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See also:AESTIVATION (from See also:Lat. aestivare, to spend the aestas, or summer; the word is sometimes spelled " estivation ") , literally " summer See also:residence," a See also:term used in See also:zoology for the See also:condition of torpor into which certain animals pass during the hottest See also:season in hot and dry countries, contrasted with the similar See also:winter condition known as See also:hibernation (q.v.). In See also:botany the word is used of the praefloration or folded arrangement of the petals in a See also:flower before expansion in the summer, contrasted with " vernation " of leaves which unfold in the See also:spring.
1ETHELBALD, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Mercia, succeeded Ceolred A.D. 716. According to See also:Felix, See also:Life of St Guthlac, he visited the See also:saint at See also:Crowland, when exiled by Ceolred and pursued by his emissaries before his See also:accession, and was cheered by predictions of his future greatness. According to See also:Bede, the whole of See also:Britain as far See also:north as the See also:Humber was included within the See also:sphere of his authority. His See also:energy in preserving his See also:influence is shown by several entries in the See also:Chronicle. He made an expedition against Wessex in 733, in which See also:year he took the royal See also:vill of Somerton. In 740 he took See also:advantage of the See also:absence of Eadberht of See also:Northumbria in a See also:campaign against the Picts to invade his See also:kingdom. In 743 he fought with Cuthred, king of Wessex, against the Welsh, but the See also:alliance did not last See also:long, as in 752 Cuthred took up arms against him. In 757 1Ethelbald was slain by his See also:guards at Seckington (See also:Warwickshire) and buried at See also:Repton. He seems to have been the most powerful and energetic king of Mercia between See also:Penda and See also:Offa. A See also:letter of St See also:Boniface is preserved, in which he rebukes this king for his immoralities and encroachments on 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 See also:property, while recognizing his merits as a monarch. By a See also:charter of 749 he freed ecclesiastical lands from
all obligations except the trinoda See also:necessitas.
See Bede, Hist. Ecc. (ed. Plummer), v. 23 and Continuatio s.a. 740, 75o, 757; Saxon Chronicle (See also:Earle and Plummer), s.a. 716, 733, 737, 740, 741, 743, 755; See also:Mabillon, Acta Sanctorum, ii. pp. 264, 275, 276, 279, 283-284; P. Jaffe, Monumenta Moguntiaca, iii. pp. 168-177; W. de G. See also:Birch, Cartul. Saxon. 178 (1885-1893). (F. G. M.
End of Article: AESTIVATION (from Lat. aestivare, to spend the aestas, or summer; the word is sometimes spelled " estivation ")
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