Crossword-Solution: ACTUARIUS 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Perhaps one man may be mentioned, as he had a great influence on later ages--Actuarius, who lived about 1300, and whose book on the urine laid the foundation of much of the popular uroscopy and water-casting that had such a vogue in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The /Actuarius/ begins to read aloud the weighty judgments reserved for this day: the lawyers demand copies, appeal, or do whatever else seems necessary.

But scarcely had he reached the _Amthaus_, where all was in motion, and ready to receive the fugitives, when his new friend, the _Actuarius_, laid hold of him; and giving him a circumstantial detail of the whole proceedings, and then launching out into a comprehensive eulogy of his own horse, which he had got by barter the night before, put a stop to every other sort of conversation.

The _Actuarius_, for this mild and handsome treatment, accepted of a just encomium from Wilhelm; though in truth his sole object had been to mortify the crowd collected in front of the _Amthaus_, by denying them the satisfaction of looking at a neighbor in disgrace.

The _Amtmann_, who had no particular taste for such extraordinary occurrences, being wont on these occasions to commit frequent errors, and, with the best intentions, to be often paid with sour admonitions from the higher powers, went with heavy steps into his office-room; the _Actuarius_ with Wilhelm and a few respectable citizens following him.