king (2), kining, kyng, kynge

[A contraction of the older form kining or kyning. A. S. cyning, cynincg, cyninc, cynyng, from cyn =a tribe, kin; suff. -ing; hence lit. son of a tribe, i. e., elected by a tribe. Cogn. with C. Sax. kuninga king, kuni, kunni a tribe; O. Fris. kining, kening, from ken =atribe; Icel. konungr; Sw.konung; Dan. konge; Dut, koning; Ger. könig; M. H. Ger. künic; O. H. Ger.chuning, kunninc, from M. H. Ger. künne, O. H. Ger.chunni =a race, a kind.] [KIN.] IMG:content-0246.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The First and Second Books of Kings: Old Test. Canon: Two books of the Old Testament, relating the history of the Hebrew monarchy (united and divided) from the proclamation of Solomon, a little before the death of David, to the death of Jehoiachim-a period not le than 431, and perhaps more than 453 years. In Hebrew, the two Books of Kings were originally one volume: the Septuagint divided them, calling them the third and fourth of the Kingdoms, and the Vulgate the third and fourth of the Kings. Next, Bomberg separated the Hebrew book into two, after the Greek model. The division is clumsily made in the middle of Ahaziah's reign, and with no important blances so considerable between the books of Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings, that some have supposed them a continuous narra "Schiff believes that in lesions of almost any part of the [spinal] cord a compensatory a umption of the functions of the injured parts by those left intact may take place, the only exception being in the case of the posterior columns. He proposes the term kinesodic substance for the ti ue by which motor impulses are conveyed along the break in the historic narrative. There are resemspinal cord, and he believes the smallest portion is capable of transmitting motor impulses in any direction.' Carpenter: Human Physiol . (1881), p. 598. (Note.) kin-ěs-the-si-a, and a is thesis perception. Intuitive awarene of [Gr. kinēsis movement, one's own bodily positions or movements. This quality of sensations is distinct from the muscular sense.