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kp-eb0712-026706-1273 | INDIGESTION, a crudity or want of due coction of the food in the stomach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026707-1273 | INDIGETES, a name which the ancients applied to some of their gods. '
There are various opinions concerning the origin and signification of this word. Some pretend that it was given to the gods in general; others, that it was only applied to the demigods, or great men deified. Some say that it was given to such gods a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026708-1273 | INDIGO, a dye prepared from the leaves and small branches of the Indigofera tinctoria.
This plant requires a smooth rich soil, well tilled, and not too dry. The seed of it, which, in figure and colour, resembles gunpowder, is sown in little furrows that are about the breadth of the hoe, two or three inches deep, at th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026801-1286 | INDIVIDUAL, a particular being of any species, or that which cannot be divided into two or more beings equal or alike.
The usual division in logic is made into genera ; those genera into species ; and those species into individuals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026802-1286 | INDIVISIBLE, amongst metaphysicians. A thing is said to be absolutely indivisible, that is, a simple being, when it consists of no parts into which it can be divided. Thus, God is indivisible in all respects; as is also the human mind, not having extension, nor' other properties of body.
Indivisibles, in Geometry, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026803-1286 | INDORSEMENT, in Law, any thing written on the back of a deed; as a receipt for money received.
There is likewise an indorsement, by way of assignment, on bills of exchange and notes of hand; which may be done by merely writing a person’s name on the back of the instrument. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026804-1286 | INDRE, a department of France, formed out of a part of the ancient Touraine, and a portion of the province of La Marche. It is an inland division, surrounded on every side by other departments of the kingdom. The extent is 2925 square miles, or, according to the Royal Almanac, 702,240 hectares, of which 441,383 are und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026805-1286 | INDRE and LOIRE, a department of the north-west of France, formed out of the ancient district of Touraine. It extends over 2953 square miles, or, according to the Royal Almanac, 612,679 hectares. It is divided into three arrondissements, whose subdivisions are 24 cantons, and 311 communes, with 274,970 inhabitants. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026901-1299 | INDUCTION, in Logic and Rhetoric, a consequence drawn from several propositions or principles first laid down; or a general inference deduced from a number of facts so arranged in the statement of them as to lead necessarily to the conclusion.
Induction, in Law, is putting a clerk or clergyman in possession of a benef... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026902-1299 | INDULGENCES, in the Roman Catholic church, are a remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory.
According to the doctrine which was once maintained by this church, all the good works of the saints, over and above those which were necessary towards their ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026903-1299 | INDULT, in the church of Rome, the power of presenting to benefices granted to certain persons by the pope. Of this kind is the indult of kings and sovereign princes in the Roman Catholic communion, and that of the parliament of Paris granted by several popes. By the concordat for the abolition of the pragmatic sanctio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026904-1299 | INDULTO, a duty, tax, or custom, paid to the king of Spain on all such commodities as arc imported from the West Indies in the galleons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-026905-1299 | INDUS, also called the Nilab and the Sinde. This great river has its rise in the mountains of Tartary, lying between the 38 and 39 degrees of N. Lat., and is formed by two great branches, which join at the town of Dras, about 100 miles N.E. from Cashmeer. The left of these branches is seventy yards broad a little above... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027001-1312 | INEBRIANTS, are defined to be such things as affect the nerves in a particular and agreeable manner, and through them alter and disturb the functions of the mind. They are properly divided into natural and artificial; the former being chiefly in use amongst the oriental and other nations, the latter principally amongst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027002-1312 | INERTIA of Matter is defined by Sir Isaac Newton to be a passive principle by which bodies persist in a state of motion or of rest, receive motion in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted. It is also defined by the same author to be a power implanted in all matter, whereby it re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027003-1312 | IN ESSE is applied to things which are actually existing. Authors make a difference between a thing in esse, and a thing in posse. A thing that is not, but may be, they say is in posse, or potentia; but a thing apparent and visible, they say is in esse, that is, it has a real being eο instanti, whereas the other is cas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027004-1312 | INFALISTACIO, an ancient punishment of felons, by throwing them amongst the rocks and sands, and chiefly used in port-towns. It is the opinion of some writers, that infalistatus implied some capital punishment, by exposing the malefactor upon the sand till the next tide carried him [7:12:271]a way; and of this custom, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027101-1325 | INFALLIBLE, that which cannot err, or be deceived. One of the great controversies between the Protestants and Catholics, is the infallibility which the latter attribute to the pope; though, in fact, they are not themselves agreed on that head, some placing this pretended infallibility in the pope and a general council,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027102-1325 | INFAMY, in Law, is that consequence of conviction for certain crimes, by which the person convicted incurs the infarnia juris, and is thus rendered incapable of being a witness or juror, even though he be pardoned for his crime. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027103-1325 | INFANCY, the first part of life. Hoffman says, that the human species are infants until they begin to talk, and children till the age of puberty. Anatomy discovers to us, that during infancy there is much imperfection in the human frame; its parts, for instance, are disproportioned, and its organs incapable of those fu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027104-1325 | INFANTE, and Infanta, all the sons and daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest; the princes being called infantes, and the princesses infantas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027105-1325 | INFANTRY, in military affairs, the whole body of foot soldiers, whether consisting of independent companies or regiments. This word takes its origin from one of the infantas of Spain, who, finding that the army commanded by the king her father had been defeated by the Moors, assembled a body of foot-soldiers, and with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027106-1325 | INFATUATE, to prepossess any one in favour of some person or thing that does not deserve it, so that he cannot easily be disabused. The word comes from the Latin fatuus, fool; from fari, to speak out, which is borrowed from the Greek <l>αω, whence <pΛ-∏κ, which signifies the same with vates in Latin, or prophet in Engl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027107-1325 | INFEFTMENT, in Scotch Law, the symbolical surrender of an heritable subject to the purchaser, by delivering to him, in presence of witnesses, a small quantity of earth and stone of the property surrendered. It also denotes the writings which give effect to that ceremony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027108-1325 | INFERIAE, sacrifices offered by the Romans to the DU Manes, or the souls of deceased heroes or other illustrious persons, or even any relation or person whose memory was held in veneration. These sacrifices consisted of honey, water, wine, milk, the blood of victims, a variety of balsamic unguents, chaplets, and loose ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027109-1325 | INFIBULATION, in antiquity. It was a custom amongst the Romans to infibulate their singing boys, in order to preserve their voices; for this operation, which is the very reverse of circumcision, kept them from injuring their voices by premature venery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027110-1325 | INFIDEL, a term applied to such persons as are not baptized, and do not believe in the truths of the Christian religion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027111-1325 | INFIDELITY, in a general sense, denotes want of faith or belief in regard to any subject or transaction. Religious Infidelity signifies a disbelief of Christianity.
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kp-eb0712-027301-1351 | INFINITE, that which has neither beginning nor end; in which sense God alone is infinite.
Infinite is also used to signify that which has had a beginning, but will have no end, as angels and human souls. This makes what the schoolmen call infinitum a partepost ; as, on the contrary, by infinitum a parte ante, they mea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027302-1351 | INFINITESIMALS, amongst mathematicians, are defined to be infinitely small quantities.
In the method of infinitesimals, the element, by which any quantity increases or decreases, is supposed to be infinitely small, and is generally expressed by two or more terms, some of which are infinitely less than the rest; and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027303-1351 | INFINITIVE, in Grammar, the name of one of the moods, and so called in contradistinction to those that are finite. See Grammar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027304-1351 | INFINITY, the quality which renders a thing infinite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027305-1351 | INFIRMARY, a kind of hospital, where the weak and sick are properly taken care of. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027306-1351 | INFLAMMABILITY, that property of bodies which disposes them to kindle or catch fire. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027307-1351 | INFLATION (formed from in and flatus from flo, I blow), blowing up, the act of stretching or filling any flaccid or distensible body with a flatulent or windy substance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027308-1351 | INFLECTION, called also diffraction, and deflection, in Optics, is a property of light, by reason of which, when it comes within a certain distance of any body, it is either bent from it, or towards it; which is a kind of imperfect reflection or refraction. See Optics. Inflection, or Point of Inflection, in the higher ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027309-1351 | INFORMATION, in Laic, is nearly the same in the crown office as that which in other courts is called a declaration. Informations are of two sorts; first, those which are partly at the suit of the king, and partly at that of a subject; and, secondly, such as are only in the name of the king. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027310-1351 | INFORMER (informator) in Law, a person who informs against, or prosecutes in any of the king’s courts, those that offend against any law or penal statute.
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kp-eb0712-027401-1364 | INFRACTION (formed from in, xadfrango, “I break”), a rupture or violation of a treaty, law, ordinance, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027402-1364 | INFRALAPSARII, the name of a sect of predestinarians, who maintain, that God has created a certain number of men only to be damned, without allowing them the means necessary to save themselves, if they would; and they are thus called, because they hold that God’s decrees were formed infra lapsum, after his knowledge of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027403-1364 | INFULA, in antiquity, was a mitre worn upon the head by the Grecian and Roman priests, and from which on each side hung a riband. The covering of the head with a mitre was rather a Roman than a Grecian custom, introduced into Italy by Aeneas, who covered his head and face at the performance of sacrifice, lest any ill-b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027404-1364 | INFUSION, in Pharmacy, an operation, by which the virtues of plants are drawn out, by steeping them in some convenient fluid without boiling. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027405-1364 | INGATESTONE, atown of the county ofEssex, on the hundred of Chelmsford, twenty-three miles from London. In the church are several fine monuments of the noble family of Petre, whose residence is here. There is an endowed classical school. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 645, in 1811 to 640, in 1821 to 747, and in 18... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027406-1364 | INGELMUNSTER, a large town of the Netherlands, in the province of Courtray. It stands on the river Man-delbeke, on the great road from Bruges to Courtray, and contains 5350 inhabitants, chiefly occupied in making linen goods and fine thread-lace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027407-1364 | INGENHOUSZ, John, an eminent physician and natural philosopher, was born at Breda in 1730. He was first established in medical practice there, but removed to London in 1767, particularly with a view to study the improved methods of inoculation then recently introduced. Having become acquainted with Sir John Pringle, at... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027501-1377 | INGENUOUS, in a general sense, signifies open, fair, and candid. Ingenuous (fngenuus), in Roman antiquity, an appellation given to persons born of free parents, włļo had never been slaves. The children of the liberti, or persons who had obtained their liberty, were called libertini, not ingenui ; this appellation of in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027502-1377 | INGERAM, a town of the south of India, in the northern circars, district of Rajamundry, five miles south from Corenga. Longitude 82° 25 ’ east, latitude 16° 46 ’ north. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027503-1377 | INGESTA, is used by some authors to express all sorts of aliment taken into the body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027504-1377 | INGLIS Island, a long island on the north coast of New Holland, near the entrance into the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is on the west side of the gulf, and is twelve miles long, and from one to three miles in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027505-1377 | INGLUVIES, the crop or craw of granivorous birds, serving for the immediate reception of the food, where it is macerated for some time before it is transmitted to the true stomach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027506-1377 | INGOLSTADT, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of Regen, on the right bank of the Danube is one of those places which has declined by the loss of its woollen manufactures, which were formerly of great extent. It is now merely the seat of the courts of justice and revenue for the circle. It contains a royal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027507-1377 | INGOT, a mass of gold or silver melted down, and cast in a mould, but not coined or wrought. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027508-1377 | INGRAFTING. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027509-1377 | INGRATITUDE, the opposite of gratitude. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that there never was a man found who would own himself guilty of it; and, though too frequently practised, it is so abhorred by the general voice, that to be ungratefuΓis to be liable to the imputation of the guilt or the capability of committi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027601-1390 | INGRESS, in Astronomy, signifies the sun’s entering the first scruple of one of the four cardinal signs, especially Aries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027602-1390 | INGROSSER, or Engrosser, in common law, is one who buys up corn growing, or any provisions by wholesale, before the market, to sell again. It also signifies a clerk who writes records or instruments of law on skins of parchment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027603-1390 | INGULPHUS, abbot of Croyland, and author of the history of that abbey, was born in London about the year 1030. He received the first part of his education at Westminster; and when he visited his father, who belonged to the court of Edward the Confessor, he was so fortunate as to engage the attention of Queen Elgitha. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027604-1390 | INHERITANCE, a perpetual right or interest in lands, invested in a person and his heirs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027605-1390 | INHIBITION, a writ to inhibit or forbid a judge from further proceeding in a cause depending before him.
In Scotch Law, it is a writ obtained at the suit of a creditor against his debtor, prohibiting him from selling or contracting debts upon his estate to the creditor’s prejudice.
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kp-eb0712-027701-1403 | INJECTION, the forcibly throwing certain liquid medicines into the body by means of a syringe, tube, clyster-pipe, or the like.
Injection, in Surgery, the throwing in some liquor or medicine into a vein opened by incision. See Surgery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027702-1403 | INISTIOGE, a post town of Kilkenny, in the province of Leinster. It is situated upon the Nore, at sixty-three miles distance from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027703-1403 | INITIATED, a term properly used in speaking of the religion of the ancient heathens, where it signifies being admitted to the participation of the sacred mysteries. The word comes from the Latin initiatus, from initiare, initiari, which properly signifies to begin sacrificing, or to receive or admit a person to the beg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027704-1403 | INJUNCTION, in Law, a writ generally grounded upon an interlocutory order or decree out of the Court of Chancery or Exchequer, sometimes to give possession to the plaintiff, for want of the defendant’s appearance; some ∙ times to the King’s Ordinary Court, and sometimes to the Court-Christian, to stop proceedings in a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-027705-1403 | INK, a black liquor, used in writing. The name is also applied to liquids and pigments of various colours, used in printing as well as in writing. We shall notice these compounds in the following order, 1. Black Writing Ink, comprehending under this head the ordinary methods of composition recommended by chemists, the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028101-1455 | INLAND, a name for any part of a country at a distance from the coast.
Inland Navigation. See Navigation, Inland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028102-1455 | INLEASED, in our old writers, signifies entangled or ensnared. It is a term used in the champion’s oath. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028103-1455 | INMATES, such persons as are admitted for their money to live in the same house or cottage with another person, in different rooms, but entering by the same door; being usually supposed to be poor, and not able to maintain entire house themselves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028104-1455 | INN, or Innverte, a circle of the Austrian province of the Upper Ens, extending over 1308 square miles, containing 5 cities, 26 market towns, and 3688 villages and farms, with 37,236 houses, and 181,633 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028105-1455 | INN, a place appointed for the relief and entertainment of travellers.
Inns. Our colleges of municipal or common law professors and students, are called inns ; this being the old English word for houses of noblemen, bishops, and others of extraordinary note, and of the same signification with the French word hotels. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028201-1468 | INNATE ideas, those ideas supposed to be stamped on the mind from the first moment of its existence, and which it brings into the world with it; a doctrine which Mr Locke has taken great pains to refute. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028202-1468 | INNISFAIL (formed from Innis Bheal, the island of BheaD, one of the ancient names of Ireland, which is so denominated from Bheal or Baal, the principal object of adoration amongst the ancient inhabitants of the British isles. Innisfáil has been translated the Island of Destiny, because Bheal was sometimes taken for Fat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028203-1468 | INNISFALLEN, an island in the lake of Killarney, in the county of Kerry, and province of Munster, containing the ruins of a very ancient religious house, founded by St Finian, the patron saint of these parts, to whom the cathedral of Aghadoe is also dedicated. The remains of this abbey are very extensive, and its situa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028204-1468 | INNISHANNON, a town in the county of Cork, and province of Munster, 134 miles from Dublin, and situated on the river Bandon, six miles from Kinsale. The river is navigable to Collier’s Quay, about half a mile below the place. This place was formerly walled, and of some note.
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kp-eb0712-028205-1468 | INNISHIRKAN, an island situated between Cape Clear Island and Baltimore Bay, in the county of Cork, and province of Munster. In this island stood the castle of Dunelong, possessed by the O’Driscolls, which was surrendered to Captain Harvey on the 23d of February 1602, after the defeat of the Spaniards. There was afterw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028206-1468 | INNISKILLING, Inniskillen, a borough town of Ireland, in the county of Fermanagh, and province of Ulster, situated between three lakes. It is about twenty-four miles east of Ballyshannon, and seventy-nine northwest of Dublin, this place giving tide of viscount to the family of Cole. Its inhabitants distinguished themse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028207-1468 | INNOCENTS ’ day, a festival of the Christian church, observed on the 28th of December, in memory of the massacre of the innocent children by the command of Herod king of Judaea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028208-1468 | INNUENDO (from innuo, I nod or beckon), is a word frequently used in writs, declarations, and pleadings, to ascertain a person or thing which was named before, but left doubtful, as, he (innuendo, the plaintiff) did so and so; mention being before made of another person. In common conversation or writing, an innuendo d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028209-1468 | INNYCOTTA, a town of Hindostan, province of Berar, in the province of Gundwana, situated upon the eastern bank of the Warda river, 57 miles S. W. from Nagpoor. Lat. 20° 35' N; Long. 79° 10' E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028210-1468 | INO, in fabulous history, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, who nursed Bacchus. She married Athamas, king of Thebes, after he had divorced Nephele, by whom he had two children, Phryxus and Helle. Ino became mother of Melicerta and Learchus; and soon conceived an implacable hatred against the children of Nephele, becau... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028211-1468 | INOA, festivals in memory of Ino, celebrated yearly with sports and sacrifices at Corinth. An anniversary sacrifice was also offered to Ino at Megara, where she was first worshipped under the name of Leucothoe. Another festival of the same description was also celebrated in Laconia, in honour of the same goddess. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028212-1468 | INOCULATION, or Budding, in Gardening. See Horticulture. Inoculation, in a physical sense, is used to indicate the [7:12:283]transplantation of distempers from one subject to another, particularly for the engraftment of the small-pox; a practice which, though of ancient use in eastern countries, is but of modern date a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-028301-1481 | INQUISITION, in the Church of Rome, a criminal tribunal, charged with the detection, prosecution, and punishment of heresy, apostasy, and other crimes against religion· ...
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kp-eb0712-029001-1572 | INSCRIBED, in Geometry. A figure is said to be inscribed in another, when all its angles touch the sides or planes of the other figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029002-1572 | INSCRIPTION, in Latin Inscriptio (a word formed from the preposition in and scribere to write), and signifying something written or engraved on any substance, whether of wood, stone, metal, or other material, and having for its object to transmit to posterity the record of some important event or transaction.
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kp-eb0712-029301-1611 | INSCRUTABLE, Unsearchable, in Theology, is usually understood of the secrets of Providence, and the judgments of God, into which human reason is unable to penetrate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029302-1611 | INSECTS, Insecta, in Natural History. See Entomology. Noxious Insects; Means of destroying them, or preventing their increase. Of those substances which have been generally observed to be efficacious in driving away or in destroying insects, mercury, and its various preparations, may be reckoned the most generally effe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029501-1637 | INSINUATION, denotes a cunning and covert way of creeping into any person’s favour; or it means something conveyed by implication or innuendo.
Insinuation of a Will, amongst civilians, is the first production of it, or the leaving it with the registrar, in order to its probate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029502-1637 | INSOLVENT, a term applied to such persons as have not wherewithal to pay their just debts. See Bankruptcy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029503-1637 | INSPECTOR, a person to whom the care and conduct of any work is committed.
Inspectors, in the Roman law, were such persons as examined the quality and value of lands and effects, in order to the adjusting of taxes and impositions in proportion to every man’s estate.
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kp-eb0712-029504-1637 | INSPIRATION, amongst divines and others, implies the conveying of certain extraordinary and supernatural notices or intimations into the soul; or it denotes any supernatural influence exercised by God upon the mind of a rational creature, by which he is formed to a degree of intellectual improvement, to which he could ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029505-1637 | INSPISSATING, in Pharmacy, an operation by which a liquor is brought to a thicker consistence, by evaporating the thinner parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029506-1637 | INSPRUCK or INSBRUCK, a city, the capital of the province of Tyrol, in the Austrian dominions. It is situated on the river Inn, where the Sill falls into that stream. Though not a strong it is a large city, containing twenty-one churches, two hospitals, an orphan house, several monasteries, and within the walls 1925 fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029601-1650 | INSTALLATION, the act of giving visible possession of an order, rank, or office, by placing the person collated or appointed in the proper seat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029602-1650 | INSTALMENT, a settling or instating any person in a dignity. The word is derived from the Latin in and stallum, a term used for a seat in church, in the choir, or a seat or bench in a court of justice, though Vossius is of opinion that the word is of German origin.
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kp-eb0712-029603-1650 | INSTANT, a part of duration in which we perceive no succession; or it is that which takes up the time only of one idea in our minds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029604-1650 | INSTAURATION, the re-establishment or restoration of a religion, a church, or the like, to its former state. The word is by some derived from the old Latin instaurum, which signified the stock of things necessary for the tilling and managing of grounds, as cattle, tools, harness, and the like. But the word instaurum is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029605-1650 | INSTERBURG, a city of the circle of the same name in the Gumbinen division of the province of East Prussia. It stands near the junction of the river Angerap with the Inster, by which the navigable river Pregel is formed. It contains two churches, 465 houses, and 5870 inhabitants. There are some manufacturers of cloth, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-029606-1650 | INSTINCT, a certain power or disposition of mind, by which, independently of all instruction or experience, without deliberation, and without having any end in view, animals are unerringly directed to do spontaneously^[1. As nothing is of greater importance in the philosophy of mind than accurate definitions, it may no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-030601-1780 | INSTITUTES, a book containing the elements of the Roman law. See Civil Law. National Institute of France, was founded by a decree of the new constitution, and opened on the 7th of December 1795. The abolition of royalty naturally suggested to the democratic rulers of France, that it would likewise be proper to abolish ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0712-030602-1780 | INSTITUTION, in general, signifies the establishing or founding of something. In the canon and common law, it signifies the investing a clerk with the spiritualities of a rectory or other preferment, which is done by the bishop, who uses the following formula: “I institute you rector of such a church with the cure of s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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