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kp-eb0702-065503-8324 | AMETHYST, a transparent gem of a purple colour, which seems composed of a strong blue and a deep red; and, according as either of these prevails, affording different tinges of purple, sometimes approaching to violet, and sometimes even fading to a pale rose colour. Though the amethyst is generally of a purple colour, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065504-8324 | AMETHYSTINE is applied, in Antiquity, to a kind of purple garment dyed of the hue of amethyst. In this sense amethystine differed from Tyrian as well as from hyacinthine purple, being a kind of medium between them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065505-8324 | AMHAR, or Amhara, a province of Abyssinia, said to extend 40 leagues from east to west. It is considered as the most noble in the whole empire, both on account of its being the usual residence of the Abyssinian monarchs, and having a peculiar dialect, which is become the language of the court. Here is the famed rock Am... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065506-8324 | AMHERST, a military post and commercial station established by the East India Company in 1826. It is situated on the eastern frontier of our Indian empire, in the Gulf of Martaban; and was fixed upon as a proper situation for a town in lieu of Martaban, which was restored by the treaty of 1826 to the Burmese. In Januar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065507-8324 | AMHURST, Nicholas, an English poet and political writer of the 18th century, was born at Marden in Kent, and entered of St John’s College, Oxford; from whence he was expelled for irregularity of conduct and libertine principles. Retaining great resentment against the university on this account, he abused its learning a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065601-8337 | AMIANTHUS, or Earth-flax, in Mineralogy, a fibrous, flexible, elastic, mineral substance, consisting of short, abrupt, and interwoven filaments. It is found in Germany, in the strata of iron ore, sometimes forming veins of an inch in diameter. Its fibres are so flexible that cloth has been made of them, and the shorter... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065602-8337 | AMICABLE, in a general sense, denotes any thing done in a friendly manner, or to promote peace.
Amicable Benches, in Boman Antiquity, were, according to Pitiscus, lower and less honourable seats allotted for the judices pedanei, or inferior judges, who, upon being admitted of the emperor’s council, were dignified by h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065603-8337 | AMICTUS, in Boman Antiquity, was any upper garment worn over the tunica.
Amictus, among ecclesiastical writers, the uppermost .garment anciently worn by the clergy; the other five being the alba, cingulum, stola, manipulus, and planeta. The amictus was a linen garment, of a square figure, covering the head, neck, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065604-8337 | AMICULUM, in Bσman Antiquity, a woman’s upper garment, which differed from the palla. It was worn both by matrons and courtesans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065605-8337 | AMICUS Curiae, a law term, to denote a by-stander who informs the court of a matter in law that is doubtful or mistaken. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065606-8337 | AMIDA, a god worshipped by the Japanese, who has many temples erected to him in the Island of Japan, of which the principal is at Jeddo. The Japanese have such a confidence in their idol Amida, that they hope to attain eternal felicity by the frequent invocation of his name. One of the figures of this idol is represent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065607-8337 | AMIENS, an arrondissement in the department of the Somme, in the north of France. Its extent is 652 square miles, or about 423,280 English acres. It comprehends thirteen cantons, viz. Amiens, Conti, Corbie, Homoy, Moliens-Bibame, Oisemont, Piquigny, Poix, Soins, and Villers-Bocage, with 250 communes or parishes. It con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065608-8337 | AMILCAR, the name of several Carthaginian captains. The most celebrated of them is Amilcar Barcas, the father of Hannibal, who during five years infested the coast of Italy; when the Romans sending out their whole naval strength, defeated him near Trapani, 242 [7:2:657]years before Christ; and this put an end to the fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065701-8350 | AMILICTI, in the Chaldaic theology, denote a kind of intellectual powers, or persons in the divine hierarchy. The amilicti are represented as three in number, and constitute one of the triads in the third order of the hierarchy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065702-8350 | AMIRANTE, in the Spanish polity, a great officer of state, answering to our lord high admiral. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065703-8350 | AMISUS, in Ancient Geography, the chief city of the ancient kingdom of Pontus. It was built by the Milesians, and peopled partly by them and partly by a colony from Athens. It was at first a free city, like the other Greek cities in Asia; but afterwards subdued by Pharnaces, king of Pontus, who made it his metropolis. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065704-8350 | AMITTERE Legem Terrae, among lawyers, a phrase importing the loss of liberty of swearing in any court: the punishment of a champion overcome or yielding in battle,—of jurors found guilty in a writ of attaint,—and of a person outlawed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065705-8350 | AMLWICH, a sea-port town in the hundred of Twrce-lyn, in the county of Anglesey, North Wales. It has a harbour, cut out of the rocks with great labour and cost, capable of containing 30 vessels of about 200 tons burden. It has risen from a very low state in a few years, owing to the extension of the great copper mines ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065706-8350 | AMMA, among ecclesiastical writers, a term used to denote an abbess or spiritual mother. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065707-8350 | AMMAN, John Conrad, a physician, and one of the earliest writers on the instruction of the deaf and dumb, was born at Schaffhausen, but in what year is uncertain. In 1687 he graduated at Basle; and, his religious principles not permitting him to settle in his native country, he retired to Holland, where he appears to h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065708-8350 | AMMAN, Paul, a physician and botanist, was born at Breslau in 1634. In 1662 he received the degree of doctor of physic from the university of Leipsic, and in 1664 was admitted a member of the society Naturae Curiosorum, under the name of Dryander. Shortly afterwards he was chosen extraordinary professor of medicine in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065709-8350 | AMMIANUS Marcellinus, a Roman historian of the fourth century, was a native of Greece, born in the city of Antioch. Having served several years in the early part of his life in the army, he was afterwards promoted to the honourable station of protector domesticus. In the year 350 he entered the service of Constantius, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065801-8363 | AMMIRATO, Scipio, an eminent Italian historian, born at Lecca in Naples in 1531. After travelling over great part of Italy without settling to his satisfaction, he was engaged by the great duke of Tuscany to write the History of Florence, for which he was presented to a canonry in the cathedral there. He wrote other wo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065802-8363 | AMMOCHRYSOS, from aμμος sand, and χϱυσ ος gold, a name given by authors to a stone very common in Germany, and apparently composed of a golden sand. It is of a yellow gold-like colour, and its particles are very glossy, being all fragments of a coloured talc. It is usually so soft as to be easily rubbed to a powder in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065803-8363 | AMMON, anciently a city of Marmarica. (Ptolemy.) Arrian calls it a place, not a city, in which stood the temple of Jupiter Ammon, entirely surrounded by sandy wastes. Pliny states, that the oracle of Ammon was 12 days’ journey from Memphis, and among the Nomi of Egypt he reckons the Nomos Ammoniacus ; Diodorus Siculus,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065901-8376 | AMMONIAC, a concrete, gummy, resinous juice, brought from the East Indies, usually in large masses, composed of little lumps or tears, of a milky colour, but soon changing, upon being exposed to the air, to a yellowish hue. We have no certain account of the plant which affords this juice: the seeds usually found among ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-065902-8376 | AMMONIAC, Sal, a saline substance, formerly much used in dyeing and some other arts. At present not much of it is employed in this country, most of the sal-ammoniac manufactured in Great Britain being sent to Russia.
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kp-eb0702-066301-8428 | AMMONITES, a people descended from Ammon, the son of Lot, and who dwelt on the east side of Judaea, beyond Jordan. The Ammonites destroyed those giants called Zamzummims (Deut. ii. 19-21), and seized upon their country. God forbade Moses (ibid. 19) to attack the Ammonites, because their lands were not to be bestowed on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066302-8428 | AMMONITIS, in Ancient Geography, a country of Arabia Petraea, occupied by the ∙ children of Ammon, whence the appellation. It was a small district, situated among the upper branches of the river Jabbok, eastward of the Dead Sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066303-8428 | AMMONIUS, surnamed Saccas, was born in Alexandria, and flourished about the beginning of the third century. He was one of the most celebrated philosophers of his age; and, adopting with alterations the Eclectic philosophy, laid the foundation of that sect which was distinguished by the name of the New Platonics.
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kp-eb0702-066401-8441 | AMMUNITION, a general name for all warlike provisions, but more particularly powder, ball, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066402-8441 | AMNESTY, in matters of policy, denotes a pardon granted by a prince to his rebellious subjects, usually with some exceptions: such was that granted by Charles II. at his restoration. The word is formed from the Greek αμνίΰτιοο, the name of an edict of this kind published by Thrasybulus, on his expulsion of the tyrants ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066403-8441 | AMNIOS, in Anatomy, a thin pellucid membrane, which surrounds the foetus in the womb. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066404-8441 | AMOEBAEUM, in Ancient Poetry, a kind of poem representing a dispute between two persons, who are made to answer each other alternately: such are the third and seventh of Virgil’s eclogues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066405-8441 | AMOL, a town of Asia, in the country of the Usbecks, seated on the river Gihon. Long. 64. 30. E. Lat. 39. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066406-8441 | AMONEBURG, a bailiwick in the principality of Hesse-Cassel, in Germany. It consists of several scattered portions in different parts of the principality, and comprehends one city or town, 12 villages, and 5509 inhabitants, chiefly employed in agriculture.
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kp-eb0702-066407-8441 | AMONTONS (Guillaume), a celebrated French experimental philosopher, was the son of an advocate, who had left his native province of Normandy, and established himself at Paris, where the subject of this memoir was born in 1663. The exertions of genius frequently take a particular direction from accidental circumstances.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066501-8454 | AMORAEANS, a sect or order of Gemaric doctors, or commentators on the Jerusalem Talmud. The Amoraeans succeeded the Mischnic doctors. They subsisted 250 years, and were succeeded by the Seburaeans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066502-8454 | AMORBACH, a city in the mediatised bailiwick of the prince of Leiningen-Amorbach, in the circle of Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It is situated at the junction of the rivers Mudt and Billbachs, has two churches, 520 houses, and 2415 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066503-8454 | AMORGO, an island in the Archipelago, to the southeast of Naxos. The chief town has the same name. The island, with some smaller ones adjoining, is about 430 square miles in extent, and the population amounts to about 2600, all Greeks, who raise good harvests of oil, wine, and fruits. It is in long. 26. 41. E. and lat.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066504-8454 | AMORITES, a people descended from Amorrhaeus, according to the Septuagintand Vulgate; Emoraeus, according to other expositors; Haemori, according to the Hebrew; or Emorites, according to our version of the Bible, who was the fourth son of Canaan. (Gen. x. 16.) The Amo-rites first peopled the mountains lying to the west... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066505-8454 | AMORTIZATION, in Law, the alienation of lands or tenements to a corporation or fraternity and their successors. See Mortmain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066506-8454 | AMOS, the fourth of the smaller prophets, who in his youth had been a herdsman at Tekoa, a small town about four leagues southward of Jerusalem, was sent to the king of Bashan, that is, to the people of Samaria, or the kingdom of Israel, to call them to repentance and an amendment of their lives; whence it is thought p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066507-8454 | AMOUR, or Amur, a great river of Chinese Tartary, which has its rise in the central deserts of northern Asia, among the mountains of Daouria, in about long. 109. E., and lat. 49. N. It has a winding course. It has first a northerly course; it afterwards makes a long detour towards the east; and finally, turning to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066508-8454 | AMOY, an island in the province of Fokien, in China, where the English had a factory; but they have abandoned it on account of the impositions of the inhabitants. It has a fine port. Long. 118. 0. E∙ Lat. 24. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066509-8454 | AMPELITES, Cannel-coal, or Candle-coal, a hard, opaque, fossil, inflammable substance, of a black colour. It does not effervesce with acids. The ampelites, though much inferior to jet in many respects, is yet a very beautiful fossil, and, for a body of so compact a structure, remarkably light. Examined by the microscop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066601-8467 | AMPHERES, in Antiquity, a kind of vessels wherein the rowers plied two oars at the same time, one with the right hand and another with the left. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066602-8467 | AMPHIARAUS, in Pagan Mythology, a celebrated prophet, who possessed part of the kingdom of Argos. He was believed to excel in divining by dreams, and is said to have been the first who divined by fire. Amphiaraus, knowing by the spirit of prophecy that he should lose his life in the war against Thebes, hid himself in o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066603-8467 | AMPHIBIA, a term in Zoology bestowed on different groups of animals, and with a considerable variety of signification. When rigorously interpreted, it applies to very few animals, as, with rare exceptions, naturalists know of no species which are strictly amphibious; that is to say, possessed of the power of performing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066701-8480 | AMPHIBOLOGY, in Grammar and Rhetoric, a term used to denote a phrase susceptible of two different interpretations. Amphibology arises from the order of the phrase, rather than from the ambiguous meaning of a word. Of this kind was that answer which Pyrrhus received from the oracle: √4ro te, Aeacida, Romanos vincere pos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066702-8480 | AMPHIBRACHYS, in Greek and Latin poetry, the name of a foot consisting of three syllables, whereof that in the middle is long and the other two short; such are the words ăbīrě, ămārč. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066703-8480 | AMPHICOME, in Natural History, a kind of figured stone, of a round shape, but rugged, and beset with eminences, celebrated on account of its use in divination. The word is originally Greek, αμφ ∣ κομη, q. d. utrinque comata, or hairy on all sides. This stone is also called Erotylus, Ερωτύλος, Amatoria, probably on acco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066704-8480 | AMPHICTYONS, in Grecian Antiquity, an assembly composed of deputies from the different states of Greece. Some suppose the word hμ<1nν,τιοης to be formed of αμφι, about, and ×τιuν or κrzζszv, in regard the inhabitants of the country round about met here in council; others, with more probability, from Amphictyon, son of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066705-8480 | AMPHIDROMIA, a feast celebrated by the ancients on the first day after the birth of a child. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066706-8480 | AMPHIDRYON, in ecclesiastical writers, denotes the veil or curtain which was drawn before the door of the bema in ancient churches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066707-8480 | AMPHILOCHIUS, bishop of Iconium in the fourth century, was the friend of St Gregory Nazianzen and St Basil. He assisted at the first general council of Constantinople in 381, presided at the council of Sida, and was a strenuous opposer of the Arians. He died in 394; and his works were published in Greek and Latin at Pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066708-8480 | AMPHILOCHUS, son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, was a celebrated diviner. He had an altar erected to him at Athens, and an oracle at Mallos in Cilicia, which city was founded by him and Mopsus. The answers of this oracle were given by dreams; the party inquiring used to pass a night in the temple, and that night’s dream w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066709-8480 | AMPHIMACER, in Ancient Poetry, a foot consisting of three syllables, whereof the first and the last are long, and that in the middle short: such is the word cāstitās. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066710-8480 | AMPHION, son of Jupiter and Antiope, who, according to the poets, made the rocks follow his music; and at his harp the stones of Thebes danced into walls and a regular city.
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kp-eb0702-066801-8493 | AMPHIPOLES, in Antiquity, the principal magistrates of Syracuse. They were established by Timoleon in the 109th Olympiad, after the expulsion of the tyrant Dionysius. They governed Syracuse for the space of 300 years: and Diodorus Siculus assures us that they subsisted in his time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066802-8493 | AMPHIPPH, in Grecian Antiquity, soldiers who in war used two horses without saddles, and were dexterous enough to leap from one to the other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066803-8493 | AMPHIPRORAE, in the naval affairs of the ancients, vessels with a prow at each end. They were used chiefly in rapid rivers and narrow channels, where it was not easy to tack about. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066804-8493 | AMPHIPROSTYLES, in the architecture of the ancients, a temple which had four columns in the front, and as many in the aspect behind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066805-8493 | AMPHISCH, among geographers, a name applied to the people who inhabit the torrid zone. The Amphiscii, as the word imports, have their shadows one part of the year towards the north, and the other towards the south, according to the sun’s place in the ecliptic. They are also called Ascii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-066806-8493 | AMPHITHEATRE, in ancient architecture, a building of an elliptic form, of two or more stories of open arcades, with a number of interior galleries and arched passages, which served both as a communication and support to several rows of seats which rose above each other, and were arranged round a large space called the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067001-8519 | AMPHITRITE (from αμφιτyτt, circumferendo), in the heathen mythology, the wife of Neptune, and goddess of the sea; sometimes taken for the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067002-8519 | AMPHITRYON, son of Alcaeus, and the father of Hercules; less known by his own exploits than from his wife Alemena’s adventure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067003-8519 | AMPHORA, in Antiquity, a liquid measure among the Greeks and Romans. The Roman amphora contained 48 sextaries, equal to about seven gallons one pint English wine measure; and the Grecian or Attic amphora contained one third more.
Amphora was also a dry measure used by the Romans, and contained about three bushels.
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kp-eb0702-067004-8519 | AMPHORARIUM Vinum, in Antiquity, denotes that which is drawn or poured into amphorae or pitchers; by way of distinction from vinum doliare, or cask wine. The Romans had a method of keeping wine in amphorae for many years to ripen, by fastening the lids tight down with pitch or gypsum, and placing them either in a situa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067005-8519 | AMPHOTIDES, in Antiquity, a kind of armour or covering for the ears, worn by the ancient pugiles, to prevent their adversaries from laying hold of that part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067006-8519 | AMPLIATION, in a general sense, denotes the act of enlarging or extending the compass of a thing. On a medal of the emperor Antoninus Pius, we find the title Ampliator Civium given him, on account of his having extended the jus civitatis, or right of citizenship, to many states and people before excluded from that priv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067007-8519 | AMPLITUDE, in Astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point and the centre of the sun or a planet at its rising or setting; and so is either north and south, or ortive and occasive.
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kp-eb0702-067008-8519 | AMPSANCTI Vallis, or Ampsancti Lacus, a cave or lake in the heart of the Hirpini, or Principato Ultra, near the city Tricento. (Cicero, Virgil, Pliny.) It is now called Moffeta, from Mephitis, the goddess of stench, who had a temple there. The ancient poets imagined that this gulf led to hell. The Moffeta is thus descr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067009-8519 | AMPTHILL, a market town in the hundred of Red-bourne Stoke, in the county of Bedford. It is pleasantly situated in a valley between two gentle elevations. A Gothic cross in the centre of the town, to the memory of Catherine of Arragon, queen of Henry VIII. who resided here, was erected in the year 1774, by the late ear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067101-8532 | AMPULLA, in Antiquity, a round big-bellied vessel which the ancients used in their baths, to contain oil for anointing their bodies; also the name of a cup for drinking out of at table.
Ampulla, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes one of the sacred vessels used at the altars. Ampullae were also used for holding the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067102-8532 | AMPURIAS, the capital of the territory of Ampurdan, in Catalonia, seated at the mouth of the river Fluvia, in long. 2. 56. E. lat. 42. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067103-8532 | AMRAPHEL, the king of Shinar or Babylonia, confederated with Chedorlaomer, king of the Elamites, and two other kings, to make war against the kings of Pentapolis; that is to say, of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the three neighbouring cities. The kings who were in league with Am-raphel worsted those of Pentapolis, plundered the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067104-8532 | AMRAS, a strong castle of Germany, seated in Tyrol; by some German writers called Arx Ambrosiana, which was a house of pleasure for the archdukes to retire to in the heat of the summer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067105-8532 | AMRITSIR (the fountain of nectar), an open town of Hindostan, the capital of the Seik nation, and the chief place of their religious worship. It is eight miles in circu⅛ference; has narrow streets, with lofty houses built of burnt bricks; and is still the great commercial mart for the shawls and. saffron of Cashmere, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067106-8532 | AMRU-EBN-AL-AS, one of the most famous of the first race of Saracen leaders, was descended of Asia, of the tribe of Koreish, by a notorious prostitute. In his youth he indulged in poetry, and wrote satirical verses against the person and doctrine of Mahomet. His zeal in opposing the new religion prompted him to underta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067107-8532 | AMRUM, an island of Denmark, in the German Ocean, between latitude 54. 38. and 54. 43. It contains about 15 square miles, with 1500 inhabitants. It is in the barony of Westerlandfohr and Amrum, and the diocese of Ribe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067108-8532 | AMSBURY, or Ambersbury. See Ambresbury. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067109-8532 | AMSDORFIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of Protestants in the 16th century, who took their name from Amsdorf, their leader. They maintained that good works were not only unprofitable, but were obstacles to salvation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067110-8532 | AMSTERDAM, a city, formerly the capital of the seven United Provinces, and though, since the formation of the kingdom of the Netherlands, no longer the capital, is still [7:2:672]by far the largest and most important place in that kingdom. It is the chief of the arrondissement of the same name, the seat of the commande... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067201-8545 | AMULET, a charm or preservative against mischief, witchcraft, or diseases. Amulets have been made of stone, metal, simples, animals, and, in a word, of every thing that imagination could suggest. Sometimes they consisted of words, characters, and sentences, ranged in a particular order, and engraved upon wood, &c. and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067202-8545 | AMURATH, or Amurat I. the fourth emperor of the Turks, and one of the greatest princes of the Ottoman empire, succeeded Solyman in 1390. He took from the Greeks Gallipoli in Thrace, and Adrianople, which last he chose for the place of his residence. He defeated the prince of Bulgaria, conquered Misnia, chastised his re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067301-8558 | AMWELL, a large village in the hundred of Hertford, of the county of that name, 20 miles from London. It is at the head of the New River, conducted to the metropolis by Sir Hugh Middleton, betwee« the years 1606 and 1612. The population in 1801 was 772; in 1811, 891; and in 1821, 1110. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067302-8558 | AMYLACEOUS, from amylum, starch, a term applied to the fine flour of farinaceous seeds, in which consists their nutritive part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067303-8558 | AMYNTA, in literary history, a beautiful pastoral comedy composed by Tasso, the model of all dramatic pieces wherein shepherds are actors. The Pastor Fido and Filli de Sciro are only copies of this excellent piece. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067304-8558 | AMYNTOR, αμυvτωξ, formed of the verb aμυvω, I defend or avenge, properly denotes a person who defends or vindicates a cause. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067305-8558 | AMYOT, James, bishop of Auxerre and grand almoner of France, was born of an obscure family at Melun, the 30th of October 1514, and studied philosophy at Paris, in the college of Cardinal le Moine. He was naturally dull and heavy; but diligence and application made amends for these natural defects. He left Paris at the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067306-8558 | AMYRALDISM, a name given by some writers to the doctrine of universal grace, as explained and asserted by Amyraldus, or Moses Amyraut, and others, his followers, among the reformed in France, towards the middle of the 17 th century.
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kp-eb0702-067307-8558 | AMYRAUT, Moses, an eminent French Protestant divine, born at Bourgueil in Touraine in 1596. He studied at Saumur, where he was chosen professor of divinity; and his learned works gained him the esteem of Catholics as well as Protestants, particularly of Cardinal Richelieu, who consulted him on a plan of reuniting their... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067308-8558 | ANA, a Latin plural termination, appropriated to various collections of the observations and criticisms of [7:2:674]eminent characters delivered in conversation and recorded by their friends, or discovered among their papers after their decease. Though the term Ana is but of modern origin, the species of composition to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-067801-8623 | ANABAPTISTS, a name which has been indiscriminately applied to Christians of very different principles and practices, though many of them object to the denomination, and hold nothing in common besides the opinion, that baptism ought always to be performed by immersion, and not administered before the age of discretion.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068001-8649 | ANABASII, in Antiquity, were couriers who were sent on horseback or in chariots, with dispatches of importance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068002-8649 | ANABATHRA, in ancient writers, denotes a kind of steps or ladder whereby to ascend to some eminence. In this sense we read of the anabathra of theatres, pulpits, &c. Anabathra appears to have been sometimes also applied to ranges of seats rising gradually over each other.
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kp-eb0702-068003-8649 | ANABOA, a small island situated near the coast of Loango, in Africa. Long. 9. E. Lat. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068004-8649 | ANABOLAEUM, or Anabole, in Antiquity, a kind of great or upper coat, worn over the tunica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068005-8649 | ANABOLEUS, in Antiquity, an appellation given to grooms of the stable, or equerries, who assisted their masters in mounting their horses. As the ancients had no stirrups, or instruments that are now in use for mounting a horse, they either jumped upon his back, or were aided in mounting by anaboleì. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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