Chapter Scaphism to Schoolmen of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Beverley is the greatest scene-painter of modern times.
   Frank Hayman, Thomas Dall, John Laguerre, William Hogarth, Robert Dighton, Charles Dibdin, David Roberts, Grieve, and Phillips have all aided in improving scene-painting.

Scene Plot (See Plot .)

Scent We are not yet on the right scent. We have not yet got the right clue. The allusion is to dogs following game by their scent.

Sceptic (Greek) means one who thinks for himself, and does not receive on another's testimony. Pyrrho founded the philosophic sect called “Sceptics,” and Epictetus combated their dogmas. In theology we apply the word to those who will not accept Revelation.

Sceptre That of Agamemnon is the most noted. Homer says it was made by Vulcan, who gave it to the son of Saturn. It then passed successively to Jupiter, to Mercury, to Pelops, to Atreus (2 syl.), to Thyestes (3 syl.), and then to Agamemnon. It was found at Phocis, whither it had been taken by Electra. It was looked on with great reverence, and several miracles are attributed to it. It was preserved for many years after the time of Homer, but ultimately disappeared.

Scheherazade [She-he'-ra-zay'-de ]. Daughter of the Grand Vizier of the Indies. The Sultan Schahriah, having discovered the infidelity of his sultana, resolved to marry a fresh wife every night and have her strangled at day-break. Scheherazade entreated to become his wife, and so amused him with tales for a thousand and one nights that he revoked his cruel decree, bestowed his affection on his amiable and talented wife, and called her “the liberator of the sex.” (Arabian Nights.)

Scheltrum An army drawn up in a circle instead of in a square.

Scheme is something entertained. Scheme is a Greek word meaning what is had or held (scheo) and entertain is the Latin tenco, to have or hold, also.

Schiedam Hollands gin, so called from Schiedam, a town where it is principally manufactured.

Schiites (See Shiites .)

Schlemihl (Peter). The name of a man who sold his shadow to the devil, in Chamisso's tale so called. It is a synonym for any person who makes a desperate and silly bargain.

Scholastic Anselm of Laon, Doctor Scholasticus. (1050-1117.)
   Epiphanius the Scholastic. An Italian scholar. (Sixth century.)

Scholastic Divinity Divinity subjected to the test of reason and argument, or at least “darkened by the counsel of words.” The Athanasian creed is a favourable specimen of this attempt to reduce the mysteries of religion to “right reason;” and the attempts to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony with modern geology smack of the same school.

Schools
   The six old schools: Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Charterhouse, Westminster, and Rugby.
    Some add St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors', and Shrewsbury.
   The six modern schools: Marlborough, Wellington, Clifton, Cheltenham, Repton, and Haileybury.
    Charterhouse has been removed to the hills of Surrey.
   St. Paul's has migrated to the West End.

Schoolmaster Abroad (The). Lord Brougham said, in a speech (Jan. 29, 1828) on the general diffusion of education, and of intelligence arising therefrom, “Let the soldier be abroad, if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad ... the schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.”