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Clirift during his transfiguration on the mount. Barlaam, a 

 monk of Calabria, from whom the Barlaamites derived their 

 denomination, llyled the monks, who adlicrcd to this inlli- 

 tution, Madahans and Euchites : and he gave them alfo tlie 

 new name of Umbihcani. Gregory Palamas, archbidiop 

 of Theffalonica, defended their caufe againll Barlaam, who 

 was condemned in a council held at Conilantinople in the 

 year 1341. 



The name is taken from a fort of abfolute rell, and inac- 

 tion, which the foul is fuppofed to be in, when arrived at 

 the ftateof perfeftion, which in their language is cAhd t/je 

 unitive life. To arrive at this, a man is iirll to pafi through 

 the purgative way ; that is, through a courfe of obedience, 

 infpired by the fear of hell : hence he is to proceed into the 

 illuminative way, before he arrives at perfeftion. 



The fentiments of the Quietifts, with regard to God, are 

 wonderfully pure and difinterefted. They love him for him- 

 felf, on account of his own perfeftions, independently of any 

 rewards or pimifhmcnts : the foul acquiefces in the will of 

 God, even at the time when he precipitates it into hell ; in- 

 fomuch that inftead of flopping him on this occafion, B. An- 

 gelo de Foligny cried out, " Haftc, Lord, to call me into 

 hell : do not delay if thou haft abandoned me : but finifh my 

 deftruftion, and plunge me into the abyfs." 



At length the foul, after long travail, enters into reft, into 

 a perfeft quietude. Here it is wholly employed in contem- 

 plating its God ; it afts no more, thinks no more, deijres no 

 more r but lies perfeftly open, and at large, to receive the 

 grace of God, who by means thereof drives it where it will, 

 and as it will. 



In this ftate it no longer needs prayers, or hymns, or 

 vows ; prayers where the fpirit labours, and the mouth 

 opens, are the lot of the weak, and the imperfeft : the foul 

 of the faint is, as it were, laid in the bofom, and between the 

 arms of its God, where, without making any motion, or 

 exerting any aftion, it waits, and receives the divine graces. 

 It then becomes happy : quitting the exiftence it before had, 

 it is now changed ; it is transformed, and, as it were, funk 

 and fwallowed up in the Divine Being, infomuch as not to 

 know or perceive its being diftinguiflied from God himfelf. 

 Fenel. Max. des Saints. 



QUIETISTS, the difciples of Mich, de Molinos ; or 

 the adherents to the opinions delivered in the article 

 QuiETlSJI. The fentiments of Molinos were contained in a 

 book, which he publidied at Rome in the year 1681, imder 

 the titleof the " Spiritual Guide :"in confequcnce of which 

 he was caft into prifon in 1685, where he was foon obliged 



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bilhop of Cambray, who fcemcd difpofed to favour the reli- 

 gious fyftem of Madame GuyoH, and who, in 1697, publidied 

 i book, cited in the lall article, containing fcvtral of her 

 tenets. Fenelon's book, by the interelt of BoiTuet, wa» 

 condemned in the year 1699, by Innocent XII. and the fen- 

 tence of condemnation was read b-y Fenelon himfelf at 

 Cambray, who exhorted the people to refpeft and obey the 

 papal decree. Not with ftanding this fecming acquiefcence, 

 the archbifhop pcrfifted, to the ei>d of his diys, in the fenti- 

 ments which, in obedience to the order of the pope, he 

 retraced and condemned in a public manner. See the article 

 Fknklon. 



QUIETO, in Geography, a river of Iftria, which runs 

 into the Adriatic, two miles W. of Baftia. 



QUIETUS, freed or acquitled, a term ufed by the clerk 

 of the pipe, and the auditors in the exchequer, in their 

 acquittances or difcharges given to accomptants, which 

 ufually conclude with the words abinde recejftt quietus ; which 

 is called a quietus efl. 



A quietus ejl granted to a ftierilT, difcharges him of all ac- 

 counts due to the king. 



QUIFORO, in Geography, a diftria of Africa, on the 

 Gold Coaft 



QUIGNONES, FiiANcis de, in Biography, an eminent 

 Spanifli cardinal in the i6th century, who embraced the reli- 

 gious life at an early age, in a monaftery of Francifcans, and 

 fubfequently afforded fucli evidence of fuperior talents, that 

 he was elefted general of his order in the year 1522. He ob- 

 tained the office of confeliorto Charles V. and upon the cap- 

 ture of Rome by the imperial army in 1527, and the impri- 

 fonment of pope Clement VII. in the callle of St. Angelo, 

 his fervices were folicited by that pontiff, in negociating for 

 his liberty, and were afterwards rewarded with a cardinal's 

 hat. After this, he was by the fame intereft nominated 

 biftiop of Cauria, and fent in the capacity of apoftolical le- 

 gate into Spain, and the kingdom of Naples. He died in 

 the year 1540. He was author of a reformed breviary 

 printed at Rome in 1536, which met with the approbation 

 of popes Clement VII. and Paul III. but it was afterwards 

 fuppreffed by Pius V. ; hence it has become fcarce, and is 

 fought after by colleftors. Several fpurious editions have 

 been printed at different times. It is inferted in the " An- 

 nales Minores" of Wadingus, and in the fecond edition of 

 Joly's treatife " De Roformaiidis Horis Canonicis." 



QUIJUBATUI, in Ornithology, the name of an Ame- 

 rican fpecies of paroquette. 



It is of the fize of a lark, and in general of a yeUow co- 



to renounce, in. a public manner, the errbrs of which he was lour. Its eyes are black, and its beak grey. The edges 



accufed : and this folemn recantation was neverthelefs fol 

 lowed by a fentenccof perpetual imprifonmcnt, from which 

 he was in an advanced age delivered by death, in the year 

 1696. Molinos had a confiderable number of difciples in 

 Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands. One of the 

 principal patrons and propagators of Quietifm in France, 

 was Marie Bouvieres de la Mothe Guyon, a woman of 

 fafhion, remarkable for the goodnefs of her heart, and the 

 regularity of her manners ; but of an unfettled temper. 



of its wings are of a duflcy green, and its tail long and yel- 

 low. It is a very beautiful bird, and very cafily tamed. 

 See P.slTTACL'S Guarouba. 



QUIKNE, in Geography, a town of Norway, in the 

 province of Bergen ; 105 miles N. of Chriftiania. 



QUIL, in Zoology. See Quirpele, and Viverra 

 Miingo. 



QUII.AQUIE, in Ornithology, the name given by 

 the people of the Philippine iflands to a very beautiful fpe- 



and fubieft to be drawn away by the fedudlion of a warm and cies of parrots, which is commonly found wild in the woods 



unbridled fancy. This female apoftle of myfticifm derived 

 all her ideas of reUgion from the feelings of her own heart, 

 and defcribed its nature to others as (he felt it herfelf. Ac- 

 cordingly, her religious fentiments made a great noife in the 

 year 1687 ; and they were pronounced unfound, after accu- 

 rate examination by feveral men of eminent piety and learn- 

 ing, and profefledly confuted, in the year 1697, by the cele- 

 brated Boffuet. Hence arofe a controvcrfy of great mo- 

 flveot, between the prelate laft mentioned, and Fenelon, arch- 



there. It is all over of a fine green colour, and is fmaller 

 than the common parrots, and has a broad black bill, and 

 black legs. It is a very wild bird, and will not learn any- 

 thing. 



QUILATE, in Spanifh and Portuguefe Coinage, a term 

 ufed for carat ; which fee. 



QUILEA, in Geography, a fea-port town of Peru, near 

 the Pacific ocean, which gives name to a fertile valley, in the 

 jurifdiftion of Arequipa. S. lat. 16" 45'. 



QUILICI, 



