The 24th of November falling on a Sunday, his clerical duties threatened fatally to clash with his astronomical observations; he was, however, released just in time to witness the punctual verification of his forecast, and carefully noted the progress of the phenomenon during half an hour before sunset (3.15 to 3.45). modern football stadia can be soul-less concrete boxes at the best of times - witness Oxford's Kassam Stadium. In this war the history of the East and West Goths begins again to unite, if we may accept the witness of one writer that Theodoric was helped by West Gothic auxiliaries. Of these structures indeed some have survived to the present day in a sufficiently perfect state to bear witness to the grandeur and beauty of the old architecture of Herat. Few painters had the chance to witness scenes that would become historic, and historical knowledge was scarce, documentation fragmentary. In the second case, the defense barrister had not had time to meet his witness, who was delivered late from prison. The source of all these reports of an ever-living witness of the crucifixion is probably Matthew xvi. Beauty is the quality in a painting through which the artist can ' bear witness to the Light ' . (transitive) To take as evidence. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com. Homer is our earliest literary witness; and the portrait that he presents of Zeus is too well known to need minute description. The Crown's star witness has also made a statement admitting perjury. The text of this MS. is important as the oldest and best witness in a Greek MS. to the so-called " Western " text. Q. Charles had, however, no military tastes, seldom wore uniform, and could with difficulty be persuaded to witness a review. During the trying winter of 1854-55, the suffering he was compelled to witness, the censures, in great part unjust, which he had to endure and all the manifold anxieties of the siege seriously undermined his health, and although he found a friend and ardent supporter in his new French colleague, General Pelissier (q.v. set forth the doctrine of lecherous demons as an indisputable fact; and in the history of the Inquisition and of trials for witchcraft may be found the confessions of many who bore witness to their reality. Later under hypnotic regression the witness was able to recall seeing a figure standing on the road then walking toward the vehicle. For the purpose of validating the testator's signature, each witness must also sign the will in the presence of the testator's signature, each witness must also sign the will in the presence of the testator. amoebantly, I was amazed to witness under the coverslip, about 20 soil ameba engulfing more than seemed possible. He posted up a notice inviting the Wittenberg students to witness the burning of the bull (loth of December 1520). A principal witness for the charge of incest was Rochford's own wife, a woman of infamous character, afterwards executed for complicity in the intrigues of Catherine Howard. To his modesty Bossuet bears witness, when he told him to stand up sometimes, and not be always on his knees before a critic. From time to time Madame Blavatsky's numerous friends and associates were allowed to witness the manifestations of "occult phenomena," which she averred were the outcome of her connexion with these "Mahatmas.". 9, 16), who also bears witness to the importance of Beersheba as a sanctuary. Perjury A lawfully sworn witness in judicial proceedings deliberately giving false evidence. But we unite in holding that these exceptions do not invalidate the assertion of our real unity in our common witness to the Gospel of the Grace of God.". God, he was so cute about it—wanting to know if you were a witness, asking all kinds of questions about what you saw and heard. In 1734 he made himself master of Naples and Sicily by arms. And Saint-Simon bears the same witness to his government of his palace. The existence of blights and mildews of cereals had been observed and recorded in very ancient times, as witness the Bible, where half a dozen references to such scourges occur in the Old Testament alone. But Homer we now know to be a relatively late witness in this matter. Offa also appears as witness to two charters of an ZEthelberht, king of the South Saxons, and in 772 he grants land himself in Sussex, with Oswald, dux of the South Saxons, as a witness. Hallam maintains that the only overt act of treason proved against Russell was his concurrence in the project of a rising at Taunton, which he denied, and which, Ramsay being the only witness, was not sufficient to warrant a conviction. Among its members we find an Erni Winkelried acting as a witness to a contract of sale on the 1st of May 1367, while the same man, or perhaps another member of the family, Erni von Winkelried, is plaintiff in a suit at Stans on the 29th of September 1389, and in 1417 is the landamman (or head man) of Unterwalden, being then called Arnold Winkelriet. She watched them go, startled to witness the men in Western uniforms that Elise had claimed to see. She lived just long enough to witness the fulfilment of her great wish, a rule such as she desired being approved by the pope two days before her death on the 11th of August 1253. "You profess the Holy Scriptures: but what do you witness and experience? Friendships among "gentle and simple" - of the former, with Lady Farewell, grand-daughter of the protector Somerset - bear witness to the attraction of Alleine's private life. By his tact, equity, and Christian charity, Sigismund endeared himself even to those who differed most from him, as witness the readiness of the Lithuanians to elect his infant son grand-duke of Lithuania in 1522, and to crown him in 1529. The political writing, too, much of it in a garish, extravagant style, exercised his deeper ambitions, and stands as witness to the working of original thought and foresight. The like must be said even of the contribution to the problem made by August Pott,' though he has helped to define one condition of success - the classification of the strata in " Western " texts - and has taken some steps in the right direction, in connexion with the complex phenomena of one witness, the Harklean Syriac. The penalty for false witness was usually that which would have been awarded the convicted criminal. Or are they mainly called to preach what they already know, deep down, is false witness against unconformed people? "We have seen nothing like this for the fertility of the land, its prairies, woods, and wild cattle," wrote Pere Jacques Marquette of the Illinois region, and later explorers also bore witness to the richness of the country. witness the pomp with which the French and German parliaments jointly celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Elysée treaty, in January at Versailles. 30), and ogpc%ov " with reference to the character or claims of which it was the witness and guarantee " (cf. God is my witness," and she made the sign of the cross, "I love her so much, and all of you, only Vera... To cause loss of liberty or property by false witness was punished by the penalty the perjurer sought to bring upon another. 19), and the existence of the synagogue at Ptolemais when the book was written, are viewed as the witness of tradition to the fact of some great deliverance. While both threw valuable light on obscure points, it seems probable that they exaggerated the extent to which retranslation can be traced; that they ranked Codex Bezae somewhat too highly as the best witness to the " Western " text; and that some of their work was rendered defective by their failure to recognize quite clearly that the " Western " text is not a unity. He left Rome only to witness the crowning triumph of Roman arms in Africa, and to gain a practical acquaintance with Roman methods of government by assisting in the settlement of Achaea. He calls it " the beautiful confession " to which Christ Jesus had borne witness before Pontius Pilate, and charges Timothy before God, who quickeneth all things, to keep this commandment. Years afterwards, he pretended that he had only signed the "devise" as a witness, but in his apology to Queen Mary he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse; he preferred to lay stress on the extent to which he succeeded in shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of his brother-in-law, Sir John Cheke, and other friends, and on his intrigues to frustrate the queen to whom he had sworn allegiance.

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