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NIMES, COUNCILS OF (Concilia Nemausensia)

NIMES, See also:
COUNCILS
COUNCILS OF (Concilia Nemausensia) . Of the four councils held at Nimes those of 886 and 1284 are relatively unimportant. The See also:

synod of 394 adopted seven canons on discipline, which were first printed in 1743 and have not as yet Many later legends gathered See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round See also:

NIMROD (-`s??, -i=s; Septuagint, Nef3pc5£: various reading in Gen. x. 8, Nef3p6av: Vulg. Nemrod)

Nimrod ; See also:

Philo, De gigantibus, § 15, allegorises more suo. Nimrod stands for treachery or See also:

DESERTION

desertion, according to the derivation from mrd mentioned above. According to See also:

JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)

Josephus, See also:

Ant. I. iv. 2, vi. 2, Nimrod built the See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower of See also:

BABEL

Babel. According to the Rabbis (Tzeenah u Reenah, Hershon's tr., p. 59), Nimrod See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast See also:

ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

Abraham into the See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire because he refused to See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship idols. See also:

God, however, delivered him. Nimrod, in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form Nimrud or Nimroud, is an See also:

ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in many See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-names in western See also:

ASIA

Asia.

(W. H. BE.) made their way into the See also:

GREAT

great collections. At the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

JULY

July 1og6 See also:

Pope See also:

Urban II. presided, and sixteen disciplinary canons were adopted, which have many points of contact with the canons of the council of Clermont. See, for the first council of Nimes, Lauchert, pp. 183-185; for the others, See also:

HARDOUIN, JEAN (1646-1729)

Hardouin vi. 1. 397, vi. 2. 1747 if., vii. 903 ff.; full titles under CouNc1L. (W.

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