The Universal Language of Freemasonry - ArchiMeD - Johannes ...

Chapter 5 - Technical Terminology 273
chapter 22
28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter,
seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith
the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. 778
5.2 Behavior, Custom, Proceedings
N° Word Meaning
1 affiliation joining a new lodge after demit
2 alarm warning given by Tiler that
somebody wants to enter the lodge
3 arrest of charter suspend the work of a lodge
4 ballot election or rejection of candidates
5 battery rapping the gavel or clapping the
hands as sign of approval or honor
6 blackballed candidate is rejected
7 brithering 779 Scotch term for initiation
8 business legislative, administrative, judicial
functions of a lodge meeting (not
9 calling off
/ calling on
ritualistic work)
temporarily suspending the labor
of a lodge without closing, and
continuing the meeting without
special opening
10 Chain, Mystic circle formed mostly during
closing ceremony; bond of
11 Chair,
brethren
induction of Master-elect into his
passing the ~ office
12 Circumambulations
special travels through lodge room
13 clear or foul,
pronounced ~
election / rejection of candidate
14 communication lodge meeting
15 declare oneself off leaving the lodge for some
minutes; or ceasing to pay lodge
fees
778 Bible, King James Version, p. 521; bold print added.
779 Cf. EOF, p. 120, and IFL, p. 223.