The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-20
MEANING AND HISTORY OF PRO.
MINENT WORDS.
TRIUMPH


TRIUMPH.
Victory, Joy for success. Among the
ancient Romans, pompOus ceremony
performed in honor of victorious gen
eral, who was allowed to enter the city
crowned, originally in laurel, but in
latter times with gold, bearing a
truncheon in one hand, and bunch of
laurel in the other, riding in a chariot
drawn by two white horses, and follow
ed by the kings, princes, and generals,
whom he had vanquished, loaded with
chains, and insulted by mimics and buf-
foons. The triumph was of two kinds,
the greater and the less. The lesser
triumph was granted for victory over
enemies of less considerable power,
and was called an ovation, from avis,
sheep sacrificed on the occasion.
INToxIoATR.
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
a delirium, from z. 6. or madness.
UToPIAN.
Ideal, not real, chimerical, fanciful,
so called from Thomas AIoore's Utopia,
or imaginary commonwealth. Hence,
the expressions, Utopian dreams, Uto-
plan pleasures.
Pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian
sage, or to his language or manner of
teaching and philosophizing. The So
cratic method of reasoning and in
struction was by interrogatories.
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-
MENT.
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Saxons were superseded by, or incor-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
lo-a-n,ent, by which it was now denom-
mated, and which remains in use to
this day, continued to inform the sub
iects of the AnglO-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 parIer means to
speak, and ment is only slight change
from the Latin word mems, which sig
mites the mind Thought, Judgment,
opinion.)
ATLAS.
This was the name of king of Mau-
| 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 eollec-
ton of maps is called Atlas, probably
from picture of him in this attitude
prefixed to some collection.
CABAL.
A private party of men, or private'
intrigue. This Specification of th'
word Cabal, it is said, ows its origina
to the five cabinet ministers in Charles
the Seconds reign; Clifford, Ashley
Buckingham, Arlington, and Lauder
dale; the iunto was known by tht
|. name of Cabal-a word which the IN
itial letters of their names happened t,
compose.
EUCHARIST.
The Sacrament OF the Lords Supper
literally, the act OF giving thanks,-s,
called because it is an occasion O
special and solemn Thanksgiving to Go,
for his goodness in giving up his ovl
Son to death for our salvation-th
term Eucharist being derived from
} word which signifies thanksgiving
} EURoPE
, Is supposed 70 receive its name froI
i Europa tab, large, and the eye or lool
! large-eyed, VIZ. having beautiful eyes,
[ the daughter Of Agenor. king Of Phal
p nicia. She was so beautiful, II IS SAID
that Jupiter became enamoured Of heI