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MOMUS, in fabulous history, was the god of raillery, or the jester of the celestial assembly, who ridiculed both gods and men. Being chosen by Vulcan, Neptune, and Minerva, to give his judgment concerning their works, he blamed them all; Neptune for not making his bull with horns before his eyes, in order that he might...
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MOMUS
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MONA, in Ancient Geography, is a name applied to two islands in the sea between Great Britain and Ireland. The one, described by Caesar as situated in the middle passage between both islands, called Monaoeda, Monapia, or Monabia, is supposed to be the Isle of Man. But there was [7:15:379]another Mona, an island more to...
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MONA
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MONA and Monita, that is, The Monkey and his Cub, two islands of the West Indies, in the middle of the great passage between Hispaniola and Porto Rico The Mona Isle measures seven miles one way and two another; and, although once in good cultivation, is now only the solitary range of wild goats.
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MONA
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MONACO, a province of Sardinia, but formerly an independent principality, now reduced to the condition of a mediatized state, to the prince of which his rents are preserved. It extends over fifty-five square miles, and contains two cities, with about 6000 inhabitants. The district is sheltered from cold winds, which ma...
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MONACO
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MONADELPHIA (from μονος, alone, and αδsλp∕α, a brotherhood) , a single brotherhood, the name of the sixteenth class in Linnaeus’ sexual system, consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers; in which all the stamina are united below into one body or cylinder, through which passes the pistillum. See Botany.
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MONADELPHIA
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MONAGHAN, an inland county in the province of Ulster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the county of Tyrone, on the east by those of Armagh and Louth, on the south by those of Louth and Cavan, and on the west by those of Cavan and Fermanagh. It extends over a surface of 327,048 acres, of which 309,968 acres are c...
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MONAGHAN
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MONANDRIA (from μονος, alone, and άνη g , a man or husband), the name of the first class in Linnaeus’ sexual system, consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers, which have only one stamen.
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MONANDRIA
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MONARCHY, a large state governed by one man, or astate where the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. The word comes from the Greek, μovagχης , one who governs alone; formed of μονος, solus, alone, and ά ζχη, imperium, government. Of the three forms of government, democracy, aristocracy, and monarch...
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MONARCHY
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MONAS l’EREVAN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kildare, situated on the river Barrow, which here intersects the Grand Canal. It is thirty-eight miles south-west from Dublin. Long. 7. 5. W. Lat. 53. 8. N.
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53 8' N 7 5' W
MONAS
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MONASTERY, a convent or house built for the reception of religious, whether it be abbey, priory, convent, or other. This name is only properly applied to the houses of monks, mendicant friars, and nuns. The rest are more properly called religious houses. The houses belonging to the several religious orders which preva...
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MONASTERY
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MONASTIC, something belonging to monks, or the monkish life. The monastic profession is a kind of civil death, which in all worldly matters has the same effect as the natural death. The council of Trent fix sixteen years as the age at which a person may be admitted into the monastic state. St Anthony was the person wh...
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MONASTIC
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MONAVAR, a Spanish town in the province of Valen∙ cia, containing 8000 inhabitants; it has a manufacture of linen, and several medicinal baths.
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MONAVAR
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MONDOVI, a province of Piedmont, in the Sardinian dominions. It extends over seven hundred and sixty-two square miles, and comprises four cities, eighty-one towns and villages, and ninety-six rural establishments, with 136,954 inhabitants. Although the Apennines form a part of the southern division of the province, it ...
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MONDOVI
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MONETARIUS, or Moneyer, a name which antiquaries and medallists give to those who struck the ancient coins or moneys. Many of the old Roman coins have the name of the monetarius, either written at length, or at least the initial letters of it. See the article Medals. [7:15:383]
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MONETARIUS
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MONEY. Money ^[1. Etymologists differ respecting the derivation of the word money. Some contend that it comes from monere, (quia nota inscripta de calore admonet) because the stamp impressed on coined money indicates its weight and fineness (Bouteroue, Recherches sur les Monnayes de France,p. 1.); and others, that it ...
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MONEY
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MONFALOUT, or Manfalout, a town of Upper Egypt, situated on the left bank of the Nile, about a mile from the river, in a fertile and beautiful country. It is well built, of considerable magnitude, and carries on an extensive commerce in every species of grain. There is likewise a large manufactory of cloth here. Long. ...
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MONFALOUT
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MONFIA, one of the Querimba Islands, which are situated north from Mozambique, off the western coast of Africa. It is described as nearly 100 miles in length from north to south, but seldom more than eight or ten in breadth. It is formed of coral, and has a low, flat surface, covered with a soil remarkably productive i...
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MONFIA
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MONFLANQUIN, a city of France, in the department of the Lot and Garonne, and arrondissement of Villeneuve d’Agen. It is situated in a stony, barren district, and is ill built, but contains 698 houses and 5450 inhabitants.
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MONFLANQUIN
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MONGE, Gaspar, the inventor of descriptive geometry, and one of the founders of the Polytechnic School, was born at Beaune in 1746. His father was a dealer in small wares, who had much difficulty in supporting his family, consisting of three sons, all of whom were inclined to the sciences; but having the good sense to ...
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MONGE
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MONGHIR, a large district of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, situated between the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth degrees of north latitude. The town and fortress of Monghir is situated on the southern bank of the Ganges. It was the residence of Sultan Sujah during his government of the Bengal province, and was str...
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MONGHIR
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MONGOLIA, an extensive tract of country in Central Asia, to the north and north-west of Asia. This vast country is not separated from the adjacent countries by any definite line of demarcation. The limits are vague, and the whole space is traversed by the nomadic tribes which, under the name of Mongols or Tartars, have...
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MONGOLIA
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MONISHWAR, a considerable town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, with a good market. It is thirty miles south-west from Poonah. Long. 74. 25. E. Lat. 18. 16. N.
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MONISHWAR
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MONJOUS, a people inhabiting the interior of Eastern Africa, in a north-easterly direction from Mozambique. They occupy a portion of that space which, in our early maps, is allotted to the empire of Monumugi. They are negroes of the ugliest description, of a deep shining black, with high cheek-bones, thick lips, and sm...
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MONJOUS
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MONK anciently denoted a person who had retired from the world to give himself up wholly to God, and to live in solitude and abstinence. The word is derived from the Latin monachus, and that from the Greek μοναχος, solitary. The origin of monks seems pretty well ascertained. The persecutions which attended the first a...
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MONK
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MONKWEARMOUTH, a town of the county of Durham, in the ward of Chester, 275 miles from London. It is divided from Bishopswearmouth by the river Wear, over which there is a bridge made wholly of cast iron, except the pins binding the parts together, which are of wrought iron. It is sufficiently high to admit of ships pas...
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MONKWEARMOUTH
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MONMOUTH, James Duke of, son of Charles II. by Mrs Lucy Walters, was born at Rotterdam in 1649. Upon the Restoration, he was called over to England, where the king received him with all imaginable joy, and created him Earl of Orkney, which was changed into that of Monmouth; and he took his seat in the House of Peers in...
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MONMOUTH
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MONMOUTHSHIRE. This county was, before 1585, a part of Wales, but has since been a part of England, although the greater part of the inhabitants still speak one of the three dialects of the Welsh language; so that in some of the churches divine service is conducted in that tongue, and in others alternately in that and ...
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MONMOUTHSHIRE
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MONOCEROS, Unicon, in Astronomy, a southern constellation, formed by Hevelius, and consisting, in his catalogue of nineteen stars, but in the Britannic catalogue, of thirty-one stars.
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MONOCEROS
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MONOCHORD, an instrument by which the several proportions of musical sounds and intervals, as well in the natural as in the tempered scales, are tried. Originally it had, as its name implies, only one string; but it is better constructed with two; for, by means of the additional string, an opportunity is afforded of ju...
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MONOCHORD
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MONODY, in ancient poetry, a mournful kind of song, sung by a person all alone, to give vent to his grief. The word is derived from μονος, alone, and αδω, I sing.
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MONODY
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MONOGAMY, compounded of μονος, alone, and γαμος, marriage, the state or condition of those who have only married once, or who are restrained to a single wife. See Polygamy.
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MONOGAMY
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MONOGRAM, a character or cipher, composed of one, two, or more letters interwoven, being a kind of abbreviation of a name, anciently used as a seal, badge, arms, &c.
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MONOGRAM
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MONOMOTAPA. See Motapa.
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MONOMOTAPA
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MONOPHYSITES (from μονος, solus, and <f>υσις, natura), a general name given to all those sectaries in the Levant who only own one nature in Jesus Christ, and who maintain that the divine and human natures of Christ were so united as to form only one nature, yet without any change, confusion, or mixture of the two natur...
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MONOPHYSITES
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MONOPOLI, a city of the province of Bari, in the kingdom of Naples, on the spot where formerly stood the Roman city of Egnatia. It is situated on the sea-shore, between three hills, and has a small harbour, whence extensive fisheries are carried on. It suffers much at times from a scarcity of water, as there are neithe...
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MONOPOLI
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MONOPOLY. See on this head Commerce and Political Economy.
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MONOPOLY
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MONOSYLLABLE, in Grammar, a word which consists only of one syllable, and is composed either of one or more letters pronounced at the same time.
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MONOSYLLABLE
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MONOTHELITES (compounded of μονος, single, and ⅜ε ∖ ημα, will, from 3eλω, volo, I wilD, an ancient sect, which sprung out of the Eutychians, and were so called from allowing only one will in Jesus Christ. The opinion of the Monothelites took its rise in 630, and had the Emperor Heraclius for an adherent; it was the sam...
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MONOTHELITES
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MONOTONY, an uniformity of sound, or a fault in pronunciation, when a long series of words is delivered in one unvaried tone.
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MONOTONY
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MONREALE, a parliamentary city of the kingdom of Naples, in the island of Sicily and province of Mazzara, situated on the side of a hill, at the foot of which the river Ammiraglo flows, four post miles from Palermo. It is the seat of an archbishop, is both healthy and fertile, and has a cathedral, a palace, several mon...
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MONREALE
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MONRO, Dr Alexander, senior, a celebrated physician and anatomist, was the son of Mr John Monro, who was for some years a surgeon in the army under King William in Flanders, and who afterwards settled in that capacity in Edinburgh. The subject of this biographical sketch was born in London in 1697. He showed an early i...
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MONS, an arrondissement in the province of Hennegau, in the Netherlands, comprehending nine cantons, divided into 141 communes, with 151,500 inhabitants. The city of the same name is the capital both of the province and the arrondissement. It is situated on the river Trouille, and is strongly fortified; it is well buil...
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MONS
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MONSEIGNEUR, in the plural Messeigneurs, a title of honour and respect used by the French in writing to persons of superior rank or quality. Dukes, peers, archbishops, bishops, and presidents à mortier, were complimented with the title of Monseigneur. In the petitions presented to the sovereign courts, they used the t...
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MONSIEUR, in the plural Messieurs, a term or title of civility, used by the French in speaking to their equals, or those a little below them. Monsieur, absolutely used, was a title appropriated to the second son of France, or the king’s brother. The king was also called Monsieur, but that only by the children of Franc...
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MONSOON, a regular or periodical wind, in the East Indies, blowing constantly in the same direction during six months of the year, and contrariwise during the remaining six. In the Indian Ocean, the winds are partly general, blowing all the year round the same way, as in the Ethiopic Ocean; and partly periodical, that...
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MONSOON
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MONSTER, a birth or production of a living being, degenerating from the proper and usual disposition of parts in the species to which it belongs; as, when there are too many members, or too few, or some of them are extravagantly out of proportion, either on the side of excess or defect. The word comes from the Latin mo...
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MONSTER
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MONTACUTE, a small town of Somersetshire, in the hundred of Tintinhull, 123 miles from London. It has near it a singular mound or sharp hill, covering twenty acres at the base, on which a castle was built by Moreton, brother of William the Conqueror, who named it from his friend Drogo de Montacute. It was afterwards co...
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MONTACUTE
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MONTAGNANO, a city of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Padua. It is situated on the Fiumecello, and is surrounded with walls. It contains a conventual and several other churches, with 8275 inhabitants, who are [7:15:423]occupied in woollen manufactures, in tanneries, and in making hats. It is situated in longitude ...
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MONTAGNANO
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MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, an English lady of distinguished talents, but of eccentric character, was the eldest daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont duke of Kingston, and Lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William earl of Denbigh, and was born at Thoresby, Nottinghamshire, in the year 1690. Both on the father’s and the mother’s...
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MONTAGU
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MONTAIGNE, Michel de, a philosophe-moraliste, famous for his book of essays, was born at the castle of Montaigne, in Périgord, on the 28th of February 1533, being descended of an ancient family named Eyghem, originally from England. His father, a brave and loyal squire, who had served in Spain and Italy, where he had c...
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MONTAIGNE
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MONTANISTS, certain Christian heretics, who sprang up about the year 171, in the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. They were so called from their leader, the heresiarch Montanus, a Phrygian by birth; and hence they are sometimes styled Phrygians and Cataphrygians. Montanus, it is said, embraced Christianity in hope...
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MONTANISTS
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MONTARGIS, an arrondissement of the department of the Loiret, in France. It is 671 square miles in extent, is divided into seven cantons and ninety-five communes, and contains 62,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name. It stands on a hill at whose feet is the river Loing and the canal of Briare; adjo...
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MONTARGIS
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MONTAUBAN, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn and the Garonne, in France, 632 square miles in extent. It comprehends eleven cantons, which are divided into eighty-three communes, and contain 108,600 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, and the seat of a bishop, stands on both sides of the river T...
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MONTAUBAN
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MONTBELLIARD, an arrondissement of the department of the Doubs, in France. It extends over 490 square miles, is divided into seven cantons, and subdivided into 148 communes, containing 48,500 inhabitants. The capitalisa city of the same name, situated on the river Leine. It contains 700 houses, with 3750 inhabitants, w...
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MONTBELLIARD
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MONTBRISON, an arrondissement of the department of the Loire, in France, extending over 815 square miles. It comprehends nine cantons, which are divided into 139 communes, and contain 105,500 inhabitants. The capital of the arrondissement, as well as of the department, is a city of the same name, situated on the river ...
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MONTBRISON
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MONTCONTOUR, a town of the arrondissement of Loudon and department of the Vienne, in France, on the river Dive, containing 150 houses, and 1100 inhabitants. It is remarkable for the battle fought at it in 1569, when Henry III. defeated the army of the Hugonots. Long. 0. 10. W. Lat. 46. 50. N.
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MONT DE MARSAN, an arrondissement of the department of Les Landes, in France, 2180 square miles in extent. It contains twelve cantons, which are divided into 136 communes, and a population of about 83,000 persons. The capital is a city of the same name, situated at the junction of the rivers Midou and Douze, which, uni...
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MONT DE MARSAN
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MONTDIDIER, an arrondissement of the department of the Somme, in France. It is 386 square miles in extent, and divided into five cantons, which are subdivided into 165 communes, containing 64,500 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on a hill, at the foot of which flows the river Dorn. It conta...
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MONTDIDIER
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MONTECHIARO, a considerable town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Mantua. It is situated on the river Mella, in a fertile district, and contains three churches, a hospital, and 5978 inhabitants, who are employed, some in spinning and weaving silk, and others in manufacturing woollen goods.
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MONTECHIARO
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MONTEGO Bay. See Jamaica.
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MONTEGO
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MONTEGULIANO, a parliamentary city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, and province of Mazzara. It was the Lryx of the ancients, where formerly stood the temple dedicated to Venus, the most sensual of all the heathen establishments, of which no trace now remains. The city contains 8172 inhabitants, who p...
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MONTEGULIANO
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MONTELEONE, a city of the province of Calabria Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples, the capital of a district bearing the title of a dukedom. It was destroyed by the earthquake of 1783, but has been since re-established, and now contains 6650 inhabitants, who furnish large quantities of oil and of silk, and weave silk ...
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MONTELEONE
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MONTELIMART, an arrondissement of the depart ment of the Dome, in France, 510 square miles in extent. It comprehends five cantons, divided into sixty-cight communes, and contains 51,300 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the junction of the river Abron with the Roubrion. It is regularly ...
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MONTELIMART
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MONTELLA, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province Principato Ulteriore. It contains eight churches and a large Franciscan convent, and has 5750 inhabitants.
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MONTELLA
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MONTE MAGGIORE, a town of the kingdom of Naples, in the island of Sicily, and province of Mazzara, thirty-six miles from Palermo.; It is situated on the river Torto, on the declivity of a fine mountain, and is moderately healthy. It contains 6100 inhabitants.
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MONTE MAGGIORE
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MONTE PELOSO, a city, the seat of a bishop, in the province of Basilicata, of the kingdom of Naples, with a cathedral, four churches, four monasteries, and 5834 inhabitants. ,,
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MONTE PELOSO
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MONTEPULCIANO, a city of the duchy of Tuscany, in Italy, the capital of a district of the same name. It contains a cathedral, a Catholic ecclesiastical seminary, and about 2100 inhabitants, who grow some of the best wine of the duchy.
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MONTEPULCIANO
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MONTESARCHIO, a city of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Principato Ulteriore, on the great road from Puglia. It contains seven churches, and 5573 inhabitants, whose chief trade is in corn.
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MONTESARCHIO
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MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondât, Baron de, the celebrated author of the Esprit des Loix, was descended of an ancient and noble family of Guienne,and born on the 18th of January 1689, at the castle of La Brède, near Bordeaux, where he passed his early days, and composed those works which have acquired for their author ...
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MONTE VIDEO, Cisplatino, or Banda Oriental, a tract of country in South America, which for some time was the subject of an obstinate war between Brazil and the united provinces of La Plata. It has Brazil on the east and north-east; on the west and north-west it is separated from Entre Rios and other provinces of La Pla...
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MONTEZUMA, or Moctecuma, emperor or king of Mexicowhen Cortes invaded that country in the year 1518. See Mexico
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MONTEZUMA
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MONTFORT, an arrondissement of the department of The Vilaine, in France, extending over 390 square miles, and containing a population of 56,800 persons. It is divided into five cantons and forty-six communes. The capital, of the same name, stands on the river Meu, near its junction with the Chailion. Its walls are dila...
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MONTFORT
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MONTGOMERY, a borough and market-town, the capital of the county of that name, in North Wales, 169 miles from London. It is situated on an elevation on the right bank of the Severn. In ancient times it was fortified, and had a castle, the remains of which show it to have been an extensive pile of building, though but a...
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MONTGOMERY
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MONTGOMERYSHIRE, an inland county of North Wales. It is bounded on the east by Shropshire, on the north by Denbighshire and Merionethshire, on the west by Cardiganshire and Merionethshire, and on the south by Radnorshire. It is of an irregular form, its greatest length from north to south being thirty-six miles, and it...
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MONTH, the twelfth part of a year. See Chronology and Calendar.
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MONTH
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MONTI, Vicenzo,the greatest poet which Italy has produced since the bright days of its literary glory, was born in Romagna, on the 19th of February 1754. His father was one of those small Italian landholders whose mode of life is peculiarly primitive and patriarchal, and the farmhouse, or villa, as it is called, which ...
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MONTI
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MONTILLIA, a city of Spain, in the kingdom of Cordova, in Andalusia. It is situated near the river Xenil, and produces a white wine of great excellence, and which is most highly prized by the connoisseurs in the southern cities. The city stands on the Castro and Biofrio, and contains 6300 inhabitants.
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MONTILLIA
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MONT JOIE, a town, the capital of the circle of the same name, in the Prussian government of Aix-la-Chapelle. It is situated in a narrow valley between lofty hills, and contains 380 houses, with 3280 inhabitants. The finest cloths and cassimeres are made here, and the best machinery for the purpose is extensively appli...
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MONT JOIE
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MONTLUCON, an arrondissement of the department of the Allier, in France, 457 square miles in extent. It is divided into five cantons and 79 communes, and contains 61,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the river Cher. It is surrounded with walls, and defended by a ca...
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MONTLUCON
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MONTMEDY, an arrondissement of the department of the Meuse, in France, extending over 522 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and these again into 132 communes, containing 60,000 inhabitants. The capitalis a city of the same name, situated on the river Ehiers∙. It is strongly fortified, and defended by a cita...
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MONTMEDY
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MONTMORENCY, a town of the department of the Seine and Oise, and arrondissement of Ponloise, in France. It is finely situated, and near it is the valley of the same name, which was long the residence of the celebrated Rousseau. It contains 250 houses, and 1950 inhabitants. [7:15:437]
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MONTMORENCY
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MONTMORILLON, an arrondissement of the department of the Vienne, in France, extending over 797 square miles. It contains six cantons, divided into 65 communes, inhabited by 49,500 persons. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Gartempe, by which it is divided into two parts. It contains 460 ho...
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MONTMORILLON
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MONTPELLIER, an arrondissement of the department of the Hérault, in France, 838 square miles in extent. It comprehends 14 cantons, which are divided into 117 communes, and contains 103,500 inhabitants. The capital, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is in a fine district, is surrounded with walls, and stands o...
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MONTPELLIER
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MONTREAL, a city of Lower Canada, the first in size and commercial importance, and the second in rank, in that district. The island and signiory, on the south side of which the city stands, is about thirty miles in length by from five to ten in breadth, and contains 197 square miles. It is situated on the St Lawrence, ...
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MONTREAL
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MONTREUIL, an arrondissement of the department of the Pas de Calais, in France. It extends over 490 square miles, and is divided into six cantons, which are subdivided into 142 communes, having a population of 72,800 persons. The capital is of the same name, and stands on the left bank of the river Canche, eight miles ...
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MONTREUIL
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MONTRON, an arrondissement of the department of the Gironde, in France, 624 square miles in extent. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 90 communes, containing 69,500 inhabitants. The capital, a city of that name, is built on two hills, at the bases of which flows the river Baudial. It contains 450 houses,...
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MONTRON
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MONTROSE, a royal burgh and sea-port town of Scotland, in the county of Forfar, distant seventy miles northeast from Edinburgh, thirty porth-cast from Dundee, and about forty south from Aberdeen, in longitude 2. 10. west, and latitude 56. 34. north. It is pleasantly situated on the west side of a narrow sandy peninsula...
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MONTROSE
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MONTSERRAT, a celebrated monastery of the Benedictines, in Spain. It is about nine leagues to the northwest of Barcelona, being situated on the right bank of the river Llobregat, on an insulated mountain nearly eight leagues in circumference, and raising its head above the surrounding bills till it reaches the height o...
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MONTSERRAT
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MONZA, a city of Italy, in the delegation of the Austrian province of Milan. It stands on the river Lambro. There is here a magnificent imperial palace and park, with a menagerie; and it contains six churches, one of them an abbey. The celebrated iron crown of the ancient kings of Lombardy was formerly preserved here. ...
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MONZA
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MOOGDUL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, and capital of a district of the same name. Long. 76. 47. E. Lat. 16. 6. N.
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MOOGDUL
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MOOLTAN, or Moultan, a province of Hindustan, which formerly comprehended the country on both sides of the Indus, between the 24th and 30th degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Lahore and Afghanistan, on the south by Ajmeer and Sinde, on the east by Lahore and Ajmeer, and on the west by Beloochistan...
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MOOLTAN
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MOON (Luna, ]) ), in Astronomy, one of the heavenly bodies, usually ranked amongst the planets; but with more propriety accounted a satellite, or secondary planet. See Astronomy. Amongst the ancients, the moon was an object of particular homage. By the Hebrews she was more regarded than the sun, and they were inclined...
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MOON
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MOOR, James, an eminent Grecian, was born at Glasgow on the 22d of June 1712, being the son of James Moor and of his wife Margaret Park. His father, a teacher of mathematics in that city, is commemorated as a lover of learning: when he did not think himself rich enough to purchase a copy of Newton’s Principia, then sol...
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MOOR
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MOORE, Dr John, was the son of one of the clergymen of Stirling, at which place he was born in the year 1730. He received his medical education at the University of Glasgow, and at the early age of seventeen he served as surgeon’s mate with the army in Flanders. After the conclusion of peace, he prosecuted his medical ...
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MOORE
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MOORE, Sir John, a consummate British general, a fearless soldier, and an accomplished gentleman, was born at Glasgow, on the 13th of November 1761. He was a son of Dr Moore, the author of Zeluco and other works just mentioned, and received the principal part of his education on the Continent, whilst his father attende...
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MOORE
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MOORGHUR, a formidable town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, enclosed by a wall, and surrounded by a ditch. It is fifteen miles north-west from Darwar.
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MOORGHUR
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MOORING, the act of confining and securing a ship in a particular station, by means of chains or cables, which are fastened either to the adjacent shore or to anchors in the bottom.
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MOORING
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MOORLEY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Jessore, sixty-two miles north-east from Calcutta. Long. 89. 15. E. Lat. 23. 7. N.
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MOORLEY
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MOORLEYDURSERAY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, district of Etaweh, forty-two miles eastsouth-east from the city of Agra. Long. 78. 40. E. Lat. 27.1. N.
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MOORLEYDURSERAY
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MOORSHEDABAD, a city of Hindustan, in the district of Ranjeshy, and province of Bengal, of which it was at one time the capital. Its original name was Muksoo-sabad; but this was changed to its present denomination. It extends, including Cossimbazar, eight miles on both sides of the Bhagiratty or Cossimbazar River, a br...
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MOORSHEDABAD