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Bachelor of Arts A degree marking the completion of the traditional curriculum of the college. In the medieval universities, the Mastership, or Doctorate, was the great academic prize. The Bachelorship does not appear to have existed at first, either at Bologna or Paris. It probably originated from the practice of employing the more advanced students … Continue reading “Bachelor of Arts”

Bachelor, Elijah a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Sturbridge, Mass., in 1772, of pious parents, who early taught him the fear of the Lord. He experienced religion at the age of sixteen; soon after wandered away into folly and sin; in 1792 was reconverted, and in 1798 entered the travelling connection of the New … Continue reading “Bachelor, Elijah”

bachelor (Medieval Latin: baccalarius, cowherd, or husbandman) (1) A young knight following the banner of another. (2) An apprentice of a guild, also a religious novice. (3) A holder of the lowest degree granted by a university (Bachelor of Arts); first applied in 1231 to students who, while studying for the Master’s degree, were granted … Continue reading “Bachelor”

Bacheller, Gilman a Congregational minister, was born at Fayette, Me., Feb. 18, 1795. His early years were spent on the farm and in trade with only a common-school education. Rev. Joseph Underwood of New Sharon, Me., became his theological tutor in 1827, and in 183:1 Mr. Bacheller became pastor at Machiasport, Me. He was dismissed … Continue reading “Bacheller, Gilman”

Bacha See Baca Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures

Bach, Karl Philip Emmanuel son of Johann Sebastian, was born at Weimar, March 14, 1714. He was the most gifted musician of this most eminent family next to his father, and is generally designated the Hamburg Bach. He studied at the Thomas School and afterwards at the University of Leipsic, devoting himself to jurisprudence. In … Continue reading “Bach, Karl Philip Emmanuel”

Bach, Johann Sebastian a German musician, ” to whom,” in Schumann’s words, ” music owes almost as great a debt as a religion owes to its founder,” belongs to a family whose earliest notices go back to the beginning of the 16th century. The progenitor of the Bach race was VEIT, who died in 1619. … Continue reading “Bach, Johann Sebastian”

Bacenor (; Vulg. Bacenor), apparently a captain of horse in the army of Judas Maccabeus, to whose detachment Dositheus belonged (2Ma 12:35); or possibly it may have been only the title of one of the Jewish companies or squadrons. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Bacenor BACENOR.An officer of Judas Maccabus (2Ma 12:35). … Continue reading “Bacenor”

Bacciochi, Ferrante an Italian painter, was a monk of Ferrara’, of the Order of Filippini, but of uncertain date. One of his best pictures was The Stoning of Stephen in the Church of San Stefallo. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bacci, Giacomo Antonio rector of the Seminary of Lucca, died about 1760, and wrote Ethicorunz Libri V in III Tomos Distsributi (Lucca, 1760, 3 vols. 4to). See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Biog. Universelle, s.v. V’ Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature