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Aterezias ( ), a mistake (1Es 5:15) for the phrase ATER SEE ATER (q.v.) of Hezekiah (Ezr 2:16; Neh 7:21). SEE HEZEKIAH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Aterezaias a-ter-e-zas ( , Ater to Hezeka): Usually found in the abbreviated form Ater. Head of a Jewish family, which returned with Zerubbabel, under the decree of Cyrus. Mentioned (Ezr 2:16) as sprung from Hezekiah. Their number is given as 98. Mentioned again as found in the register of the genealogies of the first returned … Continue reading “Aterezaias”

Ater (or Arsenius), St was an Alexandrian martyr, burned alive with Heron and Isidorus during the Decian persecution in 250. See Ruinart, Acta Sinc. p. 127. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Ater (Hebrews Ater’, , shut up; Sept. v. r. in Ezr 2:42, ), the name of three men. 1. A descendant(?) of one Hezekiah (q.v.), whose family, to the number of 98, returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:16; Neh 7:21). B.C. ante 536. 2. The head of a family of Levitical porters to the … Continue reading “Ater”

Ateneo of Manila Established, 1859 , by Jesuits and directed by them; comprises a military school, preparatory school, and high school, and classical, scientific, pre-medical, and college courses leading to degrees of A.B. and B.B.; professors, 57; students, 1100. There is a night school for working men under its patronage. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Aten-Ra was the name of the deity of the solar disk, who was originally one of the minor deities of the Egyptian mythology. He was represented as a solar disk giving forth rays, each of which terminated in a hand holding the cross of life. In the time of Amenhotep IV, the wife of that … Continue reading “Aten-Ra”

Aten-Nefru (the most lovely disk) was the name under which the special worship of the solar deity Aten Ra was introduced to the Egyptians by Amenhotep III at the instigation of his queen, Taia. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Atef Crown is the crown generally worn by the Egyptian deity Amen-Ra. It consisted chiefly of two upright ostrich feathers besides a tall white cap, with the ram’s horns, urnei, and solar disk in front. It was supposed to represent the kingdom of Egypt, the white cap signifying light, the two feathers truth, the ursei … Continue reading “Atef Crown”

Atbach () is not a real word, but a factitious cabalistic term denoting by its very letters the mode of changing one word into another by a peculiar eommutation of letters. The system on which it is founded is this: as all the letters have a numerical value, they are divided into three classes, in … Continue reading “Atbach”

Atavism (Lat., atavus, a great-grandfather’s grandfather, an ancestor). Duchesne introduced the word to designate those cases in which species revert spontaneously to what are presumably long-lost characters. Atavism and reversion are used by most authors in the same sense. I. The term atavism is employed to express the reappearance of characters, physical or psychical, in … Continue reading “Atavism”