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HON'NINGEN, a town of Germany? on the Lower 
Rhine, and archbilhopric of Treves: 1 fifteen miles north- 
north-weft of Cobienjtz. 
HONOM'INIES, a river of the American States, in the 
north-well territory, which runs fouth-eafterly into Puan 
Bay. Between the head of this river and Lake Superior 
is a fliOrf portage. 
HON'DRARY, ad}. [ 7 ibnb'rdrii/s,ILkt .] Done in honour; 
made in honour.—This monument is only honorary, for 
the alhes of the emperor lie elfewhere. Addifon on Italy .— 
Conferring honour without gain.—The Romans abounded 
with little honorary rewards, that, without conferring wealth 
and riches, gave only place and diftinflion to the perfon 
who received them. Addijon. 
KONORA'TUS, a taint in the Roman calendar, and 
bifhop of Marfeilies, of which city he was likewife a na¬ 
tive, and fiouriflied a’bout the year 4.90. He publilhed 
many homilies, fome of which were delivered extempore, 
and others regularly compofed. He alfo wrote the lives 
, of many eminent fathers of the church, of which the only 
one extant is that of St. Hilary, bilhop of Arles, which is 
infected in Surius. 
HONO'RIUS, emperor of the Weft, fecond fon of 
Theodofius, bom in 384. He obtained the title of Au- 
guftus, with his brother Arcadius, in 593, and fucceeded 
to his portion of the empire at his father’s death, in 395. 
See the article Rome. 
HONO'RIUS I. II. III. and IV. popes of Rome. See 
the article Rome. 
HONO'RIUS, furnamed the Solitary, a prieft of the 
church of Autun, in Burgundy, who flourilhed under the 
reign of the emperor Henry V. about the year 1.120. He 
is efteemed as the author of the following works: 1. Liber 
de Luminaribus Ecclefue, five de Scriptoribus Ecclefajlicis, ( 3 c. 
Cologne, 1580, 8vo. 2. Commehtarii in Libros tres Salomo- 
nis, 1540. 3. Inevitable, five Dialogus de PradeJUnatione (3 
Libero Arbitrio, 1551, Bvo. 4. Gemma Anima, de Officio Miffa, 
ejufque Caremoniis, Leipfic, 1514. 5. Synopfis Mundi, five de 
Imagine Mundi, Lib. III. Spires, 1583. 6. Libellus de Hierefbus, 
Bafd, 1544. 7. De Mundi Philofophia, Lib. IV. 8. De Solis 
AJfeblibus Liber. 9. Series Romanorum Pontifcum a S. Pctro 
ad Innocentiurh II. The above are ali edited in the twen¬ 
tieth volume of the Bibl. Patr. 
HONO'RIUS de Sancta Maria, a learned French 
Carmelite friar, born at Limoges in 1651. After palling 
through a courfe of clnffical ftudies, he entered into the 
Carmelite order, according to the reform of St. Therela, 
at the convent of the order atTouloule, in the year 1671. 
He was felecled by the fuperior of his order to teach phi- 
lofophy and theology in the province of Aquitaine. The 
philofophical theles which he maintained, were publilhed 
at Clermont, in 1686 ; and his theological theles appeared 
at Perpignan, in 1689, under the title of Expoft.io Symboli 
Apofolorum Dogmatica, Hiforico-haretica, Hiforko-poftiva, 
fS Scholafica, ( 3 c. Befides the Itudy of the Icriptures, the 
fathers, the councils, and eccleiiaftical hiftory, father Ho- 
norius was alfo particularly attached to that of myftical 
theology, of which he undertook a defence in a treatife 
publilhed at Bourdeaux in 1701, entitled .Differtation Apo- 
logetique, &c. 12mo. This W'as the forerunner of a larger 
v.ork which the author publilhed at Paris, in 1708, entitled 
Tradition des Peres (3 dcs Autehrs Ecclefafiqucs fur la Contem¬ 
plation, conlcnant le Dogme (3 la Pratique de cct Exercife, in a 
■ vols. 8vo. to which he added a third volume in 17x4. The 
molt important and ufefui of his publications is entitled 
Ref exions fur les Regies & fur I'Ufage de la Critique, touchant 
T Hijtoire de l ’ Eg life ; les Ouvrages des Peres-, les'Abies des 
anciens Martyrs ; les Vies des Saints, ( 3 c. avec des Notes hif- 
toriques, chronologiques, (3 critiques, in 3 vols. 4to. In 1718, 
he publilhed Difertations Ilijloriques (3 Critiques far les Ordres 
Militaires, anciens (3 novveaux, reguliers ( 3 fecu/iers, avec des 
Nm'es & des Figures. Alfo, A Treatife on Indulgences 
and the Jubilee; The Life of John de la Croix, a bare¬ 
footed Carmelite ; and a multitude of tr eatifes in the con- 
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troverfy occafioned by the bull Unigettilus. He died at 
Lille in 1729, when feventy-eight years of age. : ■’ 1 
HON'OUR,_/i \honneur, Fr. honor, Lat.j Dignity ; high 
rank: 
Didft thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'ft me. 
That the great child of honour, cardinal Wolfey, 
Was dead ? Skdie/peare. 
Reputation ; fame.—A man is an ill hulband of his hon.ur, 
that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may 
difgrace him more than the carrying of it through can 
honour him. Bacon. —The title of a man of rank ; 
Return unto thy lord, 
Bid him not fear the l'eparated councils; 
His hohour and myfelf are at the one ; 
And at the other is my good friend Catelby. Shakefpeare. 
Subject of praife: 
Thou happy father, 
Think that the cleared gods, who make them honours 
Of man's impoftibilities, have preferv’d thee. Shakejpeare. 
Noblenefs of mind ; fcorn of meannefs ; magnanimity.—• 
If by honour is meant any thing diftinft from confcienee, 
’tis no more than a regard to the cenfure and efteem of 
the world. Rogers. 
Now I (hall fee thy love; what motive may 
Be ftronger with thee than the name of wife ? 
—That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds, 
His honour, oh, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour. Shakefpeare. 
Reverence; due veneration. To do honour is to treat with 
reverence.—This is a duty in the fifth commandment, re¬ 
quired towards our prince and our parent, under the name 
of honour. Rogers .— Chaftity: 
Be Ihe honour- flaw’d, 
I have three daughters, the eldeft is eleven; 
If this prove true, they’ll pay for’t. Shakefpeare. 
Dignity of mien: 
Two of far nobler Ihape, ereft and tall, 
Godlike ereft : with native honour clad, 
In native majefty, feem’d lords of all. Milton. 
Glory; boaft. — A late eminent perfon, the honour of hk 
profellion for integrity and learning. Burnet .— Public mark 
of refpeft.—Such difcourfes, on Inch mournful occafions 
as thefe, were inftituted not lb much in hbnour of the dead, 
as for the ufe of the living. Atterbury. 
He faw his friends, who, whelm’d beneath the waves, 
Their fun’ral honours claim’d, and aik'd their quiet grave* 
Drydcn. 
Privileges of rank or birth : 
Henry the feventh, truly pitying 
My father’s lofs, like a moll royal prince, 
Reftor’d to me my honours-, and from ruins 
Made my name once more noble. Shakefpeare. 
Civilities paid: 
Then here a Have, or if you will, a lord, 
To do the honours, and to give the word. Pope. 
-Ornament; decoration: 
The fire then Ihook the honours of his head. 
And from his brows damps of oblivion Ihed. Dryden. 
Honour, or on my honour, is a form of proteftation ufed by 
the lords in judicial decilicms,—My hand to thee, my. 
honour on my promile. Shakefpeare. 
Dr. Blair, in the third volume of his admirable Sermons, 
has given us the true definition of the term Honour. —■ 
“ By the true honour of man (fays this admirable writer,) 
is to be underftood, not what merely commands external 
refpefl, but what commands the rdpect or the'heart; what 
railes one to acknowledged eminence above other's of the 
fame fpecies; what always creates efteem, and -in its higheft 
degree. 
