original Aceldama (e+ ' See also:San), the " field of blood." A . Klostermann, however, takes the ch to be See also:part of the Aramaic See also:root demach, " to See also:sleep "; the word would then mean " field of sleep " or See also:cemetery (Probleme ins Aposteltexte, 1-8, 1883), an explanation which fits in well with the See also:account in Matthew xxvii . The traditional site (now Hak el-Dum), S. of See also:Jerusalem on the N.E. slope of the "See also:Hill of Evil Counsel" (See also:Jebel See also:Deir See also:Abu Tor), was used as a See also:burial-See also:place for See also:Christian pilgrims from the 6th See also:century A.D. till as See also:late, apparently, as 1697, and especially in the See also:time of the See also:Crusades . Near it there is a very See also:ancient charnel-See also:house, partly See also:rock-cut, partly of See also:masonry, said to be the See also:work of Crusaders .

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