Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Act-character (Ger. Aktcharakter) In HusserlIntentionality. — D.C. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Act (in Scholasticism) (1) Operation; as, intellect’s act. In this sense, it is generally referred to as second act (see below). (2) That which determines or perfects a thing; as rationality perfects animality. CommandedAn act, originating in the will but executed by some other power; as walking. ElicitedThe proper and immediate act of the will, … Continue reading “Act”

Acroteria (Gr.), pedestals for statues and other ornaments placed on the apex and lower angles of a pediment. They are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture, especially in canopy-work. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Acrostichion; or, Acrostic Repetition of the same or successive Letters at the beginnings of Words or Clauses The English name of this figure is Ac-ros-tic, and comes from the Greek, (akros), at the point (i.e., at the beginning or the end) and (stichos), a row or order. It is a figure of repetition, not of … Continue reading “Acrostichion; or, Acrostic”

Acrostic Poetry See Poetry Poetry Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

acrostic (Greek: akros, end; stichos, line) Any composition in which the initial or final letters, syllables, or words of each line form other words or sentences; said to have been invented by Epicharmus. The poem of the Erythrrean Sibyl thus produced the Greek words for “Jesus ChrIst, Son of God, Saviour, which also in turn … Continue reading “Acrostic”

Across * For ACROSS (Act 27:5, RV) see Note + p. 9 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Acrorites (inhabitant of a mountain-summit), in Greek mythology, was a name by which Bacchus was worshipped in Sicyon, from the high mountain upon which his temple was built. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Acropolita, George one of the writers of Byzantine history, was born at Constantinople in 1220, and was brought up at the court of the emperor, John Ducas, at Nice. At the age of seventeen years he became a pupil of Theodorus Exopterygus in mathematics, poetry, and rhetoric; and at twenty-one held a learned discussion, before … Continue reading “Acropolita, George”

Acropolita, Constantine (surnamed , the Young Metaphrastes), the son of George Acropolita, was grand logothete, or chamberlain, under Michael Palaeologus and Andronicus about 1270. We are informed by George Pachymeres that the emperor Michael was so irritated by the zeal with which Acropolita maintained the cause of the Greek Church against Rome, that towards the … Continue reading “Acropolita, Constantine”