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• Encina, Juan de la: (JUAN DE LA ENZINA). Spanish dramatic poet, called by ...
• Enciso, Diego Ximenez de: Dramatic poet, b. in Andalusia, Spain, c. 1585; date of death ...
• Enciso, Martín Fernández de: Navigator and geographer, b. at Seville, Spain, c. 1470; d. ...
• Encolpion: (Greek egkolpion , that which is worn on the breast). The ...
• Encratites: [ ’Egkrateîs (Irenæus) ’Egkratetai ...
• Encyclical: ( Latin Litterœ Encyclicœ ) According to its ...
• Encyclopedia: An abridgment of human knowledge in general or a considerable ...
• Encyclopedists: (1) The writers of the eighteenth century who edited or ...
• Endlicher, Stephan Ladislaus: Austrian botanist (botanical abbreviation, Endl. ), ...
• Endowment: ( German Stiftung , French fondation , Italian fondazione ...
• Energy, The Law of Conservation of: Amongst the gravest objections raised by the progress of modern ...
• Engaddi: ( Septuagint usually ’Eggadí ; Hebrew ...
• Engel, Ludwig: Canonist, b. at Castle Wagrein, Austria ; d. at Grillenberg, ...
• Engelberg, Abbey of: A Benedictine monastery in Switzerland, formerly in the ...
• Engelbert: Abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Styria, b. ...
• Engelbert of Cologne, Saint: Archbishop of that city (1216-1225); b. at Berg, about 1185; ...
• Engelbrechtsen, Cornelis: (Also called ENGELBERTS and ENGELBRECHT, and now more usually ...
• England (1066-1558): This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the ...
• England (After 1558): The Protestant Reformation is the great dividing line in the ...
• England (Before 1066): I. ANGLO-SAXON OCCUPATION OF BRITAIN The word Anglo-Saxon is ...
• England, John: First Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.; b. 23 ...
• Englefield, Sir Henry Charles, Bart.: Antiquary and scientist, b. 1752; d. 21 March, 1822. He was ...
• English College, The, in Rome: I. FOUNDATION Some historians (e.g., Dodd, II, 168, following ...
• English Confessors and Martyrs (1534-1729): Though the resistance of the English as a people to the ...
• English Hierarchy, Reorganization of the: On 29 September, 1850, by the Bull "Universalis Ecclesiae", ...
• English Literature: It is not unfitting to compare English Literature to a great ...
• English Revolution of 1688: James II, having reached the climax of his power after the ...
• Ennodius, Magnus Felix: Rhetorician and bishop, b. probably at Arles, in Southern ...
• Enoch: (Greek Enoch ). The name of the son of Cain ( Genesis ...
• Enoch, Book of: The antediluvian patriarch Henoch according to Genesis ...
• Ensingen, Ulrich: (ULRICH ENSINGER) Belonged to a family of architects who ...
• Entablature: A superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns in ...
• Enthronization: (From Greek ’enthronízein , to place on a ...
• Envy: Jealousy is here taken to be synonymous with envy. It is defined ...

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