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kp-eb0718-045403-8277 | PORTICO, in Architecture, a kind of gallery formed on the ground; or a piazza encompassed with arches supported by columns, where people walk under covert. The roof is usually vaulted, but sometimes flat. The ancients called it lacunar. Though the word portico be derived from porta, a gate or door, yet it is applied to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045404-8277 | PORT-JACKSON, a bay and English settlement on the east coast of New Holland. The two heads through which the entrance lies are distant from each other one mile and three quarters; and the heads on each side are high, steep, [7:18:455]perpendicular cliffs, between which ships may run in safety. It may be entered in all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045501-8290 | PORTLAND, a town of Maine, one of the United States of North America. See Maine. Portland, an island on the coast of Dorsetshire, or rather a peninsula, since it is joined to the mainland by a lofty bank of pebbles, which runs parallel to the sea, about three miles in length. Within the beach is a small arm of the sea,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045502-8290 | PORT LOUIS, a fortified sea-port of France, in the department of Morbihan, and arrondisement of L’Orient. It is situated at the mouth of the river Blavet, on the bay of its own name, and is inclosed by the sea on three sides. It has a citadel of great strength, three churches, a naval hospital and exchange, 365 houses,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045503-8290 | PORT-MACQUARIE, an inlet on the east coast of New Holland, into which falls the river Hastings. It received its present appellation from Mr. Oxley, who surveyed it in 1818. Long. 152. 53. 54. E. Lat. 31. 25. 115. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 31 25' 115" S 152 53' 54" E | PORT-MACQUARIE |
kp-eb0718-045504-8290 | PORT-ROYAL, a town of the island of Jamaica. See Jamaica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045505-8290 | PORT-SANDWICK, a harbour of the island of Mallicollo, in the South Pacific Ocean. Long. 167. 67. E. Lat. 16. 25. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045506-8290 | PORTOBELLO, a parliamentary burgh, situated on the Frith of Forth, nearly three miles from Edinburgh. The town is neatly built, and as the beach is extensive, and commodious for sea-bathing, it is consequently much frequented in the summer season as a watering-place. It is not a place of trade, but has several manufact... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045507-8290 | PORTOBELLO, a town situated on the isthmus of Panama. See Panama. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045508-8290 | PORTO FERRAJO, the capital of the Island of Elba, in the province of Pisa, and the duchy of Tuscany^ celebrated as the residence of Napoleon during his banishment to that island. It is situated on a tongue of land running into the sea, and forming a small bay. It is fortified, and contains two churches, an hospital, 60... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045509-8290 | PORTO-NOVO, a sea-port town of the south of India, in the Carnatic. It is esteemed the safest port on the Coromandel coast. The ground is good, and vessels may anchor in six fathoms water. In August 1781, the British gained a victory here over Hyder Aly. Long. 79∙ 52.E. Lat. 11. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045510-8290 | PORTO RICO, or Puerto Rico, one of that group of West India islands called the great Antilles, and the smallest of the four in population and extent, but yielding to none in fertility and genera] importance. It is situated to the east or windward of Hayti, Cuba, and Jamaica, being separated on the west from the first n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045701-8316 | PORTO SANTO. See Madeira. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045702-8316 | PORTO-SEGURO, a large tract of country in Brazil, situated to the north of Rio and Espiritu-Santo. It was formerly reckoned a province of itself, but at the new provincial division of the country in 1829, it was formed into a comarca of Bahia. Along with Espiritu-Santo, it forms one continuous tract·, presenting such a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045901-8342 | PORT-PATRICK, a sea-port town and parish, on the west coast of Wigtonshire, at the distance of 133 miles from Edinburgh. It is situated on the shore of the Irish Sea, at the nearest point to Ireland, the distance being only twenty-one miles to Donaghadee∙ From this cause, as well as from being the best place for crossi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045902-8342 | PORTRAIT, in Painting, the representation of a person, and especially of a face, done from the life. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045903-8342 | PORTREE, is a small village, containing a church and a very few houses, with an excellent bay and a good harbour, in the isle of Skye. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-045904-8342 | PORTSMOUTH, a town of the county of Southampton or Hampshire, within the hundred of Portsdown, and seventy-four miles from London. It stands on an island divided from the mainland by a small creek or arm of the sea. This island, called Portsea, is about fifteen miles in circumference, and contains nearly 5100 acres of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-046101-8368 | PORTSOY, a burgh of barony and a sea-port town, in the parish of Fordyce, and county of Banff. It is situated on a point of land, jutting into a small bay, of the same name, on the Moray Frith, and consists of a few streets, irregularly built. The harbour is small, but safe, and is capable ofadmitting vessels of 150 to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-046201-8381 | PORTUGAL.
Portugal, the most westerly kingdom of Europe, is bounded on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the east and north by Spain. By modern writers we find this country constantly styled in Latin Lusitania ; and it is certain, that anciently a part of Spain went by that name; but it does not by any ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048301-8654 | PORTUMNA, a small market town, in the county of Galway, Ireland. It is situated within half a-mile of the river Shannon, over which there is a bridge, and consists of a long line of cabins built without any regularity. It possesses a church and a Roman Catholic chapel. It is distant from Dublin 74 miles, and had a popu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048302-8654 | POSEGA, a city of the Sclavonian provinces of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 990 square miles, and comprehends one city, six towns, and 254 villages, with 74,200 inhabitants. The city is on the river Orlgava, and contains 410 houses, with 4220 inhabitants, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048303-8654 | POSEN, one of the provinces of the kingdom of Prussia. It was formerly a part of Poland, but by the several partitions of that distracted country, and by the treaty of Vienna in the year 1815, has been guaranteed to Prussia. It is bounded on the north by west Prussia, on the east by Russian Poland, on the south by Sile... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048304-8654 | POSIDONIUS, a celebrated Stoic philosopher of Apa-meia in Syria, was the disciple and successor of Panaetius, (Strab∙ xiv. 655.) The exact date of his birth and death are unknown, but he flourished B. c. 78, and came to Rome B. c. 51. (Suidas.) He resided principally at the island of Rhodes, and his reputation was so h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048305-8654 | POSITION, Centre of. From Archimedes to Doctor Wallis, w∙riters have assumed, that there belongs to every body an individual point, where, for most purposes, the whole weight may be conceived to reside; and they have called it the centre of gravity. The learned Englishman, however, believed himself the first to accompl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048501-8680 | POSITRA, a sea-port town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and district of Okamindel. The inhabitants, like those of many others of the coast towns in India, have been long addicted to piracy; which was prosecuted with ardour, notwithstanding an agreement between the chiefs and the British to lay aside these de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048502-8680 | POSON, one of the smaller Philippine islands, near the west coast of Leyta. Long. 124. 24. E. Lat. 10. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048503-8680 | POSSESSION Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Monsieur Marion in 1772. It is of a round form and mountainous. Long. 41. 40. E. Lat. 46. 30. N. There is another island of this name in the South Pacific Ocean, near the north point of New Holland. It was taken possession of by Captain Cook in the name of Gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048504-8680 | POSSESSIVE, in Grammar, a term applied to pronouns, which denote the enjoyment or possession of any thing either in particular or in common; as meus, mine; tuus, thine; swus, his own, her own, its own, or their own. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048505-8680 | POSTERIOR, a term of relation, implying something behind, or that comes after, another. In this sense it is used in opposition to prior and anterior. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048506-8680 | POSTERN, in fortification, a small gate, usually made in the angle of the flank of a bastion, or in that of the curtain, or near the orillon, and descending into the ditch; by which the garrison can march in and out, unperceived by the enemy, either to relieve the works, or to make sallies against an enemy. The word is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048507-8680 | POST-HORSE, a rocky inlet in the Eastern seas, near the west coast of the island of Celebes. Long. U9∙ 18. E. Lat. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048508-8680 | POSTHUMOUS, a child born after the death of his father, or taken out of the body of a dead mother; and hence frequently applied to the works of an author not published until after his decease. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048509-8680 | POSTIL, a name anciently given to a note in the margin of the Bible, and afterwards to one in any other book posterior to the text. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048510-8680 | POSTILLIONS, a chain of rocks in the Eastern Seas, about 60 miles in length from north to south. Long. 119. 18. to 119∙ 54. E. Lat. 6. 15. to 6.48. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048511-8680 | POSTLIMINIUM, amongst the Romans, the return of one who had gone to sojourn elsewhere, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy of his own country or state. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048512-8680 | POST, a word derived from the Latin positus, set or placed. It is used in several different meanings, but all of them referring either immediately or remotely to the primitive sense of position. Thus the word post signifies a stake, or piece of timber set upright; a station, particularly a military station; an office o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-048601-8693 | POST-OFFICE.
It has been usual to trace the origin of posts to a remote antiquity; certain establishments, having something in common with the modern post system, being found to have existed at an early period of the world’s history. Herodotus and Xenophon mention that, amongst the ancient Persians, stations were appo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049801-8849 | POSTULATE, in mathematics, is described to be such an easy and self-evident supposition, that it needs no explication or illustration to render it intelligible. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049802-8849 | POTAMON, or Potamo, was a philosopher of Alexandria. He steered a middle course between the scepticism of the Pyrrhonists and the presumption of the Dogmatists; but attached himself to none of the schools of philosophy of bis time. He was the first projector of the Eclectic sect; for though the mode of philosophising h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049803-8849 | POTASH, the lixivious ashes of certain vegetables, used in making glass, soap, and other articles. See Glass, Soap, and Chemistry. Potash was formerly considered as a simple substance; but it appears, from the discoveries of Sir II. Davy, to be a compound of a peculiar metallic substance and oxygen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049804-8849 | POTATOES, of the order solaneae. See Botany. It seems to be the prevalent opinion that potatoes were first introduced into Europe from America, by Sir Walter Raleigh, about 1586. Gerard, an old English botanist, mentions that he had reared seedlings of the potatoe in 1590, and that it grew as well in his garden as in i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049901-8862 | POTENTIA, power, that whereby a thing is capable either of acting or being acted upon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049902-8862 | POTENTIAL, in the schools, is used to denote and distinguish a kind of qualities which are supposed to exist in the body in potentia only; that is, to be capable in some measure of affecting and impressing on us the ideas of such qualities, though not actually inherent in themselves. In this sense we say, potential hea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049903-8862 | POTIPHAR, or Putiphar, an officer of the court of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and general of his troops, according to our translation, Le Clerc, and the version of the vulgate; but according to the Hebrew and Septuagint, the chief of his butchers or cooks. The Hebrew text, the Septuagint, and vulgate, call him Eunuch. But ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049904-8862 | POTOMAC, a large river of North America, which forms through its whole course the boundary between the states of Maryland and Virginia. It rises in the Alleghany Mountains, and flowing in a north-easterly direction towards Pennsylvania, it forms a junction with the Shenandoah at Harper’s Ferry, and then makes its celeb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049905-8862 | POTOSI is the name of a department, a province, and a city of Bolivia, in South America. This part of the republic has been celebrated from the earliest times for its metallic wealth. The Cerro de Potosi, where the argentiferous mines are situated, is a conical hill, 16,037 feet in height, and about three leagues in ci... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-049906-8862 | POTSDAM, one of the provinces into which the kingdom of Prussia is divided. It is bounded on the north by the duehies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on the north-east by Pomerania, on the east by Frankfort, on the south by Saxony, on the south-west by the duchy of Anhalt-Dessau, on the west by Prussi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050001-8875 | POTTEN, a market-town of Bedfordshire, in the hundred of Biggleswade, forty-nine miles from London. It is wellbuilt now,havingbeen burned down in 1785, after which for some time the inhabitants lived under tents. It is in a fertile district, and has a good market on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1103, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050002-8875 | POTTER, Christopher, a learned English divine, was born in 1591, and bred at Oxford. In 1633, he published his Answer to a late Popish Plot, entitled Charity Mistaken, which he wrote by special order of Charles I., whose chaplain he was. In 1634, he was promoted to the deanery of Worcester; and, in 1640, was constitute... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050003-8875 | POTTERY and Stone-ware. Under this name may be classed all those wares, from the common butter-pot mentioned by Dr Plot, to the finer kinds of earthen-ware, which, in contradistinction to porcelain, possess neither transparency nor any degree of vitrification, except on the surface after being glazed.
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kp-eb0718-050201-8901 | POULTON, a market-town in the county of Lancaster, and hundred of Amounderness, 235 miles from London. It is on the sea-shore, near the mouth of the river Wye, and communicates by a canal with most of the rivers of the county. It has a market on Monday. The population of the town was, in 1801, 769; in 1810, 926; in 182... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050202-8901 | POULTRY, all kinds of domestic fowls brought up in yards, as cocks, hens, and the like. See Agriculture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050203-8901 | POUND, a standard weight, for the proportion and subdivisions of which, see the article Weights and Measures. Pound also denotes a money of account, so called because the ancient pound of silver weighed a pound troy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050204-8901 | POUNDAGE, a subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, granted to the crown on all goods and merchandises exported or imported; and if by aliens, one penny more. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050205-8901 | POUSSIN, Nicholas, an eminent French painter, born in lo94, at Andel, a little city in Normandy, where his father was of noble extraction, but born to a small estate. Being invited to Paris by Louis XIII., who assigned him a pension and lodgings in the Tnilleries, he painted for Prince Justiniani an historical picture ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050206-8901 | POUTEOU, or Pooroo, a small island off the coast of China, a little to the east of Tehnsan. It is represented as a beautiful spot, containing numerous temples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050207-8901 | POVERTY Bay, on the east coast of New Holland, in the South Pacific Ocean, discovered by Captain Cook in 1769. Long. 181. 36. W. Lat. 38. 42. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050208-8901 | POWALLY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Tinnevelly, twenty miles south-west from Madura. Long. 77. 59. E. Lat. 9. 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050209-8901 | POWANGHUR, a celebrated hill-fort of Hindustan, province of Gujerat. It rises nearly perpendicular to the immense height of six hundred yards, and is inaccessible except on the north side, which is fortified with fine walls. A small rock rises on the summit, on which stands a Hindu temple. It was taken by the British, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050210-8901 | PRACELS, a range of small islands and rocks in the Chinese Sea, about sixty miles to the east of Cochin-China. They are of dangerous navigation, from the currents that run between them. Length, 300 miles; breadth, 60; from long. 110. to 111. E. and lat. 11. 40. to 16. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050211-8901 | PRAEMUNIRE, in English Law, a writ of citation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050212-8901 | PRAENESTE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Latium, to the south-east of Rome, towards the territory of the Aequi. It is a place of great strength, and famous for the temple and oracle of Fortune, called Sortes Praenestinae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050213-8901 | PRAGMATIC SANCTION, in the civil law, is defined by Hottoman to be a rescript or answer of the sovereign, delivered by advice of his council, to some college, order, or body of people, upon consulting him on some case of their community. The like answer given to any particular person is called simply rescript.
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kp-eb0718-050214-8901 | PRAGUE, a city, the capital of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia. It is nearly in the centre of the kingdom, on the river Moldau, which runs to the Elbe on its way to the ocean, and divides the city into two parts. There is over the river one of the finest ancient bridges in Europe, 1800 feet in length, consisting of six... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050301-8914 | PRAAM, a kind of lighter used in Holland and the ports of the Baltic sea, to carry the cargo of a merchant-ship alongside, in order to lade or to bring it to shore to be lodged in the storehouses after being discharged out of the vessel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050302-8914 | PRATINAS, a Greek poet contemporary with Aeschylus,and born at Phlius. He was the first amongst the Greeks who composed satires, which were represented as farces. Of these, thirty-two were acted, as also eighteen of his tragedies, one of which only obtained the poetical prize. Some of his verses are extant, quoted by A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050303-8914 | PRATO, a city of the duchy of Tuscany, in Italy, the capital of a district called a vicarate, of the same name, in the circle of Florence. It stands on the river Bisenzeo. It is surrounded with walls and ditches. It contains some handsome plazas, a theatre, a cathedral, twelve parish and seventeen monastic churches, fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050304-8914 | PRATT, CHARLES, Earl of Camden, was the third son of Sir John Pratt, knight, chief-justice of the Court of King’s-Bench under George I. by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Hugh Wilson, canon of Bangor, and was born in 1713, the year before his father was called to the honour of the bench. He received... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050401-8927 | PRASLIN, an island in the eastern seas, one of the group called the Sechettis. It contains an excellent harbour, well sheltered by small islands from every wind. The interior is lofty, and covered with trees. Long. 55. 47. E. Lat. 4. 19∙ S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050402-8927 | PRATUS ISLES, a cluster of islands, shoals, and large rocks, in the Chinese sea, about 300 miles S.S.E. of Canton. The principal island, called Prata, is surrounded by a very extensive shoal of uncertain extent. They are six leagues in extent from north to south, and stretch three or four leagues to the east. Long. 116... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050403-8927 | PRAXAGORAS, a native of Athens, who, at nineteen years of age composed the History of the Kings of Athens, in two books; and at twenty-two wrote the Life of Constantine the Great, in which, though a pagan, he speaks very advantageously of that prince. He also wrote the History of Alexander the Great. Praxagoras lived u... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050404-8927 | PRAXITELES, a very famous Greek sculptor, who lived 330 years before Christ, during the rcign of Alexander the Great. All the ancient writers mention his statues with high commendation, especially a Venus executed by him for the city of Cnidus, which was so admirable a piece, that Nicoedes offered to release the inhabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050405-8927 | PRAYER, a solemn address to God, which, when it is of any considerable length, consists of adoration, confession, supplication, intercession, and thanksgiving.
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kp-eb0718-050601-8953 | PREADAMITE, a denomination given to the inhabitants of the earth, conceived, by some people, to have lived before Adam.
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kp-eb0718-050602-8953 | PREBEND, the maintenance a prebendary receives out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church. Prebends are distinguished into simple and dignitary. A simple prebend has no more than the revenue for its support; but a prebend with dignity has always a jurisdiction annexed to it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050603-8953 | PREBENDARY, an ecclesiastic who enjoys a prebend. The difference between a prebendary and a canon is, that the former receives his prebend in consideration of his officiating in the church, but the latter merely by his being received into the cathedral or college. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-050604-8953 | PRECEDENCE, a place of honour to Avhich a person is entitled. This is either of courtesy or of right. The former is that which is due to age, estate, or the like, and is regulated by custom and civility; the latter is settled by authority, and when broken in upon, gives an action at laAV.
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kp-eb0718-050701-8966 | PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES.
In the article Astronomy (vol. vi. p. 767), the phenomenon of the annual precession of the equinoxes has been described, and its physical cause stated to be the attraction of the sun and moon upon the protuberant mass of matter accumulated about the earth’s equator, combined with the diurn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051401-9057 | PRECORDIA, in Anatomy, a general name for the parts situated about the heart, in the forepart of the thorax; as the diaphragm, pericardium, and even the heart itself, with the spleen, lungs, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051402-9057 | PREDECESSOR, properly signifies a person who has preceded or gone before another in the same office or employment; in which sense it is distinguished from ancestor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051403-9057 | PREDESTINATION, the supposed decree of God by which he has from all eternity unchangeably appointed whatsoever comesto pass; and has more especially fore-ordained certain individuals of the human race to everlasting happiness, and passed by the rest, fore-ordaining them to everlasting misery. The former of these are ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051601-9083 | PREDETERMINATION, in Philosophy and Theology, is that concurrence of God which makes men act, and determines them in all their actions, both good and evil, and is called by the schoolmen physical predetermination or premotion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051602-9083 | PREDICABLE, amongst logicians, denotes a general quality which may be predicated or asserted of several things. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051603-9083 | PREDICAMENT, amongst logicians, is the same thing with category. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051604-9083 | PREDICATE, in Logic, is that which, in a proposition, is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, snow is white, and ink is not white ; whiteness is the predicate which is affirmed of snow, and denied of ink. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051605-9083 | PREETZ, a town of the Danish dimensions, in Holstein, situated on a lake connected with the Baltic sea. It has a very extensive and rich monastic institution, with some valuable estates belonging to it, though many have been secularised. It is, however, the richest Protestant institution remaining of that kind. The tow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051606-9083 | PRE-EXISTENCE, a priority of being, or the being of one thing before another. Thus a cause, if not in time, is yet in nature pre-existent to its effect. Thus God is preexistent to the universe, and a human father is pre-existent to his son. The Peripatetics, though they maintained [7:18:517] the eternity of the world, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051701-9096 | PREFACE, something introductory to a book, to inform the reader of the design and method observed therein, and generally whatever is necessary to the understanding of a work.
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kp-eb0718-051801-9109 | PREFECT, in ancient Rome, one of the chief magistrates who governed in the absence of the kings, consuls, and emperors.
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kp-eb0718-051802-9109 | PREJUDICE, or Prejudgment, from prae and judicium, means a judgment formed beforehand, without examination; the preposition prae expressing an anticipation, not so much of time as of knowledge and due attention; and hence the schoolmen have called it anticipation and & preconceived opinion. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051803-9109 | PRELATE, an ecclesiastic raised to some eminent and superior dignity in the church; as bishops, archbishops, and patriarchs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051804-9109 | PRELIMINARY, in general, denotes something to be examined and determined before an affair can be treated of on its own merits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051805-9109 | PRELUDE, in Music, is usually a flourish or irregular air,’which a musician plays offhand, to try if his instrument be in tune, and to lead him into the piece to be played. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051806-9109 | PREMISES, in Logic, an appellation given to the two first propositions of a syllogism. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051807-9109 | PREMIUM, or Praemium, properly signifies a reward or recompense; but it is chiefly used in a mercantile sense for the sum of money given to an insurer, whether of ships, houses, lives, or other subjects. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051808-9109 | PREMONSTRANTES, or Praemonstrantenses, a religious order of regular canons instituted in 1120, by St. Norbert, and thence called Norbertines. The first monastery of this order was built by Norbert in the Isle of France, three leagues to the west of Laon, which he called Prae-monstratum ; and hence the order itself deri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051809-9109 | PRENOMEN, Praenomen, amongst the ancient Romans, a name prefixed to the family name, and answering to our Christian name; such as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051810-9109 | PRENZLOW, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Potsdam in Prussia. It is situated on the river Ucker, and on the north bank of the lake Un-teruck. It contains seven Protestant churches, and an institution for education, with nine professors, several hospitals and poor-houses, about nine ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051811-9109 | PREPARATION, in a general sense, the act of disposing things in such a manner as to render any foreseen event more advantageous or less hurtful according to its nature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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