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kp-eb0703-028105-9214 | APERTURE, the opening of any thing, or a hole or cleft in any continuous object.
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Aperture, in Geometry, the space between two right lines which meet in a point and form an angle.
Aperture, in Optics, a round hole in a turned bit of , wood or plate of tin, placed within the side or a telescope or microscope,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028201-9227 | APETALOSE, or Apetalous, among botanists, an appellation given to such plants as have no flower-leaves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028202-9227 | APEX, the vertex or summit of any thing.
Apex, in Antiquity, the crest of a helmet, but more especially a kind of cap worn by the flamens.
Apex, among grammarians, denotes the mark of a long syllable, falsely called a long accent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028203-9227 | APHAERESIS, in Grammar, a figure by which a letter or syllable is cut off from the beginning of a word.. Thus cicoia, by aphaeresis, is written conia ; contemnere, temnere ; omittere, mittere, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028204-9227 | APHEĶ, the name of several cities mentioned in Scripture. 1. Aphek in the tribe of Judah, where the Philistines encamped when the ark was brought from Shiloh, which was taken by them in battle. 1 Sam. iv. 1, 2, &c. It is thought to be the same with Aphekah, mentioned in Josh. XV. 53. 2. Aphek in the valley of Jezreel, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028205-9227 | APHELIUM, or Aphelion, in Astronomy, is that point in any planet’s orbit in which it is farthest distant from the sun, being that end of the greater axis of the elliptical orbit of the planet most remote from the focus where the sun is. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028206-9227 | APHIOM, Karahissart, a town of Natolia, in Asiatic Turkey. It is named Aphiom because it produces a great deal of opium, called aphiom by the Turks. Long. 30. 26. E. Lat. 38. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028207-9227 | APHIS, the Puceron, Vine-fretter, or Plant-louse. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028208-9227 | APHLASTUM, in the ancient navigation, a wooden ornament, shaped like a plume of feathers, fastened on the goose’s or swan’s neck used by the ancient Greeks in the heads of their ships. The aphlastum had much the same office and effect in a ship that the crest had on the helmet. It seems also to have had this further us... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028209-9227 | APHONIA, among physicians, signifies a suppression or total loss of voice. It is never a primary disease, but a consequence of many different disorders. The cure is to be effected by removing the disorder from whence the aphonia proceeds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028210-9227 | APHORISM, a maxim or principle of a science, or a sentence which comprehends a great deal in a few words. The word comes from aρορfω, I separate. ∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028211-9227 | APHRACTI, in the ancient military art, denotes open vessels, without decks or hatches, furnished only at head and stern with cross planks, whereon the men stood to fight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028212-9227 | APHRODISIA, in Antiquity, festivals kept in honour of Venus, the most remarkable of which was that celebrated by the Cyprians. At this solemnity several mysterious rites were practised; all who were initiated to them offered a piece of money to Venus as a harlot, and received as a token of the goddess’s favour a measur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028213-9227 | APHRODISIACS, among physicians, medicines which were supposed to increase the quantity of semen, and create an inclination to venery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028214-9227 | APHRODITE, in Mythology, a name of Venus, derived from αp^of, froth; because, according to the poets, Venus is supposed to have been produced from the froth or foam of the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028215-9227 | APHTHARTODOCETAE, a sect, sworn enemies of the council of Chalcedon. The word is derived from apdajroj, incorruptible, and ⅛x≡ω, I imagine; and was given them because they imagined that the body of Jesus Christ was incorruptible and impassible, and not capable of death, They arose among the Eutychians, and made their a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028216-9227 | APIARY. Under the article Bee, in this work, directions will be given at considerable length as to the management of an apiary, and various methods detailed of procuring honey and wax from the hive without destroying the bees themselves. The most economic mode of attaining these ends deserves more attention as a nation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028401-9253 | APICIUS. There were at Rome three persons of that name, all famous for their gluttony. The second is the most celebrated of the three. He lived under Tiberius, and invented divers sorts of cakes which bore his name. He kept as it were a school of gluttony at Rome. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028402-9253 | APINGADAM, a circle in the province of Groningen, in the kingdom of the Netherlands, comprehending four cantons, and containing 40,741 inhabitants. The chief town of the circle bears the same name, is situated on the river Fivel or Damster Diep, and contains 2660 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028403-9253 | APIS, a divinity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians at Memphis, namely, an ox, having certain exterior marks. The soul of Osiris was supposed to subsist in the body of this animal. “ A white spot,” says. Pliny, “resembling a crescent, on the right side, and a lump under the tongue, were the distinguishing marks of Api... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028501-9266 | APOB ATERION, in Antiquity, a valedictory speech or poem, made by a person on departing out of his own country, and addressed to his friends or relations. < v APOCALYPSE, Révélation, the name of one of the sacred books of the New Testament, containing revelations concerning Several important doctrines of Christianity. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028502-9266 | APOCOPE, among grammarians, a figure which cuts off a letter or syllable from the end of a word; as ingeni for ingenii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028503-9266 | APOCRISARIUS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sort of resident in an imperial city, in the name of a foreign church or bishop, whose office was to negotiate, as proctor at the emperor’s court, in all ecclesiastical causes in which his principals might be concerned. The institution of the office seems to have taken place i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028504-9266 | APOCRUSTICS, in Medicine, the same with repellents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028505-9266 | APOCRYPHA, or Apocryphal Books, such books as are not admitted into the canon of Scripture, being either not acknowledged as divine, or considered as spurious. The word is Greek, and derived from affo, and ng>π<rω, I hide or conceal. When the Jews published their sacred books, they gave the appellations of canonical an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028601-9279 | APODECTAE, in Antiquity, a denomination given to ten general receivers appointed by the Athenians to receive the public revenues, taxes, debts, and the like. The apodectae had also a power to decide all controversies arising in relation to money and taxes, except those of the most difficult nature and highest concern, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028602-9279 | APODES, in a general sense, denotes tilings without feet. Zoologists apply the name to a fabulous sort of birds, said to be found in some of the islands of the new world, which, being entirely without feet, supported themselves on the branches of trees by their crooked bills. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028603-9279 | APODICTICAL, among philosophers, a term importing a demonstrative proof, or systematical method of teaching. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028604-9279 | APODYTERIUM, in the ancient baths, the apartments where persons dressed and undressed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028605-9279 | APOGEE, in Astronomy, that point in the orbit of a planet which is at the greatest distance from the earth. The apogee of the sun is that part of the earth’s orbit which is at the greatest distance from the sun; and, consequently, the sun’s apogee and the earth’s aphelion are one and the same point. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028606-9279 | APOLIDES, in Antiquity, those condemned for life to the public works, or exiled into some island, and thus divested of the privileges of Roman citizens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028607-9279 | APOLLINARIAN Games, in Roman Antiquity, were instituted in the year of Rome 542. The occasion was a kind of oracle delivered by the prophet Marcus after the fatal battle at Cannae, declaring that, to expel the enemy, and cure the people of an infectious disease which then prevailed, sacred games were to be annually per... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028608-9279 | APOLLINARIANS, Apollinarists, called also by Epiphanius Dimaritoe, ancient heretics, who denied the proper humanity of Christ, and maintained that the body which he assumed was endowed with a sensitive, and not a rational soul, but that the divine nature supplied the place of the intellectual principle in man. This sec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028609-9279 | APOLLINARIS, Caius Sulpicius, a very learned’ grammarian, born at Carthage, lived in the 2d century, under the Antonines. He is supposed to be the author of the verses which are prefixed to the comedies of Terence, and which contain the arguments of them. He had for his successor in the profession of grammar Helvius Pe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028610-9279 | APOLLO, in Mythology, a pagan deity worshipped by the Greeks and Romans. Cicero mentions four of this name, the most ancient of whom was the son of Vulcan; the second a son of Corybas, and born in Crete; the third an Arcadian, called Nomian, from his being a great legislator; and the last, to whom the greatest honour i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028701-9292 | APOLLODORUS, a famous architect under Trajan and Adrian, was born at Damascus. He had the direction of the bridge of stone which Trajan ordered to be built over the Danube in the year 104, which was esteemed the most magnificent of all the works of that emperor. Adrian, one day as Trajan was discoursing with this archi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-028702-9292 | APOLLONIUS of Perga, in Pamphylia, is one of the most illustrious of the ancient Greek geometricians. The date of his birth has not been precisely ascertained; but as he flourished under Ptolemy Philopater, who died in the year 205 b c., after a reign of 16 years, it is conjectured that he was born about the middle of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029001-9331 | APOLLOS, in Scripture History, a Jew of Alexandria, who came to Ephesus during the absence of St Paul, who was gone to Jerusalem. (Acts xviii. 24.) Apollos was an eloquent man, and well versed in the Scriptures; and as he spoke with zeal and fervour, he taught diligently the things of God: but knowing only the baptism ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029002-9331 | APOLLYON, a Greek word that signifies the destroys and answers to the Hebrew Αbaddon. St John in the Revelation (ix. 11) says that an angel having opened the bottomless pit, a thick smoke issued out of it, and with this smoke locusts, like horses prepared for battle, and commanded by the angel of the bottomless pit, ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029101-9344 | APOLOGUE, in matters of literature, an ingenious method of conveying instruction by means of a feigned relation called a moral fahle. The only difference between a parable and an apologue is, that the former, being drawn from what passes among mankind, requires probability in the narration; whereas the apologue, being ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029102-9344 | APOMYOS Deus (cwro, and μ∙xa,fly), in the Heathen Mythology, a name under which Jupiter was worshipped at Elis, and Hercules as well as Jupiter at the Olympic games. These deities were supplicated under this name to destroy or drive away the vast number of flies which always attended at the great sacrifices; and in tho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029103-9344 | APONO, Peter d’, one of the most famous philosophers and physicians of his age, born in the year 1250, in a village about four miles from Padua. He was suspected of magic, and prosecuted by the inquisition. “The common opinion of almost all authors,” says Naudé, “is, that he was the greatest magician of his age; that h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029104-9344 | APOPEMPTIC, in ancient poetry, a hymn addressed to a stranger on his departure from a place to his own country. The ancients had certain holydays, wherein they took leave of the gods with apapemptic songs, as supposing them returning each to his own country. The deities having the patronage of divers places, it was but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029105-9344 | APOPHTHEGM, a short, sententious, and instructive remark, pronounced by a person of distinguished character. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029106-9344 | APOPLEXY, a distemper in which the patient is suddenly deprived of all his senses, and of voluntary motion. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029107-9344 | APORIA, a figure in Rhetoric, by which the speaker shows that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what to say in some strange and ambiguous thing, and, as it wcrc, argues the case with himself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029108-9344 | APORON, or Aporime, a problem difficult to resolve, and which has never been resolved, though it be not in itself impossible. The word is derived from awogcς, which signifies something very difficult and impracticable, being formed from the privative α, and ∙ποξος, passage. When a question was proposed to any of the Gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029109-9344 | APOSIOPESIS, in Rhetoric, afterwards called reticency and suppression, a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, at the same time that he makes a show as if he would say nothing of it. The word comes from ασoff∕ωwαω, I am silent. It is commonly used to denote the same with ellipsis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029110-9344 | APOSPHRAGISMA (from awo, and o ’ %α∕∕ζω, I seaD, in Antiquity, the figure or impression of a seal. It was forbidden among the ancients to have the figure or image of God on their rings and seals. To this purpose the precept of Pythagoras, Er oαzτ∪λ∕ω s/zom Θsou μr, π ’ ipφiζnv! But in process of time this was little re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029111-9344 | APOSTASY, a renouncing of the true religion. The primitive Christian church distinguished several kinds of apostasy. The first, of those who went over entirely from Christianity to Judaism; the second, of those who mingled Judaism and Christianity together; and the third, of those who complied so far with the Jews as t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029112-9344 | APOSTLE properly signifies a messenger or person sent by another upon some business; and hence, by way of eminence, denotes one of the disciples commissioned by Jesus Christ to preach the gospel.
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kp-eb0703-029201-9357 | APOSTOLIC, in the primitive church, was an appellation given to all such churches as were founded by the apostles; and even to the bishops of those churches, as being the reputed successors of the apostles. These were confined to four, viz. Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. In after-times other churches assumed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029202-9357 | APOSTOLIANS, a sect of the Mennonites, which first sprung up in the year 1663, and derived its name from Apostool, one of the Mennonite ministers at Amsterdam. They concurred with them in doctrine, and admitted to their communion those only who professed to believe all the sentiments which are contained in their public... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029301-9370 | APOSTOLICI, or Apo sτoLies, was a name assumed by three different sects, on account of their pretending to imitate the manner and practice of the apostles. The first a postolici, otherwise called Apotactitae and Apotactici, rose out of the Encratitae and Cathari in the third century. They made profession of abstaining ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029302-9370 | APOSTOLICUM is a peculiar name given to a kind of song or hymn, anciently used in churches. The apostolicum is mentioned by Greg. Thaumaturgus as used in his time. Vossius understands it as spoken of the apostles’ creed: Suicer thinks this impossible, because this creed was then unknown in the churches of the East. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029303-9370 | APOSTROPHE, in Rhetoric, a figure by which a person who is either absent or dead is addressed as if he were present and attentive to us. This figure is, in bold-* ness, a degree lower than the addresses to personified objects (see Personification), since it requires a less effort of imagination to suppose persons prese... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029304-9370 | APOTACTITAE, or Apotactici, an ancient sect, who, affecting to follow the examples of the apostles and primitive Christians, renounced all their possessions, and devoted them to the common cause. It does not appear that they at first fell into any errors. Some ecclesiastical writers assure us that several holy virgins ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029305-9370 | APOTEICHISMUS, in the ancient military art, a kind of line of circumvallation drawn round a place in order to besiege it. This was also called periteichismus. The first thing the ancients went about when they designed to lay close siege to a place, was the apoteichismus, which sometimes consisted of a double wall or ra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029306-9370 | APOTHECARY, one who practises the art of pharmacy. In London, the apothecaries are one of the city companies. They were incorporated by a charter from King James I., procured at the solicitation of Dr Mayerne and Dr Atkins: till that time they only made a part of the grocers’ company; plums, sugar, spice, &c. being sol... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029307-9370 | APOTHEOSIS, in Antiquity, a heathen ceremony, whereby their emperors and great men were placed among the gods. The word is derived from απo, and Qzος, God. After the apotheosis, which they also called deification and consecration, temples, altars, and images were erected to the new deity; sacrifices, &c. were offered, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029308-9370 | APOTOME, in Geometry, the difference between two incommensurable lines.
Apo to me, in Music, the difference between a greater and a lesser semi-tone; expressed by the ratio, 128, 125. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029309-9370 | APOTROPAE (from ατovgswω, I avert), in the ancient poetry, verses composed for averting the wrath of incensed deities; and the deities invoked for averting any threatened misfortune were called Apotrepeans. They, were also called Alexiaci, from αλεξω, I drive away ; and Averrunci, from averrunco, which denotes the same... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029310-9370 | APPARATUS, a term used to denote a complete set of instruments, or other utensils, belonging to any artist or machine.— Apparatus is also used as a title of several books composed in the form of catalogues, bibliothecas, dictionaries, &c. for the ease and convenicncy of study. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-029311-9370 | APPARENT, in a general sense, something that is visible to the eyes, or obvious to the understanding.
Apparent, among mathematicians and astronomers, denotes things as they appear to us, in contradistinction from real or true: thus we say, the apparent diameter; distance, magnitude, place, figure, &c. of bodies.
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kp-eb0703-029401-9383 | APPARITIONS.
An apparition may be defined a spectral illusion, involuntarily generated, by means of which figures or forms, not present to the actual sense, are nevertheless depictured with a vividness and intensity sufficient to create a temporary belief of their reality. It is the result of the re-action of an excit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030801-9565 | APPARITOR, among the Romans, a general term to comprehend all attendants of judges and magistrates appointed to receive and execute their orders. Apparitor, in England, is a messenger that serves the process of a spiritual court, or a beadle in â university who carries the mace. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030802-9565 | APPAUMEE, in Heraldry, denotes one hand extended with the full palm appearing, and the thumb and fingers at full length. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030803-9565 | APPEAL, in Law, the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior court or judge, when a person thinks himself aggrieved by the sentence of the inferior judge. Appeals lie from the ordinary courts of justice to the house of lords. In ecclesiastical cases, ií an appeal is brought before a bishop, it may be removed t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030804-9565 | APPELLATION, the name by which any thing is known or distinguished when spoken of. Nothing can be more foreign to the original meaning of many words and proper names than their present or vulgar appellations; frequently owing to the history of those things being forgotten, or an ignorance of the language in which they ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030805-9565 | APPELLATIVE Names, in Grammar, in contradistinction to proper names, are such as stand for universal ideas, or a whole rank of beings, whether general or special. Thus, ι ∕⅛ bird, man, city, river, are common or appellative names; and so are trout, eel, lobster ; for they all agree to many individuals, and some to many... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030806-9565 | APPENZELL, one of the cantons of Switzerland. It is a mountainous district, surrounded by the canton of St Gall. Three chains of hills, continuations of the Alps, with valleys between them, form the chief part of the surface. The highest point of the hills is 7671 feet. In these are some extraordinary natural excavatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030901-9578 | APPETITE, in a general sense, the desire of enjoying some object, supposed to be conducive to our happiness. This term is applied particularly to hunger, thirst, and the appetite of sex. Considered as principles of action, the appetites are distinguished by the following circumstances :—1. They take their rise from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030902-9578 | APPIA Via, a way reaching from Rome through Capua to Brundusium, between 330 and 350 miles long. Appius Claudius, surnamed Caecus, in the year of the city 441, carried it from the Porta Capena to Capua. (Livy, Frontinus.) It was afterwards carried on to Brundusium, but by whom, or when, is uncertain. It was laid with v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030903-9578 | APPIAN, an eminent writer of the Roman history in Greek, under the reigns of Trajan and Adrian. He was of a good family in Alexandria in Egypt; whence he went to Rome, and there distinguished himself so well as an advocate, that he was chosen one of the procurators of the empire, and the government of a province was co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030904-9578 | APPIUS Claudius, a Sabine by birth, one of the principal inhabitants of Regillum. His shining merit having drawn the envy of his fellow-citizens upon him, he retired to Rome with all his family. Appius was admitted into the senate, and was made consul with Publius Servilius Priseus in 258 from the building of Rome; but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030905-9578 | APPLAUSE, an approbation of something, signified by clapping pre hands, still practised in theatres. Applause, m antiquity, differed from acclamation, as the latter was articulate and performed with the voice, the former with the hands. Among the Romans, applause was an artificial kind of noise made -by the audience or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030906-9578 | APPLE. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030907-9578 | APPLEBY, a small market and borough town in the county of Westmoreland, 269 miles from London, 14 from Penrith, and 32 from Carlisle. It is on the river Eden, which nearly surrounds it. The assizes and the election of county members are held here. It returns two members to parliament. There is a corn market held on Sat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030908-9578 | APPLICATION, in a general sense, is the laying of two things together, in order to discover their agreement or disagreement.
Application, in Geometry, is used either for division; for applying one quantity to another, whose areas, but not figure, shall be the same; or for transferring a given line into a circle or oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030909-9578 | APPOLLONIA, a considerable kingdom in Africa, about 100 miles in length, situated on the Gold Coast, from the western extremity of which it extends to the river Ancobra. The territory being intersected by numerous small streams which overflow their banks during the rainy season, is very well adapted for the growth of r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030910-9578 | APPOLONIA, a town of Austrian Italy, in the delegation of Brescia, in the government of Venetian Lombardy. It is in a lofty situation, and contains 1386 inhabitants, who are mostly employed in making gun-locks, bayonets, swords, and other implements of war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030911-9578 | APPOSITION, in Grammar, the placing of two or more substantives together, in the same case, without any copulative conjunction between them; as Ardebat Alexim, delicias domini. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-030912-9578 | APPRAISER (from ad, to, and pretium, value), one who rates or sets a value upon goods, &c. He must be [7:3:310]a skilful and honest person. It is not a business of itself, but is practised by brokers of household furniture, to which set of men the word is chiefly applied; yet upholsterers and other brokers are employed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031001-9591 | APPREHENSION, in Logic, denotes the simple attention of the mind to an object presented either to our sense or our imagination, without passing a judgment or making an inference.
Apprehension, in Law, signifies the seizing of a criminal in order to bring him to justice. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031002-9591 | APPRENTICE (from apprendre, to learn), one who is bound by covenant to serve a tradesman or artificer a certain time, upon condition of the master’s instructing him in his art or mystery.
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kp-eb0703-031003-9591 | APPRENTICESHIP, the servitude of an apprentice, or the duration of his indenture.
Seven years seem anciently to have been, all over Europe, the usual term established for the duration of apprenticeships in the greater part of incorporated trades. All such incorporations were anciently called universities which indeed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031101-9604 | APPROACHING, in fowling, a term used to express such devices as are contrived for the getting within shot of shy birds. It is principally used in marshy low places. The best method of approaching is by means of three hoops tied together at proper distances, according to the height of the man that is to use it, and havi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031102-9604 | APPROBATION, a state or disposition of the mind, wherein we put a value upon, or become pleased with, some person or thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031103-9604 | APPROPRIATION, in the Canon Law, a severing of a benefice ecclesiastical to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031104-9604 | APPROVER, in Law, one who, professing felony in himself, appealeth or impeacheth another or more of his accomplices. He is so called from the French approuver, comprobare, because he must prove what he hath alleged in his appeal. This proof was anciently either by battle or by the country, at the choice of the appellee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031105-9604 | APPROXIMATION, in Arithmetic and Algebra, the coming nearer and nearer to a root, or other quantity sought, without expecting ever to find it exactly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031106-9604 | APPULSE, in Astronomy, the approach of any planet to a conjunction with the sun or a star. It is a step towards a transit, occultation, conjunction, eclipse, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031107-9604 | APRIES, son of Psammis, king of Egypt, the same with Pharaoh Hophrah in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. He ruined Sidon, and some say he put Jeremiah to death. He thought neither God nor man could dethrone him, which yet was easily done by Amasis, and he himself was strangled by the Egyptians. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031108-9604 | APRIL, the fourth month of the year, according to the common computation; but the second according to that of the astronomers. It contains 30 days. The word is derived from Aprilis, of aperio, I open, because the earth in this month begins to open her bosom for the production of vegetables. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031109-9604 | APRON, in Naval Architecture, is a piece of curved timber fixed behind the lower part of the stern, immediately above the foremost end of the keel.
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Apron is also a name given to a platform or flooring of plank, raised at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock-gates are shut.
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kp-eb0703-031201-9617 | APSIS, in ecclesiastical writers, denotes an inner part in the ancient churches, wherein the clergy sat, and where the altar was placed. It is supposed to have been thus called because covered with an arch or vault of its own, by the Greeks called aψ∕ς, by the Latins absis. Apsis, in this sense, amounts to the same wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031202-9617 | APT, an arrondissement in the department of Vaucluse in France, extending over 500 square miles, or 380,000 acres. It is divided into four cantons, and those into fifty communes, containing 52,553 inhabitants.
Apt, a city, chief of the arrondissement of the same name in France, situated on the river Calavon. It has a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031203-9617 | APTOTE, among grammarians, an indeclinable noun, or one which has no variation of cases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031204-9617 | APULEIUS, Lucius, a Platonic philosopher, well known by his performance entitled the Golden Ass. He lived in the second century, under the Antonines, and was born at Madaura, a Roman colony in Africa. He studied first at Carthage, then at Athens, and afterwards at Rome, where he learned the Latin tongue without the hel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031205-9617 | APYCNI Suoni, in Music, sounds distant one or more octaves, and yet concord. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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