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kp-eb0714-032408-4034 | MATTER, in common language, is a word of the same import with body, and denotes that which is tangible, visible, and extended; but amongst philosophers it signifies that substance of which all bodies are composed, and in this sense it is synonymous with element.
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kp-eb0714-032409-4034 | MATTHEW, or Gospel of St Mαττhεw, a canonical book of the New Testament. St Matthew wrote his gospel [7:14:325]in Judaea, at the request of those whom he had converted; and it is thought he began in the year forty-one, eight years after Christ’s resurrection. It was written, according to the testimony of all the ancien... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 9 35' N 97 30' E | MATTHEW |
kp-eb0714-032501-4047 | MATTHIAS, St, an apostle, was chosen instead of Judas. He preached in Judaea and part of Ethiopia, and suffered martyrdom. (See the Acts of the Apostles, chap, i.) There was a gospel published under Matthias’s name, but it was rejected as spurious; there were likewise some traditions, which met with the same fate.
St ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032502-4047 | ΜATTO-GROSSO, or Great Thicket, is a province of Brazil. It is bounded on the north by Para, and on the south by Paraguay, extending in this direction about nine hundred miles. The rivers Araguaya and Parana separate it on the east from the provinces of Goyaz and San Paulo; and on the west the rivers Madera, Guapore, J... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032601-4060 | MATURA, a town and fortress situated near the southern extremity of Ceylon. The surrounding country is covered with long grass and wood, and is the resort of savages and wild animals; but it is valuable from the abundance of elephants which are found here, and which are esteemed equal, if not superior, to any in India.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032602-4060 | MATVIEIEF, an island lying off the coast of Asiatic Russia, near the Straits of Waigatz, and included in the government of Archangel.
Μ AT WAR, a district of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, province of Khandesh, situated between the twenty-first and twenty-second degrees of north latitude. The Tuptee, which is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032603-4060 | MATY, Matthew, an eminent physician and polite writer, was born in Holland in the year 1718. He was the son of a clergyman, and was originally intended for the church; but, in consequence of some mortifications his father met with from the synod on account of the peculiar sentiments he entertained respecting the doctri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032701-4073 | MAUBEUGE, a city of the department of the North, and in the arrondissement of Avesnes, in France. It is strongly fortified, and stands on the river Sambre. It is a well-built place, containing 600 houses, with 5000 inhabitants, many of whom are occupied in making nails, articles of jewellery, and ornaments of marble; b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032702-4073 | MAULEON, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Pyrenees, in France, 511 square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, divided into 147 communes, and contains 66,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the Gave de Saizan. It contains only 1130 inhabitants, who chiefly depen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032703-4073 | MAUNCH, in Heraldry, the figure of an ancient coat sleeve, borne in many gentlemen’s escutcheons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032704-4073 | MAUNDY Thursday is the Thursday in passion week, which was called Maunday or Mandate Thursday, from the command which our Saviour gave his apostles to commemorate him in the Lord’s Supper, which he instituted on that day; or from the new commandment which he gave them to love one another, after he had washed their feet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032705-4073 | MAUPERTUIS, Peter Louis Morceau de, a celebrated French academician, was born at St Malo in the year 1698, and privately educated there until he attained the age of sixteen, when he was placed under the celebrated professor of philosophy Μ. le Blond, in the college of La Marche, at Paris. He soon discovered a passion f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032901-4099 | MAUR, St, was a celebrated disciple of St Benedict. If we can believe a life of St Maur ascribed to Faustus his companion, he was sent by Benedict on a mission to France. But this life is considered as apocryphal. In rejecting it, however, as well as the circumstances of the mission, we must beware of denying the missi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032902-4099 | MAURA, or Mobidie, one of the smallest of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, being about fifteen miles in circuit, and surrounded by a coral reef of rocks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032903-4099 | MAURIAC, an arrondissement of the department of Cantal, in France, extending over 500 square miles. It comprehends six cantons, which are divided into sixty-three communes, and contains 62,400 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, which is built of a aasalt on a basaltic rock, and contains 360 houses, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-032904-4099 | MAURICE, St, commander of the Theban legion, was i Christian, as were also the officers and soldiers of that egion, amounting to six thousand six hundred men. This egion received its name from the city Thebes in Egypt, flιere it was raised. It was sent by Diocletian to check he Bagaudae, who had excited some disturbanc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033001-4112 | MAURITANIA, an ancient kingdom of Africa, bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Getulia or Libya Interior, and on the north by the Mediterranean, and comprehending the greater part of the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco. Its ancient limits are not exactly mentioned by any historian; neither can they no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033101-4125 | MAURITIUS, or Isle of France, an island in the Indian Ocean, situated between the meridians of 57. 17. and 57. 46. east longitude, and the parallels of 19. 58. and 20. 32. south latitude, one hundred and twenty miles to the north-east of the Isle of Bourbon, and four hundred and eighty miles from Madagascar. Its shape ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033301-4151 | MAUSOLEUM, a magnificent tombor sepulchral monument. The word is derived from Mausolus king of Caria, to whom Artemisia his widow erected a stately monument, esteemed one of the wonders of the world, and called it from his own name, Mausoleum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033302-4151 | MAWBALLYPORE, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated on the east side of the Soane river, 35 miles S. W. of Patna. Long. 84. 50. E. Lat. 25. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033303-4151 | MAWS, St. a small town of Cornwall, which was entitled to send two members to parliament, but has been disfranchised by the reform law. It is in the parish of St Just, and the hundred of Powden, 269 miles from London. The population of the whole parish was, in 1801,1416; in 1811, 1639; in 1821, 1648; and in 1831, 1556. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033304-4151 | MAXIMUM, in Mathematics, denotes the greatest quantity attainable in any given case.
If a quantity conceived to be generated by motion increases or decreases till it arrives at a certain magnitude or position, and then, on the contrary, grow s greater or less, and it be required to determine the said magnitude or posi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033305-4151 | MAXIMUS, a celebrated Cynic philosopher and magician of Ephesus. He instructed the emperor Julian in magic; and, according to the opinion of some historians, it was in the conversation and company of Maximus that the apostacy of Julian originated. The emperor not only visited the philosopher, but he even submitted his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033401-4164 | MAY, the fifth month in the year, reckoning from January; and the third, supposing the year to begin with March, as the Romans anciently did. It was called Maius by Romulus, in respect to the senators and nobles of his city, who were named majores; as the following month was called Junius, in honour of the youth of Rom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033402-4164 | MAYAHOON, a town of the Burman empire, situated on the western bank of the Irrawaddy river, and carrying on a considerable traffic. The adjoining country produces great quantities of rice which are stowed up in this place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033403-4164 | MAYENNE, a department of France, formed out of a part of the lower Mayenne, and a small portion of the ancient duchy of Anjou. It extends in north latitude from 47° 51' to 48° 33' and in west longitude from 0° 16' to l 0 15'. It contains 2161 square miles, or 518,363 hectares. It is divided into 3 arrondissements, 27 c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033501-4177 | MAYER, Tobias, one of the greatest astronomers of the eighteenth century, was born on the 17th of February 1723, at Marbach in the country of Wirtemberg. His father, who held the office of inspector of waters at Essling, was much occupied with hydraulic architecture, and early inspired him with a taste for the mathemat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033701-4203 | MAYERNE, SirTheodore de, baron of Aulbone, was the son of Louis de Mayerne, the celebrated author of the General History of Spain, and of the Monarchie Aristo-Democratiqυe, dedicated to the States-General. He was born in 1573, and had for his god-father, Theodore Beza. He studied physic at Montpellier, and was made phy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033702-4203 | MAYNOOTH, or Manootii, a post town in the county of Kildare and province of Leinster* in Ireland, about fifteen miles W. by N. from Dublin.
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kp-eb0714-033703-4203 | MAYNWARING, Arthur, an eminent political writer in the beginning of the eighteenth century. He resided for several years at Oxford, and went to Cheshire, where he lived for some time with} his uncle Mr. Francis Cholmon-dely, a very worthy gentleman, but extremely averse to the government of William III. to which he ref... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-033704-4203 | MAYO, a maritime county in the province of Connaught in Ireland, is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the cast by the counties of Sligo and Roscommon, and on the south by that of Galway. Its greatest length from north to south is 60 miles, and its greatest breadth, measured from Lough Gara to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 10' N 23 8' W | MAYO |
kp-eb0714-034001-4242 | MAYOR, the chief magistrate of a city or town, chosen annually from amongst the aldermen. The word anciently written meyr, comes from the British miret, meaning custodire, or from the old English maier, signifyingj9o⅛^αs, and not from the Latin major. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034002-4242 | MAYORGA, a cluster of three or four small islands, the largest about sixty miles in circuit, in the South Pacific Ocean. They were discovered in 1780 by a Spanish frigate. Long. 179∙ 52. E. Lat. 18. 38. S.
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kp-eb0714-034003-4242 | MAZAGAN, a strong place of Africa in the kingdom of Morocco, and on the frontiers of the province of Dugue-la. It was fortified by the Portuguese, and besieged by the king of Morocco with 200,000 men in 1562, but to no purpose. It is situated near the sea. W. lon. 8.15. N. lat. 33.12. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034004-4242 | MAZAGONG, a Portuguese village situated on the island of Bombay. It has a good dock for small ships, and two tolerably handsome Roman Catholic churches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034005-4242 | ΜAZAMET, a city of France in the department of the Torn and arrondissement of the Castres. It is a hilly district on the river Molle, and contains a Catholic and a reformed church, 1050 houses, and 6150 inhabitants, who are extensive manufacturers of flannels, cassimeres, bags, serges, and other woollen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034006-4242 | ΜAZANDERAN, a province of Persia, and part of the ancient Hyrcania, separated from Irak by the lofty mountains of the Elburz. To the east it has Khorasan, with the province of Astrabad, on the north the Caspian, and on the west Ghilan. For the greater part of its length it is but a strip of country contained between th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034007-4242 | MAZARIN, Julius, son of Pietro Mazarini, a noble Sicilian, was born at Piscina in the Abbruzzi on the 14th of July 1602. Having received the elementary part of his education at Rome, he passed into Spain with the abbé, afterwards cardinal, Jerome Colonna, at the age of seventeen, and, during three years, he attended co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034301-4281 | MAZEIRA, a considerable island near the eastern coast of Arabia, about sixty miles long and eight broad. The passage between it and the mainland admits large vessels. There is a village on the eastern shore, which is seldom visited by Europeans. Long, of the north-east part 59. 40. E. Lat. 20. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034302-4281 | MAZULAR, a small island on the west coast of Sumatra, opposite to Tappanooly harbour, which is remarkable for a perpendicular fall of water 300 or 400 feet in height. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034303-4281 | MAZZARA, a parliamentary city in the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, 60 miles from Palermo. It is the capital of the province of that name, the seat of a bishop, and stands on a fine plain upon the sea shore, but without a harbour. It is all built with narrow streets, but contains many churches and convents... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034304-4281 | MEACO, formerly the metropolis of the whole empire of Japan, and still a great city of Nephon. Its situation is in a spacious plain, hemmed in by high mountains, and almost entirely consisting of fine gardens, interspersed with temples, monasteries, mausoleums, and numerous rivulets. At the time when it flourished in i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034305-4281 | MEAD, a liquor prepared with honey and water. One of the best methods of preparing mead is as follows. Into twelve gallons of water put the albumen of six eggs, mixing these well together, andto the mixture adding twenty pounds of honey. Let the liquor boil an hour; and when boiled, add cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034401-4294 | MEADOW, in its general signification, means pasture or grass lands, annually mown for hay; but β the term is more particularly applied to lands which are so low as to be too moist for cattle to graze upon them in winter without spoiling the sward. For the management and watering of meadows see Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034402-4294 | MEAHIMGE, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Oude, surrounded by a double wall, which encloses several large clumps of mango trees, and spots of cultivated ground. It carries on a considerable trade in grain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034403-4294 | MEAL, the flour of grain. The colour and the weight are the two things which denote the value of meal or flour; the whiter and the heavier it is, other things being alike, the better it will always be found. Pliny mentions these two characters as the marks of good flour; and tells us, that Italy in his time produced th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034404-4294 | MEAN, in general, denotes the middle between two extremes. Thus we say the mean distance, mean proportion, and the like.
Mean, Arithmetical, is half the sum of the two extremes, as four is the arithmetical mean between two and six; for ⅛±β- 4
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kp-eb0714-034405-4294 | MEANGIS Isles, a cluster of small isles in the eastern seas, situated about the 5th degree of N. lat., and the !27th of E. long. The inhabitants of one of the largest, Nannsa, are chiefly employed in boat-building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034406-4294 | MEANMA, a town of Persia, in the province of Azarbi-jan, on the route from Tabrez to Tehran. It is about five or six miles from the foot of the mountain of Capitan Koh, and is the capital of a powerful chief. It is supposed by D’Anville to be the ancient Atropatene, sixty miles N.W. of Sultania. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034407-4294 | MEAN REE, a fishing town or village in the province of Sinde, and district of Tatta, about four miles east from the town of Tatta. It is situated on the Indus, which, opposite to this place, is about a mile wide. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034408-4294 | MEANY, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Lahore, 128 miles WNW. from the city of Lahore. Long. 72. 16. E. Lat. 32. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034409-4294 | MEARNSSHIRE, a county of Scotland. Sec Kincardineshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034410-4294 | MEASURE, in a legal and commercial sense, denotes a certain quantity or proportion of any thing bought, sold, valued, or the like. See Weights and Measures. Measure is also used to signify the cadence and time observed in poetry, dancing, and music, in order to render them regular and agreeable.
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kp-eb0714-034501-4307 | MEASURING, or Mensuration, is the using a certain known measure, for determining thereby the precise extent, quantity, or capacity of any thing.
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kp-eb0714-034502-4307 | MEAT. See Dietetics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034503-4307 | MEATH, a maritime county in the province of Leinster in Ireland, is bounded, on the north, by the counties of Cavan, Monaghan, and Louth; on the cast, by the Irish sea and Dublin county; on the south, by the county of Kildare; and on the west by that of Meath. Its superficial contents amount to 567,127 acres, all of wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034801-4346 | MEAUX, an ancient town of France, in the department of the Seine and Marne, with a bishop’s see, seated in a place abounding in corn and cattle, on the river Marne, which divides it into two parts; and its trade consists in corn, wool, and cheese. It sustained a siege of three months against the English in 1421. Long. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034802-4346 | MECCA. See Mekka. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-034803-4346 | MECHANICAL, an epithet applied to whatever relates to mechanics.
Mechanical, in mathematics, denotes a construction of some problem, by the assistance of instruments, as the duplication of the cube and quadrature of the circle, in contradistinction to that which is done in an accurate and geometrical manner.
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kp-eb0714-034901-4359 | MECHANICS.
Mechanics, from μηχavn, a machine, is the science which inquires into the laws of the equilibrium and motion of solid bodies; into the forces by which bodies, whether animate or inanimate, may be made to act upon one another; and into the means by which these may be increased so as to overcome such as are m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-045901-5789 | MECHAIN, Peter Francis Andrew, a well-known practical astronomer and geographer, was born at Laon, on the 16th April 1744. His father was an architect, and educated him with the intention of making him his successor in his business. He afterwards took charge of two young men at Sens, as their private tutor, and acciden... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-046001-5802 | MECHANICS’ INSTITUTIONS have for their object the instruction of the working classes in those branches of science and art, which are of practical application in the exercise of their several occupations.
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kp-eb0714-046201-5828 | MECHLIN or Malines, a circle of the province of Antwerp, in the Netherlands, divided into five cantons and thirty-eight communes, containing 87,800 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a fertile plain, watered by the river Dyle, and connected by a canal with Louvain. It is the seat of an a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-046202-5828 | MECHOACAN, a province of Mexico or New Spain, in America, bounded on the north by Panuco and Guadalajara, on the south by the Pacific Ocean, and on the west by Guadalajara and the South Sea. It is about 200 miles in circumference, and its population in 1793, amounted to 289,314. The soil is exceedingly fertile, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-046203-5828 | MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN, a grand duchy in the north of Germany. It extends from 10. 34. to 12. 20. E. long., and from 53. 8. to 54. 19∙ N. lat. It is bounded on the north by the Baltic Sea, on the east and south by the Prussian territory, and by the Danish, late Hanoverian, province of Lunenburg. It is a compact duchy, ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-046204-5828 | MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ, a grand duchy in the north of Germany. It is composed of two portions of the old duchy of Strelitz and the principality of Ratzeburg, and has some territory intermixed with that of other states. It extends over 796 square miles, and comprehends nine cities and towns, 219 villages, 245 princely dom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-048801-6166 | MEDALLION, or Medalion, a medal of an extraordinary size, supposed to be anciently struck by the emperors for their friends, and for foreign princes and ambassadors. But, that the smallness of their number might not endanger the loss of the devices they bore, the Romans generally took care to stamp the subject of them ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-048802-6166 | MEDEA, in fabulous history, a celebrated sorceress, daughter of Aeetes king of Colchis. Her mother’s name, according to the more received opinion of Hesiod and Hyginus, was Idyia, or, according to others, Ephyre, Hecate, Asterodia, Antiope, and Neaera. She was the niece of Circe. When Jason came to Colchis in quest of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-048803-6166 | MEDIA, now the province of Ghilan in Persia, once the seat of a powerful empire, was bounded, according to Ptolemy, on the north by part of the Caspian Sea; on the south by Persia, Susiana, and Assyria; on the east by Parthia and Hyrcania; and on the west by Armenia Major. It was anciently divided into the provinces of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-048901-6179 | MEDIASCH, a city of Hungary, in the province of the Siebenbergen, in that part distinguished as the conntry of the Saxons. It is the capital of a circle extending over 268 square miles, and containing about 50,000 inhabitants. The city stands upon the river Great Kokel, is surrounded with walls, and has a Greek, a Luth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-048902-6179 | MEDIATOR, a person who manages or transacts between two parties at variance, in order to reconcile them. The word, in Scripture, is applied, first, to Jesus Christ, who is the only intercessor and peace-maker between God and man (1 Tim. ii. 5); and, secondly, to Moses, who interposed between the Lord and his people, to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-049001-6192 | MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE.
The connection between medicine and legislation had been perceived long before it was considered as a peculiar branch of study, or had even obtained a distinctive appellation. Since its importance has been recognized, it is known in Germany, the country in which it took its rise, by the name of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-052901-6699 | MEDICI, Cosmo de’, was born in the year 1389, and was in the prime of life, at the death of his father Giovanni. FI is conduct was distinguished for urbanity and kindness to the superior ranks of his fellow-citizens, and by a constant attention to the wants of the lower class, whom his munificence abundantly relieved. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053001-6712 | MEDINA, a city of Arabia, and one of the holy cities of the Mahommedans, celebrated for affording refuge to Ma-hoitimed in his flight from Mekka, for his residence in it, and for his tomb, to which the devout hadjis still resort, although its visitation is not considered as a duty, nor necessary part of the Mahommedan ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053101-6725 | MEDINE, an Egyptian piece of money of iron silvered over, and about the size of a silver threepenny piece. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053102-6725 | MEDIOLANUM, now Milan, an ancient city, the capital of the Insubres, built by the Gauls, on their settlement in that part of Italy; it was a municipium, a place of great strength, and also a seat of the liberal arts, whence it had the name of Novae Athenae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053103-6725 | MEDITATION, an act by which we consider any thing closely, or in which the soul is employed in the search or consideration of any truth. In religion it is used to signify a consideration of the objects and grand truths of the Christian faith. Mystic divines make a great difference between meditation and contemplation. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053201-6738 | MEDITERRANEAN, something enclosed within land, or that is remote from the ocean, properly so called.
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kp-eb0714-053202-6738 | MEDITRINALIA, a Roman festival in honour of the goddess Meditrina, observed on the 30th of September. Both the deity and the festival were so called a medendo, because on this day they began to drink new wine mixed with old by way of medicine. The mixture of wines, on this festival, was drunk with much form and solemn ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053203-6738 | MEDIUM, in Logic, the mean or middle term of a syllogism, being an argument, reason, or consideration, concerning which we affirm or deny any thing; or, it is the cause why the greater extreme is affirmed or denied of the less in the conclusion.
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kp-eb0714-053204-6738 | MEDUCK, a town of Hindustan, and chief town of a district of the same name, which is situated about the 18th degree of north lat. The town is fifty miles NNW. from the city of Hyderabad. Long. 78. 20. E. Lat. 17. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053205-6738 | MEDUSA, in fabulous history, one of the three Gorgons, and daughter of Phoreys and Ceto. She was the only one of the Gorgons who was suby eet to mortality; and she was celebrated for her personal charms and the beauty of her locks. Neptune became enamoured of her, and obtained her favours in the temple of Minerva. But ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053206-6738 | MEDWAY, a river of England, which rises in the Weald of Sussex, and entering Kentnear Ashurst, runs by Tunbridge, and thence continues its course towards Maidstone. It is navigable for large ships to Rochester bridge, and thence for vessels and barges to Maidstone, the tide flowing up to that town. The distance between... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053207-6738 | MEDYN, a circle of the Russian province Kaluga, extending from N. lat. 54. 28. to 55. 19-, and from E. long. 34. 42. to 35. 46., being 1328 square miles, with a population of 76,800 persons. The capital is a town of the same name, 583 miles from Petersburg; it is situated on the river Medynka, and has 195 houses, with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053208-6738 | MEEGHEOUNG-YAY, a town of the Birman empire, and province of Ava. It is situated on the bank of the Irrawaddy river, and it carries on a considerable traffic in grain and oil. It stands in the midst of a fertile and well cultivated country. Long. 94. 50. E. Lat. 19∙ 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053209-6738 | MEERAT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, district of Zundpoor, thirty-six miles west from the city of Ajmeer. Long. 74. 14. E. Lat. 26. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 35' N 74 14' E | MEERAT |
kp-eb0714-053210-6738 | MEERCASSERAI, asmall town of Bengal, and district of Chittagong, thirty-five miles N. by W. from the town of Islamabad. Long. 90. 30. E. Lat. 22.48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053211-6738 | MEERJAOW, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Caseara, which stands upon an inlet of the sea, and is supposed by Dr. Robertson to have been the Musiris of the ancients. It was nearly destroyed by Hyder Ali, when he invaded the province in 1773. The forests in the neighbourhood abound with teak timber; they also pro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 27' N 74 36' E | MEERJAOW |
kp-eb0714-053212-6738 | MEGALE Polis, or Megalopolis, in Ancient Geography, a town of Areadia, built under the auspices of Epaminondas, after the battle of Leuetra, many inconsiderable towns being joined together in one great city, the better to withstand the Spartans. According to Strabo it was the greatest city of Areadia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053213-6738 | MEGALESIA, and Megalenses Ludi, feasts and games celebrated by the Romans in honour of Cybele or Rhea, the mother of the gods, on the 12th of April, and famous for great rejoicings and diversions of various sorts. The Galli carried the image of the goddess along the city, with the sound of drums and other music, in imi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053301-6751 | MEGARA, in Ancient Geography, a noble city, the capital of the territory of Megaris, which for many years carried on war with the Corinthians and Athenians. It had for some time a school of philosophers, called the Megarici, who were successors of Euclid the Socratic, a native of Mcgara. Their dialect was the Doric. Me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053302-6751 | MEGARIS, in Ancient Geography, the country of the Megarians, is described as a rugged region, like Attica; the mountain called Oneian or Asinine, now Macriplayi or the löng mountain, extending through it towards Boeotia and Mount Cithaeron. It belonged to Ionia or Attica, until it was taken by the Peloponnesians in the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053303-6751 | MEGASTHENES, a Greek historian, who flourished in the age of Seleucus Nicanor, about 300 years before Christ. He wrote concerning the oriental nations, particularly the Indians, and his history is often quoted by the ancients; but what now passes as his composition is spurious. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053304-6751 | MEGIDDO, in Ancient Geography, a town of Galilee, enumerated amongst the cities of Manassch, in the tribe of Issachar or Asser, on the western side of Jordan, and famous for the defeat of Ahaziah and Josiah, who perished there. (2 Kings xxiii. 29∙) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053305-6751 | MEGNA. This river is formed by the numerous streams which issue from the mountains that form the northern boundary of Bengal, of which the principal is the Brahmaputra, which joins it about lat. 24. 10., after which its size is greatly increased, and it assumes the name of the Megna. Below the city of Dacca it is joine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053306-6751 | MEGO, or Puι>o Mego isle, a small and uninhabited island, situated off the western coast of Sumatra. Like all the other low islands which lie off the western coast of Sumatra, it is so thickly skirted near the sea-beach with cocoa nut trees that their branches touch each other. Long. 101. S.E. Lat. 4. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 4 S 101 S | MEGO |
kp-eb0714-053307-6751 | MEHINDRY, a river of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, having a winding course of 190 miles. After passing the city of Ahmedabad, it falls into the Gulf of Cambay. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053308-6751 | MEHWAS. a district ofHindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated on the south-east bank of the Puddur river. It literally signifies the residence of thieves, which character attaches to the inhabitants, who live by plundering their neighbours. Every man who in this turbulent region can muster twenty horsemen, consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053309-6751 | MEIBOMIUS is the name of several learned men, byh birth Germans, who in their day enjoyed considerable reputation.
Meibomius, John Henry, was born in 1590 at Helmstadt, where he afterwards professed physic, and died at Lubeck in 1655, having been, for sometime, first physician at that place. He was the author of sever... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-053401-6764 | MEINUNGEN, a city of Germany, the capital of the dominions of the Duke of Saxe-Meinungen. It stands on the river Werra, 830 feet above the level of the sea. It is a well built city, surrounded with walls and ditches, and having broad streets well paved. The principal building is the magnificent palace of the sovereign,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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