See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

ALEXANDER See also:

• ALEXANDER GEDDES (1737-1802)
• GEDDES, ANDREW (1783-1844)
• GEDDES, JAMES LORRAINE (1827-1887)
• GEDDES, SIR WILLIAM DUGUID (1828-1900)

GEDDES (1737-1802)  , Scottish See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic theologian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Rathven, See also:

• BANFFSHIRE

Banffshire, on the 14th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1937 . He was trained at the Roman Catholic See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary at Scalan and at the Scottish See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where he studied biblical See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, school divinity and See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . In 1764 he officiated as a See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest in See also:

• DUNDEE
• DUNDEE, JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT (c. 1649-1689)

Dundee, but in May 1765 accepted an invitation to live with the See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• TRAQUAIR, SIR JOHN STEWART, 1ST EARI

Traquair; where, with abundance of leisure and the See also:

• FREE

free use of an adequate library, he made further progress in his favourite biblical studies . After a second visit to Paris, which was employed by him in See also:

• READING

reading and making extracts from rare books and See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts,he was appointed in 1769 priest of Auchinhalrig and Preshome in his native See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county . The freedom with which he fraternized with his See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant neighbours called forth the rebuke of his See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop (See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• HAY
• HAY (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Heu, Dutch hooi; the root from which it is derived, meaning " to cut," is also seen in " to hew "; cf. " hoe ")
• HAY, GEORGE (1729—1811)
• HAY, GILBERT
• HAY, JOHN (1838–1905)

Hay), and ultimately, for See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting and for occasionally attending the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of See also:

• CULLEN
• CULLEN, PAUL (1803–1878)
• CULLEN, W
• CULLEN, WILLIAM (1710-179o)

Cullen, where one of his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends was See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, he was deprived of his See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge and forbidden the exercise of ecclesiastical functions within the See also:

• DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese . This happened in 1779; and in 178o he went with his friend See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Traquair to See also:

• LONDON

London, where he spent the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life . Before leaving See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland he had received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the university of See also:

• ABERDEEN
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL O (1637-1720)
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL

Aberdeen, and •had been made an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries, in the institution of which he had taken a very active See also:

• PART

part . In London See also:

• GEDDES, ALEXANDER (1737-1802)
• GEDDES, ANDREW (1783-1844)
• GEDDES, JAMES LORRAINE (1827-1887)
• GEDDES, SIR WILLIAM DUGUID (1828-1900)

Geddes soon received an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment in connexion with the See also:

• CHAPEL

chapel of the imperial See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador, and was also helped by Lord See also:

• PETRE, SIR EDWARD (1631-1699)
• PETRE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1505-1572)

Petre in his See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme for a new Catholic version of the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible . In 1786, supported also by such scholars as See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin See also:

• KENNICOTT, BENJAMIN (1718-r783)

Kennicott and See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• LOWTH, ROBERT (1710-1787)

Lowth, Geddes published a See also:

• PROSPECTUS (Lat. for view, look-out, prospect, from prospicere, to look forward)

Prospectus of a new See also:

• TRANSLATION

Translation of the See also:

• HOLY

Holy Bible, a considerable See also:

• QUARTO

quarto See also:

• VOLUME

volume, in which the defects of previous See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations were fully pointed out, and the means indicated by which these might be removed . It was well received, and led to the publication in 1788 of Proposals for See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

Printing, with a specimen, and in 1790 of a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

Answer to Queries, Counsels and Criticisms . The first volume of the translation itself, which was entitled The Holy Bible . . faithfully translated from corrected Texts of the Originals, with various Readings, explanatory Notes and See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical Remarks, appeared in 1792, and was the See also:

• SIGNAL

signal for a See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm of hostility on the part of both Catholics and Protestants .

It was obvious enough—no small offence in the eyes of some—that as a critic Geddes had identified himself with C . F . Houbigant (1686-1783), Kennicott and J . D . See also:

• MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID (1717-1791)

Michaelis, but others did not hesitate to stigmatize him as the would-be " corrector of the Holy See also:

• GHOST (a word common to the W. Teutonic languages; O.E. vest, Dutch, 'geest, Ger. Geist)

Ghost." Three of the vicars-apostolic almost immediately warned all the faithful against the " use and reception " of his translation, on the ostensible ground that it had not been examined and approved by due ecclesiastical authority; and by his own bishop (See also:

• DOUGLAS
• DOUGLAS, GAVIN (1474?-1522)
• DOUGLAS, JOHN (1721—1807.)
• DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES
• DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD
• DOUGLAS, STEPHEN ARNOLD (18,3–1861)

Douglas) he was in 1793 suspended from the exercise of his orders in the London See also:

• DISTRICT

district . The second volume of the translation, completing the See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical books, published in 1797, found no more friendly reception; but this circumstance did not discourage him from giving forth in 1800 the volume of Critical Remarks on the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew Scriptures, which presented in a some-what brusque manner the then novel and startling views of See also:

• EICHHORN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED (1752-1827)
• EICHHORN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1781-1854)

Eichhorn and his school on the See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive See also:

• HISTORY

history and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early records of mankind . Geddes was engaged on a critical translation of the See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

Psalms (published in 1807) when he was seized with an illness of which he died on the 26th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1802 . Athough under ecclesiastical censures, he had never swerved from a consistent profession of faith as a Catholic; and on his See also:

• DEATH

death-See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed he duly received the last See also:

• RITES

rites of his communion . Besides See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets on the Catholic and See also:

• SLAVERY

slavery questions, as well as several fugitive jeux d'esprit, and a number of unsigned articles in the See also:

• ANALYTICAL

Analytical See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, Geddes also published a free metrical version of Select Satires of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace (1779), and a verbal rendering of the First See also:

• BOOK

Book of the Iliad of See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer 1792) . The See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of his life and writings by his friend See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
• MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
• MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
• MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
• MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
• MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
• MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
• MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
• MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
• MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)

Mason See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good appeared in 1803 .