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kp-eb0712-024701-1013 | ILLICIUM, a genus of plants belonging to the dodecandria class, and in the natural method ranking with those of which the order is doubtful. See Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-024702-1013 | ILLINOIS, one of the United States of North America, is bounded on the north by the territory of Huron; on the east by Lake Michigan and the state of Indiana; on the south by the Ohio river, which separates it from Kentucky; and on the west by the Mississippi, which separates it from the state and territory of Missouri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-024901-1039 | ILLOGAN, a town of the hundred of Penwith, in the county of Cornwall, 266 miles from London. It is in a mining district, which affords employment to the people, especially in one of the richest of the copper mines, called Cook’s Kitchen, which is within the parish. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2895, in 1811 to 4... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-024902-1039 | ILLUMINATI, the name of a secret society or order in Germany and other countries of Europe, whose professed object, it is said, was to propagate the purest principles of virtue; but whose real views were to subvert every established government and religion, and, by delivering mankind from the necessary and salutary res... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-024903-1039 | ILLUMINATING, a kind of miniature painting, anciently much practised for illustrating and adorning books. Besides the writers of books, there were artists whose profession it was to ornament and paint manuscripts, and who were called illuminators. The writers of books first finished their part, and the illuminators emb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025001-1052 | ILLUMINATORS. See Illuminating. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025002-1052 | ILLUMINED, Illuminati, a term anciently applied to such persons as had received baptism. This name was occasioned by a ceremony in the baptism of adults, which consisted in putting a lighted taper in the hand of the person baptized, as a symbol of the faith and grace which he had received in the sacrament.
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kp-eb0712-025003-1052 | ILLUSTRIOUS, Illustris, in the Roman empire, a title of honour peculiar to people of a certain rank, It was first given to the most distinguished amongst the knights, who had a right to bear the latus clavus ; but afterwards those only were entitled illustrious who held the first rank amongst the persons called honorat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025004-1052 | ILLYRIA, or Illyricum, Ancient, a country situated on the east coast of the Adriatic, the limits of which were at no time distinctly marked. In its most restricted sense it may be considered as extending from Dalmatia on the north, to Epirus on the south, from which it was separated by the Acroceraunian range of mounta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025201-1078 | ILLYRIUS, Mathias, Flaccus, or Francowitz, one of the most learned divines of the Augsburg confession, born in Istria, anciently called Illyria, in 1520. He is said to have been a man of considerable genius, extensive learning, and of great zeal against popery; but he was of a restless and passionate temper, which over... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025202-1078 | IMAGE, in a religious sense, is an artificial representation or similitude of some person or thing, used either by way of decoration and ornament, or as an object of religious worship and adoration. In the last sense it is used indifferently with the word idol.
• The noble Romans preserved with great care the images [... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025301-1091 | IMAGE, in Optics, a figure in the form of any object, made by the rays of light issuing from the several points of it, and meeting in so many other points, either at the bottom of the eye, or on any other ground, or on any transparent medium, where there is no surface to reflect them. Thus we are said to see all object... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025302-1091 | IMAGINARY Quantities, or Impossible Quantities, in Algebra, are the even roots of negative quantities; which expressions are imaginary, or impossible, or opposed to real quantities; as √ — aa, or∖∕ — α 4 . For as every even power of any quantity whatever, whether positive or negative, is necessarily positive, or has th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025303-1091 | IMAGINATION, a power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by means of the organs of sense.
Force of Imagination. See Apparitions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025304-1091 | IMAGO, in Natural History, is a name given by Liu-naeus to the third state of insects, when they appear in their proper shape and colours, and undergo no further transformation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025305-1091 | IMAM, Imaum, or Iman, a minister in the Mahommedan church, answering to a parish priest amongst us. The word properly signifies what we call a prelate, antistes, one who presides over others; but the Moslemins frequently apply it to a person who has the care and intendency of a mosque, and reads prayers to the people, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025306-1091 | IMAUS, in Ancient Geography, the largest mountain of Asia, and part of Taurus, from which the whole of India runs off into a vast plain, resembling Egypt. It extends through Scythia, as far as to the Mare Glaciale, dividing it into Scythia intra Imaum, and Scythia extra Irnaurn ; and also stretching out along the north... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025307-1091 | IMBECILITY, a languid, infirm state of the body, which being greatly impaired, is unable to perform its usual exercises and functions.
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kp-eb0712-025401-1104 | IMBIBING, the action of a dry porous body, which absorbs a moist or fluid one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025402-1104 | IMBRICATED, a term used by some botanists to express the figure of the leaves of some plants, which are hollowed like an imbrex, or gutter-tile,-or are laid in close series over one another like the tiles of a house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025403-1104 | IMBRO, or Imrus, an island in the Archipelago, to the south-west of the Gulf of Saros, eighty-six square miles in extent. It has 4000 Greek inhabitants, who produce corn, wine, oil, and cotton wool, and occupy one town and several villages. Long. 25. 40. E. Lat. 40. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025404-1104 | IMITATION, derived from the Latin imitare, to represent or repeat a sound or action, either exactly or nearly in the same manner as they were originally exhibited.
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kp-eb0712-025405-1104 | IMMERSION, that act by which a thing is plunged into water or any other fluid.
Immersion, in Astronomy, is when a star or planet is so near the sun, with regard to our observations, that we cannot see it; being, as it were, enveloped and hid in the rays of that luminary. It also denotes the beginning of an eclipse of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025406-1104 | IMMERITTA, or Imiretta, or, as it is sometimes called, Iberia, a country of Asia, to the north of Persia, bounded on the east by Georgia, and on the south by the Mossain Hills; on the north it extends as far as the principal chain of the Caucasus, and on the west the Euxine and the Hippus are the frontier lines. It lie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025407-1104 | IMMOLATION, a ceremony used in the Roman sacrifices. It consisted in throwing upon the head of the victim some sort of corn and frankincense, together with the mola or salt cake, and a little wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025408-1104 | IMMORTAL, that which will last to all eternity, as having in it no principle of alteration or corruption. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025409-1104 | IMMUNITY, a privilege or exemption from some office, duty, or imposition. Immunity is more particularly understood of the liberties granted to cities and communities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025410-1104 | IMMUTABILITY, the condition of a thing that cannot change. Immutability is one of the divine attributes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025411-1104 | IMOLA, a city of Italy, of the province of Ravenna, in the papal dominions. It is situated on an island formed by two branches of the river Santerno, in a fruitful valley, surrounded by poplars, with vines entwined amongst the branches. It is the see of a bishop, and has a cathedral, fifteen churches, seventeen religio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025412-1104 | IMPANNELLING, in Law, signifies the writing down or entering into a parchment, list, or schedule, the names of a jury summoned by the sheriff to appear for such public services as juries are employed in. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025413-1104 | IMPARLANCE, in English Law, a petition in court for a day, to consider or advise what answer the defendant shall make to the plaintiff’s action; and hence it is the continuance of the cause till another day, or a longer time given by the court. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025414-1104 | IMPEACHMENT, an accusation and prosecution for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanours. Any member of the lower house of parliament may impeach any one belonging either to that body or to the House of Lords. The method of proceeding is to exhibit articles on behalf of the Commons, by whom managers are appointed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025415-1104 | IMPECCABILES, in Ecclesiastical History, a name given to those heretics who boasted that they were impeccable, and that there was no need of repentance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025416-1104 | IMPECCABILITY, the state of a person who cannot [7:12:255] sin, or a grace, privilege, or principle, which puts him out of the possibility of sinning.
The schoolmen distinguish several kinds and degrees of impeccability; that of God belongs to him by nature; that of Jesus Christ, considered as man, belongs to him by t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025501-1117 | IMPEDIMENTS, in Law, are such hindrances as put a stop or stay to a person’s seeking his right by due course of law. Persons under impediments are those under age or coverture, non compos mentis, in prison, beyond sea, and the like, who, by a saving in our laws, have time to claim and prosecute their rights, after the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025502-1117 | IMPENETRABILITY, in Philosophy, that property of body by which it cannot be pierced by another. Thus a body which so fills a space as to exclude all others, is said to be impenetrable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025503-1117 | IMPERFECT, something that is defective, or which wants some of the properties found in other beings of the same kind.
Imperfect Number is that the aliquot parts of which, taken all together, do not make a sum that is equal to the number itself, but either exceed it or fall short of it; being an abundant number in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025504-1117 | IMPERIAL, something belonging to an emperor, or empire. See Emperor, and Empire. Imperial Cities, in Germany, were those which owned no other head but the emperor. These were a kind of little commonwealths, the chief magistrates of which did homage to the emperor; but in other respects, and in the administration of jus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025505-1117 | IMPETRATION, the act of obtaining any thing by request or prayer. Imperation was more particularly used in our statutes for the pre-obtaining from the court of Rome of benefices and church-offices in England, which were at the disposal of the king and other lay patrons of the realm; the penalty of which is the same wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025506-1117 | IMPOSITION of Hands, an ecclesiastical action, by which a bishop lays his hand on the head of a person, in ordination, confirmation, or in benediction. This practice is also observed by the dissenters at the ordination of their ministers, when all the ministers present place their hands on the head of him whom they are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025507-1117 | IMPOSSIBLE, that which is not possible, or which cannot be done or effected. A proposition is said to be impossible when it contains two ideas which mutually destroy each other, and which can neither be conceived nor united together. Thus it is impossible that a circle should be a square; because we conceive clearly th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025508-1117 | IMPOTENCE, or Impotency, in general, denotes want of strength, power, or means, to perform any thing.
Divines and philosophers distinguish two sorts of impotency, natural and moral. The first is a want of some physical principle, necessary to an action, or where a being is absolutely defective, or not free and at libe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025509-1117 | IMPRECATION (derived fromm, and precor, I pray), a curse or wish that some evil may befall any one.
The ancients had their goddesses, called in Latin Diroe, that is, Deorum iroe, who were supposed to be the executioners of evil consciences. They were called Diroe in heaven, Furies on earth, and Eumenides in hell. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025510-1117 | IMPRESSING Seamen. The power of impressing seafaring men for the naval service, by the king’s commission, has been a matter of much dispute, and submitted to with great reluctance; though Sir Michael Forster strenuously contends that the practice of impressing, and granting powers to the admiralty for that purpose, is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025601-1130 | IMPRESSION is applied to the species of objects which are supposed to make some mark or impression on the senses, the mind, and the memory. The peripatetics assert, that bodies emit species resembling them, which are conveyed to the common sensorium, and there rendered intelligible by the active intellect; and, when th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025602-1130 | IMPRISONMENT, the state of a person restrained of his liberty, and detained under the custody of another.
No person is to be imprisoned but as the law directs, either by the command or order of a court of record, or bylawful warrant; or the king’s process, on which one may be lawfully detained. Where the law gives pow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025603-1130 | IMPROMPTU, or Inpromptu, a Latin word employed to signify a piece made off-hand, or extempore, without any previous meditation, by mere force and vivacity of imagination. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025604-1130 | IMPROBATION, in Scotch Law, the name of any action brought for setting aside any deed or writing upon the head of forgery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025605-1130 | IMPULSION, in Mechanical Philosophy, a term employed to express a supposed peculiar exertion of the powers of body, by which a moving body changes the motion of another body by hitting or striking it. The plainest case of this action is when a body in motion strikes another body at rest, and puts it in motion by the st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025606-1130 | IMPURITY, in the law of Moses, is any legal defilement. Of this there were several sorts. Some were voluntary, as the touching a dead body, or any animal that had died of itself, or any creature that was esteemed unclean; or the touching things holy by one who was not clean, or was not a priest; the touching one who ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025607-1130 | IMPUTATION, in general, the charging something to the account of one which belonged to another. Thus, the assertors of original sin maintain that Adam’s sin is imputed to all his posterity; and, in the same sense, the righteousness and merits of Christ are imputed to true believers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025608-1130 | INACCESSIBLE, something that cannot be approached by reason of intervening obstacles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025609-1130 | INALIENABLE, that which cannot be legally alienated, or made over to another. Thus the dominions of the king, the revenues of the church, the estates of a minor, and the like, are inalienable, otherwise than with a reserve of the right of redemption. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025610-1130 | INANIMATE, a body that has either lost its vitality, or that is not of a nature capable of having any. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025611-1130 | INANITION, amongst physicians, denotes the state of the stomach when empty, in opposition to repletion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025612-1130 | INANITY, the scholastic term for emptiness or absolute vacuity, and implying the absence of all body or matter whatsoever, so that nothing remains but mere space. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025613-1130 | INAUGURATION, the coronation of an emperor or king, or the consecration of a prelate; and so called from the ceremonies used by the Romans when they were received into the college of augurs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025614-1130 | INCA, or Ynca, a name given by the natives of Peru to their kings and princes of the blood. Pedro de Cieca, in his Chronicles of Peru, speaking of the origin of the Incas, states that that country was, for a long time, the theatre of all manner of crimes, of war, dissension, and the most dreadful disorders, till at las... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025615-1130 | INCAMERATION, a term used in the chancery of Rome, for the uniting of lands, revenues, or other rights, to the pope’s domains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025616-1130 | INCANTATION denotes certain ceremonies, accom [7:12:257] panied with a formula of words, supposed to be capable of raising devils, spirits, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025701-1143 | INCAPACITY, in the canon law, is of two kinds; first, the want of a dispensation for age in a minor, and for legitimation in a bastard, &c., which renders the provision of a benefice void in its original; and, secondly, crimes and heinous offences, which annul provisions at first valid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025702-1143 | INCARNATION, in Theology, signifies the act by which the Son of God assumed the human nature, or the mystery by which Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, was made Man, in order to accomplish the work of our salvation.
Incarnation (formed from in, and caro, flesh), in Surgery, signifies the healing and filling up of ulcers... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025703-1143 | INCARNATIVES, in Surgery, medicines which were supposed to assist nature in filling up wounds or ulcers with new flesh. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025704-1143 | INCENDIARY, in Law, is applied to one who is guilty of maliciously setting fire to another’s dwelling-house or premises. A bare intent or attempt to do this, by actually setting fire to a house, unless it absolutely burns, does not fall within the description of incendit et combussit. But the burning and consuming of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025705-1143 | INCENSE, or Frankincense, in the Materia Medica, a dry resinous substance, known amongst authors by the names tus and olibanum.
Incense is a perfume with which the Pagans and the Roman Catholics still perfume their temples and altars. The word comes from the Latin incensum, that is, burned, by taking the effect for th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025706-1143 | INCEPTIVE, a word used by Dr Wallis to express such moments, or first principles, as, though of no magnitude themselves, are yet capable of producing results which are. Thus a point has no magnitude itself, but is inceptive of a line which it produces by its motion. So a line, though it have no breadth, is yet inceptiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025707-1143 | INCEST, the crime of illicit commerce between persons who are related in a degree in which marriage is prohibited by the laws of the country. Most nations look on incest with horror.
Incest, Spiritual, a crime committed in like manner between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation.
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kp-eb0712-025708-1143 | INCH, a well-known measure of length, being the twelfth part of a foot, and equal to three barleycorns in length.
Inch (contracted from the Gaelic innis, an island), a word prefixed to the names of different places in Scotland and Ireland.
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kp-eb0712-025801-1156 | INCHOATIVE, a term signifying the beginning of a thing or action, and the same with what is otherwise called inceptive.
Inchoative Verbs denote, according to Priscian and other grammarians, verbs which are characterised by the termination sco or scor added to their primitives; as augesco from augeo, calesco from caleo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025802-1156 | INCIDENCE denotes the direction in which one body strikes on another. See Optics and Mechanics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025803-1156 | INCIDENT, in Law, is a thing appertaining to or following another which is principal. A court baron is inseparably incident to a manor, and a court of pie-powders to a fair.
Incident Diligence, in Scotch Law, a warrant granted by a lord ordinary in the Court of Session, for citing witnesses for proving any point, or f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025804-1156 | INCINERATION (derived from in, and cinis, ashes), in Chemistry, the reduction of any substance into ashes by burning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025805-1156 | INCISIVE, an appellation applied to whatever cuts or divides. Thus the fore teeth are called dentes incisivi, or cutters; and medicines of an attenuating nature, incidents, or incisive medicines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025806-1156 | INCLE, a kind of tape made of linen yarn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025807-1156 | INCLINATION, a term used by mathematicians, and signifying the mutual approach, tendency, or leaning of two lines or two planes towards each other, so as to form an angle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025808-1156 | INCLINED Plain, in Mechanics, one which forms an oblique angle with the horizon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025809-1156 | INCOGNITO is applied to a person who is in any place where he would not be known; but more particularly to princes or great men who enter towns or walk the streets without their ordinary train, or the usual marks of their distinction and quality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025810-1156 | INCOMBUSTIBLE Cloth. See Mineralogy. On this Cronstedt observes, that the natural store of the asbesti is in proportion to their economical use, both being very inconsiderable. “It is an old tradition,” says he, “that in former ages they made cloths of the fibrous asbesti, which is said to be composed of the word byssu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025811-1156 | INCOMMENSURABLE, in Geometry, is a term applied to homogeneous magnitudes which have no common measure, or whereof one cannot be denoted as either multiple, aliquot part, or aliquot parts, of the other, or whose ratio cannot be represented by numbers.
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kp-eb0712-025901-1169 | INCOMPATIBLE, that which cannot subsist with another without destroying it. Thus cold and heat are incompatible in the same subject, the stronger overcoming and expelling the weaker. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025902-1169 | INCORPOREAL, spiritual, a thing or substance which has no body. Thus the soul of man is incorporeal, and may subsist independently of the body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025903-1169 | INCORRUPTIBLES, Incorruptibiles, the name of a sect which sprung out of the Eutychiaʼns. Their distinguishing tenet was, that the body of Jesus Christ was incorruptible; by which they meant, that after the time in which he was formed in the womb of his mother, he was not susceptible of any change or alteration, not even... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025904-1169 | INCUBUS, Night-mare, a disease consisting in an oppression of the chest, so very violent that the patient cannot speak, or even breathe. The word is derived from the Latin, incubare, to lie down on any thing and press it. The Greeks call it εφιάλτης, saltator, leaper, or one that rushes on a person.
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kp-eb0712-025905-1169 | INCUMBENT, a clerk or minister who is resident on his benefice, and who is called incumbent, because he does, or at least ought to, bend his whole study to discharge the cure of his church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025906-1169 | INCURVATION of the Pays of Light, their bending out of a rectilinear course, occasioned by refraction. See Optics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025907-1169 | INDEFEASIBLE, a term in law for what cannot be defeated or made void; as an indefeasible estate of inheritance, an indefeasible right, and so on. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025908-1169 | INDEMNITY, in Law, the saving one harmless; or a writing to secure one from all damage and danger that may ensue from any act. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025909-1169 | INDENTURE, in Law, a writing which comprehends some contract between two at least, being indented at top, answerable to another part which has the same contents. See Deed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-025910-1169 | INDEPENDENTS, a sect of Protestants, so called from their maintaining that each congregation of Christians, with its office-bearers, which meets in one house for public worship, is a complete church; has sufficient power to act and perform every thing relating to religious government within itself; and is in no respect... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026401-1234 | INDERABIA, or Anderabia, a small island near the mouth of the Persian Gulf. It is separated from the mainland by a strait about three miles in length, three in breadth, and free from danger. It is a low, level, and narrow island, about three miles in length. Ships running for shelter under this island must not come wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026402-1234 | INDETERMINATE, in general, an appellation given to whatever is not certain, fixed, and limited; in which sense it is the same with indefinite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026403-1234 | INDEX, in Anatomy, denotes the fore finger. It is so called from indico I point or direct, because that finger is generally so used; and hence also the extensor indicis is called indicator. Index, in Arithmetic and Algebra, shows to what power any quantity is involved, and is otherwise called its exponent. See Algebra.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026404-1234 | INDIA. The general name of India has always had a very wide and rather indefinite application, both in ancient and modern times. It has been generally used to designate all those vast regions of the Asiatic continent which lie to the eastward of the Indus, which were accordingly distinguished by the ancients into two g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026405-1234 | INDIAN, in a general sense, denotes any thing belonging to the Indies, East or West.
Indian Island lies on the coast of New Zealand, on the south point of Dusky Bay, and is about four miles in circumference.
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kp-eb0712-026501-1247 | INDIANA, one of the United States of North America, is bounded on the north by Lake Michigan, and the territory of the same name; on the south by Kentucky; on the east by Ohio; and on the west by Illinois. It extends from Lat. 37° 50 ’ to Lat. 41° 45 ’ north; and from Long. 84° 45 ’ to Long. 88° west; being 270 miles i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026701-1273 | INDICATION, in Physic, whatever serves to direct the physician how to act. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026702-1273 | INDICATIVE, in Grammar, the first mood or mode of the verb, by which we simply affirm, deny, or ask something, as, amant, they love; non amant, they do not love; anumt ηe ? do they love? See Grammar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026703-1273 | INDICTION, in Chronology, a cycle of fifteen years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026704-1273 | INDICTMENT, in Law, one of the modes of prosecut ∙ ĩng an offender. In English law, it is a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, prefer- ' red to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury. In Scotch Law, it is the name of the summons, or libel, upon which criminals are cited to take thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026705-1273 | INDIGENOUS, from indigena, denotes a native of a country, or that which was originally born or produced in the country where it is found. In this sense, particular species of animals and plants are said to be indigenous to the country where they are native; in opposition to Exotic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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