Bereaver

One who, or that which, bereaves. Bereft, pp. of BEREAVE, q. v. Berege', n. See BAREGE. Berengarians, n. pl. ( Eccl. Hist.) A name given to the followers of Berenger, or Be ren gari us, Archdeacon of Angers. See BERENGER. Berenger, ( ba - ronzh'ur ,) or BE REN GARI US, of Tours, a theologian of the 11th century. He was B. at Tours, 998, long held an ecclesiastical office there, and was afterwards archdeacon of Angers. He was thoroughly versed in the philosophy of his age, and did not hesitate to apply reason to the interpretation of the Bible. He denied the dogma of transubstantiation, and no le than seven councils were held respecting him, at three of which he was condemned, and at four he was prevailed on to make retractions more or le fully. Though failing thus in courage in the presence of his persecutors, he, neverthele , continued to teach what he believed. D. 1088. Beren'ger, (or BE RENGA RIO,) JACOPO, a celebrated anatomist and physician of the 16th century. B. at Carpi, Italy, and D. at Ferrara, 1550. He made several important anatomical discoveries, and is said to have been the first who used mercury in syphilitic diseases. Berenice, ( ber -e-ni'se,) the common name of the female branch of the Egyptian Ptolemies; but from the practice common with the Persians and Egyptians of family intermarriages, and the union of brother and sister, the lives of most of the prince es who bear this name are a record of vice and immorality. The most celebrated of these women was B. , the daughter of the renowned Ptolemy Philadelphus, the founder of the Alexandrian Library, and she married her reigning brother Evergetes, for whose sake, while absent on an expedition, as a mark of sorrow and humiliation, she cut off all her hair, and offered it up as a propitiatory sacrifice to the gods. She was ultimately put to death by her own father, about 220 years B. C. Berenice, a daughter of Herod Agrippa I., who was the son of Aristobulus, who was the son of Herod the She was the sister of Great. ( Acts xii.; Matthew ii.) Herodes Agrippa II., before whom Paul preached A. D. 63 ( Acts xxv. 13), and the wife of Herodes of Chalcis, who seems to have been her uncle, and left her a young widow. Titus, the son of Vespas i an, fell in love with Berenice, who had taken an active part at the time when Syria declared in favor of Vespas i an against Vitelli us. ( Tacit . Hist . ii. 2, 81.) Berenice was then a young and very handsome woman. After the capture of Jerusalem she came to Rome (A. D. 75), and Titus is said to have been so much attached to her that he promised to marry her; but on the death of his father he sent Berenice from Rome, much against his will and hers, when he found that the proposed match was disagreeable to the people. ( Suet on i us , Titus .) Juvenal ( Sat. vi. 156) appears to allude to this Berenice and her brother Agrippa. Racine has written a tragedy on the subject of Titus and Berenice. Berenice, an ancient city of Egypt, on a deep bay of the Red Sea, 20 m. S.W. of Ras-Berna . We are indebted to Belzoni for the resuscitation of this long-lost city, from which have been exhumed many interesting antiquities.