ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc)

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ACE (derived through the Lat. as, from the Tarentine form of the Gr. etc) , the number one at dice, or the single point on a die or card; also a point in the score of racquets, lawn-tennis, tennis and other court games.
. ACELDAMA (according to Acts i. 19, " the field of blood "), the name given to the field

purchased

PURCHASED

by Judas Iscariot with the money he received for the betrayal of Jesus Christ. A different version is given in

Matthew

xxvii. 8, where Judas is said to have cast down the money in the Temple, and the priests who had paid it to have recovered the pieces, with which they bought " the potter's field, to bury strangers in." The MS. evidence is greatly in favour of a form Aceldamach. This would seem to mean " the field of thy blood," which is unsuitable. Since, however, we find elsewhere one name appearing as both Sirach and Sira (ch = se), Aceldamach may be another form of an

original

ORIGINAL

Aceldama (e+ ' San), the " field of blood." A. Klostermann, however, takes the ch to be part of the Aramaic root demach, " to sleep "; the word would then mean " field of sleep " or cemetery (Probleme ins Aposteltexte, 1-8, 1883), an explanation which fits in well with the account in

Matthew

xxvii. The traditional site (now Hak el-Dum), S. of Jerusalem on the N.E. slope of the "Hill of Evil Counsel" (Jebel

Deir

DEIR, or DEIR

Abu Tor), was used as a burial-place for Christian pilgrims from the 6th century A.D. till as

late

LATE

, apparently, as 1697, and especially in the time of the Crusades. Near it there is a very ancient charnel-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, partly

rock

-cut, partly of masonry, said to be the

work

WORK

of Crusaders.

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