directorizet (direktoriz)

t. [ These were to do the Journey work of Presbytery,... undertaking to Directorize , to Unliturgize, to Catechize, and to Disciplinize their Brethren. Bp . Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 609. directorship (di-rek'tor-ship), n. [ director + -ship.] The condition or office of a director. Mickle . directory (di-rek'tō-ri), a. and n. [F. direc toire = Sp. Pg. directorio = It. direttorio, This needle the mariners call their directory needle. J. Gregory, Post huma (1650), p. 281. I must practise a general directory and revisory power in the matter. Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 361. Directory statute, a statute or part of a statute which operates merely as advice or direction to the official or other person who is to do something pointed out, leaving the act or omi ion not destructive of the legality of what is done in disregard of the direction. Bishop. II. n.; pl. directories (-riz). 1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly ( eccles .), a book of directions for saying the various church offices and for finding the changes in them re directory quired by the calendar; especially, in medieval English usage, a book of directions for saying the hours. Also called ordinal, pica, or pie. The directory of the Greek Church is called the typicum. There may be usefully set forth by the Church a common directory of publick prayer, especially in the administration of the Sacraments. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. "So pray ye," or after this manner: which if we expound only to the sense of becoming a pattern, or a direc tory, it is observable that it is not only directory for the matter but for the manner too. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 278. The principal ecclesiastical directories are: (1) The set of rules drawn up in 1644 by the Westminster A em bly of Divines, to take the place of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, ratified by Parliament in 1645, and adopted by the Scottish General A embly the same year. (2) In the Rom. Cath. Ch., a list, drawn up by authority of the bishop, containing directions as to the ma and office to be said on each day of the year. The number of feasts in the present calendar, and the frequent nece ity of transferring some, commemorating or omit ting others, makes the Directorium (or, as it is usually called, the Ordo) nece ary for the clergy. The "Catholic Directory," familiar to English Catholics, contains, besides the Ordo, a list of clergy, churches, etc. An annual called the "Catholic Directory" occupies the same field in the United States as the English Directory. Cath. Dict. Specifically-2. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, town, district, or the like, with their occupation, place of busine , and abode.-3. A board of directors; a directorate. Specifically-4. [ cap.] The body constituting the executive in France during a part of the revolutionary epoch, consisting of five members called directors, one of whom retired each year. Succeeding the government of the Convention, it existed from October, 1795, to November 9th, 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte ( coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire), and succeeded by the Consulate. Under the Directory the legislative power was vested in a Council of Ancients, or Senate, of 250 members, composed of men above forty years of age, and a Council of Five Hundred, or Lower House, with which rested the initiative in legislation.