NEOLOGY

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A new phrase or word introduced into a language, or any innovation on ordinary modes of expre ion. Most European tongues have their cla ical diction fixed by precedent and authority; and words introduced by bold or carele writers, since this standard was established, go by the name of neologisms until usage has added them at last to the received national vocabulary. Neology, in the last century, was the name given by orthodox divines in Germany to the novel system of interpretation which then began to be applied by many to the records of revealed religion. See Rationalist. NEOMENIA. {GT.vio;,new, . fji.Vi\i,a month.) A festival observed by the Greeks at the beginning of every lunar month in honour of all the gods, but more especially of Apollo, thence called Hio/jcvivoe, as being the author of all light, and the grand luminary from which all time receives its distinctions and divisions. At these solemnities the A then i ans offered up prayers and sacrifices, in the temple of Erechtheus, for the prosperity of their city during the month that had commenced. Games were also instituted during their celebration, and grand entertainments given by the richer to the poorer citizens. [s. 834]