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kp-eb0714-059303-7531 | MERIDEN, a town of the county of Warwick, situated in the hundred of Hemlingford, and ninety-seven miles from London. It is a great posting place, and near to it is the fine house and park of the Earls of Aylesford. The inhabitants were in 1801, 821; in 1811, 817; in 1821, 927; and in 1831, 892. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059304-7531 | MERIDIAN, in Geography, a great circle supposed to be draw n through any part of the surface of the earth, and the two poles, and to which the sun is always perpendicular at noon. In astronomy, this circle is supposed to be in the heavens, and exactly perpendicular to the terrestrial one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059305-7531 | MERIDIANI, in antiquity, a name which the Romans gave to a kind of gladiators, who entered the arena about noon after the bestiarii (who fought in the morning against beasts) had finished. They were so called from meridies, noon, the time when they exhibited their shows. The meridiani were a sort of artless combatants,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059306-7531 | MERIDIONAL distance, in Navigation, is the same with departure, or easting and westing, being the difference of longitude between the meridian under which the ship now is, and any other meridian which she was under before.
Meridionad parts, miles, or minutes, in Navigation, are the parts by which the meridians in a Me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059307-7531 | MERIONETHSHIRE, a maritime county of North Wales. It is bounded on the north by Carnarvonshire and Denbighshire, on the east by the latter county and Montgomeryshire, on the south by Cardiganshire, and on the west by the Irish Channel. It is of a triangular shape, contracting towards the south. Its length from north to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059401-7544 | MERLIN, Ambrose, a famous English poet and reputed prophet, who flourished at the end of the fifth century. Many surprising and ridiculous things are related of him, and several English authors have represented him as having transported from Ireland to England the great stones which form Stonehenge on Salisbury plain. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059402-7544 | MERMAID, or Merman, a sea-creature frequently talked of and supposed to be half human half fish. However naturalists may doubt of the existence of mermen or mermaids, there is abundance of testimony in its favour; but the authenticity and value of that testimony presents a different question. In the year 1187, Lary inf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059403-7544 | MERNITCH, a town of Hindustan in the province of Bejapoor, situated on the banks of the Krishna, and formerly the capital of a Hindu principality, and afterwards the capital of different Mahratta chieftains. It was taken by Hyder in 1778. Long. 75. E. lat. 16. 56. N.. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059404-7544 | MERNS, Mearns, or Kincardineshire, a county of Scotland. See Kincardineshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059405-7544 | MERODACH, an ancient king of Babylon, who was placedamongst the gods, andworshipped by the Babylonians. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059406-7544 | MEROE, the name of an island included between the main branch of the Nile and the Astaboras or Tacazze, and also that of the capital of Ethiopia, (see Ethiopia), which was situated in this island. Agatharcides, Strabo, Diodorus, and others make mention of Meroe, and communicate several particulars respecting it. The is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059501-7557 | MEROPE, in Fabulous History, one of the Atlantides, who married Sisyphus the son of Aeolus, and like her sisters was changed into a constellation after death. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059502-7557 | MEROPS, in Fabulous History, a king of the island of Cos, who married Clymene, one of the Oceanides. He was changed into an eagle, and placed amongst the constellations. A celebrated soothsayer of Percosus in Troas, also bore the name of Merops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059503-7557 | MERS or Mer se, a county of Scotland, called also Berwickshire. This last name it derives from the town of Berwick, which was the head of the shire before it fell into the hands of the English, and obtained the appellation of Mers or March, because it was one of the borders towards England. See Berwickshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059504-7557 | MERSEBURG, one of the departments into which the Prussian government of Saxony is divided. It is formed out of a part of the dominion of the kingdom of Saxony, and several divisions which, before the late war, belonged to Prussia, and is now a compact territory, though some portions of the country of Saxe-Weimer and of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059505-7557 | MERSENNE, Marin, a learned French author, born at Oysé, in the province of Maine, in the year 1588. He studied at La Flèche at the same time with Descartes, with whom he contracted an intimate friendship, which lasted till death. He afterwards went to Paris, and studied at the Sorbonne; but in 1611 he entered himself a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059506-7557 | MERSEY, a river of England, which rims through the counties of Lancaster, York, and Chester, and empties itself [7:14:596]into the Irish Sea at Liverpool. By means of inland navigation, it has communication with the rivers Dee, Ribble, Ouse, Trent, Derwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, &c.; a navigation which, includi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059601-7570 | MERTHYR TYDVIL, a large town of the county of Glamorgan and hundred of Narberth, in South Wales, 184 miles from London, and 24 from Cardiff. From a small village it has, in a few years, since a canal navigation has been opened with the sea at Cardiff, risen from a small village to a large and populous town. This progre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059602-7570 | MERTON, a town in the county of Surrey and hundred of Brixton, seven miles from London. It is situated on the river Wandle and celebrated for its calico printing, which is considered as the most perfect both in design and execution of any produced in England. The college of the same name at Oxford was originally founde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059603-7570 | MERUD, also named Amrarati, a large town of Hindustan in the province of Bejapoor, inclosed with a high wall, and commanded by a fort. It is forty-four miles southeast from Poonah. Long. 74. 86 E. Lat. 18. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059604-7570 | MERU SHAH TEHAIN, acity of Khorassan in Persia, capital of Murgiana, founded by Alexander the Great, and afterwards embellished by Antiochus Nicator, who gave it the name of Antiochia. It is situated on the river Mur-gab, the waters of which were raised by a dyke for the supply of the city. It was one of the four imper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059605-7570 | MERVILE, a city of the department of the north and the arrondisement of Hazebrouch in France. It is situated on the left bank of the river Lys and contains 700 houses, 5700 inhabitants, who refine salt, prepare snuff, and make some cloths. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059606-7570 | MESCHTSCHOWSK, a circle of the Russian province of Kaluga, extending over 684 square miles, and containing 78,600 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, 648 miles from St. Petersburg, on the river Tureja, with 360 houses, and 1830 inhabitants. Lat. 44. 22. N. Long. 34. 55. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059607-7570 | MESEN, a circle in the Russian province of Archangel, extending from 63. 2. to 68. 10. N. lat., and from 37. to 44. 25. E. long. Except in the southernmost part it is very little capable of cultivation, and contains but a very thin population, in a rude state of bare existence. The capital is a city of the same name, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059608-7570 | MESFAGNA, a town of the province of Otranto, in the kingdom of Naples, the capital of a district of the same name, between Taranto and Brindisi, on the great road. It contains 5200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059609-7570 | MESHED Ali, or Nesjiff, a celebrated town of Irak Arabi, and a holy city, the supposed burying place of the caliph Ali, situated on a hill at the bottom of an artificial lake, twenty-five miles from Hilleh and four miles from Kufa. This city was founded by Alexander the Great and for a long time bore the name of Alexan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059610-7570 | MESN, or Mesne, a term in law, signifying him who is lord of a manor, and so has tenants holding of him, whilst he himself holds of a superior lord. The word is properly derived from maisne, quasi minor natu, because his tenure is derived from another, from whom he holds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059611-7570 | MESOCHIORI, were musicians amongst the ancients, who presided in concerts, and by beating a wooden desk regularly with their feet, directed the measure of the music. For the purpose of beating time they wore wooden clogs, called by the ancients crupczia, which caused the sound to be better heard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059612-7570 | MESOPORPHYRON, a name given by the Greeks to the Roman laticlave, because that garment being edged on each side, where it opened before, with purple, appeared when closed with two purple stripes down the middle. The same term was also applied to the augusticlave. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059613-7570 | MESOPOTAMIA, the ancient name of the province of Diarbeck, in Asiatic Turkey. It is situated between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, having Assyria on the east, Armenia on the north, Syria on the west, and Arabia Deserta, with Babylonia, on the south. The Hebrews called it Padan-aram, and Aram Naharaim, or Aram of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059701-7583 | MESOPTERYCIUS, a term applied to such fishes as have only one back-fin, which is situated in the middle of the back. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059702-7583 | MESPILUS, the Medear, a genus of plants, belonging to the icosandria class, and in the natural method ranking under the thirty-sixth order, Pomaceae. See Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059703-7583 | MESS, in a military sense, implies a number of soldiers, who, by laying up a certain proportion of their pay towards provisions, mess together. Experience proves that nothing contributes more to the health of a soldier than a regular and well chosen diet, and his being obliged every day to boil the pot. It corrects dru... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059704-7583 | MESSALINA, Valeria, a daughter of Messala Barbatus. She married the emperor Claudius, and disgraced herself by her cruelty and incontinence. Her husband’s palace was not the only seat of her lasciviousness, but she prostituted herself in the public streets, and few men there were at Rome who could not boast of having e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059705-7583 | MESSANA, in Ancient Geography, the first town of Sicily on crossing over from Italy; it is situated on the strait now called the Faro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059706-7583 | MESSENA, or Messene, an inland town, the capital of Messenia, a country of Peloponnesus, erroneously placed by Ptolemy on the coast. It was built by Epaminondas, who recalled all the Messenian exiles, and gave to the town the name of Messene, a place vying in point of strength and situation with Corinth; and hence Deme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059707-7583 | MESSENIA, a country in the south of Peloponnesus, mostly maritime, being situated between Elea to the west, and Laconia to the east. This country is famous in history, on account of the resistance made by the Messenians against the Spartans, and the exploits of their hero Aristomenes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059708-7583 | MESSIAH, a word signifying one “anointed,” or installed into an office by “unction.” It was usual amongst the Jews to anoint kings, high priests, and sometimes prophets, at their designation or installment, to signify emblematically the mental qualifications necessary for discharging those offices. Saul, David, Solomon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059709-7583 | MESSIER, Charles, a celebrated astronomer, born at Badonviller, in Lorraine, on the 26th of June 1730. He was the tenth of twelve children, and lost his father when he was eleven years old. He came to Paris at twenty, and had then to seek his fortune, having only learned to write a good hand, and to draw. Delisle emplo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059801-7596 | MESSINA, an intendancy or province of the island of Sicily, including the northern part of the Val de Demone, extending to the foot of Mount Aetna. It is bounded on the north and the east by the sea, on the south by the province of Catania, and on the west by that of Palermo. It is divided into four provinces, viz., Me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059802-7596 | MESSUAGE, Messuagium, in Law, a dwelling-house, with some land adjoining assigned for its use. Under the name of messuage may be included a garden, shop, mill, cottage, chamber, cellar, or the like. In Scotland, messuage denotes what is called in England the manor-house, or the principal dwelling-house within any baron... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059803-7596 | MESTRE, a market town, the chief place of a district in the delegation of Venice, in Italy. It stands on the Mar-cenigo, contains many small houses, inhabited by 5320 persons, who are mostly carriers or gondoliers. It is in lat. 45. 29. 6. N. Long. 11. 44.40. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059804-7596 | META, in the Roman circus, was a pile of stones of a pyramidical form, intended as the boundary of the stadium, or chariot course. When the meta had been passed the seventh time, the race was concluded. The greatest art and management were required in avoiding the meta, and yet going as near it as possible. If they wen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059805-7596 | METAGITNION, the second month of the Athenian year, answering to the latter part of our July and the beginning of August, and so called from metagitnia, a festival in honour of Apollo, which was observed in that month. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059806-7596 | METAL is a substance which is distinguished from others by its ductility, malleability, tenacity, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059807-7596 | METALLURGY, in a general sense, comprehends the whole art of working metals: and in this acceptation, essaying, smelting, refining, parting, smithery, gilding, and so forth, are only branches of metallurgy. But in a more limited sense it includes only the operations which are followed in separating metals from their or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059808-7596 | METAMORPHOSIS, in general, denotes the changing of something into a different form. In this sense it includes the transformation of insects, as well as the mythological changes related by the ancient poets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059809-7596 | METAPHOR. In poetry a metaphor differs from a simile in form only not in substance. In a simile the two subjects are kept distinct in the expression, as well as in the thought; in a metaphor, the two subjects are kept distinct in the thought only, not in the expression. An allegory differs from a metaphor; and a figure... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-059810-7596 | METAPHRAST, a translator, or a person who renders an author word for word into another form or another language.
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kp-eb0714-059901-7609 | METAPHYSICS.
Metaphysics ^[1. This treatise was written for and published in the third edition of this work. Though the greater part of it is, notwithstanding the title, devoted to the Philosophy of the Mind, it does not adequately appreciate or discuss the doctrines of the Scottish School— that School in which this i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070201-8948 | METASTASIO, Pietro Buonaventura, one of the great masters of modern Italian poetry, was born at Rome on the 3d of January 1698. Though the son of a poor artisan named Trapassi, he had nevertheless for his godfather the Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, who gave to the infant his own Christian name. The young Trapassi had scarc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070401-8974 | METASTASIS, in Medicine, a transposition or settlement of a humour or disease in some other part. Sometimes it signifies such an alteration of a disease as is succeeded by a solution. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070402-8974 | METELLUS, the surname of the family of the Caecilii at Rome, of whom the best known were the following. First, a general who defeated the Achaeans, took Thebes, and invaded Macedonia. Second, Q. Caecilius, who rendered himself illustrious by his successes against Jugurtha, king of Numidia, from which he received the su... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070403-8974 | METEMPSYCHOSIS, formed from μετα, beyond, and s∕z,γt∣χω, I animate or enliven, in the ancient philosophy, signified the passage or transmigration of the soul of a man after death into the body of some other animal. Pythagoras and his followers held, that after death men’s souls passed into other bodies of different kin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070501-8987 | METEMPTOSIS (from μετα, post, and π∕πrω, cado, I falD, a term in chronology, expressing the solar equation necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too late. Metemptosis is contradistinguished from proemp-tosis, which signifies the lunar equation necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070502-8987 | METEOR (by the Greeks called μtπωζa, sublime or high raised ; by the Latins, impressiones, as making signs or impressions in the air) commonly denotes any bodies in the air which are of a transitorynature. Hence it is extended to the phenomena of hail, rain, snow, and thunder; but is most commonly confined to those unu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-070503-8987 | METEOROLITE. This term is derived from the Greek μετιωζα, a meteor, and ∖ ιDος, a stone, and denotes a stony substance, exhibiting peculiar characters, and the descent of which to the earth is usually accompanied by the appearance and explosion of a fire-ball.
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kp-eb0714-071701-9143 | METEOROLOGY, From μετεοιζος, sublimis, is that science which describes and explains the various phenomena which occur in the region of our atmosphere. It has deeply engaged the attention of men in every state of society, from the roving savage to the refined votary of wealth and pleasure. The moment we cross our doors,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075101-9585 | METEOROMANCY, a species of divination by meteors, principally by lightning and thunder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075102-9585 | METESSIB, an officer among eastern nations, who has the care and superintendence of all the public weights and measures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075103-9585 | METHEGLIN, a species of mead. The word is Welsh, in which language rneddyglin signifies the same thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075104-9585 | METHOD, the arrangement of our ideas in such regular order that their mutual connection and dependence may be readily comprehended. See Logic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075105-9585 | METHODISTS, a numerous religious body both in this country and in America. They are divided into several distinct sects; but from the minute shades by which these arc distinguished, and the extreme obscurity of some of their numbers, it is difficult to furnish a perfectly accurate account of them. We shall describe tho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075401-9624 | METHUSELAH, the son of Enoch, and father of Lantech, was born in the year of the world 687; he begat Lamech in 874, and died in 1656, at the age of 969, the greatest age which has been attained to by any man upon earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075402-9624 | METOECI, a name given by the Athenians to such as had their fixed habitations in Attica, though by birth they were foreigners. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075403-9624 | METONYMY, in Pheforic, is a trope in which one [7:14:755]name is put for another, on account of the near relation that subsists between them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075501-9637 | METOPE, in Architecture, is the interval or square space between the triglyphs of the Doric frize. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075502-9637 | METOPOSCOPY, the pretended art of knowing a person’s dispositions and manners by viewing the traces and lines in the face. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075503-9637 | METRE, in Poetry, a system of feet of a just length. The different metres in poetry are the different modes of ordering and combining the quantities, or the long and short syllables. Thus hexameter, pentameter, iambic, and sapphic verses, consist of different metres or measures. In English verses, the metres are extrem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075504-9637 | METRETES, a Grecian measure, containing something more than nine English gallons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075505-9637 | METRICAL Verses, are verses consisting of a determinate number of long and short syllables, as those of the Greek and Latin poets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075506-9637 | METROCOMIA (from μητη>, mother, and κωμη, town or village), a term in ancient ecclesiastical history, signifying a borough or village which had other villages under its jurisdiction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075507-9637 | METRONOMII, the name given by the Athenians to five officers in the city and ten in the Piraeus, whose duty it was to inspect all sorts of measures excepting only those of corn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075508-9637 | METROPOLIS (from μητηο, mother, and πολ/g, city), the capital of a country or a province; or the principal city, and, as it were, the mother of all the rest. The term metropolis is also applied to archiepiscopal churches, and sometimes to the principal or mother-church of a city. The Roman empire having been divided in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075509-9637 | METZ, an arrondissement of the department of the Moselle, in France, extending over 664 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons, and these into 275 communes, and it contains 136,500 inhabitants. The city of Metz, the capital of the department, as well as that of the arrondissement, is situated on the river Mosell... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075510-9637 | MEURSIUS, John, one of the most laborious of antiquaries, was born in the year 1579, at Losdun, a town near the Hague. It appears that the name of his family was De Meurs, which he latinized, according to the usage of the learned of his time. His father, a regular canon of the house of the Twelve Apostles at Utrecht, h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075601-9650 | MEURTHE, a department of France, formed out of the ancient Toulois and a southern portion of Lorraine. It extends in east longitude from 5. 30. to 7. 12. and in north latitude from 48. 31. to 49. 7., being in extent 2602 square miles, or 643,800 hectares. The appropriation of the land is as follows: 242,288 hectares-ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075602-9650 | MEUSE, a department of the north of France, formed out of the ancient provinces of Verdun, Barois (at one time called Lorraine), and Clermont. It extends in east longitude from 4. 42. to 5. 47. and in north latitude from 48. 29. to 49. 42. It is bounded on the north by the Ardennes, the duchy of Luxemburg, and the depa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075603-9650 | MEW, Sea Mew, or Sea Mall. See Larus i Ornithology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075604-9650 | MEWING, the falling off'or the change of hair, feathers, skin, horns, or other parts of animals. This happens in some annually, in others only at certain stages of their lives; but the generality of animals mew in the spring. An old hart casts his horns sooner than a young one. This commonly takes place in the months o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0714-075701-9663 | MEXICO.
I. HISTORY OF MEXICO FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS T ILI. ITS SUBJECTION TO SPAIN.
Mexico is situated between the 14th and 21st degrees of north latitude, and between the 91st and 103rd degrees of west longitude; being nearly two thousand miles in length, and in some places six hundred miles in breadth.
The Tol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000101-9222 | MEYAHOON, a town of the Burman dominions, ex- -L’-®- tending about two miles along the western margin of the Irrawaddy, and glittering at a distance with gilded spires. It has also many spacious convents. The vicinity is uncommonly productive in rice, of which large stores are kept here ready to be transported to any p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 19' N 95 8' E | MEYAHOON |
kp-eb0715-000102-9222 | MEYWAR, a very extensive district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated principally between the 25th and 26th degrees of north latitude, and occasionally named Chitore and Odeypoor. The general surface is hilly, but not mountainous, although it abounds in naturally strong positions. The productions of this ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000103-9222 | MEYRINGEN, a town of Switzerland, which, on account of its natural beauties, is visited by most persons who, to gratify their taste for picturesque scenery, visit that country. It is situated in the vale of Hosli, in the upper part of the canton of Berne. It stands on a mountain 1950 feet above the level of the sea, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000104-9222 | MEZERAI, François Eudes de, a celebrated French historian, the son of Isaac Eudes, a surgeon, was born at Rye, in Lower Normandy, in 1610, and took the surname of Mezerai, from a hamlet near Rye. Having completed his studies at Caen, he discovered a strong inclination to poetry; but on proceeding to Paris, he was advis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000201-9235 | MEZIERES, an arrondissement of the department of the North, in France, extending over 380 square miles. It is divided into seven cantons, and subdivided into 113 communes, containing 56,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Meuse, by which it is separated from Charleville. It c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000202-9235 | MEZIRIAC, Claude Gaspar Bacret Sieur de, one of the most ingenious men of the seventeenth century, was born at Bourg-en-Bresse on the 9th of October 1581. He was a good poet, an excellent grammarian, a great Greek scholar, and an admirable critic. He was well versed in the controversies both in philosophy and religion,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000203-9235 | MEZUZOTH, in the Jewish customs, certain pieces of parchment, which the Jews affix to the door-posts of their houses; taking that literally which Moses commanded them, when he said, “Thou shalt never forget the laws of thy God, but thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.” This expression ap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000204-9235 | MEZZOTINTO, a particular manner of representing figures on copper, so as to form prints in imitation of painting in Indian ink. See Engraving.
The invention of this art has usually been attributed to Prince Rupert. But Baron Heinikin, a judicious and accurate writer upon the subject of engraving, asserts, with great a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000401-9261 | MGLIN, a circle of the Russian province of Tscherne-gow, extending in north latitude from 52. 49. to 53. 17. and in east longitude from 32. 37. to 33.54. The capital is a city of the same name situated on the river Sudenka. It is one of the best built cities of the province, and contains 980 houses, with 5370 inhabitan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 6' N 32 39' E | MGLIN |
kp-eb0715-000402-9261 | MIANA, a village of Persia, in Azerbijan. Here the celebrated traveller Thevenot died upon his return from Ispahan. It is 60 miles S. E. from Tabreez. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000403-9261 | MIASSE, a considerable river of Asiatic Russia, which rises in the Ural Mountains, and, traversing the district of Kourgan, in the government of Tobolsk, falls into the Icette. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000404-9261 | MIASMA, amongst physicians, a particular kind of effluvia, by which certain fevers, particularly intermittents, are produced. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000405-9261 | MIAVA, a town of Hungary, in the circle of Neustadtel, in the province of the Lower Danube. It stands upon the river Waag, and is a manufacturing place, producing large quantities of linen and woollen cloths, of blankets and quilts; there are also several distilleries and extensive tanneries. The inhabitants amount to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000406-9261 | MICA, Muscovy Glass, or Glimmer, a species of mineral substance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000407-9261 | MICAH, or The Book of MiCAii, a canonical book of the Old Testament, written by the prophet Micah, who is the sixth of the twelve lesser prophets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000408-9261 | MICHAEL, Mount, formerly one of the most celebrated state-prisons of France. It is a rock situated in the middle of the Bay of Avranches, and is only accessible at low water. Nature has completely fortified one side, by its craggy and almost perpendicular descent, which renders it impracticable to ascend it by any addr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000409-9261 | MICHAELIS, John David, a celebrated biblical critic, and author of many esteemed works, was the eldest son of Dr Christian Benedict Michaelis, professor in the university of Halle, in Lower Saxony, and was born at that place on the 27th of February 1717. His father devoted him at an early age to an academical life; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000410-9261 | MICHAELMAS, or Feast of Sτ Michael and all Angels, a festival of the Christian church, observed on the 29th of September. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0715-000411-9261 | MICHEL ANGELO BUONAROTTI, the greatest master of the arts of design who has appeared since the days of Phidias, was born in the castle of Caprese, in Tuscany, on the 6th of March 1474. His father, Ludovicodi Leonardo Buonarotti Simone, was a descendant of the noble and illustrious family of the counts of Canossa, and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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