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amende honorable Form of satisfaction inflicted on condemned criminale in France as late as the 17th century; they appeared before the ecclesiastical judge, stripped to the waist, barefoot, with candle in hand, begging pardon of God, the king, and justice. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Amende Honorable An obsolete form of honorary satisfaction, customary in the … Continue reading “Amende Honorable”

Amend lit., “to have more finely,” i.e., “to be better,” is used in Joh 4:52, “to ammend.” The latter word in the phrase is the comparative of kompsos, “elegant, nice, fine.” Cp. Eng., “he’s doing nicely.” Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Amen-Ra (Amen. the Sun; or the Self-suficient, the Hidden) was the Supreme Being of the Egyptians considered as an abstract entity; all the other deities, even Ra himself, being but emanations from him. He was chiefly adored at Thebes, in Upper Egypt, and his worship was repeatedly overthrown and restored in Egypt during the principal … Continue reading “Amen-Ra”

AMEN Strictly an adjective, signifying firm, and by a metaphor, faithful. So in Jer 3:14, our Lord is called “the Amen, the faithful and true Witness,” where the last words explain the preceding appellation. In its adverbial use it means certainly, truly, surely. It is used at the beginning of a sentence by way of … Continue reading “Amen”

Amemu an inferior Egyptian deity who was represented as a man with the head of a sparrow-hawk. Amenamen is a mystical title of the deity Amen-Ra in ch. 166 of the Egyptian Ritual of the Dead. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Amelotte, Denis a French ecclesiastic and author, was born at Saintes, in Saintonge, in 1606. Soon after receiving priest’s orders he became a member of the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. In 1643 he published a Life of Charles de Goudren, second superior of the Congregation, which, by some of its remarks … Continue reading “Amelotte, Denis”

Amelote, Denis Born at Saintes, 1609; died in Paris, 7 October, 1678. He was ordained in 1631, was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and member of the French Oratory. His French translation of the New Testament (4 vols. 1666-170) was highly valued and ofter reprinted. His other Scriptural works are mostly extracts from his New … Continue reading “Amelote, Denis”

Amelius, Peter an Augustine monk of the 14th century, afterwards bishop of Sinigaglia. He was both at Aleth (Alecta), in Languedoc, and not at St. Malo, as some assert. He accompanied Gregory XI to Rome when that pope transported the papal throne thither from Avignon in 1376; and he wrote an account of the journey, … Continue reading “Amelius, Peter”

Amelius a Platonic philosopher of the 3d century, was born in Etruria. In the year 246 he went to Rome, where he attended for twenty-four years the lectures of the Neo-Platonist Plotinus, whose most famous pupil he became, as well as his apologist. Like all Neo-Platonists Amelius tried to save heathenism, which was already on … Continue reading “Amelius”

Amelincourt, Mons. Di a priest, author of a dogmatic treatise on the Number of the Elect (Rouen, 1702, 2 vols. 12mo). See Journal des Savans, 1702. Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature