ALMS  , the giving of See also:

• RELIEF

relief, and the relief given, whether in goods or See also:

• MONEY

money, to the poor, particularly applied to the' charity bestowed under a sense of religious See also:

• OBLIGATION

obligation (see CHARITY AND CHARITIES) . The word in O . Eng. was aelmysse, and is derived through the See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation (cf. the See also:

• MODERN

modern Ger. almosen ) of the Latinized See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the Gr . EXei ovuvi7, compassion or See also:

• MERCY (adapted from Fr. merci, Lat. merces, reward)
• MERCY (or MERCI), FRANZ, FREIHERR VON

mercy, from EXsos, pity . The See also:

• ENGLISH

English word " eleemosynary," that which is given in the way of alms, charitable, gratuitous, derives See also:

• DIRECT

direct from the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek . " Alms " is often, like " riches," wrongly taken as a plural word .