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Meanings For Meditation in Westminster Abbey
Meanings For Meditation in Westminster Abbey
Cloister - a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open
to a quadrangle on one side.
Circumstances - events
Satire - The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or
vices.
Sounding Names - Long and lavish names that have great meaning
Promiscuous - Showing a lack of consideration of the qualities or worth of one thing compared with
another
Quarter - Part
Daniel - Story of how Daniel used his knowledge of Torah to save a righteous woman from wicked judges
who falsely accused her of adultery.
was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. His name is usually remembered alongside that
of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.His simple
prose style marked the end of the mannerisms and conventional classical images of the 17th century.
is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and a burial site for English and, later,
British monarchs. Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and
British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.
Monuments - Tombs
Erected - Built
Blenheim -
Canopy of state - Cloth of honour, or cloth of state was hung above the seat of a personage of sufficient
standing, as a symbol of authority.
The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly
in severe weather on 22 October 1707.
Dutch - His large marble monument in the south choir aisle was sculpted by Grinling Gibbons. Grinling
Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his
work in England.
Michiel de Ruyter - was a Dutch admiral. Widely celebrated and regarded as one of the most skilled
admirals in history, De Ruyter is arguably most famous for his achievements with the Dutch Navy during
the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Anglo-Dutch Wars - (1652 - 1784) : A series of Naval Battles between England and Netherlands
Disposed - Willing to
Terror - Fear
Vanity - worthlessness
Schism - a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in
opinion or belief.