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See also:AUTOCRACY (Gr. abroepareca, See also:absolute See also:power) , a See also:term applied to that See also:form of See also:government which is absolute or irresponsible, and vested in one single See also:person. It is a type of government usually found amongst eastern peoples; amongst more civilized nations the only example is that of See also:Russia, where the See also:sovereign assumes as a See also:title " the autocrat of all the Russias."
AUTO-DA-F$, more correctly AUTO-DE-FE (See also:act of faith), the name of the ceremony during the course of which the sentences of the See also:Spanish See also:inquisition were read and executed. The autoda-fe was almost identical with the set-ma generalis of the See also:medieval inquisition. It never took See also:place on a feast See also:day of the 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, but on some famous anniversary: the See also:accession of a Spanish monarch, his See also:marriage, the See also:birth of an See also:infant, &c. It was public: the 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, the royal See also:family, the See also:grand See also:councils of the See also:kingdom, the See also:court and the See also:people being See also:present. The ceremony comprised a procession in which the members of the See also:Holy See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, with its familiars and agents, the condemned persons and the penitents took See also:part; a See also:solemn See also:mass; an See also:oath of obedience to the inquisition, taken by the king and all the See also:lay functionaries; a See also:sermon by the Grand Inquisitor; and the See also:reading of the sentences, either of condemnation or acquittal, delivered by the Holy Office. The handing over of impenitent persons, and those who had relapsed, to the See also:secular power, and their See also:punishment, did not usually take place on the occasion of an auto-da-fe, properly so called. Sometimes those who were condemned to the flames were burned on the See also:night following the ceremony. The first See also:great .auto-da-fes were celebrated when See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas de See also:Torquemada was at the See also:head of the Spanish inquisition (See also:Seville 1482, See also:Toledo 140, &c.). The last, subsequent to the 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 of See also:Charles III., we held in See also:secret; moreover, they dealt with only a very small number of sentences, of which hardly any were See also:capital. The isolated cases of the torturing of a revolutionary See also:priest in See also:Mexico in 1816, and of a relapsed See also:Jew and of a Quaker in See also:Spain during 1826, cannot really be considered as auto-da-fes. (P.
End of Article: AUTOCRACY (Gr. abroepareca, absolute power)
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