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kp-eb0703-024901-8798 | ANTHROPOSCOPIA (from av0ζω<πος, and ffκmω, I consider), the art of judging or discovering a man’s character, disposition, passions, and inclinations, from the lineaments of his body; in which sense anthroposcopia seems of somewhat greater extent than physiognomy or metoposcopy. Otto has published an Anthroposcopia, siv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024902-8798 | ANTHROPOTHYSIA, the inhuman practice of offering human sacrifices. See Sacrifice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024903-8798 | ANTHYPOPHORA, in Rhetoric, a figure of speech, being the counterpart of an hypophora. See Hypophora. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024904-8798 | ANTI, a Greek preposition, which enters into the com-, position of several words, both Latin, French, and English, m different senses. Sometimes it signifies before, as an antichamber; and sometimes opposite or contrary, as in the names of these medicines, anti-scorbutic, anti-venereal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024905-8798 | ANTIBAÇĊHIUS, in Ancient Poetry, a foot consisting of three syllables, the first two long, and the last one short: such is the word āmbīrĕ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024906-8798 | ANTIBES, a seaport town of France, in the department of Var, with a strong castle. Its territory produces excellent fruit; and the town stands opposite to Nice, in i the Mediterranean. Long. 7. 9. E. Lat. 43. 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024907-8798 | ANTICHRIST, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes a great adversary of Christianity, who is to appear upon the earth towards the end of the world. Some place his capital at Constantinople, others at Jerusalem, others at Moscow, and some few at London; but the generality at Rome, though these last are divided. Grotius a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024908-8798 | ANTICHRISTIANISM, a state or quality in persons or principles which denominates them antichristian, or opposite to the kingdom of Christ. Μ. Jurieu takes the idea of the unity of the church to have been the source of Antichristianism. Had not mankind been infatuated with this, they would never have stood in such awe of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024909-8798 | ANTICHTHONES, in Ancient Geography, an appellation given to the inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024910-8798 | ANTICOSTE, a barren island lying in the mouth of the river St Lawrence, in North America. Long. 64.16. W. Lat. 49. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024911-8798 | ANTIDICOMARIANITES, ancient heretics who pretended that the Holy Virgin did not preserve a perpetual virginity, but that she had several children by Joseph after quγ Saviour’s birth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024912-8798 | ANTIDORON, in ecclesiastical writers, a name given by the Greeks to the consecrated bread, out of which the middle part, marked with the cross, wherein the consecration resides, being taken away by the priest, the remainder is distributed after mass to the poor. On the sides of the antidoron are impressed the words Jes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-024913-8798 | ANTIDOSIS, in Antiquity, denotes an exchange of estates, practised by the Greeks on certain occasions with peculiar ceremonies, and first instituted by Solon.
When a person was nominated to an office, the expense of which he was not able to support, he had recourse tõ the antidosis; that is, he was to seek some other ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025001-8811 | ANTIGONUS I., one of the captains of Alexander the Great, was the son of Philip, a Macedonian nobleman. After Alexander’s death, a division of the provinces taking place, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Phrygia Major fell tohis share. But Perdiccas, well acquainted with his ambitious spirit and great abilities, determined to div... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025002-8811 | ANTIGRAPHUS, in Antiquity, an officer of Athens, who kept a counterpart of the apodecti, or chief treasurer’s accounts, to prevent mistakes, and keep them from being falsified.
Antigraphus is used by writers in the middle ages for [7:3:251] I a secretary or chancellor. He is thus called, according to the old glossaris... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025101-8824 | ANTIGUA, one of the Antilles or Caribbee Islands, situated 20 leagues east of St Christophers, in long. 61. 45. W. and lat. 17. 6. N. It is about 50 miles in circumference, and is reckoned the largest of all the British leeward islands. This island having no rivers, and but few springs, or such as are brackish, the inh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025102-8824 | ANTIGUGGLER is a crooked tube of metal, so bent as easily to be introduced into the necks of bottles, and used in decanting liquors without disturbing them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025103-8824 | ANTILLES, the French name for the Caribbee Islands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025104-8824 | ANTILOGARITHM, the complement of the logarithm of a sine, tangent, or secant; or the difference of that logarithm from the logarithm of 90 degrees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025105-8824 | ANTILOGY, in matters of literature, an inconsistency between two or more passages of the same book. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025106-8824 | ANITMENSIUM, a kind of consecrated table-cloth, occasionally used in places where there is no proper altar.
Antimensium, in the Greek church, answers to the altare portabile, or portable altar, in the Latin church. They are both only of late invention, though Habertus would have them as old as St Basil. But Durant and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025107-8824 | ANTIMERIA, in Grammar, a figure whereby one part of speech is used for another: e. g. velle suam cuique est, for voluntas sua cuique est ; also populus late rex, for populus late regnans. Antimeria, in a more restrained sense, is a figure where the noun is repeated instead of the pronoun. The antιmeria is frequent in t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025108-8824 | ANTIMETABOLE, in Rhetoric, a figure which sets two things in opposition to each other. The word is Greek, compounded of am, against, and μvraZο7.τ ∣ from 1 usταCαλλω, I shift or transfer, i. e. shifting, or setting two things over against each other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025109-8824 | ANTIMETATHESIS, in Rhetoric, is the inversion of the parts or members of an antithesis. Such is that of Cicero in Verrem, lib. iv. cap. 52: “Compare this peace with that war; the arrival of this governor with the victory of that general; his profligate troops with the invincible army of the other; the luxury of the for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025110-8824 | ANTIMONY, a blackish mineral substance, staining the hands, full of long, shining, needle-like striae, hard, brittle, and considerably heavy. It is found in different parts of Europe, as Bohemia, Saxony, Transylvania, Hungary, France, and England; commonly in mines by itself, intermixed with earth and stony matters. So... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025111-8824 | ANTINOEIA, in Antiquity, annual sacrifices and quinquennial games in - memory of Antinous the Bithyniam They were instituted at the command of Adrian, the Roman emperor, at Mantinea in Arcadia, where Antinous was honoured with a temple and divine worship. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025112-8824 | ANTINOMIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, certain heretics who maintain that the law is of no use or obligation under the gospel dispensation, or who hold doctrines that clearly supersede the necessity of good works and a virtuous life. The Antinomians took their origin from John Agricoa about the year 1538, who taught t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025201-8837 | ANTINOUS, the favourite of Adrian, was born at Bithynus in Bithynia. His beauty engaged the heart of Adrian in such a manner, that there never was a more boundless and extravagant passion than that of this emperor towards this youth. After his death the emperor ordered divine honours to be paid him, and he also erected... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025202-8837 | ANTIOCH, a city of Syria, in Asia, situated on the river Orontes, in long. 36. 5. E. lat. 36. 10. N. It was built by Seleucus Nicator, founder of the Syro-Macedo-nian empire, who made it his capital. It stood on the above-mentioned river, about 20 miles from the place where it falls into the Mediterranean, being equall... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025301-8850 | ANTIOCHIAN Sect or Academy, a name given to what was called the fifth academy. It took the denomination from its being founded by Antiochus, a philosopher contemporary with Cicero. The Antiochian academy succeeded the Philonian. As to doctrine, the philosophers of this sect appear to have restored that of the ancient a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025302-8850 | ANTIOCHUS of Ascalon, a celebrated philosopher, the disciple of Philo of Larissa, the master of Cicero and the friend of Lucullus and Brutus. He was founder of a fifth academy. See Antiochian Sect. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025303-8850 | ANTIOPE, in fabulous history, the wife of Licus, king of Thebes, who being deflowered by Jupiter in the form of a satyr, brought forth Amphion and Zethus. Another Antiope was queen of the Amazons, and, with the assistance of the Scythians, invaded the Athenians, and was vanquished by Theseus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025304-8850 | ANTIPAEDOBAPTISTS, (derived from αvr∕, against, ι Jraις, ναιδος, child, and βa∙τr~ιζω, I baptize, whence βa ι ZτιGτr ∣ ς), is a distinguishing denomination given to those who object to the baptism of infants; because they say infants are incapable of being instructed, and of making that profession of faith which entitl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025305-8850 | ANTIPAROS, an island in the Archipelago, opposite’ to Paros, from which it is separated by a strait about Seven miles over. It is the Oleares or Oliaros mentioned by Strabo, Pliny, Virgil, Ovid, &c.; and was, according to Heraclides Ponticus, as quoted by Stephanus, first peopled by a Phoenician colony from Sidon. Acco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025306-8850 | ANTIPAS Herod, or Herod-Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, by one of his wives called Cleopatra, a [7:3:254]native of Jerusalem. Herod the Great, in his first will, appointed Antipas his successor in the kingdom; but afterwards altering that will, he named his son Archelaus his successor, giving to Antipas the title ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025401-8863 | ANTIPATER, the disciple of Aristotle, and one of Alexander the Great’s generals, was a man of great abilities, and a lover of the sciences; but was accused of poisoning Alexander. He subdued the revolted Thracians, relieved Megalopolis, and overthrew the Spartans there. He died 321 years before the Christian era.
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kp-eb0703-025402-8863 | ANTIPATHY, in Physiology, is formed from the two Greek words, avrι, contrary, and <nabος, passion. Literally taken, the word signifies incompatibility : but for the most part the term antipathy is not used to signify such incompatibilities as arc merely physical; it is reserved to express the aversion which an animated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025501-8876 | AŃTIPELARGIA, among the ancients, a law whereby children were obliged to furnish necessaries to their a^ed parents. The cicoia, or stork, is a bird famous for the care it takes of its parents when grown old; hence, in some Latin writers, this is rendered lex cicoiaria, or the stork’s law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025502-8876 | ANTIPHONARY, Antiphonarium, a service-book, which contained all the invitatories, responsories, collects, and whatever else was sung or said in the choir, except the lessons. This is otherwise called responsorium, from the responses contained therein. The author of the Roman antiphonary was Pope Gregory the Great. We a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025503-8876 | ANTIPHONY, the answer made by one choir to another, when the psalm or anthem is sung between two.
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kp-eb0703-025504-8876 | ANTIPODES, in Geography, a name given to those inhabitants of the globe that live diametrically opposite to each other. The word is Greek, and compounded of αιr∕, opposite, and νους, afoot, because their feet are opposite to each other. Plato is esteemed the first who thought it possible that antipodes subsisted, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025505-8876 | ANTIQUARE, among Roman lawyers, properly denotes the rejecting of a new law, or refusing to pass it. In which sense antiquating differs from abrogating, as the latter imports the annulling of an old law, the former the rejecting of a new one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025506-8876 | ANTIQUARII, a name given to copiers of old books. After the decline of learning among the Romans, and when many religious houses were erected, learning was chiefly in the hands of the clergy, the greater number of whom were regulars, and lived in monasteries. In these houses were many industrious men, who were continua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025507-8876 | ANTIQUARY, a person who studies and searches after monuments and remains of antiquity, as old medals, books, statues, sculptures, and inscriptions, and, in general, all curious pieces that may afford any light into antiquity. In the chief cities of Greece and Italy there were persons of distinction called antiquaries, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-025508-8876 | ANTIQUE, in a general sense, something that is ancient: but the term is chiefly used by sculptors, painters, and architects, to denote such pieces of their different arts as were made by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Thus we say, an antique bust, an antique statue, &c.
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kp-eb0703-025509-8876 | ANTIQUITIES.
Etymologists derive the word antiquities, and many other kindred words, from an obvious source, the Latin preposition ante, before. The great arbiter of language, custom, has ordained that it should mark out and relate to periods of time, not immediately, büt long before the days of those who make use of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026801-9045 | ANTISABBATARIANS, a modern religious sect, who oppose the observance of the Christian sabbath. The great principle of the Antisabbatarians is, that the Jewish sabbath was only of ceremonial, not moral obligation, and consequently is abolished by the coming of Christ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026802-9045 | ANTISCII, people who live on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are projected opposite ways. Thus the people of the north are Antiscii to those of the south; the one projecting their shadows at noon towards the north pole, and the other towards the south pole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026803-9045 | ANTISCORBUTICS, medicines good in scorbutic cases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026804-9045 | ANTISEPTICS, from avτι, and δηπτος. putrid, of or i πω, I putrefy, an appellation given to such substances as resist putrefaction. We have some curious experiments in relation to antiseptic substances by Dr Pringle, who has ascertained their several virtues. Thus, in order to settle the antiseptic virtue of salts, he c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026805-9045 | ANTISPASMODICS are medicines proper for the cure of spasms and convulsions. Opium, balsam of Peru, and the essential oils of many vegetables, are the principal in this class of medicines. . . . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026806-9045 | ANTISTASIS, in Oratory, a defence of an action from the consideration that, had it been omitted, worse would have ensued. This is called by Latin writers comparativum argumentum ; such, e. g. would be the general’s defence who had made an inglorious capitulation, that, without it, the w hole army must have perished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026807-9045 | ANTISTHENES, a Greek philosopher, and founder of the Cynics. He was born at Athens, and passed the former part of his life as a soldier. Having afterwards been an attendant at the lectures of Socrates, he was principally charmed with those exhortations of that great philosopher which persuaded to frugality, to temperan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026808-9045 | ANTISTOCHEON, in Grammar, the using of one letter instead of another; as olli for illi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026809-9045 | ANTISTROPHE, in Grammar, a figure by which two things mutually depending on each other are reciprocally converted; as, the servant of the master, the master of m 6 servant. Antistrophe, among lyric poets, that part of a song and dance, in use among the anċients, which was performed[7:3:269] before the altar, in returni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026901-9058 | ANTITACTAE, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of Gnostics, who held that God was good and just, but that a creature had created evil; and consequently that it is our duty to oppose this author of evil, in order to avenge God of his adversary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026902-9058 | ANTITHESIS, in Rhetoric, a contrast or opposition of words or sentiments. Such is that of Cicero, in the second Catilinarian: “On one side stands modesty, on the other impudence; on one fidelity, on the other deceit; here picty, there sacrilege; here continency, there lust.” | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026903-9058 | ANTITRINITARIANS, those who deny the Trinity, and teach that there are not three persons in the Godhead. Thus the Samosatenians, who do not believe the distinction of persons in God; the Arians, who deny the divinity of the Word; and the Macedonians, who deny that of the Holy Spirit, are all properly Antitrinitarians. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026904-9058 | ANTITYPE, a Greek word, properly signifying a type or figure corresponding to some other type. The word antitype occurs twice in the New Testament, viz. in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ix. 24, and in St Peter, 1 Ep. iii. 21, where its genuine import has been much controverted. The former says that “Christ is not entered... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026905-9058 | ANTIVARI, or Bar, a strongly fortified town and harbour in the Gulf of Venice, in the Turkish pachalic of Iscander or Scuttari. It is a frontier town, the scat of a Catholic bishop, and contains 3500 inhabitants, who are owners of several vessels, which are hired for the coasting trade of the Adriatic Sea. It is in lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026906-9058 | ANTLIA, an ancient machine, supposed to be the same with our pump. Hence the phrase in antham condemnari, according to the critics, denotes a kind of punishment whereby criminals were condemned to drain ponds, ditches, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026907-9058 | ANTOECI, those inhabitants of the earth who live under the same meridian, and at the same distance from the equator; the one toward the north, and the other toward the south. Hence they have the same longitude; and their latitude is also the same, but of a different denomination: they are in the same semicircle of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026908-9058 | ANTOINE, a town of France, in Dauphiny, in the diocese of Vienne, with a celebrated abbey. It is seated among the mountains, 13 miles east of Lyons. Long. 5. 20. E. Lat. 45. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026909-9058 | ANTONIA, Saint, a town of France, in the department of Lot and Garonne, and in the diocese of Rhodes, whose fortifications are demolished. It is seated on the river Aveiron. Long. 0. 55. E. Lat. 44. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026910-9058 | ANTONIAN Waters, medicinal waters of Germany, very pleasant to the taste, and esteemed good in many chronic and hypochondriac cases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026911-9058 | ANTONIANO, Silvio, a man of great learning, who raised himself from a low condition by his merit, was born at Rome in the year 1540. When he was but ten years old he could make verses upon any subject proposed to him. The duke of Ferrara, coming to Rome to congratulate Marcellus II. upon his being raised to the pontifi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-026912-9058 | ANTONIDES Vander Goes, John, an eminent Dutch poet, was born at Goes in Zealand on the 3d of April 1647. His parents were anabaptists, people of good character, but of low circumstances. They went to live at Amsterdam when Antonides was about four years old; and in the ninth year of his age he began his studies, under ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027001-9071 | ANTONINUS Pius, a celebrated Roman emperor, was born a. D. 86, at Lanuvium in Italy. His family had long maintained the honour of the house of Nismes in Gaul, from whence they had descended. Both his father and grandfather had held the office of consul. Arius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, by his amiable disposit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027201-9097 | ANTONINUS’S Wall, the name of the third rampart or defence that had been built or repaired by the Romans against the incursions of the North Britons. It is called by the people in the neighbourhood Graham’s Dike, from the notion that one Graham, or Grimus, first made a breach in it after the retreat of the Romans out o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027202-9097 | ANTONIO, Nicholas, knight of the order of St [7:3:273]James, and canon of Seville, was born at Seville in 1617, beinθ ’ the son of a gentleman whom King Philip IV. made president of the admiralty established in that city in 1626. After having gone through a course of philosophy and divinity in his own country, he went ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027301-9110 | ANIONTUS, Marcus, a famous Roman orator. While he filled the office of pretor, Sicily fell to his lot, and he cleared the seas of the pirates which infested that coast. He was made consul with A. Posthumius Albinus, in the year of Rome 653, when he opposed the turbulent designs of Sextus Titus, tribune of the people, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027401-9123 | ANTONOMASIA, a form of speech, in which, for a proper name, is put the name of some dignity, office, profession, science or trade; or when a proper name is put in the room of an appellative. Thus a king is called his majesty ; a nobleman, his lordship. We say the philosopher instead of Aristotle, and the orator for Cic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027402-9123 | ANTOSIANDRIANS, a sect of rigid Lutherans, who oppose the doctrine of Osiander relating to justification. These are otherwise denominated Osiandromastiges. The Antosiandrians deny that man is made just with that justice wherewith God himself is just; that is, they assert that he is not made essentially, but only imputa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027403-9123 | ANTRIM, a maritime county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster, situate in the northern extremity of the island. It presents a considerable line of coast to the Northern Ocean and to the Irish Channel. By the former it is bounded on the north, and by the latter on the east. Carrickfergus Bay, or Belfast Lough, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027601-9149 | ANTWERP, one of the provinces which compose the kingdom of the Netherlands. It is formed out of the two French departments of the two Drenthes, or out of the more ancient county of Antwerp, and barony of Mechlin. It is bounded on the north-east and north by North Brabant, on the south-east by Limburg, on the south by S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027602-9149 | ANUBIS, a symbolical deity of the Egyptians, was regarded as the faithful companion of Osiris and of Isis. Temples and priests were consecrated to him, and his image was borne in all religious ceremonies. Cynopolis, [7:3:277]situated in the Lower Thebais, was built in honour of 'Anubis. The temple in which he was worsh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027701-9162 | ΑNVIL, in smithery, and other manufactures of the malleable metals, is an instrument on which substances are laid for the purpose of being hammered.
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kp-eb0703-027801-9175 | ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’, a French geographer of the highest eminence, and perhaps the most celebrated in modern times. He was born at Paris on the Hth of July 1697. His passion for geographical research displayed itself from his earliest years. At the age of 12, while reading the Latin authors at college,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-027901-9188 | ANWEILER, a canton in the district of Landau, in the circle of the Rhone, belonging to the kingdom of Bavaria; containing one city and 29 villages. The capital of the canton is of the same name. It contains 1841 persons, employed in various manufactures. Near it are the ruins of the castle of Greifels, where, under the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028001-9201 | AONIDES, in Mythology, one of,,the many appellations of the muses; so called from Aonia, a part of ancient Boeotia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028002-9201 | AORASIA, in .Antiquity, the invisibility of the gods. The word is Greek, aojatf∕α, and derived from α priv. and ogaω, I see. The opinion of the ancients with regard to the appearance of the gods to men was, that they never showed themselves face to face, but were known from their backs as they withdrew. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028003-9201 | AORIST, among grammarians, a tense peculiar to the Greek language, comprehending all the tenses, or rather expressing action in an indeterminate manner, without any regard to past, present, or future. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028004-9201 | AORISTIA, in the sceptic philosophy, denotes that state of the mind wherein we neither assert nor deny any thing positively, but only speak of things as seeming or appearing to us in such a manner. The aoristia is one of the great points or terms of scepticism to which the philosophers of that denomination had continua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028005-9201 | AOSTA, a duchy of Piedmont, separated by the Alps from Savoy and the Valais, and bounded on the east and south by the Navarese and the provinces of Biella and Yvry. The country is in general mountainous; but there are several valleys of great extent, particularly the Vol d’Aosta. By the industry of the inhabitants thes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028006-9201 | APAEDUSIA denotes ignorance or unskilfulness in what relates to learning and the sciences. Hence also persons uninstructed and illiterate are called apaedeutae. The term apaedeutae was particularly used among the French in the time of Huet, when the men of wit at Paris were divided into two factions, one called by way ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028007-9201 | APAĢOGE, in the Athenian law, the carrying a criminal taken in the fact to the magistrate. If the accuser was ņot able to bring him to the magistrate, it was usual to' take the magistrate along with him to the house where the criminal lay concealed or defended himself.
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kp-eb0703-028008-9201 | APAGOGICAL Demonstration, an indirect way of proof, by showing the absurdity of the contrary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028009-9201 | APALACHIAN Mountains. See Allegany Mountains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028010-9201 | APANTHROPY, in Medicine, denotes a love of solitude, and aversion for the company of mankind. Apanthropy is by some reckoned among the symptoms, by others among the species or degrees, of melancholy; and. also passes for an ill indication in leucophlegmatic cases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028011-9201 | APARITHMESIS, in Rhetoric, denotes the answer to the protasis, or proposition itself. Thus, if the protasis be, Appellandi tempus non erat, — the aparithmesis is, At tecum anno plus vixi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028012-9201 | APARTISMENUS, in ancient poetry, an appellation given to a verse which comprehended an entire sense or sentence in itself. This is sometimes also written apar-temenus, z. e. suspended, as not needing any following verse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028013-9201 | APATHY, among the ancient philosophers, implied an utter privation of passion, and an insensibility of pain. The word is compounded of a priv. and πa,Sος, affection. The Stoics affected an entire apathy; they considered it as the highest wisdom to enjoy a perfect calmness or tranquillity of mind, incapable of being ruf... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028014-9201 | APATURIA, in Antiquity, a solemn feast celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Bacchus. The word is usually derived from fraud. It is said to have been instituted in memory of a fraudulent victory obtained by Melanthus, king of Athens, over Xanthus, king of Boeotia, in a single combat, which they agreed upon, to put a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028015-9201 | APAULIA, in Antiquity, the third day of a marriage solemnity. It was thus called because the bride, returning to her father’s house, did αwαuλ∕ζetfda∕ τoυ νυμφίου, lodge apart from the bridegroom. Some will have the apaulia to have been the second day of the marriage, viz. that whereon the chief ceremony was performed;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028016-9201 | APE. See Mammalia, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028017-9201 | APELLES, one of the most celebrated painters of an [7:3:281]tiqufty. Hθ was born in the island of Cos, and flourished in the time of Alexander the Great, with whom he was in high favour. He executed a picture of this prince holdin" a thunderbolt in his hand,—a piece finished with so much skill and dexterity, that it us... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028101-9214 | APELLITES, Christian heretics in the second century, who affirmed that Christ received a body from the four elements, which at his death he rendered back to the world, and so ascended into heaven without a body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028102-9214 | APENE, in Antiquity, a kind of chariot wherein the images of the gods were carried in procession on certain days, attended with a solemn pomp, songs, hymns, dancing, &c. It was very rich, made sometimes of ivory, or of silver itself, and variously decorated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028103-9214 | APENNINUS, now the Apennine, a mountain, or ridge of mountains, running through the middle of Italy, from north-west to south-west, in the form of a crescent (Pliny); beginning at the Alps in Liguria, or the Rivierra di Genoa, and terminating at the Strait of Messana, or at Reggio, and the promontory Leucopetra, and se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028104-9214 | APENRADE, a city in the duchy of Sleswick, the chief of the bailiwick of the same name. It contains 309 houses and 2850 inhabitants. The harbour is shallow, and vessels must discharge below the town. The roadstead at the entrance is without shelter. It is in long. 9. 31. E. lat. 55. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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