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kp-eb0718-051812-9109 | PREPOSITION, in Grammar, is one of the parts of speech, being an indeclinable particle which yet serves to govern the nouns that follow it; such as per, pro,propter, through, for, with. Buffier allows it to be only a modificative of a part of speech, serving to circumstantiate a noun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051813-9109 | PRERAU, a city of the Austrian province of Moravia, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 1254 square miles. It comprehends 31 cities and towns, 393 villages, and 54,000 families, consisting of 267,600 persons. The city is situated on the river Betschwa, has a fortress on a neighbouring hill, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-051814-9109 | PREROGATIVE, an exclusive or peculiar privilege.
Royal Prerogative, that special pre-eminence which the king has over and above all other persons, and out of the ordinary course of the common law, in right of his regal dignity. It signifies in its etymology (from prae and rogo) something that is required or demanded b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052301-9174 | PRESAGE, in Antiquity, denotes an augury, or sign of some future event; which was chiefly taken from the flight of birds, the entrails of victims, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052302-9174 | PRESBURG, a city of the Austrian province of Hither Danube in Hungary, the capital of the circle of the same name, which is more fertile than extensive, and contains about 260,000 inhabitants, in 5 cities, 23 market towns, and 292 villages. The city is on the Danube over which is a long bridge. It is the place in which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052303-9174 | PRESBYTAE, persons whose eyes are too flat to refract the rays sufficiently, so that unless the object is at some distance, the rays coming from it will pass through the retina before their union, consequently vision is confused; old people are usually the subjects of this disease. In order to remedy, or at least to pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052304-9174 | PRESBYTER, in the primitive Christian church, an elder, one belonging to the second order of ecclesiastics; the other two being bishops and deacons.
Presbyter, or elder, is a word borrowed from the Greek translation of the Old Testament, where it commonly signifies ruler or governor; it being a note of office and dign... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052305-9174 | PRESBYTERIANS, Protestants, so called from their maintaining that the government of the church appointed in the New Testament was by presbyteries, that is, by associations of presbyters or elders, all possessed of equal powers, without any superiority among them either in office or in order.
The presbyterians believe,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052701-9226 | PRESCIENCE, in Theology, prevision or foreknowledge; that knowledge which God has of things to come. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052702-9226 | PRESCOT, a market-town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundred of West Derby, 198 miles from London, and eight from Liverpool. It is a manufacturing place for making watches, and various kinds of cotton goods. The church is a fine structure, and has a steeple of most elegant appearance, 156 feet high. There is a goo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052703-9226 | PRESCRIPTION, in Law, denotes a particular mode of establishing a Right or Title.
Prescription, in Medicine, signifies much the same with what in common language is called a receipt, being a form of direction for the preparation and administration of some compound medicine. These medical receipts are commonly called f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052704-9226 | PRESENCE, a term of relation, used in opposition to absence, and signifying the existence of a person in a certain place.
Present Tense, in Grammar, the first tense of a verb, expressing the present time, or that something is now performing; as scribo, I write, or am writing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052705-9226 | PRESENTATION, in ecclesiastical law. Sec Patronage. Presentation of the Virgin, is a feast of the Catholic church, celebrated on the 21st of November, in memory of the blessed Virgin being presented by her parents in the temple, to be there educated. Emanuel Comnenns, who began to reign in 1143, makes mention of this f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052801-9239 | PRESIDENT, Praeses, is an officer, created or elected to preside over a company or assembly, and is so called in contradistinction to the other members, who are termed residents. Lord President of tπe Council, is a great officer of the crown, who has precedence next after the lord chancellor and the lord treasurer. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052802-9239 | PRESS, in the mechanical arts, is a machine made of iron or wood, and serving to squeeze or compress any body.
The ordinary presses consist of six members, or pieces, viz. two flat smooth planks, between which the things to be pressed are laid; two screws, or worms, fastened to the lower plank, and passing through two... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052803-9239 | PRESSING, in manufactures, is the violently squeezing a cloth, piece of stuff, or other article, to render it smooth and glossy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052804-9239 | PRESTEIGN, a market-town of the county of Radnor, in South Wales. It is the county town, in which the assizes are held, being 151 miles from London, and 14 from Leominster, and is situated in a rich vale on the river Lug. The county jail is a fine building, and around the town are some pleasant walksand picturesque vie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052805-9239 | PRESTER JOHN, an appellation formerly given to an emperor of the Tartars, who was overcome and killed by Genghiz Khan. Since that time it has been applied to the Emperor of Abyssinia or Ethiopia; but in Ethiopia itself this name is utterly unknown.
Prester, a meteor, consisting of an exhalation thrown downwards from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052806-9239 | PRESTO, in the Italian music, intimates to perform quickly; and hence, prestissimo denotes extreme quickness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052807-9239 | PRESTON, a town of the county of Lancaster, in the hundredofAmounderness,2l6milesfrom London. Itissitu-ated on the river Ribble, and is a corporate place, governed by a mayor, recorder, twelve aidermen, and thirty-six common councilmen; for which purpose it is now divided into six wards, and returns tvyo members to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052901-9252 | PRESTONPANS, a parish and town of Scotland, in Haddingtonshire, about eight miles east from Edinburgh. It has considerable salt-works and manufactures of earthenware, bricks, tiles, &c. It was in the fields to the south of the village that in 1745 Prince Charles Edward defeated the King’s troops, under Sir John Cope. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052902-9252 | PRESTWICH, a township of the hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, 184 miles from London, and four from Manchester. It is inhabited chiefly by cotton manufacturers. The population amounted in 1801 to 1811; in 1811 to 2175; in 1821 to 2724; and in 1831 to 2941. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052903-9252 | PRETERITE, in Grammar, a tense which expresses the time just past, or an action now completely finished, as scripsi, 1 have written, or just finished the act of writing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052904-9252 | PRETERITION, or Pretermission, in Rhetoric, is a figure by which, in pretending to pass over a thing untouched, summary mention is nevertheless made of it. Thus, I will not say he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. The most artful praises are those given by way of preterition. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052905-9252 | PRETEXT, a colour or motive, whether real or feigned, for doing something.
Toga PRETEXTA, amongst the ancient Romans, a long white gown, with a border of purple round the edges. It was worn by children of quality till the age of puberty; that is, by the boys till the age of seventeen, when they changed it for the toga... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052906-9252 | PRETOR, or Praetor, a magistrate amongst the ancient Romans, not unlike our Lord Chief-Justice, or Lord Chancellor, or both in one, being vested with the power of distributing justice amongst the citizens. At first there was only one praetor; but afterwards, another being created, the first or chief one had the title o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052907-9252 | PRETORIAN Guards, in Roman antiquity, were the guards of the Emperor, who were at length increased to ten thousand. They received this denomination, according to some, from their being stationed at a place called \X\c.praeto-riumς and their commander was styled praefcctus praetorii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052908-9252 | PRETORIUM, or Praetorium, amongst the Romans, denoted the hall or court in which the praetor lived, and wherein also he administered justice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052909-9252 | PRIAM, King of Troy, was the son of Laomedon. He was carried into Greece after the taking of that city by Hercules; but was afterwards ransomed, upon which he obtained the name of Priam, a Greek word signifying “ransomed.” After his return he rebuilt Ilium, and extended the bounds of the kingdom of Troy, which under hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052910-9252 | PRIAMAN, a town on the south-west coast of Sumatra. In 1685 this was the chief settlement of the East India Company on the island. Long. 99- 43. E. Lat. 0. 36. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052911-9252 | PRIAPUS, in Pagan worship, the son of Bacchus and Venus, who presided over gardens and the most indecent exhibitions. He was particularly adored at Lampsacus, a city at the mouth of the Hellespont, said to have been the place of his birth; and his image was placed in gardens to defend them from thieves and birds destru... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-052912-9252 | PRICE, Richard, D.D. and LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of the Academy of Sciences, New England, was born at Tynton, in Glamorganshire, on the 22d of February 1723. His father was a dissenting minister at Bridgend, in that county, and died in I739. At eight years of age he was placed under a Mr. Simm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053001-9265 | PRIDE, a term indicating inordinate and unreasonable self-esteem, attended with insolence and rude treatment of others. It is frequently confounded with vanity, and some times with dignity; but to the former passion it has no resemblance, and in many circumstances it differs from the latter. Vanity is the parent of loq... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053002-9265 | PRIDEAUX, Humphry, a very learned clergyman of the Church of England, was born at Padstow, in Cornwall, in 1648. He studied three years at Westminster under Dr. Busby, and was then removed to Christ Church, Oxford. Here, in 1676, he published his Marmora Oxonensia ex Arundelianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata, cum pe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053101-9278 | PRIEST, a person set apart for the performance of sacrifice, and other offices and ceremonies of religion. Before the promulgation of the law of Moses, the first-born of every family, the fathers, the princes, and the kings, were priests. Thus Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedec, Job, Isaac, and Jacob, offered th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053102-9278 | PRIESTLEY, Joseph, LL.D.and F. R. S.,a natural phi losopher and theologian, was born upon the 24th of March 1 773, at Field-head, in the parish of Bristall, in the west riding of Yorkshire. His father was a cloth-manufacturer, and both his parents were respectable Calvinistic dissenters. A strong desire of reading was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053301-9304 | PRIMAE viae, amongst physicians, denote the whole alimentary ducts; including the oesophagus, stomach, and intestines, with their appendages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053302-9304 | PRIMARY, first in dignity, chief or principal.
Primary Qualities of Bodies. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053303-9304 | PRIMATE, in church polity, an archbishop, who is invested with a jurisdiction over other bishops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053304-9304 | PRIME, Primus, an appellation given to whatever is first in order, degree, or dignity, amongst several things of the same or a similar kind. Thus we say, the prime minister, prime cost, and so of others.
Prime is sometimes used to denote the same with decimal, or the tenth part of an unit.
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kp-eb0718-053305-9304 | PRIMER seisin, in feudal law, was a feudal burden, only incident to the king’s tenants in capite, and not to those who held of inferior pr mesne lords. It was a right which the king had, when any of his tenants in capite died seized of a knight’s fee, to receive of the heir, provided he were of full age, one whole year... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053306-9304 | PRIMING, in Gunnery, the train of powder that is laid from the opening of the vent along the gutter or channel on the upper part of the breech of the gun, which, when fired, conveys the flame to the vent, by which it is further communicated to the charge, in order to discharge the piece. This operation is only used on ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053307-9304 | PRIMIPILUS, in Antiquity, the centurion of the first cohort of a legion, who had the charge of the Roman eagle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053308-9304 | PRIMITIAE, the first-fruits gathered off the earth, and of which the ancients made presents to the gods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053309-9304 | PRIMITIVE, in Grammar, is a root or original word in a language, in contradistinction to derivative. Thus, God is a primitive; godly, a derivative; and god-like, a compound. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053310-9304 | PRIMOGENITURE, or the right of the first-born, has amongst most nations been very considerable. The firstborn son, in the patriarchal ages, had a superioritv over his brethren, and, in the absence of his father, was the priest of the family. Amongst the Jews, he was consecrated to the Lord, had a double portion of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053401-9317 | PRIMUM mobile, in the Ptolemaic astronomy, the ninth or highest sphere of the heavens, the centre of which is that of the world, and in comparison with which the earth is but a point. This is supposed to contain within it all other spheres, and to give them motion, turning them quite round, as well as revolving itself,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053402-9317 | PRINCE, Princeps, in polity, a person invested with the supreme command of a state, and independent of any superior.
Prince likewise denotes a person who is a sovereign in his own territories, yet holds of some other as his superior. Such are the princes of Germany, who, though absolute in their respective principalit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053501-9330 | PRINCIPAL, the chief andmostnecessarypart of athing. The principal of a college or hall is the master thereof.
In commerce, principal is the capital of a sum due or lent, and is so called in opposition to interest. It also denotes the first fund put by partners into a common stock, by which it is distinguished from th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053601-9343 | PRINCIPLE, in science, is a truth, admitted without proof, from which other truths are inferred by a chain of reasoning. Principles are of two kinds, primary and general; and to the latter the name of axioms is sometimes given, on account of their importance and dignity. An axiom, or general principle, when the terms i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053602-9343 | PRINGLE, Sir John, an eminent physician and philosopher, was a younger son of Sir John Pringle of Stitchel, in the shire of Roxburgh, baronet. He took the degree of doctor of physic at Leyden, in 1730, and published there his Dissertatio lnauguralis. After having been some years professor of moral philosophy at Edinbur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053603-9343 | PRINKIPO, the largest and most easterly of the Prince’s islands. They are situated in the bay of Marmora, about a league distant from the coast of Asia Minor. It is abouta mile in length and half a mile in breadth, and contains what was formerly a considerable and well-built town, but which is now in a ruinous conditio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-053701-9356 | PRINTING.
Printing is the art of taking one or more impressions from the same surface, whereby characters and signs, east, engraven, drawn, or otherwise represented thereon, are caused to present their reverse images upon paper, vellum, parchment, linen, and other substances, in pigments of various hues, or by means o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-057301-9824 | PRINTS, the impression taken from a copperplate engraved. See Engraving. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-057302-9824 | PRIOR, in general, something before or nearer the beginning than another with which it is compared.
Prior more particularly denotes the superior of a convent of monks, or the next under the abbot.
Grand Prior is the superior of a large abbey, where several heads are required.
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kp-eb0718-057303-9824 | PRIORIES, Alien, were cells of the religious houses in England which belonged to foreign monasteries. When manors or tithes were given to foreign convents, the monks, either to increase their own rule, or rather to have faithful stewards of their revenues, built a small convent here for the reception of such a number a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-057304-9824 | PRISCIANUS, one of the most celebrated of the ancient grammarians, was surnamed Caesariensis, either because he was born at Caesarea, or had received his education there. He flourished in the reign of Justin (a. d. 518-527), and was a contemporary of the philosopher Boethius, and of Cassiodorus, the minister of Theodor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-057305-9824 | PRISM, in Geometry, is a solid body, the two ends of which are any plane figures which are parallel, equal, and similar; and its sides, connecting those ends, are parallelograms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-057306-9824 | PRISMOID is a solid body, somewhat resembling a prism, but its ends are any dissimilar parallel plane figures of the same number of sides, the upright sides being trapezoids. If th(* ends of the prismoid be bounded by dissimilar curves, it is sometimes called a cylindroid.
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kp-eb0718-057401-9837 | PRISONS.
The arrangements necessary to adapt prisons to the ends for which they are designed seem to require little more than the exercise of practical good sense; and yet the manner in which the practice of the world blunders on from one absurdity, and very often from one atrocity to another, shows pretty distinctly,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-059001-0045 | PRISTINA, a city of Turkey in Europe, in the province of Beldschterin. It is strongly fortified, is the seat of a Greek archbishop, and the principal market of an extensive district. It contains 2000 houses and 10,000 inhabitants; and is the centre of one of the greatest mining ports of Turkey, abounding in iron ore, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-059002-0045 | PRITTELWELL, a town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Rochford. It is situated about one mile from the north bank of the Thames, near Southend. The population amounted in 1821 to 1922, and in 1831 to 2266. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-059003-0045 | PRIVAS, an arrondissement in the department of the Ardèche, in France, extending over 710 square miles. It comprehends ten cantons, divided into 107 communes, and 90,640 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name the seat of the boards of the departmental government, and of the courts of law. It contains 520... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-059004-0045 | PRIVATEERS are a kind of men-of-war, fitted out and provided with military stores by private individuals; and the persons concerned, instead of pay, are permitted to retain their captures, allowing the admiral his share.
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kp-eb0718-059005-0045 | PRIVATIVE, in Grammar, a particle, which, prefixed to a word, changes it into a contrary sense. Thus, among the Greeks, the α is used as a privative; as in α-0εος, atheist, acephalus, and the like.
PRIVY-Council. The king’s will is the sole consti tuent of a privy-counsellor; and it also regulates their number, which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-059006-0045 | PRIZE, or Prise, in maritime affairs, a vessel taken at sea from the enemies of a state, or from pirates; and that either by a man-of-war, a privateer, or other, having a commission for that purpose.
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kp-eb0718-059101-0058 | PROBABILITY.
The doctrine of probability is an extensive and very important branch of mathematical science, the object of which is to reduce to calculation the reasons which we have for believing or expecting any contingent event, or for assenting to any conclusion which is not necessarily true. When it is considered ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064001-0695 | PROBATE of a will or testament, in Law, is the exhibiting and proving of last wills and testaments before the ecclesiastical judge delegated by the bishop, who is ordinary of the place whère the party died. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064002-0695 | PROBATION, in the universities, is the examination and trial of a student who is about to take his degreĕs'. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064003-0695 | PROBATIONER, in the Church of S’cotland, a student in divinity, who, upon bringing certain certificates and testimonials, is admitted to undergo several trials; and, on his acquitting himself properly in these, is provided with a license to preach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064004-0695 | PROBLEM, in Logic, is a proposition that appears neither absolutely true nor absolutely false; and, consequently» may be asserted either in the affirmative or negative.
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kp-eb0718-064005-0695 | PROBOLINGO, the capital of a district of Java, occupied by a native of China, who purchased it from the former government. He was called the China Major, and on the 18th of June 1813, was unfortunately murdered along with two British officers, Colonel Fraser of the 78th Regiment, and Captain Macpherson, who, on their w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064006-0695 | PROBY’S ISLAND, a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, so called by Capt∕m Edwards in 1791 ∙ The natives call it Onoo-afou. Long. 175. 51. W. Lat. 15. 53. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 53' S 175 51' W | PROBY’S ISLAND |
kp-eb0718-064007-0695 | PROCESS, in Law, denotes the proceedings in any cause, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the original writ to the conclusion of the suit.
Process, in Chemistry, the’whole course of an experiment or series of operations, tending to produce something new.
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kp-eb0718-064008-0695 | PROCESSION, a ceremony in the Catholic church, consisting of a formal march of the clergy and people, putting up prayers, and in this manner visiting some church, or other holy place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064009-0695 | PROCLAMATION, a public notice given of anything of which the king thinks proper to advertise his subjects.
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kp-eb0718-064010-0695 | PROCLUS, surnamed Diadocus, a Greek philosopher and mathematician,was born in Lycia, and lived about the year 500. He was the disciple of Syrianus; and the friend of the Emperor Anastasius. It is said, that when Vitalian laid siege to Constantinople, Proclus burned his ships with large brazen specula. This philosopher ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064011-0695 | PROCONSUL, a Roman magistrate, sent to govern a province with consular authority.
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kp-eb0718-064012-0695 | PROCOPIUS, a Greek historian, born in Caesarea. He acquired great reputation by his works in the reign of Justinian, and was secretary to Belisarius during all the wars carried oh by that general in Persia, Africa, and Italy. Having at length became senator, he obtained the title of illustrious, and was made praetor of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064013-0695 | PROCTOR, a person commissioned to manage another person’s cause in any court of the civil or ecclesiastical law.
Proctor, in the English universities. See Universities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064014-0695 | PROCURATION, an act or instrument by which one person is empowered to treat, transact, or receive, in the name of another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064015-0695 | PROCYON, in Astronomy, a fixed star of the second magnitude, situated in canis minor, or the little dog. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064016-0695 | PRODICUS, a celebrated sophist, was a native of Julis in the island of Ceos, and flourished about b c.432. He was the contemporary of Democritus of Abdera, and Gorgias of Leontium, and he Was the disciple of Protagoras, whom he rivalled in eloquence. His talents were so highly appreciated by his fellow-citizens, that h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064017-0695 | PRODUCT, in Arithmetic and Geometry, the factum of two or more numbers, or lines, into one another. Thus 5 X 4=20, the product required. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064018-0695 | PROEDRI, amongst the Athenians, were magistrates, who had the first seats in the public assemblies, and whose office it was to propose at each assembly the things to be deliberated on and determined. Their office always ended with the meeting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064019-0695 | PROFESSOR, in the universities, a person who teaches or reads public lectures in some art or science. See Universities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064020-0695 | PROFILE, in Architecture, the draught of a building, fortification, or other structure, in which are expressed the several heights, widths, and thicknesses, such as they would appear were the building cut down perpendicularly from the roof to the foundation.
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kp-eb0718-064021-0695 | PROGRAMMA, anciently signified a letter sealed with the king’s seal. Programma is also an university term for a billet issued by way of invitation to an oration, and containing the argument, or as much of it as is necessary for understanding the same. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064022-0695 | PROGRESSION, in general, denotes a regular advancing, or going forwards, in the same course or manner.
Progression, in Mathematics, is either arithmetical or geometrical. Continued arithmetical proportion is, where the terms increase and decrease by equal differences, and is called arithmetical progression. Geometrica... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-064101-0708 | PROJECTILES.
The term Projectiles is applied to that part of mechanical philosophy which treats of the motion of bodies anyhow projected from the surface of the earth, and influenced by the action of terrestrial gravity.
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kp-eb0718-065601-0903 | PROJECTION. Projection of the Sphere in Astronomy and Geography signifies in general a perspective representation of the surface of the sphere on a plane; and it is of various kinds according to the different positions of the eye and the plane of projection.
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kp-eb0718-065801-0929 | PROJECTION, in Perspective, denotes the appearance or representation of an object on the perspective plane. The projection of a point is a point through which an optic ray passes from the objective point through the plane to the eye; or it is the point in which the plane cuts the optic ray; and hence may be easily conc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065802-0929 | PROJECTURE, in Architecture, the cutjetting and prominence, or embossing, which the mouldings and other members have beyond the naked wall, column, or other part of the building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065803-0929 | PROLAPSUS, in Surgery, a prolapsion or falling out of any part of the body from its natural situation. Thus we say, prolapsus intestini, a prolapsion of the intestine, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065804-0929 | PROLATE, in Geometry, an epithet applied to a spheroid produced by the revolution of a semi-ellipsis about its larger diameter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065805-0929 | PROLATION, a musical term signifying a series of notes, ascending or descending, which are to be sung to one syllable. Anciently the word had a different musical meaning. Thus Morley, in his Introduction, page 14, tells us that prolation is the measuring of semibreves by minims, and is either greater or less. The great... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065806-0929 | PROLEGOMENA, in Philology, certain preparatory observations prefixed to a book or treatise, and containing something necessary for the reader to be apprised of, to enable him the better to understand the book, or to enter deeper into the science. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065807-0929 | PROLEPSIS, a figure in Rhetoric, by which we anticipate or prevent what might be objected by the adversary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065808-0929 | PROLEPTIC, an epithet applied to a periodical disease which anticipates, or whose paroxysm returns sooner and sooner every time; as is frequently the case in agues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065809-0929 | PROLOGUE, in dramatic poetry, a discourse addressed to the audience before the drama or play begins. The original intention was to advertise the audience of the subject of the piece, and to prepare them to enter more easily into the action, and sometimes also to make an apology for the poet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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