The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-14
MEANING AND HISTORY OF PRO.
MINENT WORDS.
TRIUMPH.


Victory, JOY for success. Among the
ancient Romans, a pompous ceremony
performed in honor of a victorious gen
eraI, who was allowed to enter the city
crowned, originally in laurel, but in
latter times with gold, bearing
truncheon in one hand, and a bunch of
laurel in the other. riding in chariot
drawn by two white horses, and follow
ed by the kings, princes, and generals,
whom he had vanquished, loaded with
chains, and insuIted by mimics and buf-
foons. The triumph was of two kinds,
the greater and the less The lesser
triumph was granted for a victory over
enemies of less considerable power,
and was called an ovation, from avis, a
sheep sacrificed on the occasion.
INTOxICATE.
CFrom IN and toxic-um, IN poison, }
literally, to make stupid, as with
poison, with which the ancients dipped
the points Of their arrows. In modern
times this Toxicum is found in spiritu-
Gus liquors, and when taken produces
delirium, from Z. g. or madness.
UTORIAN.
Ideal, not real, chimerical, fanciful,
so called from Thomas Moore's Utopia,
or imaginary commonwealth. Hence,
the expressions, Utopian dreams, Uto-
plan plea.ures.
sOCRATIC.
Pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian
sage, orto his language or manner of
teaching and phiIosophizing. The So
cratic method Of reasoning and in
struction was by in5errogatOries.
PARLIAMENT.
The Grand Assembly IN Great Brit
ain, of the three estates of Lord Spirit
ual. the Lords Temporal. and the Com
mons constituting the national Legis-
lature, summoned by the kings author
! ity to enact and repeal laws.
THE SIGNIFICANT MEANING OF PARLIA-
AIENT.
When the institutions of the Anglo
Saxons were superseded by, or incor-
porated with, those of the NOrmans,
| even the sight or power of conquest
did not overthrow the acknowledged
principle on which this assembly was
summoned, and the Norman term Par
/ 2e-a-ment, by which it was now denom-
/ mated, and which remains in use to
| this day, continued to inform the sub
| iects of the Anclo-Norman kings and
their posterity, that it met to speak the
mind at first, as is we'll known, of the
/ clergy and military barons, but after
/ wards, of the commons, or people, also.
The French word parJer means to
speak, and ment is only slight change
/ from the Latin word mems, which sig
nifes the mind (thought, Judgment,
| opinion.)
ATLAS.
This was the name of a king of Maui
ritania in Africa, who, when Perseus
showed him Medusa's head, was in
stantly changed into large mountain,
| from which the contiguous ocean was
named Atlantic The fable, that Atlas
supported the heavens on his back,
arose from his fondness for astronomy,
and his often frequenting elevated
/ places and mountains, whence he might
observe the heavenly bodies. A collec-
tion of maps is called Atlas, probably
/ from picture of him In this attitude,
/ preixed to some collection.
CABAL.
1 A private party of men, or privatee
/ intrigue. This signifcation of the
word Cabal, it Is said, ows its original
to the FIVE cabinet ministers in Charles
the Seconds reign; Clifford, Ashley
/ Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauder
dale; the junto was known by the
/ name of Cabal-A word which the in.
I ieial letters of their names happened tC
! compose.