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kp-eb0713-061302-9392 | LYRE, a musical instrument of the stringed kind, much used by the ancients. Concerning the number of strings with which this instrument was furnished, there has been great controversy. Some assert that it had only three; that the sounds of the two remote were acute, and that of the intermediate one a mean between these... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061401-9405 | LYRIC Poetry was such as the ancients sung to the lyre or harp. It was originally employed in celebrating the praises of gods and heroes, and its characteristic was sweetness. The author or inventor of it is, however, unknown. It was much cultivated by the Greeks; and Horace was the first who attempted it in the Latin ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061402-9405 | LYRODI, amongst the ancients, a kind of musicians who played on the lyre, and at the same time sung. This appellation was also given to such as made it their employment to sing lyric poems composed by others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061403-9405 | LYSANDRIA, a Samian festival, which was celebrated with games and sacrifices in honour of the Lacedaemonian general Lysander. It was anciently called Herea ; but this name the Samians abolished by a public decree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061404-9405 | LYSIARCH, an ancient magistrate, who superintended the sacred games, and presided in matters of religion, in the province of Lycia. He was created in a council consisting of deputies from all the provincial cities, twenty-three in number. The lysiarchs were heads both of the council and the pontiffs of the province. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061405-9405 | LYSIAS, one of the most celebrated of the Greek orators, was born at Athens 458 b. c., and died, at the age of eighty, B. c. 378. He was the contemporary of some of the greatest men that Athens ever produced, of Thucydides and Xenophon, of Euripides and Sophocles. He was the son of Cephalus, a Syracusan, and is himself... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061501-9418 | LYSIMACHUS, one of the generals of Alexander, was (Son of Agathocles, one of the king’s body guard, but of noble descent. He appears to have been one of the noblest characters that the age of Alexander, so fertile in great men, produced. He was the pupil of the philosopher Callisthenes, who attended Alexander in his ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061502-9418 | LYSIPPUS, a celebrated Greek statuary, of the city of Sicyon, in the Peloponnesus, flourished about 324 b. c. He was at first a worker in brass, but afterwards devoted himself to statuary, studying nature, by the advice of Eupompus, rather than following the manner of any master. He excelled all those who had preceded ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061503-9418 | LYTTELTON, Edward, Lord Lyttelton, keeper of the great seal in the reign of Charles I. was eminent for his probity and moderation at the commencement of that monarch’s disputes with his subjects. Without forfeiting his fidelity to the king, he preserved the esteem of the parliament until the year 1644, when he was made... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061701-9444 | M, Α liquid consonant, and the twelfth letter in the alphabet. It has one unvaried sound, and is pronounced by striking the upper lip against the lower. In this the pronunciation of the letter m agrees with that of b, the only difference between the two consisting in a little motion made in the nose in pronouncing m, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061702-9444 | MAAT, John. See Blankof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061703-9444 | MABILLON, John, a learned writer of France in the seventeenth century, was born at Perremonte, on the frontiers of Champagne, in the year 1632. He was educated in the university of Rheims, and afterwards entered into the abbey of the Benedictines of St Rémy. In the year 1663 he was appointed keeper of the treasures and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061704-9444 | MACAIRE, a town of France, in the department of the Gironde and arrondissement of Réolle, situated on the right bank of the Garonne, where the tide ceases to operate on that stream. It contains 1530 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061705-9444 | MACAO, an island and town of China, belonging to the Portuguese, and the only European settlement within the limits of that empire. It was in consequence of the aid afforded by the Portuguese to the Chinese against the pirates who infested their coasts, that the privilege of a settlement was conceded to them. At first ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061801-9457 | MACARCA, a market-town of the Austrian province of Dalmatia. It is a sea-port on the Adriatic, with a small but good harbour, which is protected from the winds by the islands Lessina and Brassa, opposite to it. The inhabitants are 1620, chiefly employed in the fisheries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061802-9457 | MACARIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, the followers of Macarius, an Egyptian monk, who, towards the close of the fourth century, was distinguished for his sanctity and virtue. In his writings there are some superstitious tenets, and also certain opinions which seem tainted with Origenism. The name has also been applied... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061803-9457 | MACARONIC, a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue Latinized, and Latin words modernized. Macaroni, amongst the Italians, as has been observed by Caelius Rhodiginus, signifies a coarse clownish man ; and because this kind of poetry is patched up out of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061804-9457 | MACASSAR, the chief settlement of the Dutch in the island of Celebes, named by them first Rotterdam, and situated on the south-west coast of the island. The fort is about half a mile from the beach, opposite to the road, where a pier extends which serves for unloading the ships, and close to which there are fifteen or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061805-9457 | MACAU, a town of France, in the department of the Gironde and arrondissement of Bordeaux, situated on the left bank of the Garonne, and containing 1800 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061806-9457 | MACCABEES, two apocryphal books of Scripture, containing the history of Judas and his brothers, and their wars against the Syrian kings in defence of their religion and liberties, so called from Judas Mattathias, surnamcd Maccabaeus, as some say from the word '□□n, formed of the initials of .'nrτ ’ ∙ öbĸa rτ□n□ -n, Who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061901-9470 | MACBETH, a Scotch nobleman in the eleventh century, nearly allied to Duncan, king of Scotland. Not contented with curbing the king’s authority, he carried his ambition so far as to put him to death; and, chasing Malcolm Ceanmore his son and heir into England, usurped the crown. But Siward, earl of Northumberland, whose... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061902-9470 | MACCLESFIELD, a large market-town of the county of Chester, in the hundred of its own name, 168 miles north-west by north from London. It is pleasantly situated on an eminence at a short distance from the river Bollin. Many of the buildings in the principal streets are of a superior order. The town is lighted by gas, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-061903-9470 | MACEDONIA, or Macedon, a celebrated kingdom of antiquity, was bounded on the east by the Aegean Sea, on the south by Thessaly and Epirus, on the west by the Ionian Sea or Adriatic, on the north, at first by the river Strymon and the Scardian Mountains, but afterwards by the river Nessus or Nestus. In a direct line the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064301-9782 | MACEDONIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, the followers of Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, who, through the influence of the Eunomians, was deposed by the council of Constantinople in 360, and sent into exile. He considered the Holy Ghost as a divine energy diffused throughout the universe, and not as a person dist... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064302-9782 | MACER, Emilius, an ancient Latin poet, was born at Verona, and flourished under Augustus Caesar. Eusebius relates that he died a few years after Virgil. Ovid speaks of a poem of his, on the nature and quality of birds, serpents, and herbs, which he says Macer, being then very old, had often read to him. There is extant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064303-9782 | MACERATA, a delegation of the papal dominions in Italy, in the march of Ancona, and on the Adriatic Sea, extending over 1072 square miles, and containing eight cities, sixteen market-towns, thirty-seven villages, and 197,890 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands on a delightful plain Overlook... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064304-9782 | MACERATION is an infusion or soaking of ingredients in water, or any other fluid, in order either to soften them or extract their virtues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064305-9782 | MACHAON, a celebrated physician amongst the ancients, was the son of Aesculapius and brother to Podalirius. He went to the Trojan war with the inhabitants of Trica, Ithome, and Oechalia. According to some, he was king of Messenia. He was physician to the Greeks, and healed the wounds which they received during this lon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064306-9782 | MACHAERUS, in Ancient Geography, a citadel on the other side of Jordan, near the mountains of Moab, not far from and to the north of the Lake Asphaltites. It was the south boundary of the Peraea, and situated on a mountain encompassed round with deep and broad valleys, being built by Alexander king of the Jews. It was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064307-9782 | MACHAULT, a town of the department of the North, and arrondissement of Bouziers, in France. It is an ancient place, with 1200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064308-9782 | MACHECOUL, a city of France, in the department of the Lower Loire, and arrondissement of Mentz. It is situated on the river Tenu, and contains 600 houses, with 3650 inhabitants. Long. I. 57. W. Lat. 47. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064309-9782 | MACHERLA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of [7:13:644] the Carnatic, district of Palnaud, 106 miles south from Hyderabad. Long. 78. 54. E. Lat. 16. 8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-064401-9795 | MACHIAVELLI, Nicoo, for many years secretary of the republic of Florence, and justly celebrated for his political, historical, and other writings, was born at Florence on the 3d of May 1469, being descended from a family which traced its origin up to the ancient marquises of Tuscany, particularly to the Marquis Hugo, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065001-9873 | MACHINE, Machina, in general signifies any thing that serves to augment or to regulate moving powers; or it is any body destined to produce motion, so as to save either time or force. The word comes from the Greek μaχavn, machine, invention, art ì and hence, in strictness, a machine is something that consists more in a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065002-9873 | MACHINERY, in epic and dramatic poetry, is when the poet introduces some supernatural being into the scene, in order to solve some difficulty, or to perform some exploit out of the reach of human power. The ancient dramatic poets never made use of machinery, unless where there was an absolute necessity for so doing. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065003-9873 | MACHTEBETE, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of East Flanders and circle of Ghent, situated on the Moerdeke-Baert, containing 3350 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065004-9873 | MACHUL, a musical instrument amongst the Hebrews. Kircher apprehends that this name was given to two kinds of instruments, one of the stringed, and the other of the pulsatile kind. That of the former sort had six chords; but there is great reason to doubt whether an instrument requiring the aid of the hair-bow, and so ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065005-9873 | MACHYNLETH, a market-town of Wales, in the county of Montgomery and hundred of its own name, 200 miles from London. It stands on the river Dyvy. It is a neat, well-built town, and very ancient, being the place where Owen Glendower assembled his parliament, and exercised other acts of regality, in the year 1402. The mar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065006-9873 | MACKENHEIM, a town of the circle of Rheinbach, in the Prussian government of Cologne, situated on the river Erft, containing 200 houses and 1260 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065007-9873 | MACKENZIE, Sir George, a learned writer and eminent lawyer of Scotland, was the grandson of Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, and the nephew of Colin and George, first and second Earls of Seaforth. He was born at Dundee in 1636; and after passing through the usual course of education in his own country, he was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065301-9912 | MACKINTOSH, the Right Honourable Sir James, one of the most distinguished men of his time, and who attained to great eminence in literature, philosophy, history, and politics, was born at Aldourie, on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, on the 24th of October 1765. His father, Captain John Mackintosh, was the representat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065701-9964 | MACKLAHSUL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, and district of Gaungra, on the north side of the Tuptee river, 20 miles north-east from Gawelghur. Long. 77. 34. E. Lat. 21. 64. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065702-9964 | MACKOOR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, extending along the river Kaitna, and situated between the 20th and 21st degrees of north latitude. The principal towns are Omerpoor, Shahpoor, and Jaflier-abad. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065703-9964 | MACKWA, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Cirears, 40 miles west-north-west from Cicacole. Long. 83. 24. E. Lat. 18. 33. N.
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kp-eb0713-065801-9977 | MACLAURIN, Colin, a very eminent mathematician and philosopher, was the son of a clergyman, and born at Kilmoddan, Scotland, in 1698. In the year 1709 he was sent to the university of Glasgow, where he continued five years, and applied himself intensely to study. His great genius for mathematical learning discovered it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065901-9990 | MACON, an arrondissement of the department of the Saone and the Loire, in France, extending over 454 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons, and subdivided into 135 communes, containing 108,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, and it is also the capital of the department. It is situated on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 18' 17" N 4 44' 48" E | MACON |
kp-eb0713-065902-9990 | MACOWALL, a Sikh town in the province of Lahore, on the banks of the Sutleje river, 133 miles from the city of Lahore. Long. 75. 38. E. Lat. 31. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065903-9990 | MACQUARRIE Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, was discovered in 1811, by some resolute adventurers from New Holland, who had penetrated into the Southern Ocean in prosecution of the seal fishery. It is eighteen miles in length from north to south, and about six in breadth. At the distance of eight leagues from the nor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065904-9990 | MACQUER, Pierre Joseph, was born at Paris on the 9th of October 1718, and died there on the 16th ofFebruary 1784. He was member of the Academy of Sciences, and professor of pharmacy; and was engaged in the Journal de Sçavans for articles in medicine and chemistry. With the last of these sciences he was intimately acqua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-065905-9990 | M‘CRIE, Thomas, D.D., an eminent biographer and divine, was born at Dunse, in North Britain, in the month of November 1772. His parents belonged to the class of Seceders known in Scotland as Antiburghers, and he was educated with a view to the ministry in that persuasion. After passing through the ordinary course of ed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066501-0068 | MACRIN, Salmon, one of the best Latin poets of the sixteenth century, was born at Loudun. His real name was John Salmon; but he took that of Macrin, from his having been frequently so called in ridicule by Francis I. on account of his extraordinary leanness. He was preceptor to Claudius of Savoy, count of Tende, and to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066502-0068 | MACROBII, a people of Ethiopia, celebrated for their ustice, and the innocence of their manners; also a people n the island of Meroe. The Hyperboreans were likewise palled Macrobii. They generally lived to their hundred and -wentieth year, and from their longevity they obtained heir name (i u,ακgoς βιος, long life). | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066503-0068 | MACROBIUS, Ambro sius Aurelius Theodosius, an ancient Latin writer, who flourished towards the close of the fourth century. Of what country he was, is by no means clear. Erasmus, in his Ciceronianus, seems to think he was a Greek; and he himself tells us, in the preface to his Saturnalia, that he was not a Roman, but l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066504-0068 | MACROCERCI, a name given to that class of animalcules which have tails longer than their bodies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066505-0068 | MACROCOLUM, or Macrocollum (formed of μ,ακ- 1oς, large or long, and κολλάω, to join), amongst the Romans, the largest kind of paper then in use. It measured sixteen inches, and frequently two feet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066506-0068 | MACROCOSM, a word denoting the great world, or the universe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066507-0068 | ΜACTAN Isle, a small island, one of the Philippines, situated to the east of Zebu Isle. It is noted as the place where Magellan was killed, a. d. 1521, on his return from America by a westerly course. Long. 123. 48. E. Lat. 10. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066508-0068 | MACTATIO, in the Roman sacrifices, signifies the act of killing the victim. This was performed either by the priest himself, or by some of his inferior officers, who were known under the name of popoe, agones, cultrarii, and victimarii ì but, before the beast was killed, the priest, turning himself to the east, drew a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066509-0068 | MACULA, a bay of Arabia, on the northern coast, about two leagues deep and fifty broad, at the bottom of [7:13:666]which is a small town. It is fifty-five leagues east-north-east from Cape Aden. Long. 47. 33. E. Lat. 14. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066601-0081 | MACUNA, one of the Navigator’s Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, where a captain and several officers and men under Perouse were massacred by the inhabitants. Long. 169. W. Lat. 14. 19. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-066602-0081 | MADAGASCAR, an important and interesting island, on the eastern coast of Africa, separated from the mainland by the channel of Mozambique, which is nearly 300 miles broad. It is one of the largest islands in the world, extending from 12. 2. to 25. 40. south latitude, being above 800 miles in length from north to south,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067001-0133 | MADALENA, La, an island in the South PacificOcean, about eleven leagues in circuit. It is very populous. Long. 141. 9. W. Lat. 10. 25. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 25' S 141 9' W | MADALENA |
kp-eb0713-067002-0133 | MADEIRA, an island situated off the western coast of Africa, about fifty-four miles in length by twenty-one in breadth. It is a country of rocks, consisting of a number of lofty mountains, on the declivities of which all the productions of the island are raised. The best account of the island is that by the late Mr Edw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 37' N 17 6' W | MADEIRA |
kp-eb0713-067101-0146 | MADEN, a town of Armenia, on the Tigris, so named [7:13:672] from the copper and iron mines in its vicinity. Its situation is very striking and singular, being surrounded on all sides by bleak and barren mountains of great elevation, and overlooking a prodigious chasm, through which the Tigris forces a passage. It is s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067201-0159 | MADGHERY, a hill-fort and town of Hindustan, in the rajah of Mysore’s territories. Long. 75. 15. E. Lat. 13. 33. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067202-0159 | MADIGHESHY, a fortress of Hindustan, in the Mysore rajah’s territories, situated on a rock of very difficult access, at the foot of which is a town containing near 200 houses. Long. 77. 16. E. Lat. 13. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067203-0159 | MADIRAN, a market-town of France, in the department of the Upper Pyrenees, and arrondissement of Tor-bes, with 1130 inhabitants, who grow excellent wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067204-0159 | MADNESS. See Mental Diseases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067205-0159 | MADRAS, a city of Hindustan, in the province of the Carnatic, and the principal settlement and capital of the East India Company in the southern peninsula of India. It is situated close to the margin of the sea, and is a fortress of great strength. In appearance Madras differs widely from Calcutta, having no European t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067401-0185 | MADRID, the metropolis of the Spanish empire, and also the capital of a province of the same name, in the centre of Spain, being about 300 miles from the sea in each direction. The province includes the city, and about two hundred villages that surround it. The ground on which these several villages are built is so une... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067501-0198 | MADRIGAL, a short, amorous poem, composed of a number of free and unequal verses, neither confined to the regularity of a sonnet, nor to the point or antithesis of an epigram, but only consisting of some tender and delicate thought, expressed with a beautiful, noble, or elegant simplicity. Menage derives the word from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067502-0198 | MADRILEJOS, a small town of Spain, in the province of New Castille, upon a range of mountains that run between the rivers Guadiana and Tagus. It stands in a very bleak situation, and on a very sterile soil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067503-0198 | MADURA, an extensive district of Hindustan, in the Southern Carnatic, situated chiefly between the ninth and tenth degrees of north latitude. It was annexed in 1742 to the dominions of the nabob of the Carnatic, and in 1801 came into the possession of the British. It is bounded on the north by the Polygar territory and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067601-0211 | MAEANDER, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated river of Asia Minor, rising near Celaenae. It flows through Caria and Ionia into the Aegean Sea between Miletus and Priene, after having been increased by the waters of the Marsyas, Lycus, Eudon, Lethaeus, and other tributaries. It is celebrated amongst the poets for its win... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067602-0211 | MAEATAE, anciently a people of Britain, near the wall of Severus, inhabiting the district now called Lauderdale, in Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067603-0211 | MAECENAS, Caius Cilnius, the friend and counsellor of Augustus Caesar, a man whose name has become a synonyme for a patron of literature, from the munificent and generous support he afforded to the learned. He flourished from about 41 to 8 b. c. He was very generally considered by the ancients as descended from the roy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067604-0211 | MAELSTROM, a dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Norway, in the sixty-eighth degree of latitude, in the province of Nordland and the district of Lofoden, and near the island of Moskoe, whence it also takes the name of Moskoe-strom. Its violence and noise exceed that of a cataract, being heard at a great distance, and w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067701-0224 | MAEMACTERIA, sacrifices offered to Jupiter at Athens in the winter month Maemacterion, when the god surnamed Maemactes was entreated to send mild and temperate weather, as he presided over the seasons, and was the god of the air. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067702-0224 | MAEMACTERION was the fourth month of the Athenian year, containing twenty-nine days, and answering to the latter part of our September and the beginning of October. It received its name from the festival Maemacteria, which was observed about this time. This month was called by the Boeotians Alalcomenius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067703-0224 | MAEONIA, a country of Asia Minor, and forming part of Lydia, being in the neighbourhood of Mount Tmolus, and the country watered by the Pactolus. The rest on the sea-coast was called Lydia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067704-0224 | MAEONIDAE, a name given to the muses, because Homer, their greatest and worthiest favourite, was supposed to be a native of Maeonia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067705-0224 | MAEONIDES, a surname of Homer, because, according to the opinion of some writers, he was born in Maeonia, or because his father’s name was Maeon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067706-0224 | MAEOTIS Palus or Lacus, Maeotica Palus, or Μoeo tiens Lacus, in Ancient Geography, a large lake, or part of the sea, between Europe and Asia, at the northern extremity of the Euxine, with which it communicates by the Cimmerian Bosphorus. It was worshipped as a deity by the Massagetae. It extends about 390 miles from so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067707-0224 | MAESNIEL, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, and arrondissement of Roermonde. It contains 200 houses and 1180 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067708-0224 | MAESTLIN, Michael, in Latin Moestlinus, a celebrated astronomer of Germany, was born in the duchy of Wittemberg, but spent his youth in Italy. He made a speech in favour of Copernicus’s system, which is supposed to have brought over Galileo from Aristotle and Ptolemy, to whom he had been hitherto entirely devoted. He a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067709-0224 | MAESTRICHT, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, of which it is the capital, as well^as of the arrondissement of the same name. It is situated on the left side of the river Meuse, over which is a stone bridge 500 feet in length, connecting it with the suburb Wyk. It is one of the strongest as well as ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067710-0224 | MAFFAEUS, Vegio, a Latin poet, born in Lombardy in 1407, was greatly admired in his time. He wrote epigrams, and a humorous supplement to Virgil, which he called the thirteenth book of the Aeneid, and which has been translated into English by Mr Ellis. Maffaeusalso wrote some prose works. He was chancellor of Rome towa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067711-0224 | MAFFEI, Scipio, a celebrated Italian poet, descended of an ancient and illustrious family at Verona, was born in 1675. After having finished his studies, he took arms, and distinguished himself by his'valour at the battle of Donawert; but he more particularly signalized himself by his love of learning, which made him u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067712-0224 | MAFRA, a small town in Portugal, the principal cele brity of which is derived from a royal convent, one of the most splendid in the kingdom. The convent contains three hundred cells, for as many monks. The church, which is in the centre, is large and handsome; and the marble steps leading to it are peculiarly grand. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067713-0224 | MAGADA, in Mythology, a title under which Venus was known and worshipped in Lower Saxony, where this goddess had a famous temple, which was treated with respect even by the Huns and Vandals when they ravaged the country. It is said to have been destroyed by Charlemagne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067714-0224 | MAGAS, Magadis (from μaγah^uv, to sing or play in unison), the name of a musical instrument in use amongst the ancients. There were two kinds of magades, the one a stringed instrument, formed of twenty chords arranged in pairs, and tuned to unison, so that they yielded ten sounds; the invention of which is ascribed by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067715-0224 | MAGAZINE, a place in which stores are kept, of arms, ammunition, provisions, and the like.
Powder Magazine is that place where gunpowder is kept in large quantities. The first powder magazines were made with Gothic arches; but Vauban finding them too weak, constructed them in a semicircular form. Their usual dimension... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067801-0237 | MAGDALEN, Mary. See Mary. Religious of St Magdalen, a denomination given to different communities of nuns, consisting generally of penitent courtezans, sometimes also called Magdalenettes. Such were those at Metz, established in 1452; those at Paris, in 1492; those at Naples, first established in 1324, and endowed by Q... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067802-0237 | MAGDALENA, one of the Marquesas Islands, about five leagues in circumference, and supposed to be in south latitude 10. 25. and west longitude 138. 50. It was only seen at nine leagues distance by those who discovered it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067803-0237 | MAGDEBURG, a government of the Prussian province of Saxony, formed out of the ancient duchy of that name, of the county of Barby, and of all the bailiwick of Gommern except the circle of the Saal; but the principalities of Halberstadt, of Derenburg, of Quedlingburg, of Wernigerode, and of Schauen, are included within i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067804-0237 | MAGEBOE, a large island in the northern part of Norwegian Lapland. It is a rocky spot, with a few valleys, in which pasture is found sufficient to maintain a few families, who have some cows, and a small number of sheep, and about 600 rein-deer. The winter is dreadfully severe, and the ground is covered with snow to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067805-0237 | MAGELLAN, or Magelhaens, Ferdinand de, an eminent navigator, was by birth a Portuguese, and of a good family. He served with reputation in the East Indies for five years under Albuquerque, and in 1510 he greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Malacca. Deeming his services poorly repaid by his own court, he ente... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067901-0250 | MAGELLANIC Clouds, whitish appearances like ∣∣douds, seen in the heavens towards the south pole, and iiaving the same apparent motion as the stars. They are ļhree in number, two of them near each other. The largest lies far from the south pole; but the other two are lot many degrees more remote from it than the nearest... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067902-0250 | MAGENTA, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Milan, .iι the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, containing 3390 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0713-067903-0250 | MAGGI, Jerome, in Latin Magius, one of the most tamed men of the sixteenth century, was born at Anghiari iı Tuscany. He applied himself to all the sciences, and ven to the art of war; and distinguished himself so much iı this last study, that the Venetians sent him into the Hand of Cyprus in quality of judge of the adm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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