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kp-eb0702-068006-8649 | ANACALYPTERIA, according to Suidas, were presents made to the bride by her husband’s relations and friends, when she first uncovered her face and showed herself to men. These presents were also called ≡wαuλα∕α; for, among the Greeks, virgins before marriage were under strict confinement, being rarely permitted to appea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068007-8649 | ANACAMPTERIA, in Ecclesiastical Antiquity, a kind of little edifices adjacent to the churches, designed for the entertainment of strangers and poor persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068008-8649 | ANACAMPTIC, a name applied by the ancients to that part of optics which treats of reflection, being the same with what is now called Catoptrics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068009-8649 | ANACHARSIS, a Scythian philosopher, who lived about 600 years before Christ. His father was one of the chiefs of his nation, and married a woman of Greece. Instructed in the Greek language by his mother, he prevailed upon the king to intrust him with an embassy to Athens. Arrived in that renowned city, he was introduce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068010-8649 | ANACHORET, in Ecclesiastical History, denotes a hermit, or solitary monk, who retires from the society of mankind into some desert, with a view to avoid the temptations of the world, and to be more at leisure for meditation and prayer. Such were Paul, Anthony, and Hilarian, the first founders of monastic life in Egypt ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068011-8649 | ANACHRONISM, in matters of literature, an error with respect to chronology, whereby an event is placed earlier than it really happened. The word is compounded of αvα, higher, and γfovος, time. Such is that of Virgil, who placed Dido in Africa at the time of Aeneas, though in reality she did not come thither till 300 ye... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068012-8649 | ANACLASTIC Glasses, a kind of sonorous phials or glasses, chiefly made in Germany, which have the property of being flexible, and emitting a vehement noise by the human breath. They are also called vexing glasses by the Germans (vexier glaseT), on account of the fright and disturbance they occasion by their resilition.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068013-8649 | ANACLASTICS, that part of optics which considers the refraction of light, and is commonly called Dioptrics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068014-8649 | ANACLETERIA, in Antiquity, a solemn festival celebrated by the ancients when their kings or princes came of age, and assumed the reins of government. It is so. called, because proclamation being made of this event to the people, they went to salute their prince during the anacleteria, and to congratulate him upon his n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068015-8649 | ANACLETICUM, in the ancient art of war, a particular blast of the trumpet, whereby the fearful and flying soldiers were rallied, and recalled to combat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068016-8649 | ANACLINOPALE, Ava%λ∕voffaλ}⅛ in Antiquity, a kind of wrestling, wherein the champions threw themselves voluntarily on the ground, and continued the combat by pinching, biting, scratching, and other methods of offence. The Anaclinopale was contradistinguished from the Or-thapale, wherein the champions stood erect. In th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068017-8649 | ANACLINTERIA, in Antiquity, a kind of pillows on [7:2:681]the dining bed, whereon the guests used to lean. The ancient tricliniary beds had four pillows, one at the head, another at the feet, a third at the back, and a fourth at the breast. That on which the head lay was properly called by the Greeks avaxXivrŋgiov or a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068101-8662 | ANACOLLEMA, a composition of astringent powders, applied by the ancients to the head, to prevent defluxions on the eyes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068102-8662 | ANACONDA, in Natural History, is a name given in the isle of Ceylon to a very large and terrible snake. It is probably the Boa Constrictor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068103-8662 | ANACREON, a Greek poet, born at Teos, a city of Ionia, flourished about 532 years before the Christian era. Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, invited him to his court, and made him share with him in his business and his pleasure. He had a delicate wit, as may be judged from the inexpressible beauties and graces that shine i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068104-8662 | ANACREONTIC Verse, in Ancient Poetry, a kind of verse, so called from its being much used by the poet Anacreon. It consists of three feet and a half, usually spondees and iambuses, and sometimes anapaests. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068105-8662 | ANACRISIS, among the ancient Greeks, was used for a kind of trial or examination, which the archons or chief magistrates of Athens were to undergo before their admission into that office. The anacrisis stands distinguished from the docirnasia, which was a second examination in the forum. The anacrisis was performed in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068106-8662 | ANACROSIS, in Antiquity, denotes a part of the Pythian song, wherein the combat of Apollo and Python is described. The anacrosis was the first part, and contained the preparation to the fight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068107-8662 | ANADEMA, among the ancients, denotes an ornament of the head, wherewith victors at the sacred games had their temples bound. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068108-8662 | ANADIPLOSIS, in Rhetoric and Poetry, a repetition of the last word of a line, or clause of a sentence, in the beginning of the next: thus,
Pierides, vos haec facietis maxima Gallo:
Galla, cujus amor, &c.
Et matutinis accredula vocibus instat,
Vocibus instat, et assiduas jacit ore querelas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068109-8662 | ANADROMUS, among ichthyologists, a name given to such fishes as go from the sea to the fresh water at stated seasons, and return back again; such as the salmon, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068110-8662 | ANADUOMENE Venus, in the Grecian Mythology, answered to the Sea Venus in the Roman, and was the appellation given to one of the chief deities of the sea. The most celebrated picture in all antiquity was that of this goddess by Apelles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068111-8662 | ANAEDEIA, in Antiquity, a denomination given to a silver stool placed in the Areopagus, on which the defendant, or person accused, was seated for examination. The word is Greek, Ava∕δi∕α, which imports impudence ; but, according to Junius’s correction, it should rather be Αva ∣ ∏a, q. d. innocence. The plaintiff or acc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068112-8662 | ANAGNOSTA, or Anagnostes, in Antiquity, a kind of literary servant, retained in the families of persons of distinction, whose chief business was to read to them during meals, or at any other time when they were at leisure. Cornelius Nepos relates of Atticus, that he had always an anagnostes at his meals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068113-8662 | ANAGOGICAL signifies mysterious, transporting, and is used to express whatever elevates the mind, not only to the knowledge of divine things, but of divine things in the next life. This word is seldom used but with regard to the different senses of the Scripture. The anagogical sense is, when the sacred text is explain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068114-8662 | ANAGOGY, or Anagoge, among ecclesiastical writers, the elevation of the mind to things celestial and eternal. It is particularly used where words, in their natural or primary meanings, denote something sensible, but have a further view to something spiritual or invisible.
Anagogy, in a more particular sense, denotes t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068115-8662 | ANAGRAM (from the Greek αvα, backwards, and γζaμμa, letter), in matters of literature, a transposition of the letters of some name, whereby a new word is formed, either to the advantage or disadvantage of the person or thing to which the name belongs: thus the anagram of Galenus is angelus ; that of Logica, caligo ; th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068201-8675 | ANAGRAMMATIST, a maker or composer of anagrams. Thomas Billon, a Provençal, was a celebrated anagrammatist, and retained by Louis XIII. with a pension of 1200 livres, in quality of anagrammatist to the king. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068202-8675 | ANAGROS, in Commerce, a measure for grain, used in some cities in Spain, particularly at Seville. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068203-8675 | ANAK, the father of the Anakims, was the son of Arba, who gave his name to Kiŗjath-arba, or Hebron. (Josh. xiv. 15.) Anak had three sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai (chap. xv. 14, and Numb, xiii. 22), all of gigantic size; their posterity were remarkable, not only for their extraordinary stature, but for their fiercen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068204-8675 | ANALECTA, or Analectes, in Antiquity, a servant whose employment it was to gather up the offals at tables.
Analecta, Analects, in a literary sense, is used to denote a collection of small pieces; as essays, remarks, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068205-8675 | ANALEMMA, in Geometry, a projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, orthographically made by a straight line and ellipses, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.
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kp-eb0702-068206-8675 | ANALEPSIS, the augmentation or nutrition of an emaciated body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068207-8675 | ANALEPTICS, restorative or nourishing medicines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068208-8675 | ANALOGY, in Philosophy, a certain relation and agreement between two or more things, which in other respects are entirely different. There is likewise an analogy between things that have some conformity or resemblance to one another; for example, between animals and plants; but the analogy is still stronger between two... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068209-8675 | ANALYSIS, in a general sense, implies the resolution of something compounded into its original and constituent parts. The word is Greek, and derived from coaλyα∣, to resolve.
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kp-eb0702-068301-8688 | ANALYTIC, or Analytical, something that belongs to or partakes of the nature of analysis. The analytic method stands opposed to the synthetic. See Logic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068302-8688 | ANAMABOA, or Annamaboe, a populous town on the gold coast, in the kingdom of Fantin, in Guinea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068303-8688 | ANAMMELECH, an idol of the Sepharvaites, who are said in Scripture to have burnt their children in honour of Adrammelech and Anammelech. These idols probably signified the sun and moon. Some of the rabbins represent Anammelech under the figure of a mule, others under that of a quail or pheasant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068304-8688 | ANAMIM, the second son of Mizraim. (Gen. x. 13.) Anamim, if we may credit the paraphrast Jonathan the son of Uzziel, peopled the Mareotis; or the Pentapolis of Gyrene, according to the paraphrast of Jerusalem. Bo-chart is of opinion that these Anamims were the people that dwelt in the parts adjacent to the temple of Ju... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068305-8688 | ANAMORPHOSIS, in perspective drawings, is a deformed or distorted portrait or figure, generally confused and unintelligible to the common unassisted view; but when seen at a certain distance and height, or as reflected from a plain or curved mirror, will appear regular and in right proportion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068306-8688 | ANANCITIS, in Antiquity, a kind of figured stone, otherwise called synochitis, celebrated for its magical virtue of raising the shadows of the infernal gods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068307-8688 | ANANIAS, a Sadducee, high-priest of the Jews, who put to death St James, the brother of our Lord, and was deposed by Agrippa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068308-8688 | ANANISABTA, or Ananisapta, a magical word frequently found inscribed on coins and other amulets, supposed to have a virtue of preserving the wearer from the plague. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068309-8688 | ANAPAEST, in Ancient Poetry, a foot consisting of two short syllables and one long: such is the word scŏpŭlōs. It is just the reverse of the dactyl. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068310-8688 | ANAPAESTIC Verses, those consisting wholly or chiefly of anapaests. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068311-8688 | ANAPHORA, in Rhetoric, the repetition of the same word or words in the beginning of a sentence or verse.
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kp-eb0702-068312-8688 | ANAPLASIS signifies the replacing or setting of a fractured bone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068313-8688 | ANAPLORETICS, medicines that promote the growth or granulation of the flesh in wounds, ulcers, &c.
ĂNARCHI (Avagxw), in Antiquity, a name given by the Athenians to four supernumerary days in their year, during which they had no magistrates. The Attic year was divided into 10 parts, according to the number of tribes, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068314-8688 | ANARCHY, the want of government in a nation, where no supreme authority is lodged either in the prince or other rulers, but the people live at large,’ and all things are in confusion. The word is derived from the Greek privative α, and a°γg], command, principality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068315-8688 | ANÂRROPIA, among physicians, a tendency of the humours to the head or superior parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068316-8688 | ANASTASIO, St, a city of Italy, with 5650 inhabitants. It is in the province Terra di Lavora, not far from Capua, in the kingdom of Naples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068317-8688 | ANASTASIS, a term among ancient physicians for a rising up to go to stool. It also signifies the passage of any humour, when expelled from one part, and obliged to remove to another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068318-8688 | ANASTASIUS I. emperor of the East, succeeded Zeno in the year 491, and was inaugurated that same year on the 11th of April. Anastasius reigned 27 years 3 months and 3 days, and died July the 10th, A. c. 518, in the 88th year of his age.
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kp-eb0702-068401-8701 | ANAŞTOMATICS, medicines supposed to have the power or opening the mouths of the vessels, and promoting the circulation; such as deobstruent, cathartic, and sudorific medicines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068402-8701 | ANASTOMOSIS, in Anatomy, the opening of the mouths of vessels, in order to discharge their contained fluids. It is likewise used for the communication of two vessels at their extremities; as the inosculation of a vein with a vein, of an artery with an artery, or of an artery with a vein. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068403-8701 | ANASTROPHE, in Rhetoric and Grammar, denotes the inversion of the natural order of the words: such is saxa per et scopulos, for per saxa et scopulos. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068404-8701 | ANATHEMA, among ecclesiastical writers, imports whatever is set apart, separated, or divided; but is most usually meant to express the cutting off a person from the privileges of society and communion with the faithful. The anathema differs from excommunication in the circumstances of being attended with curses and exe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068405-8701 | ANATOCISM, Anatocismus, an usurious contract, wherein the interests arising from the principal sum are added to the principal itself and interest exacted upon the whole. The word is originally Greek, but used by Cicero in Latin; whence it has descended into most other languages. It comes from the preposition αvα, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068406-8701 | ANATOLIA. See Natolia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-068407-8701 | ANATOMY (Avaroμjj), signifying literally dissection, or separation of parts by cutting, applied to organized bodies, is used to denote the artificial separation of their component parts in order to obtain an exact knowledge of their situation, shape, and structure.
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kp-eb0703-000101-5574 | ANATOMY, COMPARATIVECOMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
PART I.
ANATOMY OF THE ORGANS OF RELATION. CHAP. I.—COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY.
RED-BLOODED ANIMALS only can be said to possess that assemblage of bones denominated skeleton; and as in these the most constant part is the vertebral column, it furnishes the general character of Vert... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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ANATOMY OF THE ORGANS OF RELATION. CHAP | |
kp-eb0703-004101-6094 | ANATOMY, VEGETABLEVEGETABLE ANATOMY.
All the plants which collectively form the vegetable kingdom have been arranged under two great divisions. Those which possess visible organs of reproduction, as stamens and pistils, have been termed phoenogamous, and constitute the first 23 classes in the sexual system of Linnaeus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010101-6874 | ANAXAGORAS, an eminent philosopher of antiquity, was born in the first year of the 70th Olympiad, or 500 years before Christ. Leaving his lands to be cultivated and enjoyed by his friends, Anaxagoras placed himself under the care of Anaximenes the Milesian. About the age of twenty he went to Athens and entered upon the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010201-6887 | ANAXARCHUS, a Grecian philosopher, who lived under Philip of Macedon and Alexander, was born in Abdera, and belonged to the sect generally known by the name of the Eleatic. He is said to have been conducted in the progress of his early studies by the skilful hands of Diomenes of Smyrna and Metrodorus of Chios. He had t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010202-6887 | ANAXIMANDER, a famous Greek philosopher, born at Miletus in the 42d Olympiad, in the time of Polycrates, tyrant of Samos. He was the first who publicly taught philosophy, and wrote upon philosophical subjects. He carried his researches into nature very far for the time in which he lived. It is said that he discovered t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010203-6887 | ANAXIMANDRIANS, in the history of philosophy, the followers of Anaximander, the most ancient of the philosophical atheists, who admitted of no other substance in nature but matter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010204-6887 | ANAXIMENES, an eminent Greek philosopher, born at Miletus; the friend, scholar, and successor of Anaximander. He diffused some degree of light upon the obscurity of his master’s system. He made the first principle of things to consist in the air, which he considered as immense or infinite, and to which he ascribed a pe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010301-6900 | ANBAR, a town of Asia, in Arabian Irak, situated 'on the Euphrates. It was taken by Caled, lieutenant of the caliph Omar, in the year 632, and it was rebuilt by the first caliph of the Abapides. It is 35 miles west of Bagdad. Long. 43. 2. E. Lat. 33. 15. N. It is also the name of a town of Great Bukharia, in the provin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010302-6900 | ANBERTKEND, in the eastern language, a celebrated book of the Bramins, wherein the Indian philosophy and religion are contained. The word in its literal sense denotes the cistern wherein is the water of life. The An-bertkend is divided into 50 beths or discourses, each of which consists of 10 chapters. It has been tran... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010303-6900 | ANCARANO, a town of Italy, in the marquisate of Ancona. Long. 14. 54. E. Lat. 42. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010304-6900 | ANCASTER, a town of Lincolnshire, situated in long. 30. W. lat. 52. 30. N. It gives title of duke to the noble family of Bertie. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010305-6900 | AŇCENIS, an arrondissement in the department of Morbihan, in France. The extent is 310 square miles, or 197,120 acres. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 28 communes, having a population of 40,992. The chief place, of the same name, contains a population of 3295 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010306-6900 | ANCESTORS, those from whom a person is descended in a straight line. The word is derived from the Latin ancessor, contracted from antecessor, goer before. Many nations have paid honours to their ancestors. It was properly the departed souls of their forefathers that the Romans worshipped under the denominations of lare... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010307-6900 | ANCHISES, in fabulous history, a Trojan prince, descended from Dardanus and the son of Capys. Venus made love to him in the form of a beautiful nymph, and bore him Aeneas, the hero of Virgil’s Aeneid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010308-6900 | ANCHOR, in Navigation, from the Greek ayxuga, which Vossius thinks is from oyxrç, a crook or hook, an instrument of iron or other heavy material used for holding ships in any situation in which they may be required to lie, and preventing them from drifting by the winds or tides, by the currents of rivers, or any other ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010901-6978 | ANCHOVY. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010902-6978 | ANCIENT, or Antient, a term applied to things which existed long ago. Thus we say, ancient nations, ancient customs, &c. See Antiquities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010903-6978 | ANCIENT Demesne, in English Law, is a tenure whereby all manors belonging to the crown in the times of William the Conqueror and St Edward were held. The numbers, names, &c. were entered by the Conqueror in the record called Domesday Book; so that such lands as by that book appeared to have belonged to the crown at tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010904-6978 | ANCIENTY, in some ancient statutes, is used for eldership or seniority. The elder sister can demand no more than her other sisters, beside the chief mesne, by reason of her ancienty. This word is used in the statute of Ireland, 14 Henry III. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010905-6978 | ANCONA, a delegation or province of the Papal States, in Italy, a part of the ancient mark of Ancona. It is bounded on the north by Urbino, on the east by the Adriatic Sea, on the south by Macerata, and on the west by Urbino. Its extent is 646 square miles, or 413,440 acres. It is a mountainous district, with scarcely ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010906-6978 | ANCONES, in Architecture, the corners or quoins of walls, cross beams, or rafters. Vitruvius calls the consoles by the same name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010907-6978 | ANCOURT, Florent Carton d’, an eminent French comic writer and actor, was born at Fontainbleau, on the 1st November 1661. He died on the 6th of December 1726, being 65 years of age. The plays which he wrote were all, with one exception, of the comic cast. They have been frequently reprinted, and form, in the best editi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010908-6978 | ANCRE, a small town of France, in Picardy, with the title of a marquisate, seated on a little river of the same name. Long. 2. 45. E. Lat. 49. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 59' N 2 45' E | ANCRE |
kp-eb0703-010909-6978 | ANCUS Martius, the fourth king of the Romans, succeeded Tullus Hostilius 639 years before Christ. He defeated the Latins, subdued the Fidenates, conquered the Sabines, Volsci, and Veientines, enlarged Rome by joining to it Mount Janiculum, and made the harbour of Ostia. He died about 615 years before the Christian era. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010910-6978 | ANCYLE, in Antiquity, a kind of shield that fell, as was pretended, from heaven, in the reign of Numa Pompilius; at which time, likewise, a voice was heard declaring that Rome should be mistress of the world as long as she should preserve this holy buckler. It was kept with great care in the temple of Mars, under the d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010911-6978 | ANCYLOBLEPHARON (from αy%υλoς, bent, and ∕3λs- <į>aęw, an eyelid), a disease of the eye, which closes the eyelids. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-010912-6978 | ANCYLOGLOSSUM (from αy%ι∣λoς, crooked, and yλωo ’ tfa, the tongue), a contraction of the ligaments of the tongue. Some have this imperfection from their birth, others from some disease. In the first case, the membrane which supports the tongue is too short or too hard; in the latter, an ulcer under the tongue, healing ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011001-6991 | ANCYLOSIS, in Surgery, implies immobility or stift-ness of the joints, and is used to express such stiffness, whether proceeding from internal or external causes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011002-6991 | ANDABATAE, in Antiquity, a sort of gladiators, who, mounted on horseback or in chariots, fought hoodwinked, having a helmet that covered their eyes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011003-6991 | ANDALUSIA, an extensive province in the south of Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. Though its surface is very unequal, and its soil and climate vary with the elevations of the land, it must be considered the most rich and delightful of all the divisions of the peninsula. It is divided into four districts, which, in conf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011004-6991 | ANDAMAN Islands. These islands, which are situated on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, are a continuation of the archipelago which extends from Cape Negrais to Atchein Head, stretching from lat. 10° 32' to 13° 40 ’ N., and from long. 90° 6' to 92° 59' E. They are called the Great and the Little Andaman. The Great... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011101-7004 | ANDANTE, in Music, signifies a movement moderately slow, between largo and allegro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011102-7004 | ANDEGAVI, or Andegavus, a town of Gallia Celtica (Pliny, Ptolemy); now Angiers: called Andecavi (Tacitus). Long. 30. W. Lat. 47. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 30' N 30 W | ANDEGAVI |
kp-eb0703-011103-7004 | ANDELYS, an arrondissement in the department of the Lower Seine, in France. It extends over 390 square miles, or 256,440 acres; is divided into six cantons, which are subdivided into 147 communes; and contains 63,211 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, has a population of 5256 souls. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011104-7004 | ANDENA, in old writings, denotes the swath made in the mowing of hay, or as much ground as a man could stride over at once. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011105-7004 | ANDEOL, Saint, a town of France, in the department of Lozere, five miles south of St Viviers, whose bishop formerly resided there. Long. 2. 50. E. Lat. 44.24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 24' N 2 50' E | ANDEOL |
kp-eb0703-011106-7004 | ANDERAB, the most southern city of the province of Balk, possessed by the Usbec Tartars. The neighbouring mountains yield excellent quarries of lapis lazuli, in which the Bukhars drive a great trade with Persia and India. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011107-7004 | ANDERAVIA, or Inderabia, a low, level, and narrow island on the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf, about three miles in length. It is separated from the mainland by a strait three miles in length, and free from danger; but ships running for shelter under this island must not come within a mile of its south end, until a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-011108-7004 | ANDERNACHT, a city in the duchy of the Lower Rhine, belonging to Prussia. It is situated in a plain on the river Rhine, and is fortified with a wall, castle, and bulwarks. It has a trade in stone jugs and pitchers, which are sent to the mineral waters at Dunchstein. There are three monasteries here, and several churche... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 27' N 7 4' E | ANDERNACHT |
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