See also:MORTUARY (Med. See also:Lat. mortuarium, from mortuus, dead)
, of or belonging to the dead, or, in particular, to the See also:burial
2 In his See also:book See also:Morton indulges his fondness for punning and display of Latinity by calling the See also:place See also:Mare-See also:Mount (See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill by the See also:sea)
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of the dead
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The See also:chief See also:modern use of the word is for a See also:building in which dead bodies awaiting burial may be temporarily kept, for the purpose of inquiry, See also:identification, See also:post-mortem examination, &c
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But it has also been applied to many subjects connected with See also:death and burial
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In monastic institutions it was the See also:duty of the See also:almoner to send See also:round to other monastic houses See also:notice of the death of a member, asking for prayers for the soul of the dead
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This notice was often beautifully illuminated
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On being returned with the endorsement of the monastery to which it had been sent, it would be copied into the See also:roll
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Both the notice and the roll were known as a mortuarium, or See also:mortuary (see See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot F
.
H
.
Gasquet's See also:English Monastic See also:Life, 1904)
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In the English 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 a "mortuary " was in certain places a customary See also:oblation or offering paid out of the See also:estate of a deceased See also:person to the church to which he belonged
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An See also:act of 1529 (21 See also:Hen
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VIII. c
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6) limited the amount to be paid in mortuaries, the highest being of the value of sos. in estates above £40
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Mortuaries, where customary, can only be enforced in the ecclesiastical courts
.
The See also:custom has entirely died out, though claims have been made from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time
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