Chapter Choereas to Christian Traditions of C by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

why on Stanley.
   By the great gods, tell me, I pray, ruinous love you centre?
   Once he was strong and manly,
   Never seen now, patient of toil, Mars' sunny camp to enter.
   E.C.B.
   (2) The other specimen is 1 Odes, xii.
   When you, with an approving smile,
   Praise those delicate arms, Lydy, of Telephus,
   Ah me! how you stir up my bile!
   Heart-sick, that for a boy you should forsake me thus.
   E.C.B.

Chouans (2 syl.). French insurgents of the Royalist party during the Revolution. Jean Cottereau was their leader, nicknamed chouan (owl), because he was accustomed to warn his companions of danger by imitating the screech of an owl. Cottereau was followed by George Cadoudal.
   It is an error to suppose Chouan to be a proper name.

Choughs Protected (See page 137, col. 1, Birds , etc.)

Chouse (1 syl.). To cheat out of something. Gifford says the interpreter of the Turkish embassy in England is called chiaus, and in 1609 this chiaus contrived to defraud his government of 4,000, an enormous sum at that period. From the notoriety of the swindle the word chiaus or to chouse was adopted.

“He is no chiaus.”
Ben Jonson: Alchemist, i. 1 (1610).

Chriem-hilda or Chriem-hild. A woman of unrivalled beauty, sister of Gunther, and beloved by Siegfried, the two chief heroes of the Nibelungenlied. Siegfried gives her a talisman taken from Gunther's lady-love, and Gunther, in a fit of jealousy, induces Hagen to murder his brother-in-law. Chriemhild in revenge marries Ezzel, King of the Huns; invites the Nibelungs to the wedding feast; and there they are all put to the sword, except Hagen and Gunther, who are taken prisoners, and put to death by the bride. (See Kriemhild .)

Chriss-cross Row (row to rhyme with low). The alphabet in a horn-book, which had a cross at the beginning and end.

“Philosophy is all the go,
And science quite the fashion;
Our grandams learnt the Chriss-cross Row,
L-d, how their daughters dash on.”
Anon. in the Eaglet.

Chrisom or Chrism signifies properly “the white cloth set by the minister at baptism on the head of the newly anointed with chrism”- i.e. a composition of oil and balm. In the Form of Private Baptism is this direction: “Then the minister shall put the white vesture, commonly called the chrisome, upon the child.” The child thus baptised is called a chrisom or chrisom child. If it dies within the month, it is shrouded in the vesture; and hence, in the bills of mortality, even to the year 1726, infants that died within the month were termed chrisoms. (The cloth is so called because it was anointed. Greek, chrisma, verb chrio, to anoint.)

“A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any chrisom child.”- Shakespeare: Henry V., ii. 3.

Christabel [Kristabel ]. The heroine of Coleridge's fragmentary poem of that name.

Christabelle [Kristabel ]. Daughter of a “bonnie king” in Ireland. She fell in love with Sir Cauline (q.v.).

Christendom [Kris'-en-dum ] generally means all Christian countries; but Shakespeare uses it for baptism, or “Christian citizenship.” Thus, in King John, the young prince says:-

“By my christendom!
So I were out of prison and kept sheep,
I should be merry as the day is long.”
Act iv sc. 1.

Christian [ch = k]. The hero of John Bunyan's allegory called The Pilgrim's Progress. He flees from the “City of Destruction,” and journeys to the “Celestial City.” He starts with a heavy burden on his back, but it falls off when he stands at the foot of the cross.
   Christian. A follower of Christ. So called first at Antioch (Acts xi. 26).
   Most Christian Doctor. John Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429).
   Most Christian King. The style of the King of France. (1469.)
   Pepin le Bref was so styled by Pope Stephen III. (714-768).
   Charles le Chauve was so styled by the council of Savonnières (823, 840-877).
   Louis XI. was so styled by Pope Paul II. (1423, 1461-1483).
   Since which time (1469) it was universally adopted in the French monarchy.

“And thou, O Gaul, with gaudy trophies plumed,
`Most Christian king.' Alas! in vain assumed.”
Camoens: Lusiad, book vii.

   Founder of Christian Eloquence. Louis Bordaloue, the French preacher (1632-1704).