HOCUS, OR HOCUS POCUS

a supposed corruption of Hoc est corpus used by priests in the Ma ; was used (temp. James I.) as a cant-term for a juggler’s trick. Its later meaning refers to a hoax with criminal intent. fortified town, Arabia; exports coffee, grain. Pop. c. 30,000. Amer. Presbyterian divine; studied in America and at Paris, Halle, and Berlin; prof. at Princeton Theological Seminary. He graduated in divinity from the Berkeley Divinity School, Conn. in 1881, when he became a istant rector and rector of the Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1894 he resigned the rectorship on his appointment as dean of the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Ma . He was prominent as a Low Broad churchman and the author of a number of religious works. ist and naturalist; spent many years in the East Indian service, and was a noted authority on Buddhism and natural history; pub. Literature and Religion of Buddhists, 1841. N., ee 20’ E.), town, Hungary. Pop. 62, ¥