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See also:BOYD, ZACHARY (1585?-1653) , Scottish divine, was educated at the See also:universities of See also:Glasgow and St See also:Andrews. He was for many years a teacher in the See also:Protestant See also:college of See also:Saumur in See also:France, but returned to See also:Scotland in 1621, to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape the Huguenot persecution. In 1623 he was appointed See also:minister of the See also:Barony 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 in Glasgow, and he was See also:rector of the university in 1634, 1635 and 1645. He bequeathed to the university the See also:half of his See also:fortune, a sum amounting to £20,000 Scots, besides his library and twelve volumes of See also:MSS. His poetical compositions, though often See also:eccentric, have some merit. The See also:common statement that he made the See also:printing of his metrical version of the Gospels and other Biblical narratives a See also:condition of the reception of his See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant to the university is a See also:mistake. In later years he was a staunch Covenanter, and though for a 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 opposed to See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, afterwards became friendly with him. His best-known See also:works are The See also:Battel of the Soul in See also:Death (1629), of which a new,edition, with a See also:biography by G. Neil, was published in Glasgow in 1831; See also:Zion's Flowers—often called " Boyd's See also:Bible " (1644); Four Letters of Comfort (1640, reprinted, See also:Edinburgh, 1878).
End of Article: BOYD, ZACHARY (1585?-1653)
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