[Abbeville] (19), a thriving old town on the Somme, 12 m. up, with an interesting house architecture, and a cathedral, unfinished, in the Flamboyant style.
[Abbot], head of an abbey. There were two classes of abbots: Abbots Regular, as being such in fact, and Abbots Commendatory, as guardians and drawing the revenues.
[Abbot, George], archbishop of Canterbury in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., and one of the translators of King James's Bible; an enemy of Laud's, who succeeded him (1562-1633).
[Abbot of Misrule], a person elected to superintend the Christmas revelries.
[Abbotsford], the residence of Sir Walter Scott, on the Tweed, near Melrose, built by him on the site of a farm called Clarty Hole.
[Abbott, Edwin], a learned Broad Church theologian and man of letters; wrote, besides other works, a volume of sermons "Through Nature to Christ"; esteemed insistence on miracles injurious to faith; b. 1838.
[Abdal`lah], the father of Mahomet, famed for his beauty (545-570); also a caliph of Mecca (622-692).
[Abdalrah`man], the Moorish governor of Spain, defeated by Charles Martel at Tours in 732.
[Abdals] (lit. servants of Allah), a set of Moslem fanatics in Persia.
[Abd-el-Ka`dir], an Arab emir, who for fifteen years waged war against the French in N. Africa, but at length surrendered prisoner to them in 1847. On his release in 1852 he became a faithful friend of France (1807-1883).