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JOVIAN, the Roman emperor, elected by the army after the death of Julian the Apostate, in 363. He at first refused to assume the purple, saying he would not command idolatrous soldiers; but, upon an assurance that they would embrace Christianity, he accepted the throne, and immediately shut all the pagan temples. But h...
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JOVIAN
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JOVIUS, Paul, in Italian Giovio, a celebrated historian, was born at Como, in Italy, in the year 1483. As his father died in his infancy, he was educated by his eldest brother Benedict Jovius, under whom he became well skilled in classical learning; and then went to Rome for the sake of enjoying the benefit of the Vati...
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JOY, in Ethics, is that passion which is produced by love, regarding its object as present, either immediately or in prospect, in reality or imagination. The operation of joy sometimes affects the functions of the body, by increasing the secretion of perspiration, and otherwise.
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JOY
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JUAN FERNANDEZ, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, about one hundred and ten leagues west of Chili, of which it may be considered an appendage, the governor of it being appointed by the president of that republic. It is about twelve miles in length, and hardly six in breadth; but, though small, it is so diversified ...
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JUBA, king of Numidia, who succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Hiempsal, about b. c. 50. In the war between Caesar and Pompey, we find Juba espousing the cause of the latter, and proceeding to the assistance of Varus, who was besieged in Utica by Curio. He gained a victory over Curio; and when many of t...
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JUBA
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JUBILEE, amongst the Jews, denotes every fiftieth year, being 'that following the revolution of seven weeks of years, at which time all the slaves were made free, and all lands reverted to their ancient owners. But the jubilees were disregarded after the Babylonian captivity. The word, according to some authors, comes ...
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JUBILEE
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JUDAH, the fourth son of Jacob, and father of the chief of the tribes of the Jews, distinguished by his name, and honoured by giving birth to the Messiah, died in the year before Christ 1636. Judah Hahhadosh, or the Saint, a rabbi celebrated for his learning and riches, who lived in the time of the Emperor Antoninus, ...
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JUDAH
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JUDAISM, the religious doctrines and rites of the Jews. Judaism was but a temporary dispensation, and destined to give way, at least the ceremonial part of it, at the coming of the Messiah. For a complete system of Judaism, it is only necessary to refer to the books of Moses. Judaism was anciently divided into several ...
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JUDAISM
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JUDAS Maccabeus, a celebrated general of the Jews, renowned for the many victories which he gained over his enemies, was at last slain in battle, 261 before Christ. See Jews.
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JUDAS
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JUDE, St, brother of St James the younger, and son of Joseph (Mat. xiii. 55). He preached in Mesopotamia, Arabia, Syria, Idumea, and died in Berytus for the profession of the faith of Christ. He wrote the epistle which goes under his name, and which was composed after the death of most of the apostles. He was cruelly p...
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JUDE
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JUDEA, or Judaea, in Ancient Geography, taken largely, denotes either all Palestine, or the greater part of it, and thus it is generally employed in the Roman history; Ptolemy, Rutilinus, Jerome, Origen, and Eusebius, using the word to signify the whole of Palestine. Here we consider it as denoting the third part of th...
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JUDEA
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JUDENBURG, a circle of the Austrian province of Steyermark, extending over 2312 square miles, and containing five cities with their suburbs, fourteen markettowns, and 387 villages, with 16,624 houses, and 87,388 inhabitants. The chief place, which gives its name to the circle, is situated on the river Mur, in the most ...
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JUDENBURG
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JUDEX, Matthew, one of the principal writers of the Centuries of Madgeburg, was born at Tippleswolde in Misnia in 1528. He taught theology with great reputation; but, owing to party feuds, met with many annoyances in the exercise of his ministry. He wrote several works, and died in 1564.
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JUDEX
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JUDGE, a chief magistrate of the law, appointed to hear causes, to explain the laws, and to pronounce sentence. Judges, in Jewish antiquity, certain supreme magistrates who governed the Israelites from the time of Joshua till the reign of Saul. These judges resembled the Athenian archons and the Roman dictators. The d...
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JUDGE
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JUDGMENT, amongst logicians, is a faculty or rather an act of the human soul, by which it compares its ideas, and perceives their agreement or disagreement. See Metaphysics and Logic. Judgment, in Law, is the sentence pronounced by the court upon the matter contained in the record. In the law of England, judgments are ...
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JUDGMENT
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JUDICATURE, the quality or profession of those who administer justice. Judicature is also used to signify the extent of the jurisdiction of the judge, aiid the court in which he sits to render justice.
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JUDICATURE
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JUDICIA Centumviralia, in Roman antiquity, were trials before the Centumviri, to whom the praetor committed the decision of certain matters of inferior nature, like our justices of the peace at the quarter-sessions. During judicia centumviralia, a spear was stuck up in the forum, to signify that the court was sitting.
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JUDICIA
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JUDICIUM Calumniae was an action brought against the plaintiff for false accusation. The punishment, upon conviction, was inustio frontis, or branding in the forehead. Judicium Pei, Judgment of God, was a term anciently applied to all extraordinary trials of secret crimes, as those by arms and single combat, and the o...
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JUDICIUM
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JUGERUM, in Roman antiquity, a square of 120 Roman feet, being to the English acre as 10 ’ 000 to 16*097.· ĴUGGERNATH, properly Jagatnatiia, the Lord of the World, a celebrated temple and place of Hindu worship, on the sea-coast of Orissa, and district of Cuttack, near to the town of Pursolem, esteemed the most sacred...
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JUGERUM
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JUGGLERS, a kind of people whose profession, namely, to perform slight-of-band tricks, has not often been deemed either respectable or useful. Yet Professor Beckmann, in the third volume of his History of Inventions, defends them, and pleads ably the cause of the practitioners of legerdemain, including rope-dancers, an...
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JUGGLERS
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JUGLANS, the Walnut, a genus of plants belonging to the polyandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the fiftieth order Amentaceae. See Botany.
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JUGLANS
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JUGULAR, amongst anatomists, is applied to certain veins and glands of the neck. See Anatomy.
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JUGULAR
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JUGULARES, in the Linnaean system, is the name of an order or division of fish, the general character of which is, that the ventral fins are placed before the pectoral. See Ichthyology.
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JUGULARES
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JUGUM, an humiliating mode of punishment inflicted by the victorious Romans upon their vanquished enemies. It was done in this way: They set up two spears, and laying a third across, in the form of a gallows, they ordered those who had surrendered themselves to pass under this ignominious erection, without arms or belt...
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JUGUM
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JUGURTHA, king of Numidia, was son of Mastanabal and a concubine; he was also grandson of Masinissa. The principal events of his life are included between 134 and 106 b. c. He was educated, along with his cousins Adherbal and Hiempsal, the sons of his uncle Micipsa, and began at an early period to exhibit such strong s...
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JUGURTHA
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JUICE denotes the sap of vegetables, or the liquors of animals. The juices of several plants are expressed to obtain their essential salts, and for several medicinal purposes, with intention either to be used without further preparation, or to be made into syrups and extracts. The general method of extracting these ju...
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JUICE
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JUIST, an island in the German Ocean, belonging to the Hanoverian province of East Friesland. It has a Lutheran church, and 280 inhabitants, who live by fishing, and as mariners. Long. 6. 54. 53. E. Lat. 53. 41. 11. N.
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JUIST
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JUJUBES, in the Materia Medica, the name of a fruit of the pulpy kind, produced on a tree which Linnaeus considers as a species of rhamnus. See Rhamnus. The jujubes have been made a general ingredient in pectoral decoctions; but they are now seldom used on these occasions, and are scarcely at all heard of in prescript...
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JUJUBES
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JUL, or Jol, a Gothic word, signifying a “sumptuous treat,” and particularly applied to a religious festival, first amongst the heathens, and afterwards amongst the Christians. By the latter it was given at Christmas, which is still known under the name of Iul, or Yool, in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and even in ...
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JUL
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JULAMERICK, a district in the east of Kurdistan, bounded by Armenia on the north, and by the pachalic of Bagdad on the south. It is a hilly country throughout, producing in some places a quantity of corn, and in all abundance of pasturage. Its chief town bears the name of the province, and there are, besides, numerous ...
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JULAMERICK
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JULEP, in Pharmacy, a medicine composed of some proper liquor and a syrup or sugar, of extemporaneous preparation, without decoction.
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JULEP
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JULIAN, the famous Roman emperor, styled the Apostate, because he professed the Christian religion before he ascended the throne, and afterwards, having embraced paganism, endeavoured to abolish Christianity. For this purpose, however, he made no use of violence. He knew that such measures had always rendered it more f...
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JULIAN
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JULIERS, a fortified city of Prussia, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle. It stands on the river Roer, the water of which fills theditches that surround the walls. The citadel is a very strong frontier defence. It contains 460 houses, and 3290 inhabitants. The trade i...
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JULIERS
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JULIO Romano. See Romano.
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JULIO
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JULIUS Caesar. See Caesar. Julius II. a pope, remarkable for bis warlike disposition, and his political negotiations. By the latter, he induced the principal powers of Europe to unite with him against the republic of Venice, in the confederacy called the league of Cambray, signed in 1508. The Venetians having purchased...
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JULIUS
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JULY, the seventh month of the year, during which the sun enters the sign Leo. The word is derived from the Latin Julius, the surname of Caesar the dictator, who was born in it. Mark Antony first gave this month the name July, which before was called Quintilis, as being the fifth month of the year in the old Roman cale...
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JULY
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JUMBASIER River, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Broach. It exports to Bombay and other places, cotton, grain, oil, and piece-goods. The tide rises from five to six fathoms. It is twenty-eight miles from the town of Broach. Long. 72. 58. E. Lat. 22. 5. N.
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JUMBASIER
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JUMNA. This celebrated river takes its rise in the Himalaya Mountains, probably on the southern side, where the Ganges has its rise, though its source has never been accurately explored. It flows through the province of Scrinagur, in a southern direction, in a line nearly parallel to the Ganges, from which, at the vill...
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JUMNA
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JUNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, possessed by an independent native chief, now one of the British allies. He and other chiefs engaged, in 1808, with the Bombay government, not to connive at piracy, and to permit a free and open commerce with the British vessels, on paying the stipulated duties.
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JUNAGUR
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JUNCI Lapidei, the name given by old authors to a species of coral of the tubularia kind, and composed of a congeries of small tubules. See Helminthology.
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JUNCI
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JUNCTURE, a joining or closing of two bodies. Seo Joint. [7:12:631] Juncture, in Oratory, is a part of composition particularly recommended by Quintilian, and denotes such an attention to the nature of the vowels and consonants, in the connection of words, with reference to their sound, as will render their pronunciat...
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JUNCTURE
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JUNCUS, the Rush, a genus of plants belonging to the hexandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the fifth order, Tripetaloideae. See Botany.
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JUNCUS
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JUNE, the sixth month of the year, during which the sun enters the sign of Cancer. The word comes from the Latin Junius, which some derive a Junone ; and hence Ovid, in the sixth of his Fasti, makes the goddess say, Junius a nostro nomine nomen habet. Others rather derive it a junioribus, this being for young people ...
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JUNE
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JUNGER POOR, a town of Hindustan, possessed by native chiefs, situated in the province of Gujerat, ninety miles north-east from Ahmedabad. These chiefs are occasionally tributary to the Mahrattas. Long. 73. 38. E. Lat. 23. 49. N.
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JUNGER POOR
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JUNGEYPOOR, a town of Bengal, district of Ran- ⅛shy,∙ situated on the eastern bank of the Bhagerutty River. It is the principal silk station of the East India Company. This establishment was erected in 1773, and in 1803 about 3000 persons were employed. The method employed in spinning the silk is the same as that emplo...
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JUNGEYPOOR
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JUNGLEBARRY, a town in the province of Bengal, district of Myniansingh, sixty miles north-east from Dacca. Long. 90. 42. E. Lat. 24. 27. N.
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JUNGLEBARRY
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JUNIUS, Adrian, one of the most learned men of the age in which he lived, was born at Hoorn, in Holland, in the year 1511. He travelled into all parts of Europe, and practised physic with reputation in England, where, amongst other works, he composed a Greek and Latin lexico, to which he added considerably above six th...
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JUNIUS
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JUNK, in nautical language, a name given to any remnant or piece of old cable, which is usually cut into small portions, for the purpose of making points, mats, gaskets, sennit, and the like.
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JUNK
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JUNKSEYLON, a considerable island on the western coast of the Malay peninsula, and situated at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Bengal. It is divided from the continent by a narrow isthmus of sand about a mile in length and half a mile in breadth, which is covered only at high water, the tide rising in the springs...
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JUNKSEYLON
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JUNNERE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, forty miles north-north-east from Poonab. Long. 73. 51. E. Lat. 19. 3. N.
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JUNNERE
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JUNOA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Chuta Nagpoor, 183 miles north-west from Calcutta. Long. 85. 43. E. I.at. 23. 23. N.
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JUNOA
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JUNO, in Pagan worship, was the sister and wife of Jupiter, the goddess of kingdoms and riches, and was styled the Queen of Heaven. She presided over marriage and child-birth, and was represented as the daughter of Saturn and Rhea. She married Jupiter, but was not the most complaisant of wives; for, according to Homer,...
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JUNO
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JUNONALIA, a festival observed by the Romans in honour of Juno. It was instituted on account of certain prodigies which happened in Italy, and was celebrated by matrons. In the solemnity two white cows were led from the temple of Apollo into the city through the gate called Carmentalis, and two images of Juno, made of ...
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JUNONALIA
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JUNTO, or Junta, in matters of government, denotes a select council for taking cognizance of affairs of great consequence, and requiring secrecy. In Spain and Portugal it signifies the same as convention, assembly, or board, amongst us. Thus, we meet with the junta of the three estates, of commerce, of tobacco, and the...
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JUNTO
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JUPITER, the supreme god of the ancient Pagans. The theologists, according to Cicero, reckoned three Jupiters, the first and second of whom were born in Arcadia; and of these two, the one sprang from Aether, and the other from Coelus. The third Jupiter was the son of Saturn, and born in Crete, where they pretended to s...
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JUPITER
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JURA, one of the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, lying opposite to Knapdale in Argyleshire, is supposed to be about thirty-four miles in length and ten in breadth. It is the most rugged of all the Hebrides, and is composed chiefly of vast mountains, naked, and without a possibility of cultivation. See Scotlan...
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JURA
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JURATS, Jurati, magistrates resembling aldermen, appointed for thegovernment of several corporations. Thus we meet with the mayor and jurats of Maidstone, Rye, Winchelsea. Jersey has also a bailiff, and twelve jurats, or sworn assistants, to govern the island.
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JURATS
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JURIEU, Peter, an eminent French protestant divine, called ironically by the Catholics the Goliath of the Protestants, was born in the year 1637. He was educated in England under his maternal uncle Peter du Moulin, and took orders in the English church; but returning to succeed his father as pastor of a reformed congre...
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JURIEU
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JURIN, James, born in 1684, a distinguished person, who cultivated medicine and the mathematics with equal success. He was secretary to the Royal Society of London, as well as president of the College of Physicians there. He had serious disputes with Micbelotti upon-the momentum of running waters, with Robins upon dist...
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JURIN
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JURISCONSULTUS (contracted ICtus) amongst the Romans, was a person learned in the law, a master of the Roman jurisprudence, who was consulted on the interpretation of the laws and customs, and on the difficult points in law-suits. The fifty books of the Digest were compiled wholly from the answers or reports of the anc...
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JURISCONSULTUS
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JURISPRUDENCE. I. — The object of the science which is distinguished by the name of Jurisprudence, is the protection of rights. * The business of the present discourse is, therefore, to ascertain the means which are best calculated for the at-tainmeňt of that end. What we desire to accomplish is, the protection of r...
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JURISPRUDENCE. I
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JURY, a certain number of men sworn to inquire into and try a matter of fact, and to declare the truth upon such evidence as shall appear before them. Jury Trial. The method of trial by jury is one of the most ancient of judicial institutions; so ancient, indeed, that its origin lies beyond the commencement of authent...
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JURY
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JUS Deliberandi, in Scotch Law, that right which an heir has, by law, of deliberating for a certain time whether he will represent his predecessor. Jus Devolutum, in Scotch Law, the right of the church to present a minister to a vacant parish, in the event of the patron neglecting to exercise that right within the tim...
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JUS
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JUSSIEU, Antoine de, doctor of physic, professor of botany in the Royal Garden at Paris, and a member of the Academie des Sciences, was born at Lyons in the year 1686, and educated at Montpellier, where he took his degree of doctor of physic, after which he became associated with the faculty of Paris. Although much occ...
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JUSSIEU
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JUST, or Joust, a sportive kind of combat on horseback, man against man, armed with lances. The word is by some derived from the French jouste, formed from the Latin juxta, because the combatants fought near one another. Sahnasius derives it from the modern Greek zous-tra, or rather ζουΰτοα, which is used in this sense...
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JUST
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JUSTICE, in a moral sense, is one of the four cardinal virtues, which consists in giving every person his due. Civilians distinguish justice into two kinds, communicative and distributive. The former establishes fair dealing in the mutual commerce between man and man, and includes sincerity in our discourse, as well a...
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JUSTICE
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JUSTICIAR, or Justice-General of Scotland, officially the chief judge of the supreme criminal court of Scotland, but of old, as in England, the chief justice of the kingdom. The origin of this high office cannot, from the want of records, be traced. There can scarcely be a doubt, however, but that it was derived to us ...
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JUSTICIAR
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JUSTICIARY, or Court of Justiciary, in Scotland. See Scotland.
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JUSTICIARY
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JUSTIFICATION, in Law, signifies a maintaining or showing a sufficient reason in court why the defendant did what he is called to answer. Justification, in Theology, that act of grace which renders a man just in the sight of God, and worthy of eternal happiness. [7:12:656] Different sects of Christians hold very diff...
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JUSTIFICATION
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JUSTIN, commonly called Justin Martyr, one of the earliest and most learned writers of the eastern church, was born at Neapoli, the ancient Sechem of Palestine. His father, Priseus, a Gentile Greek, brought him up in his own religion, and had him educated in all the learning of Greece. To complete his studies, he trave...
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JUSTIN
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JUSTINIAN, the first Roman emperor of his name, and more celebrated for his code of laws than for the military achievements which distinguished his reign, was nephew of Justin I. and succeeded to the imperial purple on the death of his uncle in 527. He began his reign with the character of being a religious prince; and...
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JUSTINIAN
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JUSTINIANI, St Laurence, the first patriarch of Venice, descended of a noble family, was born there in the year 1381. He died in 1485, leaving several religious works, which were printed together at Lyons in 1568, in one volume folio, with his life prefixed by his nephew. He was beatified by Clement VII. in 1524, and c...
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JUSTINIANI
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JUSTINUS, a Latin historian, whose name appears in some manuscripts as Μ. Junianus Justinus, and in others, Justinus Frontinus. We are unable to fix with precision the period during which he flourished, though some have placed him in the reign of Antoninus, A. d. 160, from the name of that emperor being found in the de...
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JUSTINUS
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JUSTNESS, the exactness or regularity of any thing. Justness is chiefly used in speaking of thought, language, and sentiments. The justness of a thought consists in a certain precision or accuracy, by which every part of it is perfectly true, and pertinent to the subject. Justness of language consists in using proper a...
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JUTERBOCK, a city of the circle of that name, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on the river Elbe, containing 569 houses, and 3394 inhabitants, employed in making cloth, leather, shoes, and linen goods.
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JUTERBOCK
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JUTLAND, a large peninsula, which makes the principal part of the kingdom of Denmark. See Denmark.
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JUTLAND
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JUVENALIS, Decimus or Decius Junius, a celebrated Roman satirist, respecting whose personal history only a few scanty notices have been preserved, chiefly in a life of the poet usually ascribed to Suetonius. Juvenal was a native of Aquinum, now Aquino, a city of Latium, on the Via Latina, a few miles from the left bank...
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JUVENALIS
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JUVENCUS, Caius Vecticus Aquilinus, one of the first of the Christian poets, was born of an illustrious family in Spain. About the year 320 he put the life of Jesus Christ into Latin verse, of which he composed four books. In this work he followed closely the text of the evangelists; but his verses are written in bad t...
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JUVENCUS
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JUVENTAS, in Mythology, the goddess who presided over youth amongst the Romans. This goddess was long honoured in the capitol, where Servius Tullius erected a statue to her. Near the chapel of Minerva there was the altar of Juventas, and upon this altar a picture of Proserpine. The Greeks called the goddess of youth He...
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JUXON, Dr William, archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Chichester in 1582. He was educated at Merchant Tailors’ School, and thence elected into, St John’s College, Oxford, of which he became president. King Charles I. made him bishop of London, and in 1635 promoted him to the office of lord high treasurer of England....
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JUXON
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K. K the tenth letter, and seventh consonant, of our alphabet, being formed by a guttural expression of the breath through the mouth, together with a depression of the lower jaw, and an opening of the teeth. Its sound is much the same with that of the hard c, or qu, and it is used for the most part only before e, ?, a...
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K. K
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KAARTA, one of the many kingdoms into which the western part of Africa is divided, and of which little or nothing is known, excepting that it is of considerable extent, but, from the arenaceous nature of the soil, very scanty in all vegetable productions, with the exception of the lotus. The capital is called Kemmoo; b...
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KAARTA
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KABANIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, being part of the line formed for the defence of the government of Tobolsk. There are seventy-five houses without the fort. It is 270 miles south of Tobolsk.
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KABANIA
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KABANOUA, or Kabanouska, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tomsk, for protecting the frontier against the Kirghises. It is eighty-six miles south of Tomsk.
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KABANOUA
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KABARDA, a territory of Asia, in the Russian government of Caucasus, inhabited by the principal of those nations known under the name of Circassians. The Terek, along the southern bank of which it extends, separates it from the Russian government of Caucasus. It is divided into the Great and Little Kabarda, the frontie...
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KABARDA
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KABOUR, a river of Asia, in the pashalik of Bagdad, which rises near Merdin, and pursues a southerly course, until it receives the Mygdonius, when it enters the Euphrates at Kerkesia, the ancient Circessium.
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KABOUR
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KABRONANG, an island in the Eastern Seas, about eighteen miles in circumference. It is in a high state of cultivation, and may be seen about eighteen leagues off", being distinguished by a high-peaked hill about the middle. It is separated from Salibabo island, which lies to the north-west, by a strait about four miles...
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KABRONANG
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KACHTAN, or Cachtan, a small district of Yemen, in Arabia, situated in a mountainous district, about six days’ journey north-north-east from Saade.
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KACHTAN
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KADESH, Kadesh-barnea, or En-mishpat, in Ancient Geography, a city celebrated for several remarkable events. At Kadesh, Miriam the sister of Moses died; and here it was that Moses and Aaron, showing a distrust in God’s power, when they smote the rock at the waters of strife, were condemned to die without the consolatio...
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KADESH
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KADIRGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, and district of Furruckabad, surrounded by a mud wall. It is situated near the south-west bank of the Ganges, and forty-three miles north-north-west from Furruckabad. Long. 79. 2. E. Lat. 27. 50. N.
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KADIRGUNGE
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KADMONAEI, or Cadmonaeĩ, in Ancient Geography, a people of Palestine, said to have dwelt at the foot of Mount Hermon, which lies to the eastward, and is the reason of the appellation, with respect to Libanus, Phoenicia, and the northern parts of Palestine. They were also called Hevoei.
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KADMONAEI
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KADOM, a city of European Russia, in the province of Tambow. It is situated in a woody district, mostly inhabited by Tartars. The population amounts to 5100 persons. [7:12:659] Much wax and honey is collected in the neighbourhood. It is 230 miles east-south-east from Moscow.
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KADOM
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KAFFA, a city of the Russian empire, in Europe, in the Crimea. It was formerly the capital of that peninsula, and the residence of the khan; and, from the end of the thirteenth till the middle of the fifteenth century, it maintained, by its flourishing trade, which was chiefly with Genoa, a population of 100,000. It wa...
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KAFFA
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KAFFILAR KOOK, a village of Persia, surrounded by a range of high mountains of the same name, on the road from Sultania to Sennah, and seventy miles north-northeast of the latter place.
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KAFFILAR KOOK
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KAFFRARIA, Kafferland, or Caffraria, a territory extending along the eastern shores of South Africa, from the eastern boundary line of the Cape of Good Hope to Delagoa Bay, a distance of between 600 and 700 miles. It extends inwards to the country of the Boshuanas, between 200 and 300 miles from the sea; but this front...
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KAFFRARIA
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KAHLORE, a Sikh town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, situated on the banks of the Sutlege, above Macowall, and near the mountains through which that river enters Hindustan. There is also a town of this name situated at a short distance north-east from the city of Lahore.
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KAHLORE
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KAIBALLS, a people of Asiatic Russia, who reside near the source of the Yenesei. They appear to be an intermixture of the Samoyeds with the Tartar race.
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KAIBALLS
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KAINS Γ, the Hottentot name of a species of antelope, denominated by the Dutch, on account of its agility, klip-springer. It is of a yellowish-gray colour, and of the size of a kid of a year old.
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KAINS Γ
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KAINSKE, a small fortified town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Tomsk, situated on a small river of the same name. It is placed as a defence to the Tartars of the steppe of Barabinsk, against the incursions of the Kalmucks and Kirghises.
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KAINSKE
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KAIR, a large fortified town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, situated on the south bank of the Godavery.
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