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Sumptuary Laws At an early period Christianity controlled domestic habits in a great variety of ways both in food and dress. Excesses were condemned. Thus Clement of Alexandria says, Other men, like the unreasoning animals, may live to eat; we have been taught to eat that we may live. For the nourishment of the body … Continue reading “Sumptuary Laws”

Sumption, Thomas a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Cecil County, Md., Dec. 5, 1802. He was converted in 1819, licensed as a local preacher in 1828, and in 1838 was received on trial into the Philadelphia Conference. He received a superannuated relation in 1874, and died in Halifax, Dauphin Co., Pa., … Continue reading “Sumption, Thomas”

Sumner, M. T., D.D a Baptist minister, was born in Massachusetts, September 6, 1815. He graduated from Brown University in 1838, engaged in teaching and preaching in Richmond, Virginia, in 1840, became agent of the American Tract Society in 1854, secretary of the Baptist Mission Board in 1858, subsequently held several other agencies, became pastor … Continue reading “Sumner, M. T., D.D”

Sumner, Joseph, D.D a Congregational divine, was born at Pomfret, Conn., Jan. 19, 1740. He graduated at Yale College in 1759, was ordained pastor of the Church at Shrewsbury, Mass., June 23, 1762, and died Dec. 9, 1824. During a period of sixty-two years, he was never absent from the stated communion of his Church. … Continue reading “Sumner, Joseph, D.D”

Sumner, John Bird an English prelate, was the eldest; son of the Rev. R. Sumner, A.M., many years vicar of Kenilworth and Stoneley, in the County of Warwick, aid was born at his father’s parsonage house at Kenilworth in 1780. He was sent at an early age to Eton, where he was nominated to a … Continue reading “Sumner, John Bird”

Sumner, Charles Richard, D.D an English prelate, was born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, in 1790. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge; became rector of St. Helen’s, Abingdon, Bucks, and librarian and historiographer to George IV; prebend of Worcester in 1822; of Canterbury in 1825; dean of St. Paul’s, prebend of London, and … Continue reading “Sumner, Charles Richard, D.D”

Summus Sacerdos (Lat for chief priest), a name given to bishops when it had become the fashion in the 3rd century, to deduce the institution of the ecclesiastical hierarchy from the priests and services of the Temple of Jerusalem. Romish writers apply the title exclusively to the pope of Rome. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Summus Sacerdos”

Summus an Etruscan and Roman divinity, the god of the nightly sky, the lightning- darter of the night, as Jupiter was of the day. His temple stood near the Circus Maximus, and a representation of him in clay was given in the pediment of the Capitoline temple. Whenever a tree was struck by lightning in … Continue reading “Summus”

Summum Genus The highest genus in a division, a genus which is not a species of a higher genus. — G.R.M. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Summum Bonum (Lat. the supreme good) A term applied to an ultimate end of human conduct the worth of which is intrinsically and substantively good. It is some end that is not subordinate to anything else. Happiness, pleasure, virtue, self-realization, power, obedience to the voice of duty, to conscience, to the will of God, good … Continue reading “Summum Bonum”