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kp-eb0702-058106-7362 | AMABYR, a barbarous custom which formerly prevailed in several parts of England and Wales, being a sum of money paid to the lord when a maid was married within his lordship. The word is old British, and signifies the price of virginity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058107-7362 | AMACK. See Amak. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058108-7362 | AMADAN. See HAMADAN. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058109-7362 | AMADANAGER, a town in the hither peninsula of India, in the province of Deccan. It was taken by the Moguls in 1598, after a siege of six months, being at that time defended by a strong castle, situated on an eminence, and surrounded by deep ditches, into which several springs discharged their waters. Long. 74. 15. E. L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 10' N 74 15' E | AMADANAGER |
kp-eb0702-058110-7362 | AMADEUS V. count of Savoy, rose to that dignity in the year 1285. In him it appeared that mental excellence can rise superior to riches or extent of territory; for although his dominions were by no - means extensive, nor his riches great, yet, in consequence of his wisdom and success, he obtained the surname of Great. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058201-7375 | AMADIA, a trading town of Asia, in Curdistan, belonging to the Turks; seated on a high mountain. Long. 43. 1. E. Lat. 36. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 25' N 43 1' E | AMADIA |
kp-eb0702-058202-7375 | AMADOW, a kind of black match, tinder, or touchwood, which comes from Germany. It is made o f u , sort of large mushrooms or spongy excrescences, which commonly grow on old trees, especially oaks, ash, and firs. This substance being boiled in common water, and afterwards dried and well beaten, is then put into a strong... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058203-7375 | AMADOWRY, a kind of cotton which comes from Alexandria by the way of Marseilles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058204-7375 | AMAIN, in the sea language, a term importing to lower something at once. Thus, to strike amain is to lower or let fall the topsails; to wave amain is to make a signal, by waving a drawn sword, or the like, as a demand that the enemy strike their topsails. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058205-7375 | AMAK, a small island in the Baltic Sea, near Copenhagen, from which it is separated by a canal over which there is a drawbridge. Amak is about four miles long and two broad, and is chiefly peopled by the descendants of a colony from East Friesland, to whom the island was consigned by Christian II. at the request of his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058206-7375 | AMAL, a town of Sweden, in the province of Daland, seated on the river Weser. It has a good harbour, and carries on a great trade, especially in timber, deals, and tar. Long. 12. 40. E. Lat. 58. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058207-7375 | AMALARIC was the son of Alarie II. and king of the Visigoths. Deprived of his father when an infant, he would have been bereft of his crown, had not his grandfather Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, interposed in his behalf. In defence of the royal infant, Theodoric expelled from the throne his natural brother, who ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058301-7388 | AMALASONTHA, youngest daughter of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, was born about the year 498. The sister of Clovis was her mother; and in 515 she married Eutharic, the only remaining heir of the legal race of the Amali. Her father having formed the design of making him his successor, sent to bring him fro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058302-7388 | AMALEK, the son of Eliphaz, by Timna his concubine, and the grandson of Esau. (Gen. xxxvi. 12, and 1 Chr. i. 36.) Amalek succeeded Gatam in the government of Edom. He was the father of the Amalekites, a powerful people who dwelt in Arabia Petraea, between the Dead Sea and the Red Sea, or between Havila and Shur (1 Sam.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058401-7401 | AMALFI, an ancient city of Italy, situated in long. 14. 20. E. lat. 40. 35. N. It is said to have derived its origin from a number of Roman families, who, about the middle of the fourth century, either from private views of emolument, or in consequence of compulsory orders from the emperor, had left Rome, and embarked ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 40 35' N 14 20' E | AMALFI |
kp-eb0702-058501-7414 | AMALGAM, mercury united with any other metal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058502-7414 | AMALGAMATION, the operation of making an amalgam, or mixing mercury with any metal.
For the combination of one metal with another, it is generally sufficient that one of them be in a state of fluidity. Mercury being always fluid, is therefore capable of amalgamation with other metals without heat; nevertheless, heat c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058503-7414 | AMALTHAEA, the name of the Cumaean Sibyl, who ottered to Tarquinius Superbus nine books containing the Roman destinies, and demanded 300 pieces of gold as their price. The monarch disregarding her demand, she threw three of them into the fire, and returning, asked the same price for the remaining six; which being also ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058504-7414 | AMALTHAEUS, Jerome, John Baptista, and Corneille, three celebrated Latin poets of Italy, who flourished in the 16th century. Their compositions were printed at Amsterdam in 1685. One of the prettiest pieces in that collection is an epigram on two children, of extraordinary beauty, though each of them was deprived of an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058505-7414 | AMAMA, Sixtinus, professor of the Hebrew tongue in the university of Franeker, a man of great learning, was born in Friesland, and studied under Drusius. He published a criticism upon the translation of the Pentateuch; collated the Dutch translation of the Bible with the original and the most accurate translations; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058506-7414 | AMANCE, a town in the department of Upper Soane, upon a rivulet of the same name. Long. 6. 10. E. Lat. 47. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 48' N 6 10' E | AMANCE |
kp-eb0702-058507-7414 | AMAND, Mark Antony Gerard, Sieur de St, a French poet, was born at Rouen, in Normandy, in 1594. In the epistle dedicatory to the third part of his works, he tells us that his father commanded a squadron of ships in the service of Elizabeth, queen of England, for 22 years, and was for three years a prisoner in the Black... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058601-7427 | AMANTEA, a seaport town and bishop’s see of the kingdom of Naples, situated near the bay of Euphemia, in the province of Calabria, in long. 16. 20. E. lat. 39.15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 15' N 16 20' E | AMANTEA |
kp-eb0702-058602-7427 | AMANUS, a mountain of Syria, separating it from Cilicia; a branch of Mount Taurus (Cicero, Strabo, Pliny), extending chiefly eastward, from the sea of Cilicia to the Euphrates. It is now called Monte Negro, or rather Montagna Neres, by the inhabitants; that is, the watery mountain, as abounding in springs and rivulets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058603-7427 | AMARANTE, an order of knighthood instituted in Sweden by Queen Christina in 1653, at the close of an annual feast celebrated in that country called Wirtschaft. This feast was solemnized with entertainments, balls, masquerades, and similar diversions, and continued from evening till the next morning. Christina consideri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058604-7427 | AMARGURA, an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, discovered by Maurell in 1781. It is quite barren, and inaccessible even to boats. Long. 175. 17. W. Lat. 17. 57.S.
Amasia, an ancient town of Turkey, in Natolia, and birth-place of Strabo the geographer. It is the residence of a bashaw, and gives its name to the prov... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058605-7427 | AMASIS, king of Egypt, ascended the throne b. c. 569. From the rank of a common soldier he gradually rose to be one of the principal officers in the court of Apries. Being commissioned by his prince to pacify some insurgents who had rebelled against the royal authority, he attached the disaffected subjects to his own i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058701-7440 | AMATORII Musculi, in Anatomy, a term sometimes used for the obliquus superior and obliquus inferior muscles of the eye, as these muscles assist in oggling or drawing the eye sidewise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058702-7440 | AMATRICE, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in Abruzzo Ulteriore, upon the confines of the pope’s territories, and the marquisate of Ancona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058703-7440 | AMATTA Foa, an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean, which was discovered by Captain Cook in 1774. It is about five leagues in circumference, and considerably elevated. It is inhabited, but not very fertile; and lies about twelve leagues distant, in a north-north-west direction, from Anamooka. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058704-7440 | AMAUROSIS, in Medicine, a deprivation of'sight, the eye remaining fair and seemingly unaffected. A perfect amaurosis is when the blindness is total. When there is still a power of distinguishing light from darkness, the disease is called by M. de St Ives an imperfect amaurosis. There is a periodical sort, which comes o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058705-7440 | AMAZIAH, the eighth king of Judah, succeeded his father Joash in the 25th year of his age. At the commencement of his reign he showed some reverence for the divine authority, but, in the language of Scripture, “not with a perfect heart.” He speedily inflicted capital punishment on the murderers of his father; but from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058706-7440 | AMAZONIA, the name of a country in South America, watered by the river Amazon, and forming part of Brazil. With respect to the Amazons said to have given name to this territory, they have been represented as governed and led to war only by their queen. No men "ere suffered to live among them; though those of some neigh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058707-7440 | AMAZON, Maranon, or Orellana, a river of South America, and the largest in the world. Its proper and most remote source is the Ucayale, a branch of which rises near La Paz, in 18° of south "latitude. The Mara-non, a more northern branch, rises in a lake north-eastward of Lima, and, after a course of many miles to the n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-058708-7440 | AMAZONS, in Antiquity, a nation of female warriors, [7:2:588]who founded an empire in Asia Minor, upon the river Thermodoon, along the coasts of the Black Sea. They are said to have formed a state, out of which men were excluded, their commerce with that sex being confined to strangers. They killed all their male child... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059001-7479 | AMBACHT is a word which denotes a kind of jurisdiction or territory, the possessor whereof has the administration of justice, both in alto and basso ; or of what is called in the Scotish law, a power of pit and gallows, i. e. a power of drowning and hanging. In some ancient writers, ambacht is particularly used for the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059002-7479 | AMBARVALIA, in Antiquity, a ceremony among the Romans, when, in order to procure from the gods a happy harvest, they conducted the victims thrice round the cornfields in procession before sacrificing them. Arnbarvalia were either of a private or public nature: the private were performed by the master of a family, and t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059003-7479 | AMBASSADOR, or Embassador, a public minister sent from one sovereign prince, as a representative of his person, to another.
Ambassadors are either ordinary or extraordinary. Ambassador in ordinary is he who constantly resides in the court of another prince, to maintain a good understanding, and look to the interest of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059004-7479 | AMBE, in Surgery, the name of an instrument for reducing dislocated bones; in Anatomy, a term for the superficial jutting out of a bone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059005-7479 | AMBER (Succinum) in Natural History, a solid, hard, semipellucid, bituminous substance, of a particular nature, of use in medicine and in several of the arts. It has been called ambra by the Arabians, and jjasxφi ’ by the Greeks.
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kp-eb0702-059201-7505 | AMBERG, a bailiwick in the circle of Rogen, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It is 288 square miles, or 184,320 acres. It is a woody and hilly district, but intermixed with a few strips of good soil which yields rye, flax, and hemp. There are a few iron mines, and several forges. It contains two cities, 20 towns, 240 village... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 26' 52" N 11 57' 27" E | AMBERG |
kp-eb0702-059202-7505 | AMBERGRIS, Ambergrease, or Grey-Amber, ⅛ Natural History, is a solid, opaque, ash-coloured, fatty, inflammable substance, variegated like marble, remarkably light, rugged, and uneven in its surface, and of a fragrant odour when heated. It does not effervesce with acids; it melts freely over the fire into a kind of yell... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059401-7531 | AMBERT, an arrondissement in the department of Puy de Dôme, in France, extending over 486 square miles, or 312,000 acres. It is divided into eight cantons, and those into 52 communes, containing 79,135 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059402-7531 | AMBETTUWAY, a barbarous name of a tree, the leaves of which, when boiled in wine, are said to create an appetite, and are used by the people in Guinea with that intention. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059403-7531 | AMBIANI, or Ambianensis Civitas, now Amiens, a city of Picardy. It is called Samarobriva by Caesar and Cicero; which, according to Valesius, signifies the brid<>∙e of the Samara or Somme. Ambiani is a later name, taken from that of the people, after the usual manner of the lower age. This people, according to Caesar, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059404-7531 | AMBIDEXTER, a person who can use both hands with the same facility, and for the same purposes, that the generality of people use their right hand. As to the natural cause of this faculty, some, as Hoefer, attribute it to an extraordinary supply of blood and spirits from the heart and brain, which furnishes both hands w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059405-7531 | AMBIENT, a term used for such bodies, especially fluids, as encompass others on all sides. Thus, the air is frequently called an ambient fluid, because it is diffused round the earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059406-7531 | AMBIERLE, a town of France, in the department of the Rhone and Loire. It is the chief place of a canton in the district of Roanne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059407-7531 | AMBIGENAE Oves, in the heathen sacrifices, an appellation given to such ewes as, having brought forth twins, were sacrificed, together with their two lambs, one on each side. We find them mentioned among other sacrifices to Juno. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059408-7531 | AMBIGENAL Hyperbola, a name given by Sir Isaac Newton to one of the triple hyperbolas of the second order, having one of its infinite legs falling within an angle formed by the asymptotes, and the other without. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059409-7531 | AMBIGUOUS, a term applied to a word or expression which may be taken in different senses. An anonymous writer has published a dictionary of ambiguous words, Lexico Philosophicum de Ambiguitate Vocabulorum, Fran-cof. 1597, 4to. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059410-7531 | AMBIT, in Geometry, is the same with what is otherwise called the perimeter of a figure.
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kp-eb0702-059501-7544 | AMBITION (ambitio) is generally used, in a bad sense, for an immoderate or illegal pursuit of power. In the strict meaning of the word, however, it signifies the same with the ambitus of the Romans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059502-7544 | AMBITUS, in Roman Antiquity, the setting up for some magistracy or office, and formally going round the city to solicit the interest and votes of the people. Ambitus differed from ambition, as the former lies in the act, the latter in the mind. Ambitus was of two kinds; one lawful, the other infamous. The first, called... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059503-7544 | AMBLE, in Horsemanship, a peculiar pace by which a horse’s two legs of the same side move at the same time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059504-7544 | AMBLESIDE, a market-town in Westmoreland, in the parish of Grassmere and ward of Kendal, at the end of the beautiful lake Windermere. It is 274 miles distant from London, and 12 from Kendal. Here are some manufactories of inferior woollen cloths. The population in 1801 was 538; in 1811, 689; and in 1821, 838. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059505-7544 | AMBLETEUSE, a seaport town of France, in the department of the Straits of Calais, in the English Channel, twelve miles south-west from Calais, and eight north from Boulogne. At this port Caesar embarked his cavalry when he invaded England; and at it James II. landed when he abdicated the crown. It is defended by a batt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 48' N 1 37' E | AMBLETEUSE |
kp-eb0702-059506-7544 | AMBLYGON, in Geometry, denotes an obtuse-angled triangle, or a triangle one of whose angles consists of more than 90 degrees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059507-7544 | AMBLYOPY, among physicians, signifies an obscuration of the sight, so that objects at a distance cannot be clearly distinguished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059508-7544 | AMBO, or Ambon, a kind of pulpit or desk, in the ancient churches, where the priests and deacons stood to read or sing part of the service, and preach to the people; called also Analogium. The term is derived from αvα-Ca/v¢zy, to mount. The ambo was mounted upon two sides; whence some also derive the appellation from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059509-7544 | AMBOHITSMENE, or Vohitsanghombe, a province of the island of Madagascar, so called from some red mountains of the same name lying in lat. 20. S. These mountains are very high, resembling the Tafelberg of the Cape of Good Hope. On one side of this ridge the sea extends into the country for fifteen leagues; on the other ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059510-7544 | AMBOISE, a town of France, in the former province of Touraine, now the department of the Indre and Loire, seated at the confluence of the rivers Loire and Masse. The town is the capital of a district, and has been rendered famous in history by the conspiracy of the Protestants in 1560, which opened the fatal wars of re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 25' N 0 34' E | AMBOISE |
kp-eb0702-059601-7557 | AMBOULE, a province of Madagascar, somewhat to the northward of lat. 23. S. It is a fertile and agreeable country, watered by the river Manampani, whose mouth lies in lat. 23.30. S. The country produces plants and fruits in plenty. Iron mines are also found here. The blackcattle are extremely fat, and their flesh excel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-059602-7557 | AMBOYNA, an island in the eastern seas, and the chief of the Molucca Islands. It is between 50 and 60 miles in length, and is divided into two unequal parts by two deep bays, which are separated only by a narrow isthmus of one mile across. The bay on the west side extends to about two thirds of the length of the island... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 3 40' S 128 15' E | AMBOYNA |
kp-eb0702-059901-7596 | AMBRACIA, one of the most considerable cities of ancient Epirus, situated on the river Aracthus, at a small distance from the sea. At first it was a free city, but was afterwards reduced by the Aeacidae, kings of Epirus, who chose it for the place of their residence. In process of time the Aetolians made themselves mas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060001-7609 | AMBREADA. Thus they call the false or fictitious amber which the Europeans use in their trade with the negroes on the coast of Africa, and particularly on the river Senegal. There are some large and red pieces of it, a thousand of which, making twenty ropes or strings, weigh three pounds. There are others small, and al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060002-7609 | AMBRESBURY, or Amesbury, a market-town in Wiltshire, about six miles north of Salisbury, and situated in long. 1. 40. W. and lat. 51. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 51 20' N 1 40' W | AMBRESBURY |
kp-eb0702-060003-7609 | AMBRONES, a people of Gaul, who lived near the foot of the Alps, between Switzerland and Provence. They invaded the Roman territories in conjunction with the Cimbri and Teutones; but were defeated with great slaughter by Marius, about 101 years before Christ. Their women, who during the engagement had staid in a kind o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060004-7609 | AMBROSE, of Alexandria, lived in the beginning of the third century, and was the intimate friend of Origen. Jerome and Eusebius differ in the account they give of this man. The one denominates him a Marcionite, the other a Valentinian; but they both agree that he was converted to the orthodox faith by the preaching of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 13' S 80 55' W | AMBROSE |
kp-eb0702-060301-7648 | AMBROSIA, in Heathen Antiquity, denotes the solid food of the gods, in contradistinction to their drink, which was called nectar. It had the appellation ambrosia, compounded of the particle α privative, and βgοτος, mortal, as being supposed to render those immortal who fed on it.
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kp-eb0702-060302-7648 | AMBROSIAN Office or Rite, in Ecclesiastical History, a particular formula of worship in the church of Milan, which takes its name from St Ambrose, who instituted that office in the fourth century. Each church originally had its particular office; and when the pope, in aftertimes, took upon him to impose the Roman offic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060303-7648 | AMBROSIN, in middle-age writers, denotes a coin struck by the lords or dukes of Milan, whereon was represented St Ambrose on horseback, with a whip in his right hand. The occasion of this coinage is said to have been a vision of that saint, who appeared to the Milanese general in 1339, during the time of a battle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060304-7648 | AMBROSIUS Aurelianus, or Aurelius Ambrosius, a famous general of the ancient Britons, of Roman extraction. He was educated at the court of Aldroen of Armorica, who, at the request of the Britons, sent him over with 10,000 men to assist them against the Saxons, whom Vortigern had invited into Britain. Ambrosius was so s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060305-7648 | AMBRY, a place in which are deposited all utensils necessary for house-keeping. In the ancient abbeys and priories there was an office under this denomination, wherein were laid up all charities for the poor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060306-7648 | AMBUBAJAE, in Homan Antiquity, were immodest women, who came from Syria to Rome, where they lived by prostitution, and by playing on the flute. The word is derived from the Syriac abub, which signifies a flute; although others make it to come from am and Baiae, because these prostitutes often retired to Baiae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060307-7648 | AMBULANT, or Ambulatory. They gave in France the name of Ambulant Commissioners to those commissioners or clerks of the king’s farms who had no settled office, but visited all the offices within a certain district, to see that nothing was done in them against the king’s right and the interest of the farm.
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kp-eb0702-060308-7648 | AMBULATORY, a term anciently applied to such [7:2:604] courts, &c. as were not fixed to any certain place, but held sometimes in one place and sometimes in another, in opposition to stationary courts. The court of ρarlia-i ment was anciently ambulatory; so also were the courts of king’s bench, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060401-7661 | AMBURBIUM, in Roman Antiquity, a procession made by the Romans round the city and pomoerium, in which they led a victim, and afterwards sacrificed it, in order to avert some calamity that threatened the city. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060402-7661 | AMBURY, or Anbury, among Farriers, denotes a tumour, wart, or swelling, which is soft to the touch, and full of blood.
This disorder of horses is cured by tying a horse-hair very tightly about its root; and when it has fallen off, which commonly happens in about eight days, strewing some powder of verdigris upon the p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060403-7661 | AMBUSCADE, or Ambush, in the military art, properly denotes a place where soldiers may lie concealed till they find an opportunity to surprise the enemy.
ΑΜΒΥ, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg, situated opposite to Maestricht, on the east side of the river Maese, in long. 5. 45. E. lat. 50. 57. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060404-7661 | AMEDABAT, or more properly Ahmedabat, i. e. Ahmed’s City, an ancient and celebrated city of Hindostan, in the province of Gujerat, of which it was formerly the Mahometan capital. It is situated on the banks of the river Sabermatty, which washes its western walls, and, after a course of about 120 miles, falls into the G... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060405-7661 | AMEDIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, an order of monks in Italy, so called from their professing themselves amantes Deum, lovers of God; or rather amati Deo, beloved of God. They wore a grey habit and wooden shoes, had no breeches, and girt themselves with a cord. They had 28 convents, and were united by Pope Pius V. p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060406-7661 | AMELAND, an island in the North Sea, being a part of the province of Friesland, in the Netherlands, from which it is separated by a strait called the Wat. It contains three villages, one hamlet, and 2970 inhabitants, who chiefly subsist by fishing, by freight, by burning lime from mussel-shells, and by some agricultura... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060407-7661 | AMELIA, an episcopal city of Italy, in the State of the Church, seated on a mountain in the duchy of Spo-letto. Long. 12. 19. E. Lat. 42. 33. N.
Amelia, a county in Virginia, situated between the Blue-ridge and the tide waters, having Cumberland county on the north, Prince George county on the east, and Lunenburg coun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060408-7661 | AMELOT de la Houssai, Nicholas, born at Orleans in 1634, was much esteemed at the court of France, and appointed secretary of an embassy which that court sent to the commonwealth of Venice, as appears by the title of his Translation of Father Paul’s History of the Council of Trent; but he afterwards published writings ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060501-7674 | AMELOTTE, Denis, a celebrated French writer, was born at Saintonge in 1606. He maintained a close correspondence with the fathers of the Oratory, a congregation of priests founded by Philip of Neri. He wrote the life of Charles of Gendron, second superior of this congregation, and published it at Paris in 1643. In this... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060502-7674 | AMEN, ∙jnx, signifies true, faithful, certain. It is made use of likewise to affirm any thing, and was a sort of affirmation used often by our Saviour: Αμήν, hμrμ, λtγω υμιν, ι. e. Verily, verily, I say unto you. Lastly, it is understood as expressing a wish: as, amen, so be it, Numb. v. 22; or an affirmation, amen ; y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060503-7674 | AMEND, or Amende, in the French customs, a pecuniary punishment imposed by a judge for any crime, false prosecution, or groundless appeal.
AMENDE Honorable, a species of punishment formerly inflicted in France upon traitors, parricides, or saerilegious persons, in the following manner; The offender being delivered int... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060504-7674 | AMENDMENT, in a general sense, denotes some alteration or change made in a thing for the better.
Amendment, in Law, the correction of an error committed in a process, which may be amended after judgment, unless the error lies in giving judgment; for in that ease it is not amendable, but the party must bring a writ of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060505-7674 | AMENTUM, in Botany, the name of a species of calyx, consisting of valves, and hanging down in different directions from the caulis. Common oats afford a good example of the amentum.
Amentum, in Roman Antiquity, a thong tied about the middle of a javelin or dart, and fastened to the fore-finger, in order to recover the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060506-7674 | AMERADE, a kind of officers among the Saracens, answering to the governors of provinces among the Europeans. The name is originally the same with that of Emir. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060507-7674 | AMERCEMENT, or Amerciament, in Law, a pecuniary punishment imposed on offenders at the mercy of the court. It differs from a fine, in being imposed arbitrarily, in proportion to the fault; whereas a fine is a certain punishment settled expressly by some statute. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-060508-7674 | AMERICA.
OUR object in this article is to take a comprehensive survey of the American continent in its physical, moral, and general relations. In attempting this, we do not intend to go much into detail upon those subjects which will be more fully and appropriately discussed in the distinct articles assigned in this w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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OUR | |
kp-eb0702-065401-8311 | AMERICA, United States of. See United States. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065402-8311 | AMERICUS Vespucius. See Vespucci. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065403-8311 | AMERSFORT, a city in the Dutch province of Utrecht, seated on the river Ems. The most remarkable objects are, the town-house; the grand palace, which is triangular; the public walk, planted with trees; and the great church, dedicated to St George. The land to the east and south of this city is very fruitful; on the nor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 14' N 5 4' E | AMERSFORT |
kp-eb0702-065404-8311 | AMERSHAM, or Agmondesham,∙ a market and borough town in the hundred of Burnham, in the county of Buckingham. It consists of one long street, with very few good buildings. It has a well-frequented market on Tuesday. It is an ancient borough, and returns two members to parliament, who are nominally chosen by the househol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065405-8311 | AMES (Fisher), a native of the United States, was born April 9, 1758, at Dedham, a small town 'about nine miles south of Boston. His father, Dr Nathaniel Ames, who practised as a physician in Bridgewater, died in 1764, leaving his mother with four sons and one daughter. Of these Fisher was the youngest; and though his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065501-8324 | AMES, William, D. D. a learned independent divine, celebrated for his controversial writings, was born in 1576, and educated at Christ’s College, in Cambridge. In the reign of King James I. he left the university, and soon after the kingdom, on account of his being unwilling to conform to the rules of the church; and r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065502-8324 | AMESBURY, a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Wilts, 78 miles from London, and 8 from Salisbury. It is situated in a narrow valley on the river Avon, on Salisbury plain. It is an ill-built town, but there is in it the beautiful house built by Inigo Jones, formerly belonging to the duke of Qu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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