A name of Minerva, sometimes called Pallas Minerva. According to fable, Pallas was one of the Titans, of giant size, killed by Minerva, who flayed him, and used his skin for armour; whence…
Freebooters of the twelfth century, in France; so called because they stripped their victims of everything, even their clothes. (French, écorcher, to flay.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
Micah Chapter 3 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil…
A gun, so called from its fanciful resemblance to a “betterave” or jambon. The botanical name of the root is melochia. “What would you do to me, brigand? ... Give me fifty blows of a…
(St.). The symbol of this saint is a knife, in allusion to the knife with which he was flayed alive. St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24th. Probably Bartholomew is the apostle called “…
The Phrygian flute-player who châllenged Apollo to a contest of skill, and, being beaten by the god, was flayed alive for his presumption. From his blood arose the river so called. The…
Latin phrases: Æthiopem de-albare. Arenas arare. Laterem lavare. Pumice aridius. In asino lanam. English phrases: Gathering grapes from thistles. Fetching water in a sieve. Washing a…
Crying out before you are hurt. When the Mystery of St. Bartholomew was performed at Melun, one Languille took the character of the saint, but when the executioner came to “flay him alive…
Sura LXXXI — The Folded Up
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
WHEN the sun shall be FOLDED UP,[79]
And when the stars shall fall,
And when the…
The badges or symbols of fourteen apostles. Andrew, a cross, because he was crucified on a cross shaped like the letter x. Bartholomew, a knife, because he was flayed with a knife. James…
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