. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . respect-ive systems. For centuries the Culdees con- most decisive check, may be traced not in-directly to the faith, the doctrines, and thespirit of the ancient Culdees, handed downas a goodly inheritance to their descendants. Cummin, an annual plant, cultivated forits aromatic seeds, which are used as a con-diment. It was threshed with a rod — apractice still continued in Malta. See An-ise. [Isa. xxviii., 25, 27 ; Ma
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . respect-ive systems. For centuries the Culdees con- most decisive check, may be traced not in-directly to the faith, the doctrines, and thespirit of the ancient Culdees, handed downas a goodly inheritance to their descendants. Cummin, an annual plant, cultivated forits aromatic seeds, which are used as a con-diment. It was threshed with a rod — apractice still continued in Malta. See An-ise. [Isa. xxviii., 25, 27 ; Matt, xxiii., 23.] Cuneiform, Cuneatic {wedge-shaped, ar-row-headed), are terms for a certain form ofwriting, of which the component parts maybe said to resemble either a wedge, the barbof an arrow, or a nail. It was used for mon-umental records, and was neither hewn, orcarved in rocks and sculptures, or impressedon tiles and bricks. The first date that canbe assigned to this species of writing is 2000, and it seems to have died out short-ly before or after the reign of Alexander theGreat. It appears to have been employ-ed first in Assyria and Media, and to have. tinued to maintain their ground in Scotland, I thence spread over the whole of that vastdespite the efforts put forth to exter-minate them; and not contented withdiffusing the light of the Gospelthroughout their own land, we findthem, in the beginning of the seventhcentury, dispatching a mission intoEngland, where their success soonawakened the jealousy of the EomishChurch. Vigorous efforts were putforth to bring them under subjectionto the See of Rome; but rather thansurrender their independence, almostall the Culdee clergy in England re-signed their livings and returned toScotland, although some were com-mitted to the flames. Not contentedwith banishing the Culdees from En-gland, the Romish Church pursuedthem into Scotland. The Culdees, for along period, had influence enough thereto prevent the acknowledgme
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