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for a particular portion of a large church. It has been interpreted to 

 mean the place for *' the little ones," i. e. the schools. Its real form 

 is paradis, i. e. paradise : and it denotes properly the pronaos or 

 "ante-chapel." The Parvis of a church was a place of public resort. 

 In a document, temp. Hen. VIII., quoted in Herbert's Inns Of Court, 

 p. 217, a complaint is made in respect of the Middle Temple, that 

 "they (the fellows) have no place to walk in, and talk and confer 

 their learnings, but in the church, which place all the terme times 

 hath in it no more quietnesse than the pervyse of Powles, by occasion 

 of the confluence and concourse of such as are suters in the law." — 

 Carillon is quadrilio modified under French influence. It is properly 

 a set oifour bells. The chime of eight lately put up in Toronto is 

 thus a do\ible carillon. — In other ecclesiastical terms, as in " sides- 

 men," properly " synodsmen," forced interpretations will be found. 



The Latin and French of the Law Courts become, ot course, in 

 the mouths of the uneducated, sounds of sufficiently strange import, 

 like the cabalistic sesarara^ for certiorari, of Nicholas in the *' Puri- 

 tan," attributed to Shakspeare, and the well-known " yes." But 

 occasionally the vernacularism becomes written and established, as 

 in "justices in Eyre," i. e. "justices in itinerep itinerant Judges 

 (not, however, to be confounded with "cursitor Ijarons"), and 

 "jeofi'ail" (pronounced jcffail), "an oversight in pleading," for fai 

 failli. Even the old Saxon Thryddings, i. e. Thirdings, denoting 

 tripartite division, have been transformed into Ridings. — The "Four 

 Sidings" of our Canadian county of York indicate, verbally, some- 

 thing that is impossible. At the first organization of the Province 

 of Upper Canada (1798), the County of Lincoln also was divided 

 mto four Eidings, and the County of York into two. Yorkshire in 

 England, whence th« term has been (without intelligence) adopted, 

 retains its original subdivision into three sections, or thryddings. 



A suspicion of " means of living " has crept into "livery." But 

 " livery " in all its senses, legal as well as ordinary, is the Erench 

 livree : from the Latin liber-are. That which we give and deliver 

 over we separate and set free from ourselves. 



Among musical instruments, the oriental sambuca is vernacularized 

 into saclchut, although sambuca is a stringed. instrument, and sacJcbut 

 is the trombone. Out of Jiautbois we make hautboy. It is not long 

 since it was hoboy. The Italians have turned it into oboe, a term we 

 employ as well. In the time of Edward III. the instrument was 



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