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PIKE , a word which, with its See also: collateral forms " pick " and " See also:peak," has as its basic meaning that of anything pointed or tapering to a point. The ultimate See also:etymology is much disputed, and the interrelation of the collaterals is very confused. In Old See also:English there are two forms (See also:pie), one with a See also:long and the other with a See also:short vowel, which give " pike " and " pick " respectively. The first See also:form gave in the 15th See also:century the variant " peak," first with reference to the peaked shoes then fashionable, pekyd schone. In Romanic See also:languages are found Fr. pie., Span. See also:Pico, Ital. piccare, to See also:pierce, &c. There are also similar words in Welsh, Cornish and See also:Breton. The Scandinavian forms, e.g. Swed. and Nor. See also:pile, are probably taken from English. While some authorities take the See also:Celtic as the See also:original, others look to Latin for the source. Here the See also:woodpecker, See also:picus, is referred to, or more probably the See also:root seen in See also:silica, See also:ear of See also:corn, and See also:spina, prickle (English spike, spine). The current differentiation in meanings attached to pike, pick and peak are more or less clearly marked, though in dialects they may vary. (1) Pike: Apart from the use as the name of the See also: fish (see above), probably a shortened form of pike-fish, from its See also:sharp, pointed See also:beak, the See also:common uses of the word are for a long hafted weapon with sharply pointed See also:head of See also:iron or See also:steel, the common weapon of the See also:foot-soldier till the introduction of the See also:bayonet (see See also:SPEAR and BAYONET), and for a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill with a pointed See also:summit, appearing chiefly in the names of such hills in See also:Cumberland, See also:Westmorland and See also:North See also:West See also:Lancashire. It may be noticed that the proverbial expression " See also:plain as a pike-See also:staff " appears originally as " plain as a See also:pack-staff," the See also:flat plain sided staff on which a pedlar carried and rested his pack. The use of " pike " for a See also:highway, a See also:toll-See also:gate, &c., is merely short for " See also:turnpike." (2) Pick: As a substantive this form is chiefly used of the common See also:tool of the See also:navvy and the miner, consisting of a curved See also:double-ended head set at right angles to the handle, one end being squared with a See also:chisel edge, the other pointed, and used for loosening and breaking hard masses of See also:earth, See also:coal, &c. (see Toots). The other name for this tool, " pickaxe," is a corruption of the earlier pikoys, Fr. picois, M. See also:Lat. picosium, formed from Fr. pie, the termination being adapted to the See also:familiar English " See also:axe." The sense-development of the verb " to pick " is not very clear, but the following meanings give the probable See also:line: to dig into anything like a See also:bird with its beak, in 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 to See also:extract or remove something, to gather, See also:pluck, hence to select, choose. (3) Peak: The See also:chief uses are for the front of a cap or See also:hat projecting sharply over the eyes, for the See also:part of a See also:ship's
of See also:Sejanus, to be See also:procurator over part of the imperial See also:province of See also:Syria, viz. See also:Judaea, See also:Samaria and Idumea. He ruled ten years, quarrelled almost continuously with the See also:Jews—whom Sejanus, diverging from the See also:Caesar tradition, is said to have disliked—and in A.D. 36 was recalled. Before he arrived Tiberius died, and See also:Pilate disappears from See also:history. See also:Eusebius relates (Hist. eccl. ii. 7)—but three centuries later and on the authority of earlier writers unnamed—that he was exiled to See also: Gaul and committed See also:suicide at See also:Vienne.
Pilate kept the See also:Roman See also:peace in See also:Palestine but with little understanding of the See also:people. Sometimes he had to yield; as when he had sent the See also:standards, by See also:night, into the See also:Holy See also:City, and was besieged for five days by suppliants who had rushed to Caesarea (Jos. See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
Ant. 31; B. J. ii. ix. 2, 3); and again when he hung up inscribed See also:shields in See also:Jerusalem, and was ordered by Tiberius to remove them to the other city (See also:Philo ad Gaium 38). Sometimes he struck more promptly; as when the See also:mob piotested against his using the See also:temple treasure to build an See also:aqueduct for Jerusalem, and he disguised his soldiers to disperse them with clubs (Jos. Ant. xviii. 3, 2); or when he " mingled the See also:blood " of some unknown Galileana " with their sacrifices " (See also:Luke xiii. 1); or slew the See also:Samaritans who came to Mt See also:Gerizim to dig up sacred vessels hidden by See also:Moses there (Jos. Ant. xviii. 4, 1)—an incident which led to his recall. Philo, who tells how any See also: suggestion of See also:appeal by the Jews to Tiberius enraged him, sums up their view of Pilate in See also:Agrippa's words, as a See also:man " inflexible, merciless, obstinate."
A more discriminating See also:light is thrown upon him by the New Testament narratives of the trial of Jesus. They illustrate the right of See also:review or recognitio which the See also:Romans retained, at least in See also:capital causes; the See also:charge brought in this See also:case of acting adversus majestatem populi romani; the claim made by Jesus to be a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king; and the result that his See also:judge became convinced that the claimant was opposed neither to the public peace nor to the See also:civil supremacy of See also:Rome. The result is explained only by the See also:dialogue, recorded exclusively in See also:John, which shows the accused and the Roman See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting on the highest levels of the thought and See also:conscience of the 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. " I am come to See also:bear See also:witness unto the truth . . . Pilate answered, What is truth?" Estimates of Pilate's attitude at this point have varied infinitely, from See also:Tertullian's, that he was " already in conviction a See also:Christian "—jam See also:pro sua conscientia Christianus-
i in 4) to the summit. In 1905 a powerful searchlight was to See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon's " jesting Pilate," who would not stay for a reply. erected on the summit. We know only that to his persistent attempts thereafter to get
Pike's Peak was discovered in See also:November 1806 by Lieut. his proposed See also:verdict accepted by the people, came their fatal Zebuln- M. Pike. He attempted to See also:scale it, but took the wrong See also:answer, " See also:Thou See also:art not Caesar's friend," and that at last he path and found himself at the summit of See also:Cheyenne See also:Mountain.
He pronounced the mountain unclimbable. In 1819 it was successfully climbed by the exploring party of See also: Major S. H. Long.
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