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ODDFELLOWS, ORDER OF

ODDFELLOWS, 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 See also:

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret benevolent and social society, having mystic signs of recognition, initiatory See also:

RITES

rites and ceremonies, and various grades of dignity and See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour. See also:

GREAT

Great antiquity has been claimed for the order of Oddfellows—the most popular tradition ascribing it to the Jewish See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

legion under See also:

Titus, who, it is asserted, received from the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor its first See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter written on a See also:

GOLDEN

golden tablet. Oddfellows themselves, however, now generally admit that the institution cannot be traced back beyond the first See also:

HALF

half of the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and explain the name as adopted at a See also:

time when the severance into sects and classes was so wide that persons aiming at social See also:

union and mutual help were a marked exception to the See also:

general See also:

RULE

rule. Mention is made by See also:

DEFOE, DANIEL (c. 1.659—1731)

Defoe of the society of Oddfellows, but the See also:

OLDEST

oldest See also:

lodge of which the name has been handed down is the Loyal Aristarcus, No. 9, which met in 1745 " at the Oakley Arms, See also:

Borough of See also:

SOUTHWARK

Southwark; Globe See also:

TAVERN

Tavern, See also:

Hatton See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden; or the See also:

BOAR (0. Eng. bar; the word is found only in W. Ger. languages, cf. Dutch beer, Ger. Eber)

Boar's See also:

Head in Smithfield, as the See also:

NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master may See also:

DIRECT

direct." The earliest lodges were supported by each member and visitor paying a See also:

penny to the secretary on entering the lodge, and See also:

SPECIAL

special sums were voted to any See also:

BROTHER

brother in need. If out of See also:

WORK

work he was supplied with a card and funds to reach the next lodge, and he went from lodge to lodge until he found employment. The lodges gradually adopted a definite See also:

COMMON

common See also:

RITUAL (from Lat. ritus, a custom, especially a religious rite or custom)

ritual and became confederated under the name of the Patriotic Order. Towards the end ofthe century many of the lodges were broken up by See also:

State prosecutions on the suspicion that their purposes were seditious," but the society continued to exist as the Union Order of Oddfellows until 1809. In 1813, at a See also:

convention in See also:

Manchester, was formed the See also:

INDEPENDENT

Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, which now overshadows all the See also:

minor See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies in See also:

England. Oddfellowship was introduced into the See also:

UNITED

United States from the Manchester. Unity in 1819, and the See also:

GRAND

grand lodge of See also:

MARYLAND

Maryland and the United States was constituted on the 22nd of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1821. It now rivals in membership and See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence the Manchester Unity, from which it severed its connexion in 1842.

In 1843 it issued a See also:

DISPENSATION

dispensation for opening the See also:

Prince of See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales Lodge No.1 at See also:

MONTREAL

Montreal, See also:

CANADA

Canada. The See also:

AMERICAN

American society, including Canada and the United States, has its headquarters at See also:

Baltimore. Organizations, connected either with the United States or England, have been founded in See also:

France, See also:

Germany, See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland, See also:

GIBRALTAR

Gibraltar and See also:

Malta, See also:

AUSTRALIA

Australia, New See also:

ZEALAND (also SEALAND Or SEELAND; Danish Sjaelland)

Zealand, the See also:

Fiji Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, See also:

South See also:

Africa, South See also:

AMERICA

America, the See also:

West Indies and See also:

BARBADOS, or BARBADOES

Barbados, and elsewhere. The rules of the different societies, various See also:

SONG

song-books, and a number of minor books on Oddfellowship have been published, but the most See also:

COMPLETE

complete and trustworthy See also:

account of the institution is that in The Complete See also:

MANUAL

Manual of Oddfellowship, its See also:

HISTORY

History, Principlesi Ceremonies and Symbolism, privately printed. (1899).

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