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REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ")

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 951 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ") , a sort of riddle consisting of the representation of some sentence or thing by means of pictures or words, or a combination of both. Rebuses first became popular in France, where they were at first called rebus de Picardie, that province, according to G.
Menage
  (1613-1692), having been the
scene
  of their origin, which he found in the satires written by the students and
young
  clerks on the foibles of the day under the title " De rebus quae geruntur." Camden mentions an instance of this kind of wit in a gallant who ex-pressed his love to a woman named Rose Hill by
painting
  in the border of his
gown
  a rose, a hill, an eye, a loaf and a well; this, in the style of the rebus, reads " Rose Hill I love well." This kind of wit was happily ridiculed by Ben Jonson in the humorous description of Abel Drugger's device in the Alchemivt and by
the Spectator in the device of Jack of Newberry. The name is also applied to arrangements of words in which the position of the several vocables is to be taken into account in divining the meaning. Thus " I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking " makes the rebus
stand take to taking
I you throw my; or in French
pir vent vemr
un vient d'un
may be read " un soupir vient souvent d'un souvenir." A still simpler French rebus is expressed by the two letters G a, which may be read, J'ai grand
appeal
  (G grand, a petit). " Rebus " (or " allusive arms "), in heraldry, is a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the person,as three castles for
Castleton
 , three cups for Butler, three conies for Coningsby.


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