HOMILIARIUM. IT-t HOMOEOPATHY. Kli/nheth (15(i3) n second buuk, and the read- ing of these homilies was enjoineil. The two books were reprinted at Oxford, 1850. Sec Homily ; Homilies of the C'iiubcii of Em-,- I.AM). HOMILIES OF THE CHUKCH OF ENG- LAND. . collection of sirnions. the first part of which was published in l.>47, the first year of the rei^i of Edward I., to be read in the churches, partly in order to supply the defect of sermons, but partly also to secure uniformity of doctrine, ami to j;uard against the heterodoxies, old and new, which threatened the unconsolidated Church. The second part was judjlished in I'jO.'i, at the same time willi the Articles, umler Elizii- beth. The titles are twenty-one in number. The homilies are not now read in churches; but they are frequently appealed to in controversies as to the doctrine of the -Anglican Church on the points of which they treat. The precise degree of au- thority due to them is matter of doubt. HOMILY. In ecclesiastical usage, a dis- cour.-c laid in the church, and addressed by the minister to the congregation. The practice of explaining in a popular form the lessons of t^criiiture read in the synagogues had prevailed among the Jews, and appears to have been adopt- ed in the Christian churches from the earliest times. The discourses employed for this purpose were of the most simple character; but with the exception of one ascrilx-d to Hippolytus (q.v.), we have no sample of this form of com- position earlier than the homilies of Origen. in the third century. Taking these as a type, the early Christian homily may be described as a popular exposition of a portion of Scripture, accompanied by moral rellcctions and exhorta- tions. It differs from the sermon ((Jk. X670J, Lat. onilio) in eschewing all oratorical display, and in following the orilcr of the scriptural text or narrative, instead of being thrown into the form o£ a rhetorical discourse or a didactic essay. The schools of Alexandria and Antioch appear to have been the great centres of this class of sacred literature, and in the early centuries and nicdiaval times many preachers continued to use the homiletic form : and even in the modern Church many have regarded it as the liest medium of scriptural instruction. See HoMii,l.BU;M; H0MI1J.TICS; Homilies of the CiirRcii of Exg- LA.NI>. HOMINE BEPLEGIANDO, homt-ne r-^-ple'- ji-;'in'do (ML., for rcphvying a man). The title of an old writ in English law. meaning to bail a man out of prison. It was an ancient form of the writ of habeas corpus, by the later form of which, as now employed, it has been superseded in England and generally in the United States. In a few of the .merican States, however, the older writ has recently been revived in an amended form, as being better adapted to the purpose of securing the release of a pri-^oner on bail than the more usual writ of h.abeas corpus (q.v.). HOMING PIGEON, or Homer. The name among fanciers for that breed of domestic pigeon, also called 'carrier.' used in carrying messages and in long-distance races. The name refers to it-s proclivity for returning to its home with the utmost possible speed and directness when liberate ed at a distance. See Pigeon. HOMIN'ID.ffi (Neol.at. nom. pi., from Lat homu, man). Ilie family to which man belongs, and which, together with the various families of monkeys, baboons, and apes, lornis part of the order I'rinuites. Among the characters which distinguish the Ilominida' are: (1) The posture is completely erwt; (:i) the anterior appendages are proviilcd with hands, the [losterior with feet; (3) the feet have the inner digit greatly en- larged anil non-opposable. forming a great toe; (4) the body is sparsely haired, except on the top of the head; (5) the lower jaw has a promi- nent ridge, the chin; (6) tile facial angle exceeds tiO°: (7) the brain is more than double the size of that of apes, and the cranial capacity three times as much; (S) the teeth stand in an unin- terrupted series without a space in front of the upper incisors ; (9) nuin has the power of speech. In his general organization man is so cloudy re- lated to tlio higher ai)es that it is dillicull to draw a hard and fast line between the Hominida? and the lower groups. See Anthropoid Ajics, under Al-E.s. HOMMEL, h6m'm< I, Fhitz ( IS.^a— ) . A Ger- man Orientalist, born at . sbach. He was edu- cated at Leipzig, and in 1877 became connected with the library of Mimich. and was made docent of the university, in which he was appointed pro- fessor in 18S."i. His principal writings, aside from contributions to Oriental journals, are: Die Xamcn der S^iuficlhio'c hei drn sinlsvmitisrhrn Viilkcm (1870); Xtrvi Juiiiiin.ichiiflin Asur- hanipal^ (1870); Die 8cmili.schcii Viilkcr tind iSpraclieii (1883); flcschiclile Bnhiiloniens und Assyricns (1885): Der habi/loiiischc Urspning der (i<i!ipti»flicn Kullur (1802); Auf)>iil:c and A hhandlungcn arabinlinch-RetnUoloiiinchen In- hiills, vols, i.-iii. (1802-1002); Siidnrtihi.tche Chrestomathie (1803) ; Die altisrarlilixihr I'rher- liefenniri in inschriftliclier lielcuehlung (189(5); Siimcri.'^elic L'sextiiel.r (last ed. 1809)'; Der Ge- stirndienul d>r njtrn Arahcr (1000). HOMME QUI HIT, L', lom' kC ry (Fr.. the man who laughs). A romance by Victor Hugo (1 860 1, the story of a boy whose face has been uuitilated so that he always has the appearance of laughing. The central thought of the romance is the antithesis between physical and moral char- acteri-lics. HOMOCCETLA. See Heterqccela. HOMCEOP'ATHY ( from Ok. o/wtOTrnSeia, ho- moiojuiihi in, similarity of feeling, from o/ii>in7:a0iia, homoiupiilhi's. subject to like feeling, from uuoio!, homoion. similar -- TnOnt, jmthos, feeling). A distinctive system of medicine elaborated by Samuel Hahnemann (q.v.) upon the suggestions of a luindxr of predecessors, and published in 1790. His chief dicta enunciated at that time were as follows: "Every powerful medicinal substance pro- duces in the human body a peculiar kind of dis- ease: the more powerftil the medicine, the more peculiar, marked, and violent the disease." "We s-houM imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic dis,^.ase by superadding another, and cm- ploy, in the disease we wish to cure, (hat medi- cine which is able to produce another very simi- lar artificial disease, and the former will b« cured, nimilin similibiii." He was brought to this conclusion through observing the toxic ef- fects of drugs, as recorded in the various works on materia niedica, which he was translating
