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kp-eb0703-019503-8096 | ANNE, queen of Great Britain, second daughter of King James II. by his first wife, Anne Hyde, was born in 1664. In 1683 she married George prince of Denmark, by whom she had several children, but none of them arrived at the age of maturity. On the death of King William she ascended the throne, A. d. 1702, and her reign... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019504-8096 | ANNE Boleyn, queen of Henry VIII. king of England, daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, a nobleman of a powerful family and numerous alliances. The daughter of the duke of Norfolk was her mother, and during the reign of the former king her father had been honoured with several embassies. Mary, the king’s sister, who married ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019601-8109 | ANNEALING, by the workmen called nealing, is a process used in glass-making, and in the manufacture of certain metals. In glass-making it consists in placing the bottles, &c. whilst hot, in a kind of oven or furnace, where they are suffered to cool gradually. They would otherwise be too brittle for use. The difference ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019701-8122 | ANNECY, a city in the kingdom of Sardinia, the capital of the province of Genevois, in the duchy of Savoy. It is at the foot of the mountain Semina, on the banks of the lake of that name. It is the most industrious place in Savoy, having manufactures of cotton goods, of hats, glass, and earthenware, and several distill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 53' N 5 9' E | ANNECY |
kp-eb0703-019702-8122 | ANNESLEY, Arthur, earl of Anglesea, and lord privy seal in the reign of King Charles II., was the son of Sir Francis Annesley, baronet, Lord Mount-Norris, and Viscount Valentia, in Ireland, and was born at Dublin on the 10th of July 1614. He was for some time at the university of Oxford, and afterwards studied the law ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019703-8122 | ANNIVERSARY, the annual return of any remarkable day. Anniversary days, in old times, more particularly denoted those days in which an office was yearly performed for the souls of the deceased, or the martyrdom of the saints was yearly celebrated in the church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019704-8122 | ANNOBON, a small island in Africa, on the east coast of Loango, belonging to the Portuguese. It lies in long. 5. 30. E. lat. 1. 32. S., and receives its name from being discovered on the new year’s day. According to Pyrard, it is about five or six French leagues in circuit; Braud-raud makes it ten leagues. It contains ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019801-8135 | ANNONA, in Roman Antiquity, denotes provision for a year of all sorts, as of flesh, wine, &c. but especially of corn. Annona is likewise the allowance of oil, salt, bread, flesh, corn, wine, hay, and straw, which was annually provided by the contractors for the maintenance of an army, | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019802-8135 | ANNONAE Praefectus, in Antiquity, an extraordinary magistrate, whose business it was to prevent a scarcity of provisions, and to regulate the weight and fineness of bread. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019803-8135 | ANNONAY, a small town of France, in the department of Ardeche, formerly Upper Vivarais, seated on the river Deume. Long. 4. 52. E. Lat. 45. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019804-8135 | ANNOT, a small city on the mountains of Provence in France. Long. 7. 0. E. Lat. 44. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019805-8135 | ANNOVEŔ, a Spanish town not far from the Tagus, in the province of Toledo, containing 400 houses, 2000 inhabitants, and a saltpetre manufactory. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019806-8135 | ANNUALRENT, in Scotish Law, denotes the yearly interest or profit due by a debtor in a sum of money to a creditor for the use of it.—A Right of Annualrent was the original method in Scotland of burdening lands with a yearly payment for the loan of money, before the taking of interest was allowed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-019807-8135 | ANNUITIES.^[1. Hardly any terms are made use of in this article which may properly be considered technical. But since it is desirable that the reader shouId have perfectly clear and well-defined ideas of the terms that are employed, in the demonstrative part, which follows the historical, a few have been defined in the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023501-8616 | ANNULAR, in a general sense, something in the form of or resembling a ring. It is also a peculiar denomination of the fourth finger, commonly called the ring finger. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023502-8616 | ANNULET, a little circle, borne as a charge in coats of arms, as also added to them as a difference. Among the Romans it represented liberty and nobility. It also denotes strength and eternity, by reason of its circular form. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023503-8616 | ANNULOSA (from annulus, a ring or segment), a term in zoology applied by naturalists to a great division of the animal kingdom. It contains five classes, viz. Crustacea, Myriopoda, Arachnides, Insecta, and Vermes. These classes will be treated of separately in this work, as explained under the words Animal Kingdom. See... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023504-8616 | ANNUNCIADA, Annuntiada, or Annunciata, an order of knighthood in Savoy, first instituted by Amadeus I. in the year 1409. Their collar was of 15 links, interwoven one with another, in form of a true lover’s knot; and the motto F. E. R. T., signifying Fortitudo ejus Rho-dum tenuit. Amadeus VIII. gave the name Annunciada ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023505-8616 | ANNUNCIATION, the tidings brought by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, of the incarnation of Christ. —Annunciation is also a festival kept by the church on the 25th of March, in commemoration of these tidings. This festival appears to be of very great antiquity. There is mention made of it in a sermon which goes un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023506-8616 | ANODYNE (from α privative, and ooavaω, doleo ; or α negative, and οSυνη, pain), a term applied to medicines which ease pain and procure sleep. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023507-8616 | ANOINTERS, a religious sect in some parts of England, so called from the ceremony they used of anointing all persons before they admitted them into their church. 1his ceremony they founded upon James v. 14, 15. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023508-8616 | ANOLYMPIADES, in Antiquity, a name given by the Elians to those Olympic games which had been celebrated under the direction of the Pisaeans and Arcadians. The Elians claimed the sole right of managing the Olympic games, in which they sometimes met with competitors. The hundred and fourth Olympiad was celebrated by orde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023509-8616 | ANOMALISTICAL Year, in Astronomy, the time that the earth takes to pass through her orbit: it is also called the Periodical Year. Thefespace of time belonging to this year is greater than the tropical year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023510-8616 | ANOMALOUS, a term applied to whatever is irregular, or deviates from the rule observed by other things of the like nature.
ANOMALOUS Verbs, in Grammar, such as are not conjugated conformably to the paradigm of their conjugation. They are found in all languages. In Latin, the verb lego is the paradigm of the third conj... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023511-8616 | ANOMALY, in Astronomy, an irregularity in the motions of the planets, whereby they deviate from the aphelion or apogee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023512-8616 | ANOMOEANS, in Ecclesiastical History, the name by which the pure Arians were called in the 4th century, in contradistinction to the Semi-Arians. The word is derived from the Greek ανόμοιος, different, dissimilar : for the pure Arians asserted that the Son was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, that of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023513-8616 | ANOMORHOMBOIDIA, in Natural History, the name of a genus of spars. The word is derived from the Greek ανωμα^Kτ ∖ ς, irregular, and gομζMibnς, a rhomboidal figure. The bodies of this genus are pellucid, crystalline spars, of no determinate or regular external form, but always breaking into regularly rhomboidal masses; e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023514-8616 | ANONYMOUS, something that is nameless, or of which the name is concealed. It is a term equally applied to books which do not express the author’s name, or to authors whose names are unknown. See Bibliography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023515-8616 | ANOREXIA, Anorexy (from α negative, and ogεξ∕ς, appetite), a want of appetite, or a loathing of food. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023516-8616 | ANOSSI, a province of the island of Madagascar, lying between lat. 23. 18. and 26. 0. S. See Madagascar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023517-8616 | ANOTTA, or Arnotta, in dyeing, an elegant red colour, formed from the pellicles or pulp of the seeds of the bixa, a tree common in South America. It is also called Terra Orleana, and Roucou.
The manner of ∏raking anotta is as follows: The red seeds, cleared from the pods, are steeped in water for seven or eight days, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023601-8629 | ANOUT, a small island in the Sehagerraek, or that part of the sea of Denmark which has Norway on the north, Jutland on the west, and the isle of Zealand on the south. It lies in long. 13. 0. E. and lat. 56. 36. N. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023602-8629 | ANQUETTL, Lewis Peter, a French historian, was born at Paris on the 21st of January 1723. At the age of 17 he entered the congregation of St Genevieve, where he taught theology and literature with ability and success. He afterwards became director of the academy at Rheims; and, in 1759, he was appointed prior of the ab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023603-8629 | ANQUETIL DU PERRON (Abraham Hyacinth), brother of the subject of the preceding article, was horn at Paris on the 7th of December 1731. Having distinguished himself as a student at the university of that city, and acquired a considerable knowledge of the Hebrew language, he was invited to Auxerre by Μ. de Caylus, then t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023701-8642 | ANSAE, in Astronomy, implies the parts of Saturn’s ring projecting beyond the disk of the planet. The word is Latin, and properly signifies handles·, these parts of the ring appearing like handles to the body of the planet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023702-8642 | ANSARIANS, a people of Syria, so called in the country, but styled in Delisle’s maps Ensarians, and in those of D’Anville Nassaris. The territory occupied by the Ansarians is that chain of mountains which extends from Antakia to the rivulet called Nahr-el-Kabir, or the Great River. They are divided into several tribes ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023703-8642 | ANSBACH, a bailiwick in the circle of Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 124 square miles, or 79,360 acres, with 2 market-towns and 79 villages.' It is an undulating plain, watered by the rivers Rezat, Zenn, and Bidert. It contains 11,800 inhabitants, who draw from its fruitful soil excellent corn and tob... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023704-8642 | ANSE, an ancient town of France, in the Lyonnois, on the river Saone. It is the head of a canton in the department of the Rhone, and formerly bore the title of barony. Population 1640. 131 miles north of Lyons. Long. 6. 55. W. Lat. 45. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 55' N 6 55' W | ANSE |
kp-eb0703-023705-8642 | ANSELM, archbishop of Canterbury, in the reigns of William Rufus and Henry I. He was born in the year 1033, at Aost, a town in Savoy, at the foot of the Alps. He became a monk in the abbey of Bee in Normandy, of which he was afterwards chosen prior, and then abbot. In' the year 1092 he was invited over to England by Hu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023801-8655 | ANSIKO, a kingdom in the interior of western Africa, bounded on the west by the river Umbre, which runs into the Zaire, the kingdom of Wangua, and the Amboes, who border on Loango; and on the south by Songo and Sunda, provinces of Congo. It contains a great variety of wild beasts, as lions, rhinoceroses, &c. and many c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023802-8655 | ANSLO, a seaport town of Norway, in the province of Aggerhuus, with a bishop’s see. The supreme court of. justice is held here for Norway. It is seated on a bay of the same name. Long. 10. 14. E. Lat. 50. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023803-8655 | ANSON, George, a gentleman whose merit and good fortune as a naval commander exalted him to the rank of nobility. He was the son of William Anson, Esq. of Huckborough, in Staffordshire; and, showing an early inclination for the sea, received a suitable education. The first command he enjoyed was that of the Weasel sloo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-023804-8655 | ANSTRUTHER, Easter, a royal borough and parish of Scotland, in the county of Fife. It is situated on the north shore of the Frith of Forth, and possesses an excellent harbour. Population in 1821, 1090. 10 miles S∙∙ of St Andrews.
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kp-eb0703-023901-8668 | ANT. The history of a tribe of insects so long celebrated for their industry and frugality, and for the display of that sagacity which characterizes some of the higher orders of animals, is peculiarly calculated to occupy the attention of modern naturalists. The ancients, indeed, had often noticed the habits and econom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024401-8733 | ANTA, in the Ancient Architecture, a square pilaster placed at the corners of buildings.
Anta, or Ahanta, a small kingdom on the Gold Coast of Africa, extending about ten leagues in length, between Apollonia and the Fan tee territory. The country is covered with large trees, among which stand a number of fine villages... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024501-8746 | ANTACIDS, an appellation given to all medicines proper to correct acid or sour humours. Under the class of Antacids come, 1. Absorbents, as chalk, coral, sea-shells, haematites, and steel filings; 2. Obtundents, as oils and fats; 3. Immutants, as lixivious salts and soaps. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024502-8746 | ANTAEUS, in fabulous history, a giant of Libya, son of Neptune and Terra. Designing to build a temple to his father, of men’s sculls, he slew all he met. In his combat with Hercules he is said to have received strength from the earth every time he was thrown upon it, which Hercules perceiving, lifted him up from the gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024503-8746 | ANTAGOGUE, in Rhetoric, a figure by which, when the accusation of the adversary is unanswerable, we load him with the same or other crimes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024504-8746 | ANTALO, â considerable town of Abyssinia, capital of the flat and fertile district of Enderta, which is dependent on ligré. The town is built along the declivity of a mountain, commanding fine views over an extensive range of territory to the south. Though considered in Abyssinia a place of importance, its absolute mag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024505-8746 | ANTANACLASIS, in Rhetoric, a figure which repeats the same word, but in a different sense; as, dum vivimus, vivamus. ’ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024506-8746 | ANTARCTIC, in a general sense, denotes something opposite to the northern or arctic pole. Hence antarctic circle is one of the lesser circles of the sphere, and distant only 23° 30 ’ from the south pole, which is likewise called antarctic for the same reason. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024507-8746 | ANTARES, in Astronomy, the name of a star of the first magnitude, called also the scorpion’s heart. Its R. A. on 1st January 1830 was 16 h. 18 m. 59∙77 sec.; An. Pr. + 3∙66 sec.; S. D. 26° 2' 23"∙5; An. Pr. +8'∙6. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024508-8746 | ANTAVARE, a province of the island of Madagascar, lying about 21° 30′ S. lat. and bounded by the province and cape of Manousi. The greater part of it is watered by the river Mananzari, whose source is in the red mountains of Ambohitsmene. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024509-8746 | ANTEAMBULONES, in Roman Antiquity, servants who went before persons of distinction to clear the way-before them. They used this formula, Date locum domino meo, i. e. Make room or way for my master. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024510-8746 | ANTECEDENT, in general, something that goes before another, either in order of time or place.
Antecedent, in Grammar, the words to which a relative refers.
Antecedent, in Logic, is the first of the two propositions in an enthymeme.
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kp-eb0703-024511-8746 | ANTECESSOR, one that goes before. It was an appellation given to those who excelled in any science. Justinian applied it particularly to professors of the civil law; and, in the universities of France, the teachers of law take the title antecessors in all their theses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024512-8746 | ANTECURSORES, in the Roman armies, a party of horse detached before, partly to get intelligence, provisions, &c. and partly to choose a proper place to encamp in. These were otherwise called antecessores, and by the Greeks neofoομοo | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024513-8746 | ANTEDILUVIANS, a general name for all mankind who lived before the flood, and so includes the whole of the human race from Adam to Noah and his family.
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kp-eb0703-024601-8759 | ANTEGO. See Antigua. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024602-8759 | ANTEJURAMENTUM, by our ancestors called juramentum calumniae, an oath which anciently both accuser and accused were to take before any trial or purgation. The accuser was to swear that he would prosecute the [7:3:247]criminal; and the accused to make oath, on the day he was to undergo the ordeal, that he was innocent o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024701-8772 | ANTELOPE. See Mammalia, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024702-8772 | ANTELUCAN, in ecclesiastical writers, is applied to l hings done in the night, or before day. We find frequent ιention of the antelucan assemblies (Coetus antelucani) of he ancient Christians in times of persecution for religious worship. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024703-8772 | ANTEMURALE, in the ancient military art, denotes auch the same with what the moderns call an outwork. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024704-8772 | ANTENA r Π, in modern English history, is chiefly nderstood of the subjects of Scotland born before King ames the First’s accession to the English crown, and alive fter it. In relation to these, those who were born after he accession were denominated Postnati. The antenati rere considered as aliens in England, whereas ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024705-8772 | ANTENCLEMA, in Oratory, is where the whole de-ence of the person accused turns on criminating the ccuser. Such is the defence of Orestes, or the oration or Milo: Occisus est, sed latro. Exsectus, sed raptor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024706-8772 | ANTENICENE, in ecclesiastical writers, denotes a hing or person prior to the first council of Nice. We ay the Antenicene faith, Antenicene creeds, Antenicene athers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024707-8772 | ANTENNAE. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024708-8772 | ANTENOR, a Trojan prince, came into Italy, expelled he Enganians on the river Po, and built the city of Padua, vhere his tomb is said to be still extant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024709-8772 | ANTEPAGMENTA, in the Ancient Architecture, the ambs of a door. They are also ornaments or garnishings, n carved work, of men, animals, &c. made either of wood ιr stone, and set on the architrave. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024710-8772 | ANTEPENULTIMA, in Grammar, the third syllable )f a word from the end, or the last syllable but two. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024711-8772 | ANTEPILANI, in the Roman armies, a name given to he hastati and principes, because they marched next before the triarii, who were called pilani. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024712-8772 | ANTEPILEPTICS, among physicians, medicines es- .cemed good in the epilepsy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024713-8772 | ANTĒPOSITION, a grammatical figure, whereby a vord, which by the ordinary rules of syntax ought to fol-ow another, comes before it; as when, in the Latin, the ιdjective is put before the substantive, the verb before the nominative case, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024714-8772 | ANTEPREDICAMENTS, among logicians, certain oreliminary questions which illustrate the doctrine of pre- 1icaments and categories. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024715-8772 | ANTEQUERA, a commandery in the province of Granada in Spain, extending over 165 square miles, between the cities of Granada, Seville, and Cordova, in a fertile soil, comprehending the city of the same name, and eight towns, besides several villages, having in the whole 1 population of about 40,000.
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kp-eb0703-024716-8772 | ANTEROS, in Mythology, one of the two Cupids who were the chief of the number. They are placed at the foot of the Venus de’ Medici. This is represented with a heavy and sullen look, agreeably to the poetical description of him, as the cause of love’s ceasing. The other was called Eros. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024717-8772 | ANTESIGNANI, in the Roman armies, soldiers placed before the standards, in order to defend them, according to Lipsius; but Caesar and Livy mention the antesignani as the first line or first body of heavy armed troops. The velites, who used to skirmish before the army, were likewise called antesignani. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024718-8772 | ANTESTARI, in Poman Antiquity, signifies to bear witness against any one who refused to make his appearance in the Roman courts of judicature, on the day appointed, and according to the tenor of his bail. The plaintiff finding the defendant after such a breach of his engagement, was allowed to carry him into court by f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024719-8772 | ANTESTATURE, in Fortification, a small ĩntrench-ment made of palisadoes, or sacks of earth, with a view to dispute with an enemy the remainder of a piece of ground. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024720-8772 | ANTHEM, a church song performed in cathedral service by choristers, who sung alternately. It was used to denote both psalms and hymns when performed in this manner; but at present anthem is used in a more confined sense, being applied to certain passages taken out of the Scriptures, and adapted to a particular solemnit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024721-8772 | ANTHESPHORIA, in Antiquity, a Sicilian festivaI instituted in honour of Proserpine. The word is derived from the Greek aν⅛ος, fiower, and <ρiξω, I carry ; because that goddess was forced away by Pluto when she was gathering flowers in the fields. Yet Festus does not ascribe the feast to Proserpine, but says it was thus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024722-8772 | ANTHĘSTERIA, in Antiquity, was a feast celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Bacchus. The most natural derivation of the word is from the Greek αιθoς {fios), a flower, it being the custom at this feast to offer garlands of flowers to Bacchus.
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kp-eb0703-024723-8772 | ANTHESTERION, in ancient chronology, the sixth month of the Athenian year. It contained 29 days, and answered to the latter part of our November and begin[7:3:248]ning of December. The Macedonians called it daesion or desion. It had its name from the festival anthesteria kept in it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024801-8785 | ANTHOLOGION, the title of the service-book used in the Greek church. It is divided into 12 months, containing the offices sung throughout the year, on the festivals of our Saviour, the Virgin, and other remarkable saints. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024802-8785 | ANTHOLOGY, a discourse of flowers, or a selection of beautiful passages from various authors. It is also the name given to a collection of epigrams taken from several Greek poets. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024803-8785 | ANTHONY, Saint, was born in Egypt in 251, and inherited a large fortune, which he distributed among his neighbours and the poor, retired into solitude, founded a religious order, built many monasteries, and died anno 356. Many ridiculous stories are told of his conflicts with the devil, and of his miraeles. There are s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024804-8785 | ANTHORISMUS, in Rhetoric, denotes a contrary description or definition of a thing from that given by the adverse party. Thus, if the plaintiff urge, that to take any thing away from another without his knowledge or consent, is a theft; this is called ogo¢, or definition. If the defendant reply, that to take a thing awa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024805-8785 | ANTHRAX, a Greek term, literally signifying a burning coal, used by the ancients to denote a gem, as well as a disease more generally known by the name of carbuncle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024806-8785 | ANTHROPOGLOTTUS, among zoologists, an appellation given to such animals as have tongues resembling that of mankind, particularly to the parrot kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024807-8785 | ANTHROPOLATRAE, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation given to the Nestorians, on account of their worshipping Christ, notwithstanding that they believed him to be a mere man. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024808-8785 | ANTHROPOL ATRIA, the paying of divine honours to a man: supposed to be the most ancient kind of idolatry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024809-8785 | ANTHROPOLITES, a term denoting petrifactions of the human body, as those of quadrupeds are called zoo- lites. See Petrifaction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024810-8785 | ANTHROPOLOGY, a discourse upon human nature. It is sometimes applied to designate the speculations and inquiries that have obtained concerning the varieties of the human race. See Man. Anthropology, among divines, denotes that manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024811-8785 | ANTHROPOMANCY, a species of divination, performed by inspecting the entrails of a human creature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024812-8785 | ANTHROPOMORPHA, a term formerly given to the primates of that class of animals which have the greatest resemblance to the human kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024813-8785 | ANTHROPOMORPHISM, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes the heresy or error of the Anthropomorphites. 5>cc the next article· | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024814-8785 | ANTHROPOMORPHITES, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of ancient heretics, who, taking every thing spoken of God in Scripture in a literal sense, particularly that passage of Genesis in which it is said God made man after his own image, maintained that God had a human shape. They are likewise called Audeans, from Audeus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024815-8785 | ANTHROPOMORPHOUS, something that bears the figure or resemblance of a man. Naturalists give instances of anthropomorphous plants, anthropomorphous minerals, &c. These generally come under the class of what are called lusus naturoe, or monsters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024816-8785 | ANTHROPOPATHY, a figure or expression by which some passion is ascribed to God, which properly belongs only to man. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024817-8785 | ANTHROPOPHAGI (of avdgωwoς, a man, and pαyω, to eat, Μεν -Eaters). That there have been, in almost all ages of the world, nations who have followed this barbarous practice, we have abundance of testimonies.
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