Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1832-01-13
NEW DEFINITIONS.


Gipen as specimens offhe Masonic Dictionary.
Art.-Swearing by rule, square, Encompass.
Benevoience-The art of burying brother
with Masonic honors, then going to tavern
for ,reffeshments,' and leaving the widow TO
paw the bill. A practical example occurred,1
not 100 miles from Hartford, and not SO years
ago
Charify-The acts of an Insurance Compa-l
nv. Example--the industrious and reputabiel
mechanic ioinsaa Masonic Lodge, and paysl
$50 fees for 1 initiation, passing, raising,' &c.
and finally spends his fortune and loses his
health in Masonic dissipation. He dies drum
kard--a victim to Masonic vice. The LodgeI
to which he belonged, bury him with Mason
lie honors, and gives his widow and orphans
$50 cents. This is Masonic charity.
Deity-1he presiding officers of any Mason-
lie Conventicle-He is addressed as WorShiPfill
Right Worshipfnl, Most Worshipfnl, MOST
Excellent, Sovereign Master, Most Worthy
Project, Most Puissant, All Puissant, Ever
Most Perfect Sovereign, Thrice Puissant.
Grand Sovereign Sacrihcer, &c. according toI
the Degree on which the Craft are at work.
l. EnHeiten--- To blindfold. Example--when
a candidate is initiated, passed, or raised, to a.
ny degree of Masonic Light, he is always blind
folded @
| Ffeedom--Being bound by halter, and by
/ ii oath Example--every man who would be-
come Free-mason, must be battered, blind
folded, and sworn, on penalty of his life, to ne
ver reveal any masonic secret or art which he
ihas received, is about to receive, or may here
after be instructed in lis the oath that makes
him Free,
1 Geomefry--Masonic mummery. (See Dalcho
Preston, Cross, and other Masonic authors.)
| Heauen--A chapter of Scotch Irinitarians
60 r. n. ,e
tlcalled the Third Heaven.
j IAN THAT i ANA password in the
i Royal Arch Degree.
i JEHovAH--' The Grand Omnifc Royal Arch
word
! King Of Heaven Title ola Masonic De-
-lgree.
4 Light-Darkness. Example, candidate
e lin order to receive Light must be blindfold-
$ ed.
. Observation-Disclosures profanity, lewdness
: lblasphemy' &c.
eI Raise-To knock down, For example, to
81 Raise Fellow Craft to the sublime Degree
e of Master Mason,' you must knock him down
o We might continue this specimen further, bu
t we will give the key to the Dictionary, which
n will enable our readers TO find any Masoni,
e definition; so that further examples will be un
i Unnecessary.
I, The key is Use the Rule Of Contraries.
i Antimasonic { HarJord) Lntcihgencer.
/ Anecdote Of Juage Parsons. r he following
e anecdote has nor, to our knowledge, appearet
r in print The bar Of Essex County, Ms. ha,
made rule that no Lawyer should take init
his Office more than three students, BUT it S,
G happened that the celebrity of Parsons, thel
= a practicing Lawyer in Essex, had gained hin
u more than due share, and he was accused be
J fore the bar OF having FIVE students. He de
: lnied the charge; but it being clearly PROVED
that there were in his Office FIVE young gentle
= men aiming at the law, it was matter of curl
Z GUS speeulation,among his legal brethren hoy
he would get himself clear Of the accusation
Why gentlemen said he, i have POSITIVELY
U but three students, and believe can prove
: to your entire satisfaction, 1t is true hav,
: FIVE young men in my office, but then one d
: :, them is a dandy, and another a .Jfdier.--N. Y
y Constellation.
, JOHN RANDOLPH AT HoME.--Tn an address
E to his constituents, since his return home, MIR
= Randolph speaks of the President in the fol
e lowing terms,
'He should vote for Andrew Jackson; no
because his opinion conceded more nearly will
/ his own; there are many better qualified ane
+ whom l would prefer. but they cannot be e
i lected-I shall vote for Andrew Jackson, be
cause he is the only man who can keep GU
. Iyour enemies and mine; because he is the onl,
man who can keep out Henry Clay, the mos
/ aagitious and profligate man ever knew, saw,
:. lone.'
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