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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 72 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ABRAHAMITES , a See also:

SECT

sect of deists in Bohemia in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, who professed to be followers of the pre-circumcised See also:

ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham. Believing in one See also:

GOD

God, they contented themselves with the See also:

DECALOGUE (in patristic Gr. 7] SercaXoyos, sc. (3i(3)tos or vopoGevia)

Decalogue and the Paternoster. Declining to be classed either as Christians or See also:

Jews, they were excluded from the See also:

EDICT (Lat. edictum, from e, out, and dicere, to say, speak)

edict of See also:

TOLERATION (from Lat. tolerare, to endure)

toleration promulgated by the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Joseph II. in 1781, and deported to various parts of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the men being drafted into frontier regiments. Some became See also:

ROMAN

Roman Catholics, and those who retained their " Abrahamite " views were not able to See also:

hand them on to the next See also:

GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation. ABRAHAM-MEN, the See also:

NICKNAME

nickname for vagrants who infested See also:

England in Tudor times. The phrase is certainly as old as 1561, and was due to these. beggars pretending that they were patients discharged from the Abraham See also:

ward at See also:

BEDLAM, or BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL

Bedlam. The genuine Bedlamite was allowed to roam the country on his See also:

DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge, ABRUZZI soliciting See also:

ALMS

alms, provided he wore 'a badge.

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