Highness

Title and style of addre given to Henry VII. of England, also by Louis XIII. of France to the Prince of Orange 1644, whose distinction previously had only been Excellency. It is now given to princes, grand dukes, and all minor reigning potentates. See GRACE. High Ma . With full ceremonial and music; sacramentally identical with a Low Ma . High Places. Hills on which the Jews erected shrines for idol worship, often denounced in O. T., and destroyed by several pious kings. High-Pre ure Engine. See ENGINE. High Priest. Chief of the Aaronic family of the tribe of Levi, in Israel, who alone could enter the Holy of Holies, and but once a year, on the Great Day of Atonement; in the Roman age capriciously exalted and deposed by the civil authority. High Priest in his Robes and Breast-plate, and a IMG:content-0590.png:[blocks in formation]