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kp-eb0713-009702-2666 | LAPATHUS, Lapethus, or Lepithus, in Ancient Geography, a town of Cyprus, with a port or station for ships, and a cognominal river. It was built by a colony of Phoenicians, according to Scylax; by Belus king of Tyre, according to Alexander Ephesus. According to Strabo, it was built by a colony of Spartans; and one of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009703-2666 | LAPEROUSE, John Francis Galupe de, a French navigator, distinguished for talent, enterprise, and philanthropy, and memorable on account of his mysterious fate, was born at Albi, in Languedoc, in the year 1741. He received his education at the Marine School, and at an early age entered the naval service of his country. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 4' S 169 20' E | LAPEROUSE |
kp-eb0713-009704-2666 | LAPIDARY, an artificer who cuts precious stones. The art of cutting precious stones is of great antiquity. The French have carried it to high perfection, but they are not in any degree superior to the British. There are various machines employed in the cutting of precious stones, according to their quality. The diamond... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009801-2679 | LAPIDESCENT, any thing which has the faculty of petrifying, or turning bodies to a stony nature. The older naturalists speak of a lapidescent principle, a lapidescent spirit, a lapidescent juice, and so on. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009802-2679 | LAPIS, in general, is used to denote a stone of any kind or description.
Lapis, in Roman antiquity, a geographical measure denoting a mile, because miles were distinguished by erecting a stone at the end of each; from the number marked on which, the length of way to or from Rome might be known. This device is ascribed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009803-2679 | LAPITHAE, in Ancient Geography, a people of Thessaly. See the next article. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009804-2679 | LAPITHUS, in fabulous history, a son of Apollo by Stilbe. He was brother to Centaurus, and married Orsi-nome, daughter of Euronymus, by whom he had Phorbas and Periphas. The name of Lapithae was given to the numerous children of Phorbas and Periphas, or rather to the inhabitants of the country of which they had obtaine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-009805-2679 | LAPLACE, Pierre Simon, Marquis de, one of the greatest geometricians and physical astronomers that any age or country has produced, and scarcely less distinguished in the other natural sciences, was a native of Normandy, in which province he first saw the light on the 23d of March 1749. It was observed, even at the com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-010301-2744 | LAPLAND, the most northerly country of Europe, is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the south by Sweden, on the east by the White Sea, and on the west by Norway and the Atlantic Ocean. Its limits are not very accurately laid down by travellers or geographers; but it seems to be divided from the rest of Scand... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011301-2874 | LAPSE, in ecclesiastical law, a slip or omission of a patron to present a clerk to a benefice within six months after it becomes void, in which case the benefice is said to be in lapse, or lapsed, and the right of presentation devolves on the ordinary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011302-2874 | LAQUEARIUS, a kind of athlete amongst the ancients, who in one hand held a laqueus, or sort of snare, wherewith to embarrass and entangle his antagonist, and in the other a poniard to stab him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011303-2874 | LAR, the capital of the province of Laristan, in Persia, once a magnificent city, but now in ruins. It is situated at the foot of a range of hills in an extensive plain, which is covered with palm trees. The houses are commodious and neatly furnished, each having a badgeer and surdαb ; the former to cool the inner apar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 30' N 52 45' E | LAR |
kp-eb0713-011304-2874 | LARACHE, or El Arache, a seaport town of the kingdom of Morocco, in Northern Africa, is situated at the mouth of the Luccos, a river which anciently bore the name of Lixus. This town, which formerly belonged to the Spaniards, has some neat buildings; and, though not regularly fortified, possesses a fort and two batteri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 35 13' 15" N 6 1' 30" W | LARACHE |
kp-eb0713-011305-2874 | LARARIUM was a chapel which the Romans frequently had in their houses for the household gods, called lares. Spartian informs us, that Alexander the son ofMam-meus kept in his lararium the /gure of our Saviour, together with his other idols. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011306-2874 | LARBOARD, amongst seamen, the left-hand side of the ship when you stand with your face towards the head. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011307-2874 | LARCENY, or Theft, by contraction for lątrociny, latrocinium, is distinguished by the law into two sorts; the one called simple larceny, t or plain theft, unaccompanied with any other atrocious circumstance; and the other, mixed or compound larceny, which also includes in it the aggravation of a taking from one’s house... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011401-2887 | LARDNER, Nathaniel, an eminent English dissenting divine, was born at Hawkhurst, in Kent, on the 6th of June 1684. After receiving a grammatical education, he was sent first to a dissenting academy in London, which was under the care of the Rev. Dr Joshua Oldfield; and thence, in his sixteenth year, he went to prosecut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011402-2887 | LARENTINALIA, in Antiquity, a feast held amongst the Romans on the 23d day of December, but ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus. It was supposed by some to have been instituted in honour of the Lares, but by others, with more probability, in honour of Acca Laurentia, and to have been the same with Laurental... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011403-2887 | LARES, amongst the ancients, derived by Apuleius from lar familiaris, a kind of domestic genii or divinities, worshipped in houses, esteemed the guardians and protectors of families, and supposed to reside more immediately in the chimney corner. The Lares were distinguished from the Penates, as the former were supposed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011501-2900 | LARGE, a nautical term applied to the wind when it crosses the line of a ship’s course in a favourable direction, particularly on the beam or quarter. Thus, if a ship steers west, then the wind in any point of the compass to the eastward of the south or north may be called large, unless when it is directly east, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011502-2900 | LARGITIO, in Roman antiquity, was a distribution of corn, provision, clothes, money, and the like, amongst the people. Gracchus, when tribune, in order to render himself popular, passed a law for supplying the Roman citizens with corn out of the public granaries at a very low rate. Claudius, another tribune, with the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011503-2900 | LARGO, Upper and Nether, is the name of two small villages of Fifeshire, situated near the shore of the Frith of Forth. The former is a very agreeable place, about a mile from the sea, on the road between Leven and Anstruther. It has a parish church, an ancient Gothic fabric, with a spire rising from the middle. Nether... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011504-2900 | LARGS, a small village on the west coast of Scotland, opposite to the island of Bute. It contains only about 500 inhabitants, but is rendered memorable by the defeat which the Norwegians sustained here, in their last invasion of Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011505-2900 | LARISSA, a city of ancient Thessaly, in the Turkish province of Tirhala. It is situated on the river Salam-bria, the ancient Peneus, over which is a fine bridge of ten arches. It is surrounded with walls, and contains two large and twenty smaller mosques, several Greek churches, and 4000 houses, with 25,000 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 48' N 22 46' E | LARISSA |
kp-eb0713-011506-2900 | LARISTAN, a province of Persia, which extends along the northern shore of the Persian Gulf, from the fifty-fifth to the fifty-eighth degree of east longitude. It is bounded by Fars on the north-west, and Kerman on the north-east, and is the poorest and least productive province of Persia. The country is arid, and so de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011507-2900 | LARK. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011508-2900 | LARMIER, in Architecture, a flat square member of [7:13:116]the cornice, below the cimasium, and jetting out farthest. It is so called from its use, which is to disperse the water, and cause it to fall at a distance from the wall, drop by drop, or as if by tears, the French word larme signifying a tear. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011601-2913 | LARREK, a small island in the Persian Gulf, about fifteen miles in circumference, with a little conical hill in its centre. It has no harbour, and is destitute both of water and vegetation. It is ten miles south-west of Ormuz. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011602-2913 | LARVA, in Natural History, a name given by Linnaeus to insects in that state which is called by other writers cruca or caterpillar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011603-2913 | LARVAE, in Antiquity, derived from the Etruscan word lax or lars, signifying “prince or lord,” denoted the ghosts of the deceased, considered as wicked and mischievous. Hence is formed the term larvatus, that is, larva indutus or demoniac. The ingenious Mr Farmer urges the etymology and use of this term to prove that t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011604-2913 | LARUS, the gull. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011605-2913 | LASCARIS, Constantine, one of those illustrious Greeks who, having been expelled from their native country in the fifteenth century, contributed greatly to the revival of letters in Europe. He was descended of the imperial family of the same name, and born at Constantinople, though in what year has not been ascertained... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011606-2913 | LASH, or Lace, in nautical language, signifies to bind or make fast; as, to lash the bonnet to the course, or the drabbler to the bonnets. The carpenter takes care that the spare yards are lashed fast to the ship’s side; and in a rolling sea, the gunners mind that the guns are well lashed, lest they should break loose.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011607-2913 | LASPHE, a town of Prussian Westphalia, in the go [7:13:117] vernment of Arensburg, and circle of Witgenstein. It stands on the river Lahn, and contains 160 houses, with 1720 inhabitants, who are chiefly occupied in making iron wares. Adjoining to the city is the palace of Prince Witgenstein, whose dominions, now mediat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011701-2926 | LASSA, a town of Thibet, and capital of a province of the same name. It is the capital of the country, and the seat of the Delai Lama. It belongs, however, to the Chinese, who have a viceroy here, with a garrison, commanded by a general officer, whose influence is superior to that of the lamas. It has been visited by f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011702-2926 | LAST, in general, signifies the burden or load of a ship. It signifies also a certain measure of fish, corn, wool, leather, and the like. A last of cod-fish, white herrings, meal, and ashes for soap, is twelve barrels; of corn or rapeseed, ten quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels; of red herrings, twenty cades; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011703-2926 | LASTAGE, or Lestage, a duty exacted in some fairs and markets, for carrying things bought whithersoever one pleases to order. It signifies also the ballast or lading of a ship, and is sometimes used for garbage, rubbish, or such like filth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011704-2926 | LASUS, or Lassus, a Greek poet and musician, respecting whom only a few facts have been transmitted to us. He was the son of Charbinus, a native of Hermione, in Argolis, and flourished about the sixty-ninth olympiad (b. c. 504), during the reign of Darius I. king of Persia. Some of the ancients put Lasus in the number ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011705-2926 | LASWAREE, a small village of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, the scene of a desperate battle fought between the British army and Scindia, in which the former obtained a complete victory. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011706-2926 | LATERAN was originally the proper name of a man, from whom it descended to an ancient palace in Rome, and to the buildings since erected in its place, particularly a church called St John of Lateran.
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kp-eb0713-011707-2926 | LATERE, a term used to denote the qualifications of the cardinals whom the pope sends as legates into foreign countries. They are called “legates a latere," as being his holiness’s assistants and counsellors in ordinary. They are the most considerable of all the legates, being such as the pope commissions to take his p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011708-2926 | LATEEN Sail, a long triangular sail extended by a lateen yard, and frequently used in xebecs, polacres, se-tees, and other vessels which navigate in the Mediterranean Sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011709-2926 | LATH, in building, a long, thin, and narrow slip of wood nailed to the rafters of a roof or ceiling, in order to sustain the covering. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011710-2926 | LATHAM, a township in the parish of Ormskirk, in the hundred of West Derby, in the county of Lancaster, 210 miles from London. The castle here formerly belonged to the Earls of Derby, and was boldly defended against the parliament forces in the civil war in 1648. There is a mineral spring, from which Epsom salt is made... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011711-2926 | LATHE, a very useful engine for the turning of wood, ivory, metals, and other materials. The invention of the lathe is very ancient. According to Diodorus Siculus, the first who used it was a grandson of Daedalus, named Talus. Pliny ascribes it to Theodore of Samos, and mentions one Thericles, who rendered himself famo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011801-2939 | LATHREVE, Leidgreve, or Trithengreve, was an officer under the Saxon government, who had authority over a third part of the county, and whose territory was therefore called trithing, otherwise a leid or leithin, in which manner the county of Kent is still divided. As to the jurisdiction of this officer, those matters w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011802-2939 | LATIAR, in Roman antiquity, a feast or ceremony instituted by Tarquinius Superbus, in honour of Jupiter Latiaris or Latialis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011803-2939 | LATICLAVE {Laticlavium), in Roman antiquity, was an honourable distinction, peculiar, in the times of the republic, to the senators; but whether it was a particular kind of garment, or only an ornament upon ’it, the critics are not agreed. The more general opinion, however, is, that it was a broad stripe of purple sewe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011804-2939 | LATIMER, Hugh, bishop of Worcester, was born about the year 1480, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was the only son of a yeoman of that village. At the age of fourteen he was sent to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he applied himself to the study of divinity, and in proper time took the degree of bachelor in tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011805-2939 | LATIN, a dead language, first spoken in Latium, and afterwards at Rome. See Language and Philology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011806-2939 | LATINUS, king of the Latins in Italy, was the son of Faunus, and, it is said, began to reign about 1216 years before the Christian era. Lavinia, his only daughter, married Aeneas, after that Trojan prince had killed Turnus king of the Rutułians. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011807-2939 | LATISANA, a town of Italy, the capital of a district in the Austrian delegation of Frioul, on the river Tagliamento. There is a fine palace belonging to the Mocenego family. It contains 3890 inhabitants, whose trade is chiefly in timber. Long. 13. 8. 40. E. Lat. 45. 54. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011808-2939 | LATITUDE, in Astronomy, is the distance of a star north or south from the ecliptic. In geography it signifies the distance of any place north or south from the equator. See Astronomy, and Geography, passim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011809-2939 | LATITUDINARIAN, a person of moderation respecting religious opinions, who believes there is a latitude in the road to heaven, which may admit people of different persuasions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011810-2939 | LATIUM, in Ancient Geography, the country of the Latins, at first contained within very narrow bounds, but afterwards increased by the accession of various tribes and races. The appellation, according to Virgil, is a latendo, from Saturn’s lying hid there from the hostile pursuit of his son Jupiter; and from Latium com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011811-2939 | LATMUS, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Ionia, or on the confines of Caria, famous for the fable of Endymion, of whom the Moon was said to be enamoured: hence called Latmius Heros, and Latmius Venator. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011812-2939 | LATOMIA properly signifies a stone quarry ; but the places whence stones had been dug having been made use of sometimes as dungeons, jails, or prisons for criminals, it is often applied as a name for a prison. There was a place of confinement of this sort at Rome, near the Tullianum, and another at Syracuse, in which C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011901-2952 | LATONA, in Mythology, a goddess, whose history is very obscure. Hesiod makes her the daughter∙ of Titan Coeus, and Phoebe his sister. She was admired for her beauty, and celebrated for the favours which she granted to Jupiter. Juno, always jealous of her husband’s amours, made Latona the object of her vengeance, and se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011902-2952 | LA TOUR DU PIN, an arrondissement of the department of the Isère, in France, 556 square miles in extent. It comprehends eight cantons, divided into 125 communes, and contains 106,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a pleasant valley on the river Bourbon, but containing only 1550 inhab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011903-2952 | LATRINAE were public houses, or necessaries, amongst the Romans. We do not find, in the writings or buildings that remain of antiquity, that they had any such in their dwellings. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011904-2952 | LATRUNCULI, a game amongst the Romans, of much the same nature with our chess. The latrunculi were properly the chess-men, called also latrones and calculi. They were usually made of glass, and distinguished by black and white colours; but sometimes they were made of wax or other convenient substances. The invention of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011905-2952 | LATTALATTA, one of the small islands adjacent to Gilolo, and about twenty-five miles in circumference. It is separated from the island of Jappa by a strait above a mile and a half in length, and in some places not above forty-six yards broad, in others eight miles. There is also a cluster of small islands lying off the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-011906-2952 | LATTEN denotes iron plates tinned over, of which tea-cannisters are made. Plates of iron being prepared of a proper thinness, are smoothed by rusting them in an acid liquor, as common water made eager with rye. With this liquor they fill certain troughs, and then put in the plates, which they turn once or twice a day, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012001-2965 | LAUBAN, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in Prussian Silesia, within the government of Liegnitz. It stands on the Queis, is walled, and contains four churches and 784 houses, inhabited by 4560 persons. Many are employed in making linen and woollen goods and hosiery. A celebrated convent of St Mary Magd... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012002-2965 | LAUD, William, archbishop of Canterbury in the seventeenth century, was born at Reading in 1573, and educated in St John’s College, Oxford, of which he was afterwards a fellow and reader. In 1610, he took orders. In 1611, he was elected president of St John’s College; but his election being disputed, it was confirmed b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012003-2965 | LAUDATIO, in a legal sense, was anciently the testimony delivered in court, to the good behaviour and integrity of life of the person accused. It resembled the custom which prevails in our trials, of calling persons to speak to the character of the prisoner. The least number of the laudatores amongst the Romans was ten... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012004-2965 | LAUDER, William, a native of Scotland, was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he finished his studies with great reputation, and acquired a considerable knowledge of the Latin tongue. On the 22d of May 1734, he received a testimonial from the heads of the university, certifying that he was a fit person to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012005-2965 | LAUDICOENI, amongst the Romans, applauders, who [7:13:121] for reward entered the rehearsal-rooms, attended the repetition of plays, and were in waiting when orations were pronounced, to raise or increase the acclamation and applause. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012101-2978 | LAUDOHN, Field-Marshal, a celebrated general in the imperial service, born in 1716, was a native of Livonia, and descended from a Scotch family. He made his first campaigns under Marshal Munich, in the war of 1738, between the Russians and Turks, and was present at the taking of Oczakow, as well as at Choczim, and Sta-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012102-2978 | LAUDS, Laudes, the second part of the ordinary office of the breviary, said after matins, though heretofore it ended the office of the night. The laudes consist principally of psalms, hymns, and the like, and hence they took their name from laus, laudis, praise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012103-2978 | LAUENBURG, a duchy in Germany, formerly a part of Hanover, but at the congress of Vienna transferred to Denmark. It extends in longitude from 9. 56. to 10. 37. E. and in latitude from 53. 21. to 53. 48. N., and contains 443 square miles, with one city, one town, and 123 villages, with 34,650 inhabitants. It borders on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012104-2978 | LAUFFEN, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, in the circle of the Neckar. It stands on the river of the same name, and contains three churches, 600 houses, and 3630 inhabitants, who grow wine, and have some manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012105-2978 | LAUGHARNE, a market-town of South Wales, in the county of Carmarthen, and hundred of Derlis, 223 miles from London. It stands at the mouth of the river Towy. The market is held on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1484, in 1811 to 1561, in 1821 to 1953, and in 1831 to 2020. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012106-2978 | LAUGHTER, an affection peculiar to mankind, occasioned by something that tickles the fancy.
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kp-eb0713-012401-3017 | LAUINGEN, a city of Bavaria, in the circle of the Upper Danube, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is walled, and has 733 houses, with 3530 inhabitants, who make linen and woollen cloths, and have much trade by the Danube, on which it is situated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012402-3017 | LAUNCESTON, a borough town of the hundred of East, in the county of Cornwall, 213 miles from London. It is pleasantly situated on a gentle elevation overlooking the river Tamer. It has good markets, which are held on Wednesday and Saturday. It is one of the county towns, in which the assizes are held in the spring, as ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012501-3030 | LAUNCH, in the sea language, signifies to put out; as, launch the ship, that is, put her out of dock; launch aft, or forward, speaking of things that are stowed in the hold, is, put them more forward. Launch, ho! is a term used when a yard is hoisted high enough, and signifies hoist no more. See also Lancn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012502-3030 | LAUNDER, in Mineralogy, a name given in Devonshire, and other places, to a long and shallow trough, which receives the powdered ore after it comes out of the box or coffer, a sort of mortar, in which it is powdered with iron pestles. The powdered ore, which is washed into the launder by the water from the coffer, is al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012503-3030 | LAUFEN, a town of the canton of Berne, in Switzerland, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, situated at the junction of the rivers Sense and Laane. It is celebrated for the victory gained by the confederated states in 1339, and contains 1230 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012504-3030 | LAURA, in Ecclesiastical History, a name given to a collection of little cells at some distance from one another, in which the hermits in ancient times lived together in a wilderness or desert place.
These hermits did not live in community, but each monk provided for himself in his own distinct cell. The most celebrat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012505-3030 | LAURENTALIA, or Larentalia, called also Lau-rrntinalia, Laurentales, and Larentales, feasts celebrated amongst the Romans on the tenth of the kalends of January, or twenty-third of December, in memory of Acca Laurentia, wife of the shepherd Faustulus, and nurse of Romulus and Remus. Acca Laurentia, from whom the solemn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012601-3043 | LAURENTIUS, one of the first printers, and, according to some, the inventor of the art, was born at Haerlem, about the year 1370, and filled several offices in the magistracy of that city. Those writers are mistaken who assign to him the surname of Coster, or assert that the office of ċEćZíÏMws was hereditary in his fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012602-3043 | LAURENTIUM, or Laurens Castra, in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, supposed to have been the royal residence of those most ancient kings Latinus, Picus, and Faunus. Hither the Emperor Commodus retired during a pestilence. Its name was derived from an adjoining grove of bay trees, midway between Ostia and Antium, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012603-3043 | LAURO, Philippo, a celebrated painter, was born at Rome in 1623. He learned the first rudiments of the art from his father Balthasar, who was himself a good painter; but he afterwards studied under Angelo Carosello, his brother-in-law, and proved so great a proficient, that in a short time he far surpassed his tutors i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012604-3043 | LAUSANNE, a city, the capital of the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland, in the circle of the same name. It is built on five hills, near the lake of Geneva. The situation is fine, though it is an irregularly built place. There is a fine Gothic cathedral, a council-house, a hospital, and some other public buildings, with 10... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012605-3043 | LAUSATIA, one of the circles into which the present kingdom of Saxony is divided. It touches on the south the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, and on the north and the east the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and of Silesia. It is extended over 1650 square miles, comprehends sixteen cities and towns, 458 villages, and. 3... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012606-3043 | LAUTERBACH, a town of Hesse-Darmstadt, in the canton of Upper Hesse. It is the capital of the bailiwick of its name, is situated on the river Altfell, is walled, and contains 538 houses, with 3050 inhabitants, who are employed in linen and woollen manufactures, and in tanneries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012607-3043 | LAVA, a stream of melted minerals, which runs out of the mouths, or bursts out through the sides, of burning mountains, during the time of an eruption. See Aetna and Vesuvius, also Volcano. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012608-3043 | LAVAL, an arrondissement of the department of the Mayenne, in France, extending over 715 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons and ninety-three communes, and contains a population of 108,600 persons. ∙ The chief place is the city of the same name, which is also the capital of the department. It is finely situat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 4' N 0 52' W | LAVAL |
kp-eb0713-012701-3056 | LAVATER, John Gaspard Christian, best known by his writings on physiognomy, was born at Zurich, in Switzerland, in 1741. He was brought up a protestant minister, and entered into holy orders in 1761. He was for some time pastor of the orphans’ church in that city; but from the year 1778 he was deacon and pastor of St P... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012702-3056 | LAVATORY, or Lavadero, a name given to certain places in Chili and Peru, where gold is obtained from earth by washing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012703-3056 | LAVAUR, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn, in France, 316 square miles in extent. It consists of five cantons, divided into sixty-one communes, and contains 47,800 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the left bank of the river Agout. It contains 850 houses, and 6600 inhabita... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 42' N 1 47' E | LAVAUR |
kp-eb0713-012704-3056 | LAVENHAM, a town of the hundred of Baberg, in the county of Suffolk, sixty-two miles from London. It is governed by a corporation of six capital burgesses, chosen for life. It had once a cloth manufactory, which has disappeared, and now only carries on some trade in hempen goods. The population amounted in 1801 to 1776... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012705-3056 | LAVER, in scripture history, a sacred utensil placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle, consisting of a bason, whence water was drawn by cocks, for washing the hands and feet of the officiating priests, and also the entrails and legs of the victims. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012706-3056 | LAVERNA, in Antiquity, the goddess of thieves and cheats amongst the Romans, who honoured her with public worship, because she was supposed to favour those who wished that their designs might not be discovered. Varro says that she had an altar near one of the gates of Rome, which was hence called porta lavernalis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012707-3056 | LAVINIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, six miles to the east of Laurentum, according to an ancient map; so named from Lavinia, consort of Aeneas, and daughter of King Latinus, and built by the Trojans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012708-3056 | LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent, the celebrated discoverer of the new chemical theory, was born at Paris in the month of August 1745. His father being a man of opulence acquired in commerce, spared no cost on the education of his son. The latter studied at Mazarin College, and obtained a great number of prizes in his classe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-012801-3069 | LAW (says Blackstone, from whose work the following observations are abridged), in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-013301-3134 | LAW OF NATIONS.
I.— Ideas involved in the term Law. — These ideas how modified in the term Laro of Nations. — The only sanction applicable to the Law of Nations is the popular sanction. — What dependence may be placed upon the popular sanction. In the meaning of the word Law, three principal ideas are involved; that o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-014701-3316 | LAW, John, commonly known by the name of the Projector, was the eldest son of William Law, and was born at Edinburgh in the month of April 1671. His father followed the profession of goldsmith or banker, with so much success, that he was enabled to purchase the lands of Lauriston and Randleston, which afterwards descen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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