Rites of Passage: a glossary | |
audacious | recklessly daring |
Chamberlain, Austin | Was briefly leader of the Conservative party in 1921 and served as foreign secretary under Baldwin. |
Chamberlain, Neville | Conservative MP holding many Cabinet posts, including Prime Minister. Is most associated with the inter-war policy of appeasement. |
Charlemagne | King of the Franks and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne ruled Western Europe in the early ninth century. |
Corinithians | Chapter in the Bible containing the letters of Paul to the Corinthians. |
Dean and Chapter | the governing body of a Cathedral |
defilement | to sully, make unclean or unfit |
encroach | to go beyond proper limits |
Hooker, Joseph | a botanist and close associate of Charles Darwin, Hooker also became a Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. |
immorality | not in accordance with standards of right |
incorruptible | not subject to decay or being corrupted |
Laws of the Twelve Tables | the earliest attempt by the Romans to draw up a Code of Law. The laws were recorded on bronze tablets hence the name. |
Macdonald, Ramsay James | Labour MP, and first Labour Prime Minister, in the Cabinet of 1924. Also Prime Minister in second Labour government of 1929 and leader of the National Government, 1931 |
municipal | local authority |
omnipotent | unlimited power or authority |
Platonist | according to the beliefs of Plato |
repugnant | causing disgust |
sanctified | to make holy |
sanitation | removal of sewage, making something sanitary |
sentiment | feeling |
Snowden, Philip | Labour MP, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the first Labour government, 1924, second Labour government of 1929 and the National Government of 1931 |