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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 598 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DRUIDS, ORDER OF

DRUIDS, See also:
ORDER
ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
ORDER, HOLY
ORDER OF , a friendly society founded, as an See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of the See also:

ancient Druids, in See also:

LONDON

London in 1781. They adopted Masonic See also:

RITES

rites and spread to See also:

AMERICA

America (1833) and See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia. Their lodges are called " Groves." • In 1872 the Order was introduced into See also:

Germany.

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