Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Vizagapatam, Diocese of Located in the east of India, suffragan to Madras. It is bounded on the north by the River Mahanadi, on the south by the Godavery river, on the west by the Diocese of Nagpur, and on the east by the Bay of Bengal. History Although this district was included within the confines … Continue reading “Vizagapatam, Diocese of”

Viweg, Christian a German professor of Oriental languages of the 17th century, is the author of Hodogeta Didacticus Hebr;, Nova Methodo Universa hujus Linguae Fundamenta una cum Praxi decem lorarwun Spatio felicissime Absolvens (Jena, 1685): lodogeta Didacticus Linguce Hebraicae Major (Zeitz, 1688): IIodogeta Didacticus Ling. Hebr., Ostendens modun hanc Ling. Sanctam Discendi Methodo Facili initra … Continue reading “Viweg, Christian”

Vivisection Defined literally the word vivisection signifies the dissection of living creatures; ordinarily it means any scientific experiment on animals involving the use of the scalpel; incorrectly it is used for any experimental observations of animals under abnormal conditions. The literal dissection of living animals is practised nowhere, as it is much more convenient to … Continue reading “Vivisection”

Viviers (VIVARIUM). Diocese; includes the Department of Ardèche, France. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1802, and united to the See of Mende. Re-established in 1822, the diocese then included almost all the ancient Diocese of Viviers, and some part of the ancient Diocese of Valence, Vienne, Le Puy, and Uzès (see NÎMES), and … Continue reading “Viviers”

Vivier, G. du a Dutch engraver, flourished about 1666. Little is known of him except by his prints, among which are the following: Christ in the Sepulcher: The Four Evangelists, in one piece: The Temptation of St. Anthony: and Thetis and Chiron. See Dumesnil, Le Peintre-Graveur, vol. 3; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, … Continue reading “Vivier, G. du”

Vivian, Thomas a clergyman of the Church of England, was born near Truro, and educated there at the Grammar-school, and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated June 19, 1742. He was ordained in 1744 to the curacy of St. Michael’s, Penkevil, in Cornwall; and in 1747 was collated vicar of Cornwood, near Plymouth, and … Continue reading “Vivian, Thomas”

Vivian, James C a Church of England divine. No record remains of his birth, education, conversion, or entrance into the ministry. In 1862 he sailed to the Sandwich Islands, and there labored for twelve years. He died April 11, 1874. Mr. Vivian was a faithful, earnest, loving preacher and pastor. See Evangelical Magazine, August, 1874, … Continue reading “Vivian, James C”

Vivian, H an English Congregational missionary, was born at Penryn, Cornwall, in 1832. He was educated for the missionary work, and accepted by the London Missionary Society; and embarked for the South Seas, March, 1862. Much of his time was employed in preparing native students for the ministry, in which work he was eminently successful. … Continue reading “Vivian, H”

Vives, Juan Luis Spanish humanist and philosopher, b. at Valencia, 6 March, 1492; d. at Bruges, 6 May, 1540. Through fear of the rigours of the Inquisition he left his country forever in 1509. He first studied at the University of Paris, and in 1512 settled at Bruges, which became his second fatherland, and which … Continue reading “Vives, Juan Luis”

Vives, Juan Ludovico a learned and liberal minded humanist of the 16th century, was born in March, 1492, at Valencia, in Spain, and educated at Paris and Louvain. He made himself acquainted with the ancient classics, and thereby came to understand the barrenness and tastelessness of the scholastic studies of his time so thoroughly that … Continue reading “Vives, Juan Ludovico”