Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris The first line of a hymn in honour of St. John the Baptist. The Roman Breviary divides it into three parts and assigns the first, “Ut queant laxis”, etc., to Vespers, the second, “Antra deserti teneris sub annis”, to Matins, the third, “O nimis felix, meritique celsi”, to Lauds, of … Continue reading “Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris”

Ut Ut. (wooded). 1. A son of Aram, Gen 10:23; 1Ch 1:17, and consequently, a grandson of Shem. (B.C. 2400-2300). 2. A son of Nahor by Milcah. Gen 22:21. Authorized Version, Huz. (B.C. about 1900). 3. A son of Dishan, and grandson of Seir. Gen 36:28. (B.C. after 1800). 4. The country in which Job … Continue reading “Ut”

Usury, Interest, Increase USURY, INTEREST, INCREASE.At the date of our AV [Note: Authorized Version.] usury had not acquired its modern connotation of exorbitant interest; hence it should be replaced in OT by interest, as in Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] , and as the English Revisers have done in NT (see below). The OT law-codes … Continue reading “Usury, Interest, Increase”

USURY As employed in our version of the Bible, means only interest. When our translation was made, the word usury had not assumed the bad sense which it now has. The Jews might require interest of foreigners, Deu 23:19-20, but were forbidden to receive it from each other, Exo 22:25 Psa 15:5 ; being instructed … Continue reading “Usury”

Usurpation of a Benefice is the act (by a stranger who has no right to do so) of presenting a clerk, who is thereupon admitted to, and instituted in, a Church benefice. Anciently such an act deprived the legal patron of his advowson; but now no usurpation call displace the estate or interest of the … Continue reading “Usurpation of a Benefice”

usurpation (Latin: in, in; trudo, thrust) The unlawful taking possession of a benefice. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Usurpation Of Political functions: – By Absalom 2Sa 15:1-12 – By Adonijah 1Ki 1:5-9 – By Baasha 1Ki 15:27-28 – By Zimri 1Ki 16:9-10 – By Jehu 2Ki 9:11-37 – By Athaliah 2Ki 11:1-16 – By Shallum 2Ki … Continue reading “Usurpation”

Usurp * For USURP see AUTHORITY, B, No. 3 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Usuard, Martyrology of Usuard was a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prxs, Paris. He seems to have died about the year 875, and the prologue in which he offers to Charles the Bald his most important work, the “Martyrology”, which he had undertaken at that monarch’s instigation, was apparently written very shortly before the … Continue reading “Usuard, Martyrology of”

Usuard a French hagiographer of the 9th century, was a monk of Sant-Germain- des-Prs at Paris. He wrote a Martyrology under the countenance of Charles the Bald, which vas first printed at the end of Rudimentum Novitiorum (1475), and afterwards served as the basis of the Martyrologium Romanrim. He died Jan. 8, 876 or 877. … Continue reading “Usuard”

Ustur in Chaldean mythology, was a class of protecting genii with the face of a human being, and referred to in Ezekiel’s (Eze 1:10; Eze 10:14) visions by the river Chebar. See Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, p. 121. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature