Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Busy-body (, officious, 1Ti 5:13; curious, Act 19:19; , to be over-busy, 2Th 3:11; , interfering in other people’s concerns, 1Pe 4:15), a person of meddlesome habits, emphatically condemned in the above texts of the N.T. as being akin to the tattler and scandalmonger. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Busy-body (2) (, … Continue reading “Busy-body (2)”

Busum (Or Suman) (sacredness) is the native name used by the Ashantees and Fantees for the deities worshipped by the negroes, commonly called fetiches (q.v.), Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bustum was a place appointed for burning the bodies of the dead among the ancient Romans. The Bustum was in the immediate neighborhood of the place of sepulture, that when the body was consumed the ashes might be interred. SEE CREMATION. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bustos (Y Viana), Luiz F a Spanish writer, was born at Granada in 1690. He was made, in 1756, by king Ferdinand VI., historiographer of the new discoveries in Granada. He has been called, by some Spanish writer, the Coryphaeus of Spanish literature, and the prince of ecclesiastical historians.” Among his works are, A Dissertation … Continue reading “Bustos (Y Viana), Luiz F”

Buston, Thomas Stephen Jesuit philologist. Born 1549; died 1619. Wrote a grammar of the language spoken in Canara, a district on the Malabar coast of India, and various instructions in Christianity (written in Portuguese) which are the earliest writings known to have been printed in Hindustan. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Buston, Thomas Stephen (or Busten) … Continue reading “Buston, Thomas Stephen”

Buston (Or Busten), Thomas Stephen an English missionary, was born in the county of Salisbury in 1549. After having studied at Rome, he became a Jesuit, and was sent into the East Indies, where he became rector of a college in the island of Salcet, where he remained forty years. He died at Goa in … Continue reading “Buston (Or Busten), Thomas Stephen”

Busto (Lat. Bustius), Bernarpino an Italian preacher and theologian, belonged to the Franciscan order. He was a speaker of talent, and assisted in establishing the festival of the Holy Name of Jesus. He also wrote on this subject to pope Innocent VIII. He died about 1480. His complete works, among which are his sermons, were … Continue reading “Busto (Lat. Bustius), Bernarpino”

Bustard, John an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Sheffield, May 15, 1783. He was converted at the age of eighteen; was received into the travelling connection of preachers in 1807; retired to Sherborne in 1842; and died at Yeovil, Jan. 14, 1868. Bustard wrote biographies of Joseph (in verse), of Mary Ann Bustard, of … Continue reading “Bustard, John”

Bustard See Vulture Fuente: Plants Animals Of Bible

Bustami was a Mohammedan mystic in the 9th century of our era, who taught that the recognition of our personal existence was idolatry. He was a pantheist, and held that man is absorbed in God; and when he worships God he worships himself. See Gardner, Faiths of the World, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Bustami”