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kp-eb0718-065810-0929 | PROME, a city of the Birman empire, in the province of Ava, situated on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy River, in a fertile plain between the hills and the river. It was the original and natural boundary of the Birman empire to the south, before conquest had extended its dominion beyond it. It was formerly surrounded... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065811-0929 | PROMETHEUS, the son of Japetus and Asia or Clymene, was the brother of Atlas, Epimetheus, and Menoctius. He was a prince of Mecone (the ancient name of Sicyon in the Peloponnesus), if we may trust the legend told by Hesiod. It is said that the inhabitants were debating with the gods which part of the animal ought to be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065901-0942 | PROMISE, in ordinary cases, is a declaration of some intention to be put in execution; but in morals it is a solemn asseveration by which one pledges his veracity that he will perform,.or cause to be performed, the thing which he undertakes. As such a declaration excites expectations in the minds of those to whom it is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065902-0942 | PROMONTORY, in Geography, a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea, and the extremity of which is called a cape or headland. See Geography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065903-0942 | PROMPTER, in the drama, an officer posted behind the scenes, whose business it is to watch attentively the actors speaking on the stage, in order to suggest and put them forward when at a stand, and correct them when at fault in their parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065904-0942 | PROMULGATED, or Promulged, something published or proclaimed, and generally applied to a law, to denote the publishing or proclaiming it to the people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065905-0942 | PRONAOS, in ancient architecture, a porch to a church, palace, or other spacious building. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065906-0942 | PRONOUN, Pronomen, in Grammar, a declinable part of speech, which, being put instead of a noun, points out some person or thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065907-0942 | PRONUNCIATION, in Grammar, the manner of articulating or sounding the words of a language.
Pronunciation forms the most difficult part of written grammar, in as much as a book expressing itself to the eyes, in a manner that wholly concerns the ears, seems next akin to that of teaching the blind to distinguish colours.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065908-0942 | PROOF, in Law and Logic, is that degree of evidence which carries conviction to the mind. It differs from demonstration, which is applicable only to those truths of which the contrary is inconceivable. It differs likewise from probability, which produces for the most part nothing more than opinion, whilst proof produce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065909-0942 | PROPERTIUS, Sextus Aurelius, a celebrated elegiac poet, who flourished between 31-15 b. c. The exact date of his birth is uncertain; but Mr Clinton brings forward satisfactory reasons for believing that it was about the year 51 b. c. , being thus fourteen years younger than Horace, and eight younger than Livy. The plac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-065910-0942 | PROPERTY, in a general sense, is a particular virtue or quality which nature has bestowed upon some things exclusive of all others. Thus, colour is a property of light; extension, figure, divisibility, and impenetrability, are properties of body.
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kp-eb0718-066301-0994 | PROPHECY is a word derived from πvοφnitia, and in its original import signifies the prediction of future events. As God alone can perceive with certainty the future actions of free agents, and the remote consequences of those laws of nature which he himself established, prophecy, when clearly fulfilled, affords the mos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066302-0994 | PROPHET, in general, a person who foretells future events; but it is particularly applied to such inspired persons amongst the Jews as were commissioned by God to declare his will and purposes to that people. Amongst the canonical books of the Old Testament we have the writings of sixteen prophets, four of whom are den... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066303-0994 | PROPITIATION, in Theology, is a sacrifice offered up to God to assuage his wrath and render him propitious. Amongst the Jews there are both ordinary and public sacrifices, as holocausts, and the like, offered by way of thanksgiving; and extraordinary ones, offered by particular persons guilty of any crime, by way of pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066304-0994 | PROPONTIS, or Sea of Marmora, a part of the Mediterranean, dividing Europe from Asia. It has the Hellespont, or Canal of the Dardanelles, to the south-west, whereby it communicates with the Archipelago, and the ancient Bosphorus of Thrace, or Strait of Constantinople, to the north-east, communicating with the Black or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066305-0994 | PROPORTION, the identity or similitude of two ratios. Hence quantities that have the same ratio between them are said to be proportional. Thus, if A be to B as C to D, or 8 be to 4 as 30 to 15; A, B, C, D, and 8, 4, 30, and 15, are said to be in proportion, or are simply called proportionals. Proportion is frequently c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066306-0994 | PROPORTIONAL, relating to proportion. Thus we say, proportional compasses, parts, scales, spirals, and the like.
Proportionals, in Geometry, are quantities, either linear or numeral, which bear the same ratio or relation to each other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066307-0994 | PROPOSITION, in Logic, part of an argument, in which some quality, either negative or positive, is attributed to a subject.
Proposition, in Mathematics, is either some truth advanced and shown to be such by demonstration, or some [7:18:664] operation proposed and its solution explained. If the proposition be deduced f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066401-1007 | PROPREFECT, amongst the Romans, the prefect’s lieutenant, or an officer whom the prefect of the praetorium commissioned to do part of his duty in his stead. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066402-1007 | PROPRETOR, or Propraetor, a Roman magistrate, who, having discharged the office of praetor at home, was sent, into a province to command there with his former praetorial authority. It was also an appellation given to those who, without having been praetors at Rome, were sent extraordinarily into the provinces to admini... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066403-1007 | PRO RATA, in commerce, a term sometimes used by merchants for in proportion ; as, each person must reap the profit or sustain the loss pro rata to his interest, that is, in proportion to his stock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066404-1007 | PROROGATION, the act of prolonging, or adjourning, or putting off to another time. The difference between a prorogation and an adjournment of parliament is, that by prorogation the session is ended, and such bills as passed in either house, or both houses, and had not the royal assent, must at the next assembly begin a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066405-1007 | PROSE, the natural language of mankind, loose and unconfined by poetical measures or restraints; and in this sense it stands opposed to verse. The word prose comes from the Latin prosa, which some have derived from the Hebrew ρoras, which signifies expendit ; whilst others deduce it from the Latin prorsa, of prorsus, g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066406-1007 | PROSERPINE, in fabulous, history, the daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, who was carried off by Pluto as she was gathering flowers with her companions. Ceres, disconsolate for the loss of her daughter, after having long sought her, heard where she was, and entreated Jupiter to permit her to return from hell. This request J... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066407-1007 | PROSEUCHE, . in Antiquity, properly signifies prayer ; but it is taken for the places of prayer of the Jews, and was pretty nearly the same as their synagogues. But the synagogues ' were originally in the cities, and were covered places; whereas, for the most part, the proseuches were out of ⅛e cities, and on the banks... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066408-1007 | PROSLAMBANOMENOS (Greek, τrgοσ ∖ αμβανομεwς, the term τtgο<s ∖ αμβανομενη being found as an exception in Bryennius only) signifies a lower string (χogδη) or sound (<ρΑγγος) added to what was previously the lowest sound of the ancient Greek system of conjunct and disjunct tetrachords. For example, to the sounds BCDE, EF... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066409-1007 | PROSODY, that part of grammar which treats of the quantities and accents of syllables, and the manner of making verses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066410-1007 | PROSOPOPOEIA, a figure in oratory, by which we raise qualities of things inanimate into persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066411-1007 | PROSTYLE, in Architecture, means a range of columns in the front of a temple. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066412-1007 | PROSZNITZ, a city of the Austrian province of Moravia, in the circle of Olmutz. It is the capital of the principality of Lichtenstein, being situated on the river Rumza, in a fertile district, and contains 540 houses, with 8500 inhabitants, who are occupied in extensive distilleries, and in making woollen goods of a fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066413-1007 | PROTAGORAS, a celebrated sophist of Abdera,*was the son of Artemon or Maeandrios, and flourished 444 b. c. His poverty had compelled him to adopt the humble trade of a wood-carrier, when some circumstance attracted the notice of his countryman Democritus, and he was admitted as one of his pupils. After he had profited ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066501-1020 | PROTASIS, in the ancient drama, the first part of a comic or tragic piece, in which the several persons arc announced, their characters intimated, and the subject of the piece proposed and entered upon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066502-1020 | PROTESTANT, a name first given in Germany to those who adhered to the doctrine of Luther, because, in 1529, they protested against a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, declaring that they appealed to a general council. The same name has now become a common denomination for all those of the reforme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066503-1020 | PROTHONOTARY, a term which properly signifies first notary, and which was anciently the title of the principal notaries of the emperors of Constantinople.
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kp-eb0718-066504-1020 | PROTO, a Greek term, frequently used in composition, and signifying priority. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066505-1020 | PROTOGENES, a celebrated painter, was a native of Xanthus, in Caria, and flourished 330 b. c. , in the time of Alexander the Great, being the contemporary of Apelles. Protogenes lived principally in Rhodes, where he was held in little honour by his neighbours, until Apelles paid him a visit, and declared that Protogene... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066506-1020 | PROTOTYPE is the original or model after which a thing has been formed; but it is chiefly used for the patterns of things to be engraved, east, or sculptured. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066507-1020 | PROTRACTOR, an instrument for laying down and measuring, with accuracy and despatch, angles upon paper, and by which the use of the line of chords is superseded. This instrument is variously formed, and constructed of different materials; and it is necessary in laying down those surveys or other plans where angles are ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066508-1020 | PROVEDITOR, an officer in several parts of Italy, particularly at Venice, who has the direction of matters relating to policy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066509-1020 | PROVENCE, a province or government of France, bounded by Dauphiné on the north, by Piedmont on the east, by the Mediterranean on the south, and by the river Rhone, which separates it from Languedoc, on the west. It is about 100 miles in length, and nearly as many in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066510-1020 | PROVENDER originally signified a kind of vessel containing the measure of corn daily given to a horse, or other beast of labour, for his subsistence; but it is now generally used to signify the food for cattle, whatever it may consist of. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066511-1020 | PROVERB, according to Camden, is a concise, witty, and wise speech, grounded upon experience, and for the most part containing some useful instruction.
Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a part of the proverbs of Solomon the son of David king of Israel. The first twenty-four chapters a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066512-1020 | PROVIDENCE, the superintendent care which God exercises over creation, material and spiritual.
That there exists a divine providence which attends to the affairs of this world, and directs their course, has been a received opinion amongst the human race in every country and in every period of history. Every altar that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066901-1072 | PROVIDENTIAL Channel lies between some shoals in the South Pacific Ocean, through which the Endeavour passed, near the north-east coast of New Holland. Long. 137. 50. E. Lat. 5. 38. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066902-1072 | PROVINCE, in Geography, a division of a kingdom or state, comprising several cities, towns, and districts, all under the same government, and usually distinguished by the extent either of the civil or the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
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kp-eb0718-066903-1072 | PROVINCIAL, something relating to a province. It also denotes, in Catholic countries, a person who has the direction of the conventual establishments of a province. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066904-1072 | PROVINS, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Marne, in France. It extends over 486 square miles, is divided into five cantons and IQ6 communes, and contains 48,500 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Bouzie. It is well built, and ornamented by good promenades; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066905-1072 | PROVOST of a city or town, is a name applied to the chief municipal magistrate in corporate towns or cities. He presides in civic courts, and, with the bailies, who are his deputies, determines in all differences that arise amongst citizens.
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kp-eb0718-066906-1072 | PROW, the head or fore-part of a ship, particularly in a galley, being that which is opposite to the poop or stern. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066907-1072 | PROXIMITY denotes the relation of nearness, whether in respect of place, of blood, or of alliance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066908-1072 | PRUDENCE, in Ethics, may be defined an ability of judging what is best, in the choice both of ends and of means. According to the definition of the Roman moralist (De Officiis, lib. i. cap. 43), prudence is the knowledge of what is to be desired or avoided. Accordingly, he takes prudentia to be a contraction of provide... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066909-1072 | PRUDENTIUS, or Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a famous Christian poet, who flourished under the reign of Theodosius the Great. Born in Spain in the year 348, he first followed the profession of advocate, was afterwards a judge, then a soldier, and at length had an honourable employment at court. A great number of his poe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-066910-1072 | PRUNING, in Gardening and Agriculture, is lopping off the superfluous branches of trees, to make them bear better fruit, grow higher, or appear more regular.
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kp-eb0718-067001-1085 | PRUSSIA.
Prussia, formerly a duehy, but now a powerful and extensive kingdom of the second rank, was formed on the ancient electoral possessions as a nucleus, by means of successive territorial acquisitions, particularly in Poland, in Westphalia, and on the Rhine. The name is supposed by some to have been derived from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070101-1488 | PRUYM, a city of Prussia, of the province of>the Lower Rhine, and government of Trêves. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, which extendsover 398 square miles, and comprehends three townsand 156 villages, with 23,500 inhabitants. It was once the capital of a principality, now mediatized, and contains 380 ho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070102-1488 | PRYNNE, William, an English lawyer, distinguished in the civil commotions under Charles I., was born at Swains-wick, in Somersetshire, in 1600. His Histriomastix, written against stage-plays in 1632, contained some reflections which offended the court, and he was in consequence sentenced by the Star-chamber to pay a fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070103-1488 | PRYTANES, in Grecian antiquity, were the presidents of the senate, whose authority consisted chiefly in assembling the senate, which, for the most part, was done once every day. The senate consisted of five hundred, fifty senators being elected out of each tribe; after which, lots were cast to determine in what order t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070104-1488 | PRZRMYSL, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Galicia, the capital of a circle of the same name, which extends over 2178 square miles. It comprehends five cities, twelve market-towns, and 232 villages, with 238,500 inhabitants, of whom about 16,000 are Jews. The city is fortified, and defended by a lofty castle. It is th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070105-1488 | PSALM, a divine song or hymn, but chiefly appropriated to the Psalms of David, a canonical book of the Old Testament. Most of the psalms have a particular title, signifying either the name of the author, the person who was to set it to music or sing it, the instrument which was to be employed, or the subject and occasi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070106-1488 | PSALMANAZAR, George, the fictitious name of a pretended Formosan, a person of learning and ingenuity. Born in France, he was educated in a free school, and afterwards in a college of Jesuits, in an archiepiscopal city, the name of which, as likewise those of his birth-place and his parents, are unknown. Upon leaving th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070201-1501 | PSALMIST, in the church of Rome, is one of the lesser ecclesiastical orders, being the same with what amongst us is called clerk, precentor, or singer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070202-1501 | PSALMODY, from the Greek, ∙ψαλ∕xoς, the art or act of singing psalms. (See Psalm.) The earliest music of the Psalms is not now known. The modern Jewish psalmody is by no means the same in all their synagogues in different countries. Psalms were sung by the primitive Christians, but there are no data to show the precise... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070203-1501 | PSALTER, the same with the book of Psalms. Amongst the religious in the Catholic countries, the term psalter is also given to a large chaplet or rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, according to the number of psalms in the psalter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070204-1501 | PSALTERIUM, Greek ∙ψαλrjjp∕oι⅛ formerly called ma-gadis, according to Athenaeus, an ancient musical instrument, which some writers assert to have been the same as the ancient Hebrew nebel. The more modern psaltery being no longer in use, it is unnecessary to describe it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070205-1501 | PSAMMETICUS, or Psammitichus, a renowned conqueror, who, having subdued eleven petty kings of Egypt, became the founder of the kingdom of Egypt, about 670 before Christ. He is memorable, likewise, for taking the city of Azot, after a siege of twenty-nine years, and for discovering the sources of the river Nile. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070206-1501 | PSATYRIANS, a sect of Arians, who, in the council of Antioch, held in the year 360, maintained that the Son was not like the Father as to will; that he was taken from nothing, or made out of nothing; and that in God, generation was not to be distinguished from creation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070207-1501 | PSELLUS, Michael, a learned Christian of the eleventh century, was, by birth, a Constantinopolitan of consular rank, and flourished under the Emperor Constantine Monomachus. His genius and industry raised him far above the level of his contemporaries; and the celebrated historian, Anna Comnena, speaks of him as one who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070208-1501 | PSEUDO, from ∙ψiuδof, a Greek term, used in the composition of many works to denote false or spurious. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070209-1501 | PSEUDONYMOUS, amongst critics, is an author who publishes a book under a false or feigned name; as cryp- [7:18:703]tonymous is given to him who publishes one under a disguised name, and anonymous to him who publishes without any name at all. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070301-1514 | PSYLLI, a people in the south of Cyrenaica, so called from Psyllus, their king, and who were almost all overwhelmed by sand. They had something in their bodies fatal to serpents, and their very savom , proved a charm against them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070302-1514 | PTOLEMAIS, in Ancient Geography, the port of Arsinoe, situated on the western bank of the Nile, which concurs to form the island called Nomos Heracleotes, to the south of the vertex of the Delta.
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kp-eb0718-070303-1514 | PTOLMEY Soter, or Lagus, king of Egypt, a renowned warrior and an excellent prince. He established an academy at Alexandria, and was himself a man of letters. He died at the age of ninety-two, 281 years before Christ.
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kp-eb0718-070304-1514 | PTYALISM, in Medicine, a salivation, or frequent and copious discharge of saliva. The word is Greek, being formed from the verb nruω, to spit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070305-1514 | PUBERTY denotes the age at which the person is capable of procreating or begetting children.
Puberty, in Law, is fixed at the age of twelve in females and fourteen in males; after which they are reckoned fit for marriage. But as to crimes and punishments, the age of puberty is fixed at fourteen in both sexes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070306-1514 | PUBLIUS Syrus, a celebrated writer of mimes, that is, farces in the language of the common people, flourished at Rome about b. c. 42. He was of Syrian extraction, as his name implies, and was brought to Rome as a slave; but his talents having excited the admiration of his master, he received his freedom. His farces wer... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070307-1514 | PUBNA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, sixty-three miles east from Moorshedabad. Long. 89. 12. E. Lat. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070308-1514 | PUCIIMARY, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Kemaon, situated at the top of a very steep pass in the mountain, in the neighbourhood of which is a cave containing an image of Maha Dco, and his wife Bowanee, to which pilgrims pay their devotions. A perpendicular cliff is also pointed out here, from which t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070309-1514 | PUCKHOLI, the capital of a mountainous district of Hindustan, thought to be the Peucelaotis of the Greeks, It was besieged by the army of Alexander, and now belongs to an Afghan chief. Long. 72. 8. E, Lat. 33. 46. N. The district is mountainous, and is situated on the eastern side of the river Indus, about the thirty-f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070310-1514 | PUCOULOE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Dacca. Long. 89.55. E. Lat. 24.8. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070311-1514 | PUDDAR, a river of Hindustan, which rises in the province of Ajmeer, and empties itself into the Gulf of Cutch, thirty miles south-west of Janagur. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070312-1514 | PUDUCOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Southern Carnatic, and district of Tanjore. It was formerly the capital of Tondiman, the hereditary polygar or landholder of a considerable district. It is thirty-two miles south-southwest from Tanjore. Long. 78. 50. E. Lat. 16. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070313-1514 | PUEGOS, or Siquior, one of the Philippine Islands. It is small, but abounds in inhabitants, who are brave and warlike. It is 50 miles north from the western part of Mindanao. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070314-1514 | PUDSEY, a township of the west riding of Yorkshire, in the wapentake of Morley and parish of Calverly, 197 miles from London. It has an establishment settled in 1748, by a colony of Moravians from Germany, who built a village called Fulneck, from the name of the place whence they had emigrated. The large building appro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070315-1514 | PUERTO-REAL, a city of Spain, in Andalusia, in the province or portcdo of Cadiz. It stands on the bay which takes its name from that city, and has a canal communicating with it. It is near the mouth of the river Guadalete, and is defended towards the water by some powerful batteries. It has a tolerable haven, in which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070316-1514 | PUFFENDORF, Samuel de, a very distinguished jurist and historian, was born in 1631, at Fleh, a little village in Misnia, a province in Upper Saxony, being the son of Elias Puffendorfi minister of that place. After having made great progress in the sciences at Leipzig, he turned his thoughts to the study of public law; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070401-1527 | PULARIM, or Polaroon, one of the Banda Isles, and the smallest of the whole. The possession of this island was contested between the English East India Company and the Dutch. The English obtained possession of it in 1617, but were repeatedly expelled by the Dutch. In 1665 it was formally delivered up to the English, bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070402-1527 | PULAW τ Y, a city of Poland, in the province of Lublin, and the circle of that name. It stands on the right bank of the Vistula, over which is a ferry where the roads on both sides are concentrated. It is in a beautiful situation, rising above and overlooking the river. It contains 430 houses, with 3200 inhabitants, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070403-1527 | PULLICAT, a town of Hindustan, on the sea-coast of the Carnatic, situated on the borders of a salt-water lake, thirty-three miles in length by eleven in breadth, containing several islands, and communicating with the sea. This lake owes its existence to the sea breaking through a low sandy beach, and overflowing the la... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070404-1527 | PULMARY, a town of Hindustan, in the nizam’s dominions, in the province of Aurungabad. It is thirty miles west of Jalnapoor. Long. 76. 3. E. Lat. 19. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070405-1527 | PULO, in the Eastern languages, means small, and this epithet is accordingly applied to numerous islands in the Eastern Seas, the chief of which are comprised in the following list.
Pulo Akat, a small island in the.Eastern Seas, near the north-east coast of Ceram, in long. 131. 3. E. lat. 3. 6. S. Pulo Ampal, Pulo Ana... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070501-1540 | PULPIT, an elevated’ place in a church, from which sermons are delivered. The French give the same name to a reading desk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070502-1540 | PULPITUM, in the Grecian and Roman theatres, was a place where the players performed their parts. It was lower than the scena, and higher than the orchestra, nearly answering to what we call the stage, as distinguished from the pit and the galleries. Pulpitum was also a moveable desk or pulpit, from which disputants pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070503-1540 | PULSE, in the animal economy, denotes the beating or throbbing of the heart and arteries.
No doctrine has been involved in greater difficulties than that of pulses, since, in giving a physiological account of them, physicians have espoused quite opposite sentiments; whilst some doubt whether the pulse is owing to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070601-1553 | PULTAWA, a government of the Russian empire, extending in north latitude from 48. 48. to 51. 4. and in east longitude from 30. 20. to 35. 55., and comprehending 16,236 square miles. It is bounded on the north-west by Tchernigow and a part of Kursk, on the north-east by Slobodsk-Ukraine, on the south-east by Ykaterinosl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070602-1553 | PLTENEY, William, the famous opponent of Sir Robert Walpole in parliament, and afterwards Earl of Bath, was descended from one of the most ancient families in the kingdom, and born in the year 1682. Possessing an affluentfortune, he early procured a seat in the House of Commons, and distinguished himself as a warm part... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070603-1553 | PULVERIZATION, the art of pulverizing, or reducing a dry body into a fine powder. This is performed in friable bodies by pounding or beating them in a mortar; but to pulverize mallcable ones, other methods must be taken. To pulverize lead or tin, the method is this: Rub a round wooden box all over the inside with chalk... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-070604-1553 | PUMICE-STONE River, a river on the east coast of New Holland, entered by Captain Flinders in 1799, and so called from the quantity of pumice-stone found on its shores. It falls into Glass-house Bay.
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kp-eb0718-070701-1566 | PUMP.
Pump, an hydraulic machine for raising water by means of the pressure of the atmosphere.
It would be interesting to learn the progressive steps by which the ingenuity of man has invented the various methods of raising water. A pump must be considered as the last step of this progress. Common as it is, it is a v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0718-072801-1839 | PUN, an expression where a word has at once different meanings. The practice of punning is the refuge of those who wish to pass for wits, without having a grain of it in their composition. James I. of England delighted in punning; and the taste of the sovereign was studied by the courtiers, nay, even by the clergy. Hen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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