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kp-eb0720-008602-0100 | SELMAST, a town of Persia, in the province of Azerbijan, containing about 2000 inhabitants, principally Nestorian Christians. It is famed for its lofty poplars and delightful gardens. It is seventv-five miles west-south-west of Tabreez. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008603-0100 | SELTERS, or Seltzers, a village of the principality of Nassau, in Germany, about ten miles from Coblentz. The name of the mineral spring here is celebrated in every part of Europe. Seltzer water is brought to this country in stone bottles, which are closely corked and sealed, and contain about three pints each; and whe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008604-0100 | SEMAO, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-four miles in length from north to south, and from six to ten in breadth. A strait, called the Strait of Semao, separates it from the south-west end of the island of Timor. This strait, which has a good depth of water, affords secure shelter to ships during the strengt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 15' S 123 45' E | SEMAO |
kp-eb0720-008605-0100 | SEMENDRA, a city in the north-west of Turkey in Europe, the capital of a province of the same name in the ancient Servia. It is built on the western branch of the river Morava, where it falls into the Danube. It is fortified and defended by an ancient castle, and contains the cathedral of a Greek bishop, several mosque... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 37' N 21 23' E | SEMENDRA |
kp-eb0720-008606-0100 | SEMENTINAE Feriae, in Antiquity, were feasts held annually among the Romans, to obtain of the gods a plentiful harvest. They were celebrated in the temple of Tellus, where solemn sacrifices were offered to Tellus and Ceres. These feasts were held about seed-time, usually in the month of January; for, as Macrobius obser... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008607-0100 | SEMI, a word borrowed from the Latin, signifying half but only used in composition with other words. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008608-0100 | SEMI-ARIANS, in Bcclesiastical History, a branch of the ancient Arians, consisting, according to Epiphanius, of such as, in appearance, condemned the errors of that heresiarch, but yet acquiesced in some of his principles, only palliating and hiding them under softer and more moderate"terms. Though they separated from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008609-0100 | SEMICIRCLE in cometry, is half a circle, or that figure which is comprehended between the diameter of the circle and half its circumference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008610-0100 | SEMICOLON, in Grammar, one of the points or stops used to distinguish the several members of a sentence from each other.
The mark or character of a semicoon is (;), and it has its name from being of somewhat less effect than a colon, or as demanding a shorter pause.
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kp-eb0720-008611-0100 | SEMIDIAMETER, half the diameter, or a right line drawn from the centre of a circle to its circumference; being the same with what is otherwise called the radius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008612-0100 | SEMIPALATNOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the southern part of the government of Tomsk, erected for the[7:20:87] purpose of protecting the trade carried on with the Calmucks and Bucharians. It was first built in the year 1718; but, owing to the inundations of the river, it was swept away, and had to be removed suc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 20' N 80 10' E | SEMIPALATNOI |
kp-eb0720-008701-0101 | SEMIPELAGIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, a name given to such as retain some tincture of Pelagianism. See PELAGIANS.
The doctrines of this sect, ns well as those of their predecessors the Pelagians, have their common source in Pelagius, a native of Britain, of whom we have already taken notice. He is said to have bee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-008901-0103 | SEMIRAMIS, queen of Assyria, reigned about five generations before Nitocris, and constructed some wonderful works to restrain the waters of the Euphrates within its banks. Diodorus gives a more detailed account of her, which is copied principally from Ctesias. Omitting the fabulous statements respecting her youth, we t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009001-0104 | SEMITONE. See Muste. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009002-0104 | SEMLIN, a city of the Austrian dominions, on the frontier towards Turkey. It stands in that district which forms a part of the military colonies of Austria, distinguished by the name of the Sclavonian boundary. It is situated on a point of land where the river Drave falls into the Danube; and it is strongly fortified, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 51' 22" N 20 19' 39" E | SEMLIN |
kp-eb0720-009003-0104 | SEMUR, an arrondissement of the department of Côte d’Or, in France, which extends over 598 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and these into 145 communes, with a population, in 1836, of 70,505 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, standing on a rock washed on three sides by the river Armanço... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 18' N 3 30' E | SEMUR |
kp-eb0720-009004-0104 | SEMYLE, a fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Assam, situated on the banks of the Brahmapootra river, which it commands. It was taken by the Mahommedans in the year 1662. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009005-0104 | SENAN-FOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the province of Koeitchoo, situated on a fine river, in an extensive plain, surrounded on all sides by mountains, among which dwell a barbarous race, who have little intercourse with the Chinese. Long. 107. E. Lat. 27. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 56' N 107 E | SENAN-FOU |
kp-eb0720-009006-0104 | SENATE, in general, is an assembly or council of senators, that is, of the principal inhabitants of a state, who have a share in the government.
The senate of ancient Rome is of all others the most celebrated. It exercised no contentious jurisdiction, but appointed judges, either from among the senators or knights, to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009007-0104 | SENATOR, in general, denotes a member of some senate.
The dignity of a Roman senator could not be supported without the possession of eighty thousand sesterces, or about L.7000 English money; and therefore such as squandered away their money, and reduced their fortune below this sum, were generally struck out of the l... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009101-0105 | SENATUS CONSULTUM, a part of the Roman law. When any public matter was introduced into the senate, which was always called referre ad senaturn, any senator whose opinion was asked was permitted to speak upon it as long as he pleased; and on that account it was often usual for the senators to protract their speeches unt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009102-0105 | SENDWAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Khandesh, eighty-two miles from Boorhanpoor. Long. 75. 8. E. Lat. 21. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 48' N 75 8' E | SENDWAH |
kp-eb0720-009103-0105 | SENECA, L ucoius Annaeus, a Stoical philosopher, was born at Cordoba, in Spain, about the beginning of the Christian era, of an equestrian family, which had probably been transplanted thither in a colony from Rome. He was the second son of Marcus Annaeus Seneca, commonly called the Rhetorician, whose remains are printe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009201-0106 | SENEGAL, a great river of Western Africa, which, like the Gambia and Rio Grande, has its source in a group of mountains situated a short distance to the north-west of Temboo, in Foota Jallon. Mollien places the source of the Ba Fing, the middle branch of the Senegal, in latitude 10° 10' north, longitude 11° 18' west; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 53' N 16 31' W | SENEGAL |
kp-eb0720-009202-0106 | SENEGAMBIA, a large country of Africa, on the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the rivers Senegal and Gambia, from the mouth of the Nunez to Portendik, with several adjoining districts, and extending from 8° to 18° 20' of north latitude, and from about 5° to 17° 30'30'' of west longitude. It is bounded on the west by the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009401-0108 | SENESCHAL (Seneschallas), derived from the German sein, “a house or place,” and scale, “an officer,” is a steward, and signifies one who has the dispensing of justice in some particular cases: as the high seneschal or steward of England; seneschal de la hôtel de roi, “steward of the king’s household, seneschal or stewa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009402-0108 | SENGBEST, a town of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, twenty-five miles south-east of Meshed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009403-0108 | SENGEN, a city of China, of the first rank, in Quangsce, situated in a small and mountainous district. Long. 107. 34. E. Lat 23. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009404-0108 | SENGOA, a village of Persia, in the province of Azerbijan, forty-eight miles south-east of Tabreez. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009405-0108 | SENJEN, one of the largest islands of the kingdom of Norway, after Hindaen. It is separated from the continent by a narrow strait, and is about fifty miles in length and thirty-nine in breadth. It is surrounded by cliffs of more than 600 feet in height, which are covered with birch and pine trees; and, considering the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009406-0108 | SENLIS, an arrondissement of the department of the Oise, in France, which extends over 516 square miles. It contains seven cantons and 132 communes, with, in 1836, 78,790 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Nonnette, an ancient place, with walls built at some remote period. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009407-0108 | SENNA, a town of Persia, the capital of the eastern part of Kurdistan, known under the name of the province of Ardelan. It is situated in the bosom of a luxuriant valley,[7:20:95] richly cultivated, and interspersed with orchards affording abundance of fruits of various kinds, namely, the peach, the aprico, the pear, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009501-0109 | SENNAAR, a country of Nubia, in Africa, forming that peninsula of land which lies between the two main branches of the Nile, immediately prior to their junction. From the confluence of the Bahr el Abiad, and the Bahr el Azrek, in north latitude 15° 34' 40'', and east longitude 32° 11' 25', to the town of Sennaar, on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009502-0109 | SENNERTUS, Daniel, an eminent physician, was born in 1572, at Breslau. In 1593 he was sent to Wittemberg, where he made great progress in philosophy and in physic. He visited the universities of Leipsig, lena, Frankfort on the Oder, and Berlin; but he soon returned to Wittemberg, where he was promoted to the degree of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009601-0110 | SENONES, in Ancient Geography, a people of Gallia Celtica, situated on the Sequana, to the south of the Parisii, near the confluence of the Jeauna or Yonne with the above-mentioned river. Their most considerable exploit was their invasion of Italy, and the taking and burning of Rome, as related under that article. This... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009602-0110 | SENRAB, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Callinger, on the east side of the river Cane, twenty-four miles north from the town of Callinger. Long. 80. 25. E. Lat. 25. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009603-0110 | SENS, an arrondissement in the department of the Yonne, in France, which extends over 422 square miles, and comprehends six cantons, divided into ninety communes, with a population in 1836 of 61,036 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated in a district rich in vines, on the river Yonne, where it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 11' 55" N 3 12' 16" E | SENS |
kp-eb0720-009604-0110 | SENSATION, in Philosophy, is the perception of external objects by means of the senses. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009605-0110 | SENSE is a faculty of the soul, by which it perceives external objects by means of the impressions they make upon certain organs of the body. Sec MetaPHysIcs. common Sense is a term that has been variously used both by ancient and by modern writers. With some it has been synonymous with public sense; with others it has... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009606-0110 | SENSES, Pleasures and Pains of. The natural agreeableness, disagreeableness, and indifference of our sensations and perceptions, present to the mind an important and extensive field of inquiry; and on this subject we shall here make a few observations. All our senses have been certainly bestowed upon us for wise and be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009901-0113 | SENSIBLE Note, in Music (derived from the French term note sensible), means simply the note which ascends by a semitone to the tonic or key-note of any scale, major or minor. For example, in scale of C, B to C; or in scale of A, G# to A, and so on. (See M usic .) This note is one of the marked characteristics of modern... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-009902-0113 | SENSIBILITY is a nice and delicate perception of pleasure or pain, beauty or deformity. It is very nearly allied to taste, and, as far as it is natural, seems to depend upon the organization of the nervous system. It is capable, however, of cultivation, and is experienced in a much higher degree in civilized than in sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010001-0114 | SENSITIVE Plant. The sensitive plants are well known to possess a kind of motion, by which the leaves and stalks are contracted, and fall down on being slightly touched, or shaken with some degree of violence.
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kp-eb0720-010201-0116 | SENTENCE, in Law, a judgment passed in court by the judge in some process, either civil or criminal. See JuDGMENT.
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kp-eb0720-010202-0116 | SENTINEL, or SENTRY, in military affairs, is a private soldier placed in some post, to watch the approach of the enemy, to prevent surprises, or to stop such as would pass without orders or discovering who they are. They are placed before the arms of all guards, and at the tents and doors of general officers, colonels ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010203-0116 | Sentinel, Great and Little, are two islands in the Eastern Seas. The first is about ten miles in circumference, and is about twenty miles from the Greater Andaman. Long. 92. 40. E. Lat. 11. 36. N. The second is about eight miles from the Little Andaman. Long. 92. 23. E. Lat. 10. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010204-0116 | SEOUNY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, sixty-eight miles north by east from the city of Nagpoor. Long. 80. 3. E. Lat. 22. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010205-0116 | Seouny, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Khandesh, seventy-three miles north by west from Ellichpoor. Long. 77. 1. E. Lat. 22. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010206-0116 | SEPARATISTS. This name has for some years been generally applied to a particular sect in these countries. It originated with a few Christians in Dublin, about the year 1803, who had their attention strongly directed to the principles of Christian fellowship. Convinced that the authority of the apostolic word was divine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010301-0117 | SEPOURY, or SIPRY, a town and fortress of Hindustan, province of Agra, and district of Gohud, taken by the British in 1781. It is eighteen miles south-west of Narwa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010302-0117 | SEPOYS, or Seapoys, natives of Hindustan serving in a military capacity under the European powers, and disciplined after the European manner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010303-0117 | SEPTEMBER, the ninth month of the year, consisting of thirty days. It took its name as being the seventh month from March, with which the Romans began their year. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010304-0117 | SEPTENTRIO, in Astronomy, a constellation, usually called ursa minor.
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kp-eb0720-010305-0117 | SEPTICS are those substances which promote putrefaction, chiefly the calcareous earths, magnesia, and testaceous powders. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010306-0117 | SEPTIZON, or Septizonium, in Roman antiquity, a celebrated mausoleum, built by Septimius Severus, in the tenth region of the city of Rome. It was so called from septem and zona, because it consisted of seven stories, each of which was surrounded by a row of columns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010307-0117 | SEPTUAGESIMA, in the calendar, denotes the third Sunday before Lent, or before Quadragesima Sunday. It is supposed by some to take its name from its being about seventy days before Easter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010308-0117 | SEPTUAGINT, the name given to a Greek version of the books of the Old Testament, from its being supposed to be the work of seventy-two Jews, who are usually called the seventy interpreters, because seventy is a round number.
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kp-eb0720-010501-0119 | SEPULCHRE, a tomb or place destined for the interment of the dead. This term is chiefly used in speaking of the burying-places of the ancients, those of the moderns being usually called tombs.
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kp-eb0720-010502-0119 | SEQUANI, a people anciently forming a part of Gallia Celtica, but annexed to Belgica by Augustus, separated from the Helvetii by Mount Jura, with the Rhine on the east, bordering on the Aedui and Segustiani to the south, and Lingones to the west; now Franche Comté. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010503-0119 | SEQUESTRATION, in common Law, is setting aside the thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it. In this sense it is either voluntary, as when done by the consent of the parties; or necessary, as where it is done by the judge, of his own authority, whether the parties are inclined or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010504-0119 | SEQUIN, a gold coin, struck at Venice, and in several parts of the grand signior’s dominions. In Turkey it is called dahob, or piece of gold, and, according to Volney, is in value about 6s. 3d. sterling. It varies, however, considerably in its value in different countries. At Venice it is equal to about 9s. 2d. sterlin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010505-0119 | SERA, a town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore, and capital of a district of the same name. The climate is subject to drought, and there seldom falls as much rain as is required to raise a full crop. Rice is the most beneficial product, and in favourable years the greater part of the watered land is sown... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 37' N 76 55' E | SERA |
kp-eb0720-010601-0120 | SERAGLIO, formed from the Persian word seram, or Turkish word serai, which signifies a house, is commonly used to express the house or palace of a prince. In this sense it is frequently used at Constantinople, where the houses of foreign ambassadors are called seraglios. But it is commonly used by way of eminence for t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010602-0120 | SERAI, a building on the high road, or in large cities, in India, erected for the accommodation of travellers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010603-0120 | SERAMPEI, a country or district in the interior of the island of Sumatra. It has on the north and north-west Korinchi; on the east, south-east, and south, Pakalang, Jambce, and Sungei-tenang; and on the west and southwest, a river and chain of high mountains. It comprehends fifteen fortified and independent villages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010604-0120 | SERAMPOOR, a town in the province of Bengal, and district of Birbhoom, 107 miles west from Moorshedabad. Long. 80. 24. E. Lat. 24. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010605-0120 | SERAMPORE, a town of Bengal, belonging to theDanes, situated on the west side of the Hooghly river, about twelve miles above Calcutta. Serampore has a pleasing appearance viewed from the river, the houses being tolerably well built, of brick, and whitened; they have flat roofs, with balconies and Venetian windows, thou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010606-0120 | SERANGANI Isles, a group of small islands in the Eastern Seas, about five leagues south of Magindanao, and between the fifth and sixth degrees of north latitude. The largest island is called Hummock Isle, about thirty miles in circumference. The next in size is about twenty-five miles in circumference; and there is ano... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010607-0120 | SERAPH, or Seraphim, spirits of the highest rank in the hierarchy of angels, who are so called from their being supposed to be the most inflamed with divine love, by their nearer and more immediate attendance at the throne of God, and to communicate their fervour to the remoter and inferior orders. Seraphim is the Hebr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010608-0120 | SERAPION, a physician of Alexandria. He and Phi-linus of the isle of Cos were both scholars of Herophilus, and were founders of the empirical sect, which happened about 287 before Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010609-0120 | SERAPIS, in Mythology, an Egyptian deity, who was worshipped under various names and attributes, as the tutelary god of Egypt in general, and as the patron of several of their principal cities. Tacitus informs us, that he was worshipped as a kind of universal deity, that represented Aesculapius, Osiris, Jupiter, and Pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010701-0121 | SEREEK, a town of Persia, in the province of Mekran, about four miles from the coast, near the entrance of the Persian Gulf. It contains a large mud fort and 600 huts, and is 105 miles north of Jask. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010702-0121 | SERENADE (Serenata), a concert of instrumental or of vocal music, or of both, given under the windows of a house, generally after nightfall; and common in Italy and Spain as a mark of amatory respect. The Notturno is of the same kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010703-0121 | SERENUS Sammonicus, a celebrated physician in the reigns of the Emperors Severus and Caracalla, about the year 200. He wrote several treatises on history and the works of nature; but there is only one of them extant, which is a very indifferent poem on the Remedies of Diseases. He was murdered at a festival by the orde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010704-0121 | SERES, a people of the Farther Asia, bounded on the west by Scythia without Imaus, on the north and east by Terra Incognita, and on the south by India beyond the Ganges. According to these limits, their country answers nearly to Cathay or Northern China. Mela places them between the Indi and Scythae, and perhaps beyond... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010705-0121 | SERGE, a woollen quilted stuff, manufactured on a loom with four treddles, after the manner of rateens, and other stuffs that have the whale. The goodness of serges is known by the quilting, as that of cloths by the spinning. Of serges there are various kinds, denominated either from their different qualities or from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010706-0121 | SERGEANT, or S erjeant, at Law, or of the Coif, is the highest degree, taken at the common law, as that of doctor is of the civil law; and as these are supposed to be the most learned and experienced in the practice of the courts, there is one court appointed for them to plead in by themselves, which is the Common Plea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010801-0122 | SERGEANTY (serjeantia) signifies, in Law, a service that cannot be due by a tenant to any lord but the king; and this is either grand sergeanty or petit. The first is a tenure by which the one holds his lands of the king by such services as he ought to do in person to the king at his coronation, and may also concern ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010802-0122 | SERIES, in general, denotes a continual succession of things in the same order, and having the same relation or connection with each other. In this sense we say, a series of emperors, kings, bishops, and the like.
In natural history, a series is used for an order or subdivision of some class of natural bodies; compreh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-010803-0122 | SERIES.
(1.) Series, in Arithmetic or Algebra, a rank or progression of quantities which succeed one another according to some determinate law. For example, the numbers
3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, &c.
constitute a series, the law of which is, that each term exceeds that before it by a given number, viz. 2. Again, the nu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-011901-0133 | SERINAGUR, a principality or province of Northern Hindustan, situated chiefly between the 30th and 32st degrees of north latitude, and between the 77th and 79th of east longitude. It is divided from Thibet by the great mountain-wall of the Himalaya that bounds Hindustan on the north; it has the great plain of the Gange... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 11' N 79 18' E | SERINAGUR |
kp-eb0720-012001-0134 | SERINGAPATAM, a celebrated city of Hindustan, in the province of Mysore, of which it is the capital. Its situation is remarkable, being at the upper end of an island four miles in length by one and a half in breadth, formed by the Cavery, which is here a large and rapid river, having a broad channel, that is, however, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012101-0139 | SERINGHAM, an island formed by the Cavery, opposite to Trichinopoly, in the Carnatic. The river separates into two branches, and about thirteen miles eastward these branches again approach; but the northern, which is at this place twenty feet lower than the southern branch, is permitted to run waste into the sea, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012102-0139 | SERINO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Ulteriore. It stands between two hills, and contains ten parish churches, with 7500 inhabitants, who are employed in making woollen goods and in spinning silk. There is also a very large annual fair held at Serino; and near to it are the ruins of the ancient Roman ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012103-0139 | SERLE’S Island, in the Southern Pacific Ocean. It is seven or eight miles long, and four or five broad, with a lagoon in the middle. Long. 223. E. Lat. 18. 18. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012104-0139 | SERMATTA, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-two miles in length and six in breadth. Long. 129.13. E. Lat. 8. 9. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012105-0139 | SERONGE, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, and province of Malwah. It is situated in a fine open country, well cultivated, and has the remains of ancient prosperity and greater population than at present. The bazaars are strong, and built of stone; and a large caravanserai still remains. The adjacent co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012106-0139 | SERPENS, in Astronomy, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, called more particularly Serpens Ophiuchi. The stars in the constellation Serpens are, in Ptolemy’s catalogue, eighteen; in Tycho’s, thirteen; in Hevelius’s, twenty-two; and in the British catalogue, sixty-four. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-012107-0139 | SERPENTS, or OPHIDIAN REPTILES.
Ιn our article Reptilia (see Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. xix. p. 150) we deemed it advisable to postpone the consideration of the Ophidian order, in the hope that our readers might be benefited by the termination of MM. Dumeril and Bibron’s work, the most complete and careful publica... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015501-0173 | Serpent, a powerful bass musical instrument of the wind kind, invented by a French priest at Auxerre in 1590. See the article Music . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015502-0173 | Serpent, in Mythology, was a common symbol of the sun, and he is represented biting his tail, and with his body formed into a circle, in order to indicate the ordinary course of this luminary. The serpent was also the symbol of Medicine, and of the gods which presided over it, as of Apollo and Aesculapius; and this ani... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015601-0174 | SERPENTARIUS, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, called also Ophiuchus, and anciently Aesculapius. The stars in the constellation Serpentarius are, in Ptolemy’s catalogue twenty-nine, in Tycho’s fifteen, in Hevelius’s forty, and in the British catalogue seventy-four. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015602-0174 | SERPENTINE, in general, denotes any thing that resembles a serpent. Hence the worm or pipe of a still, twisted in a spiral manner, is termed a serpentine worm. Serpentine Verses are such as begin and end with the same word; as,
Ambo dorentes statibus, Arcades ambo.
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kp-eb0720-015603-0174 | SERPOOR, a town of Hindustan, province of Berar, in the nizam’s territories, 104 miles south from Nagpoor. Long. 80. 2. E. Lat. 19. 41. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 41' N 80 2' E | SERPOOR |
kp-eb0720-015604-0174 | SERPUCHOW, a city of European Russia, in the province of Moscow, the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands at the junction of the rivers Nara and Serpeika, which soon after fall into the Oka. It is a place of some trade in corn, tallow, hemp, flax, and wool, which are sent both to Moscow and to St Petersburg.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 55 51' N 37 2' E | SERPUCHOW |
kp-eb0720-015605-0174 | SERRA, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Ulteriore I., containing 4830 inhabitants.
Serra DI Falco, a town of the Island of Sicily, in the province of Mazzara, situated in a moderately healthy plain, sixty-four miles from Palermo. It contains 3800 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015606-0174 | SERRAMANNU, a town of the island of Sardinia, in the diocese of Cagliari. It is situated upon the unhealthy plain of Ippis, and contains 1820 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015607-0174 | SERRANUS, Joannes, or John de Serres, a learned French Protestant, was born about the middle of the sixteenth century. He acquired the Greek and Latin languages at Lausanne, and devoted himself to the study of the philosophy of Aristotle and of Plato. On his return to France he studied divinity, and in 1574 he began to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015608-0174 | SERRATED, in general, something indented or notched in the manner of a saw; a term much used in the description of the leaves of plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0720-015609-0174 | SERRA-VALLE, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Sardinia, in the province of Turin. It is situated on the river Scrivia, has an old castle, four churches, and four monasteries, and a college formerly occupied by the Jesuits. It contains 5420 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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