agency

[In Fr. agence; Sp. & Port. agencia; Ital. azione, azienda; from Lat. IMG:content-0265.png:[blocks in formation] Law. A deed of agency is a revocable and voluntary trust for payment of debts. * ạ-ġend', a-gen-dum; pl. * a-ġends', a-gen-dạ, s. [Lat. agendum, neut. sing.; agenda , neut. pl. of the gerundive participle of ago to do.] A. In its Latin form : sing. agendum = something to be done; agenda = things to be done. I. Ordinary Language: 1. Generally: Things to be done or performed, or engagements to be kept, in consequence of a man's duty. 2. Specially : (a) A memorandum-book in which such things are entered to prevent their being forgotten. (b) A list or programme of several items of busine to be transacted at a public meeting. II. Technically : 1. Christian duty: Things to be done or practised in contradistinction to credenda = things to be believed. ".. the moral and religious credenda and agenda of any good man."- Cole ridge: Table Talk. 2. Ecclesiastically: (a) Anything ordered by the Church to be done. (See B., 1.) (0) The service or office of the Church. (c) A book containing directions regarding the manner or order in which this is to be performed; a ritual, liturgy, formulary, mi al, or directory of public worship. "For their agenda , matters of fact and discipline, their sacred and civil rites ites and ceremonies, we may have them authentically set down in such books as these."-Bishop Barlow: Remains. B. In its English form, at present all but extinct, but which may, and it is to be hoped will sooner or later, revive: 1. Anything ordered by the Church to be done. [A., II. 2 ( a ).] "It is the agend of the Church, he should have held him too."- Bishop Andrewes : Answer to Card. Perron (1629), p. 1. 2. Anything to be done, as distinguished from credent = anything to be believed. [A., IZ. 1.] "For the matter of our worship, our credents, our agends are all according to the rule."- Wilcocks : Protest . Apol . (1642), p. 34.