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See also:EMINENCE (See also:Lat. eminentia) , a See also:title of See also:honour now confined to the cardinals 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 of See also:Rome. It was originally given as a complimentary title to emperors, See also:kings, and then to less conspicuous persons. The See also:Roman See also:empire of the 4th See also:century adopted from the " vanity of the See also:East the forms and ceremonies of ostentatious greatness." See also:Gibbon includes in the " profusion of epithets " by which " the purity of the Latin See also:language was debased," and which were lavished on " the See also:principal See also:officers of the empire," " your Sincerity, your Gravity, your See also:Excellency, your Eminence, your See also:sublime and wonderful Magnitude, your illustrious and magnificent See also:Highness." From the notitia dignitatum it passed into the Latin of the See also:middle ages as a flattering epithet, and was applied in the church and by the popes to the dignified See also:clergy at large, and sometimes as a pure See also:form of civility to churchmen of modest See also:rank. On the loth of See also:June 163o, See also:Urban VIII. confined the use of the titles Eminentiae and Eminentissimi to the cardinals, to imperial See also:electors, and to the See also:master of the See also:Hospital of St See also:John of See also:Jerusalem (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 the Knights of See also:Malta). Since the See also:dissolution of the See also:Holy Roman Empire, and the entire See also:change, if not actual destruction, of the order of St John, the title " eminence " has become strictly confined to the cardinals. Before 163o the members of the Sacred See also:College were " Illustrissimi " and " Reverendissimi." It is, therefore, not correct to speak of a See also:cardinal who lived before that 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 as " his Eminence."
See du Cange, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis (See also:Niort and See also:London, 1884), s.v.
End of Article: EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)
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