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king.—‘ Ad dedicationes, ad fynodos, &c. wenientes fit 
fumma pax,’ 
The Petom j is ftill erat in diverfe places,. under the 
name aa feafts, yore vigi 
s Felix regory are the firft ~ baie a 
al blawauck of the dedication of churches, fince 
Saviow’ 8 we which have been obferved in ‘Eapland onder 
me ales or revels; but they were the occafion of 
pace idlenefa and oe fo that king Henry V 
A.D. 1536, reftrained them all to the firft Sunday in 
Oober, Sanne: their being kept on a other day ; 
and afterwards, and 6 Edwa 
of holy.da ay 
being again revive 
DE D: 
memoration of the inauguration. of: Herod the -Great, might 
be blended together at ae time to which Perfius refers. 
This coincidence, which i mprobable, accounts for: 
the {plendour of the a atuationas which he deferibes,. 
The hea thens had alfo dedications of temples, alcarsy. and: 
ds, 
(Dan. iii. 2.) Pilate d 
gilt bucklers at veraflera, to Tiberive (Philo.de Le 
Petronius would. (ibid once a flatue to the emperor in 
a fame city. (Ibid gi.) Tacitus (Hift. hb. iv.. 
53+) mentions the dedication of the Capitol, upon res 
bulging “ by Velpafian 
cations were one med with facrifices proper’ 
tliey we 
ei s, in fundry places of this to the deity t e offered to;. but they were nev 
realm, and particularly in Somerfetthire, judge Richardfon, practifed’ without public permiflion. Among the Greeks, 
when he was on the circuit, at the requeft of the jultices of it does not appear who gave = permiffien.; but amon 
peace for the county, publifhed an order for fupprefiing the Romans, it was always the magiftrate.. 
them; but he was obliged ext year as publicly to The heathens had’ fimilar aidives ais with the Jews, as- 
revoke it, and to declare fuch recreations “ be lawful ;. that of the dedication of the temple of: Parthenope, men- 
aud asa farther punifhment judge, archbifhop Laud tioned by Lyco The heathen ae were dedi- 
obtained his removal from that circuit {wer to ated with many ceremonies, the principal o ich were 
letter written by Laud to Pierce, bifhop of Bath and Wells, the following.. Th tiffs and people encom the 
in which he requires fuller information on this fubje€t, the temple with garlands and feftoons of Hower the veital vir. 
bifhop acquaints him, that the late fuppreffion of the revels 
eptable, and that the boi . ee 
omm 
42 of his clergy, in whofe shes thefe feafts were eve 
= he believes that if he had fent for 100 more he fhould 
e had the fame anfwer from them all; but thele 72 
ree his lordfhip) are like ae 92 ad had that agreed 
fe foon in the tranflatien of t ment into Greek. 
he 
LES.) 
they were the € occa- 
beets quarrelling, forni- 
eation, and murder ; therefor it was very un- 
likely they fhould anfwer any pee rpofe, and that they 
were unfit to fucceed. the public pel of the Lord’s 
day 
* he Jews celebrated the moruiae 4 e the dedication of 
for 
their temple every year, for eight 3: this was firft: en- 
joined by Judas Maccabeus;. and i ee fynagogue,. in 
the year of the Syro-Macedonian era 1 165 years 
25th day of C 
th en during all eich: tae ae eee 
sae ee Noufes by fetting up. candles at every man’s 
door, whence it was called the feaft of lights. This feftival. 
Chritt honoured with his prefence at Jerufalem. (John, x. 
odena fays, that the i 
: day they had eight lamps i in 
fee ms s to: refer to- this feftival in his 
‘sth fatire, v. 179—184; and it is-poffible, that the Mac- 
abee feftival,. of the dedication of the altar, and the com- 
in pronouncing the w : after which ae 
facrificed a beaift in ae court of the temple, and anointed a 
ftatue of the deity. to whom it was dedicated. with oil,. 
and laid it on a pill rubbed with oil: An infcription was. 
oo — n fome part of the ri ie oo to: 
the nam die peo who: performed the office c 
year of feicccn which sets annually bleed vee a cas 
fice, or ome other folem 
ATION, in ne is an addrefs prefixed to a: 
book, fice Semin or ee refpeGt for the- 
a on to whom it w e dedication of the fourth: 
of Mr. Edw ards? : Hitory of. Bi ds, is-curious 
! the one eternal! the incomprehenfible f the omni- 
prefent § omnifcient a Almighty Creator of all things- 
that exift !. from orbs immeafurably great, to the minute ft: 
Pp f matter, this atom is dedicated and de voted, with: 
all poffible gratitude, ene on, and worfhip; and‘ the 
higheft TSA ea of mind, "by. his: moft re-- 
Ge. low, a me as 
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a writ’ whereby: 
a is given to one or more private paler, to affitt . 
The civili 
uggeftion, that: the 
thing before a judge, or in-a court, is fo weak.that he can-- 
not travel 
Its ufe is various: as, to-take a perfonal anfwer to a bill 
in chancery; to examine. witneflcs, or to levy a fine,, 
c. 
eee tone in ee a fabtracting, or retrenche- 
be pail 
wher qe 
DEDUCTOR, in Antiquity, a client, who;. befides the. 
ordinary ceremony of faluting his patron every mornings, 
was likewife obliged to ae him on public occafions.- 
Pitife. ..Lex.-Antig. in voc.- 
DEDUCTIONE, 
