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kp-eb0703-031206-9617 | APYCNOS, in Music, is said of the diatonic genus, on account of its having spacious intervals, in comparison of the chromatic and enharmonic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031207-9617 | APYREXY, among physicians, denotes the intermission of a fever. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031208-9617 | APYROUS, a word applied to denote that property of∣ some bodies, by which they resist the most violent fire without any sensible alteration. Apyrous bodies ought to be distinguished from those which are refractory. Refractory substances are those which cannot by violent heat be fused, whatever other alteration they may... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031209-9617 | AQUA, a term frequently met with in the writings of physicians, chemists, &c. for certain medicines or menstruums, in a liquid form, distinguished from each other by peculiar epithets.
AQUA Exstincta, or Extinguished Water, is aqua fortis into which some river water has been poured, in order to qualify it, and render ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031501-9656 | AQUAMBOE, a large kingdom in the interior of the Gold Coast of Africa, extending 20 miles along the banks of the Rio Volta, which separates it from Aquapim, and reaching 100 miles inland. About a century ago it was considered the most powerful kingdom on all this coast, and the king held all the neighbouring potentates... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031502-9656 | AQUAPENDENTE. See Fabricius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031503-9656 | AQUAPIM, a kingdom of considerable extent in the interior of the Gold Coast of Africa, immediately behind Aera, and having on the other side Aquamboe. This country is said to vie in beauty and fertility with any in the world. It is finely diversified with wooded hills and highly cultivated valleys, the former having us... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031504-9656 | AQUARIANS, Christians in the primitive church who consecrated water in the eucharist instead of wine. This they did under pretence of abstinence and temperance, or because they thought it universally unlawful to eat flesh or drink wine. Epiphanius calls them Encratites, from their abstinence; St Austin, Aquarians, from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031505-9656 | AQUARIUS, the Water-bearer, in Astronomy, the 11th sign of the zodiac. It is marked thus, χχ. The poets feign that Aquarius was Ganymede, whom Jupiter ravished under the shape of an eagle, and carried away into heaven to serve as a cup-bearer in the room of Hebe and Vulcan; whence the name. Others hold that the sign wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-031506-9656 | AQUATINTA Engraving, so called from its near resemblance to water-colour drawings, is of modern invention, and was much practised about 12 or 15 years ago, since which period it has not been so much in fashion.
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kp-eb0703-031701-9682 | AQUEDUCT, a conduit or channel for the conveyance of water. It is derived from aqua, water, and ductus, a conduit. It is applied more particularly to those structures of masonry which have been erected for the conveyance of water across valleys, to which, however, we would rather give the name of aqueduct bridges, exte... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032301-9760 | AQUILA, or Aquila and Antinous, the Eagle, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, usually joined with Antinous. In Bode’s description of the constellations Aquila contains 276 stars, four of which are double, and three nebulous.
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kp-eb0703-032302-9760 | AQUILICIUM, or Aquiliciana, in Roman Antiquity, sacrifices performed in times of excessive drought, to obtain rain of the gods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032303-9760 | AQUILUS, among the ancients, a dark or dusky colour approaching to black. Hence some of the heathen gods were called dii aquili, q. d. nigri. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032304-9760 | AQUIMINARIUM, in Antiquity, a kind of lustral vessels, wherein the Romans carried their holy water for expiation and other religious offices. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032305-9760 | AQUINAS, St Thomas, styled the Angelical Doctor, was of the ancient and noble family of the counts of Aquino, descended from the kings of Sicily and Arragon; and was born in the castle of Aquino, in the Terra di Lavora in Italy, in the year 1224 or 1225. He entered into the order of the Dominicans; and, after having ta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032306-9760 | AQUINO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and Terra di Lavora; a bishop’s see, but ruined by the emperor Conrade, and now consisting of about 35 houses. It was the birthplace of the poet Juvenal, and of Thomas Aquinas. Long. 14. 30. E. Lat. 41. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032307-9760 | ARA, or Ara Thuribuli, the altar of incense, in Astronomy, a southern constellation, not visible in our horizon. It consists, according to Bode, of 81 stars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032308-9760 | ARABESQUE, or Arabesk, something done after the manner of the Arabians. Arabesque, ' Grotesque, and Moresque, are terms applied to paintings and ornaments where there are no human or animal figures, but which consist wholly of foliages, plants, stalks, &c. The words take their rise from hence, that the Moors, Arabs, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-032309-9760 | ARABIA.
This extensive country, which is situated at the southwestern extremity of Asia, has been famed in all ages for freedom and independence; for the peculiar character and manners of its rude tribes; and for the wild and interesting aspect of its interior deserts, contrasted with the fertility of other tracts, of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034601-0059 | ARABICI, a sect who sprung up in Arabia about the year 207, whose distinguishing tenet was, that the soul died with the body, and also arose again with it. Eusebius (lib. vi. c. 38) relates that a council was called to stop the progress of this rising sect; and that Origen assisted at it, and convinced them so thorough... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034602-0059 | ARABISM, Arabismus, an idiom or manner of speaking peculiar to the Arabs or the Arabic language. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034603-0059 | ARABIST, a person curious of and skilled in the learning and language of the Arabians: such were Erpenius and Golius. The surgeons of the 13th century are called Arabists by Severinus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034604-0059 | ARACAN. See Arracan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034605-0059 | ARACHNE, in fabulous history, a young maid of Lydia, said to have been' the inventress of spinning. She is fabled to have been so skilful in this art as to challenge Minerva at it, who tore her work, and struck her; which disgrace driving her to despair, she hanged herself. Minerva, from compassion, brought her to life... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-034701-0072 | ARACHNIDES, From αgαχv¾ a spider, and t ∣ oος, resemblance, a class of invertebrated animals, formerly regarded as true insects, . and as such classed by Linnaeus in his order Aptera, under the generic names of Phalangium, Aranea, Acarus, and Scorpio. The Arachnides were first formed into a distinct class by Μ. Lamarck... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037001-0371 | ARACHNOIDES, in Anatomy, an appellation given to several membranes,—as the tunic of the crystalline humour of the eye, the external lamina of the pia mater, and one of the coverings of the spinal marrow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037002-0371 | ARACK. See Arrack. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037003-0371 | ARAEOMETER (composed of agaιος, levis, tenuis, and μtτξον, measure), a measure of the comparative density and rarity of bodies. The name does not occur in ancient authors; hydroscopium and baryllium being the ancient names of the instrument. This instrument was known in the civilized part of the Roman empire about the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037201-0397 | ARAEOPAGUS. See Attica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037202-0397 | ARAEOSTYLE, in Architecture, a term used by Vitruvius to signify the greatest interval which can be made between columns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037203-0397 | ARAEOTICS, in Medicine, remedies which rarefy the humours, and render them easy to be carried off by the pores of the skin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037204-0397 | ARAFAH, the ninth day of the last month of the Ara bic year, named Dhoulhegiat, on which the pilgrims of Mecca perform their devotions on a neighbouring mountain called Arafat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037205-0397 | ARAFAT, Mount, a celebrated mountain in Arabia, held in high veneration by the Mahometans. A visit to this mountain constitutes a necessary part of the religious pilgrimage to Mecca; which we have described at [7:3:373]length under the article Arabia. The mountain consists of a granite rock about 150 feet high, which i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037301-0410 | ARAGON, or Arragon, a province, or, as it is usually denominated by the inhabitants of the peninsula, a kingdom, of Spain, and one of the component parts of that monarchy, situated between 40. 17. and 42. 51. N. lat. It is almost surrounded by Old and New Castile, but to the south the province of Valencia adjoins it an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037401-0423 | ARAHUM, or Haraħum, in ancient writers, denotes a place consecrated or set apart for holy purposes. Hence the phrase in araho jurare, or conjurare, to make oath in the church; because, by the Ripuarian laws, all oaths were to be taken in the church on the relics of the saints. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037402-0423 | ARAL, a great lake lying a little to the eastward of the Caspian Sea. Its length from north to south is said to be near 150 miles, and its breadth from east to west about 70. The shore on the west side is high and rocky, and destitute of good water; yet there are abundance of wild horses, asses, antelopes, and wolves; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037403-0423 | ARAMONT, a town of Languedoc in France, seated on the river Rhone. Long. 4. 52. E. Lat. 43. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037404-0423 | ARANDA de Duero, a town of Spain, in Old Castile, in the province of Burgos, on the right bank of the river Duero. It contains 3300 inhabitants. Long. 3. 9. 24. W. Lat. 4L 40. 12. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037405-0423 | ARANJUEZ, a town of Spain, about 20 miles from Madrid. It is situated on the banks of the Tagus, a little below the junction of the rivers Xarama, Manzanares, and Tajuna with that stream. The town is small, but well built, and the principal street, the Calle Peyna, is one of the most beautiful in Spain. Near this town ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037406-0423 | ARARAT, a lofty mountain of Armenia, which rises from the adjacent plain to the height of 9500 feet, lt has two peaks covered with perpetual snow, which, viewed from the north, are seen to be separated by a deep glen in the body of the mountain. From the slope of this deep cleft the lesser head rises in a perfectly con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037407-0423 | ARASSI, a maritime, populous, and trading town of Italy, in the territory of Genoa. Long. 7. 20. E. Lat. 44. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037408-0423 | ARATEIA, in Antiquity, a yearly festival celebrated at Sicyon, on the birth-day of Aratus, wherein divers honours were paid by a priest consecrated to this service, who for distinction’s sake wore a riband bespangled with white and purple spots. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037409-0423 | ARATUS, general of the Achaeans, conquered Nicoles, tyrant of Sicyon. Two years after he surprised Acrocorinthus, and drove out the king of Macedonia: he delivered Argos from its tyrants, and was poisoned by Philip liking of Macedonia, whom he had newly restored. He was about 62 when he died, the second year of the 141... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037501-0436 | ARAUCANIA, a district of Chili, in South America, lying between 37° and 39° of south latitude. The Araucanians had a certain tincture of civilization, which was united with a high and unconquerable spirit of independence. They warred with the Spaniards for more than a century, and though often vanquished in the field, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037502-0436 | ARAUSIO, Civitas Arausiensis or Arausicoum, or Colonia Secundanorum ; so called, because the veterans of the second legion were there settled; now Orange, in the west of Provence, on an arm of the rivulet Egue. An ancient amphitheatre is still to be seen here. Long. 4. 46. E. Lat. 44. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 10' N 4 46' E | ARAUSIO |
kp-eb0703-037503-0436 | ARAW, a town of Switzerland, in Argow, seated on the river Aar. It is handsome, large, and remarkable for its church, its fountain, and the fertility of the soil. Long. 8. 0. E. Lat. 47. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037504-0436 | ARBACES governed Media under Sardanapalus. Seeing him spinning among a company of his women, he stirred up his people to revolt, and dethroned Sardanapalus, who thereupon burnt himself in his palace. Arbaces being crowned, began the monarchy of the Medes, which lasted 317 years under nine kings, till Astyages was expel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037505-0436 | ARBALEST, or Cross-bow. See Cross-bow. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037506-0436 | ARBE, anciently Arba, an island and city of Illyria, in the gulf of Quarnaro. Of this island, which has been but slightly noticed by geographers, there is a full account in the Abbé Fortis’s Account of Dalmatia. The appearance of the island is exceedingly pleasant. On the east it has a very high mountain, at the foot o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037507-0436 | ARBELA, now Irbil, a city of Assyria, lying in long. 44. 5. E. lat. 35. 15. N. It is famous for the last and decisive battle fought in its neighbourhood between Alexander the Great and Darius Codomannus. This battle was fought 331 years before Christ, and determined the fate of the Persian empire. Arrian relates, that ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037508-0436 | ARBERG, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of Bern, with a handsome castle, where the bailiff resides. It is seated on the river Aar, in a kind of island. Long. 7. 15. E. Lat. 47. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037509-0436 | ARBITER, .in the Civil Law, implies a judge nominated by the magistrate, or chosen voluntarily by the two contending parties, in order to decide their differences. The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator though both found their power on the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to j... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037510-0436 | ARBITRARY, that which is left to the choice or arbitration of men, or not fixed by any positive law or injunction.
Arbitrary Punishment, in Law, denotes such punishments as are by statute left to the discretion of the judge. It is a general rule in arbitrary punishments, that the judge cannot inflict death. Hence all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037511-0436 | ARBOIS, a small populous town of France, in the department of Jura, formerly Franche Compté, famous for its wines. Long. 5. 40. E. Lat. 46. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037512-0436 | ARBON, one of the eight circles into which the canton of Thurgaw is divided.
Arbon, a town of Switzerland, chief of the circle of the same name. It contains 170 houses and 900 inhabitants, about equally catholics and reformed protestants, who use the only church alternately, and divide the magistracy between them equa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037513-0436 | ARBOUR, in Gardening, a kind of shady bower, formerly in great esteem. Arbours are generally made of lattice work, either of wood or iron; and covered with elms, limes, and hornbeams; or with creepers, as honeysuckles, jessamines, or passion-flowers; either of which will answer the purpose very well, if rightly managed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037601-0449 | ARBROATH. See Aberbrotnick. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037602-0449 | ARBURG, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of Bern, on the river Aar. It is small, but very strong, being seated on a rock, and defended by a good fortress cut out of the rock. Long. 7. 55. E. Lat. 47. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037603-0449 | ARBUSTUM implies a number or multitude of trees planted for the fruit’s sake. The word was more peculiarly applied to a place planted with trees for fastening vines to, which are hence called by Columella Arbustivae. Arbustum is sometimes also used to denote an orchard, or field wherein trees are planted at such distan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037604-0449 | ARBUTHNOT, Alexander, principal of the university of 'Aberdeen in the reign of James VI. of Scotland, was born in the year 1538. He studied first at Aberdeen, and was afterwards sent over to France, where, under the famous Cujacius, he applied himself to the study of the civil law. In the year 1563 he returned to Scotl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037701-0462 | ARC, Joan of, generally called the Maid of Orleans, one of the most famed heroines in the annals of history, was born about the beginning of the 15th century, at Domremy, near Vaucouleurs, in Lorrain, where her father, a peasant, named James d’Arc, resided. When she was able in the least degree to earn a sustenance for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037801-0475 | ARCADE, in Architecture, is used to denote any opening in the wall of a building formed by an arch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037802-0475 | ARCESILAUS, a celebrated Greek philosopher, about 300 years before the Christian era, was born at Pitane, i∏ Eolis. He founded the second academy, called the second or middle school. He was a man of great erudition, and had many disciples. The middle school laid it down as a principle, that we could know nothing, nor e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-037803-0475 | ARCH.
1. Arch, in building, is an artful disposition and adjustment of several stones or bricks, generally in a bow-like form, by which their weight produces a mutual pressure and abutment; so that they not only support each other, and perform the office of an entire lintel, but may be extended to any width, and made ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039601-0709 | ARCHAEUS, or Archeus. See Arcneus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039602-0709 | ARCHANGEL, a Russian government or stadtholdership in the north of the eastern hemisphere of the globe; for though the city as well as the circle of the same name is comprehended in Europe, yet the government extends, according to Russian division, over great part of Asia. It is bounded on the north by the Frozen Ocean... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039701-0722 | ARCHBISHOP, the name of a church dignitary of the first class. Archbishops were not known in the East till about the year 320; and though there were some soon after this who had the title, yet that was only a personal honour, by which the bishops of considerable cities were distinguished. It was not till of late that a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039702-0722 | ARCHBISHOPRIC, in Ecclesiastical Geography, a province subject to the jurisdiction of an archbishop. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039703-0722 | ARCHBUTLER, one of the great officers of the German empire, who presents the cup to the emperor on solemn occasions. This office belongs to the king of Bohemia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039704-0722 | ARCHCHAMBERLAIN, an officer of the empire, much the same with the great chamberlain in England. The elector of Brandenburg was appointed by the golden bull arch chamberlain of the empire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039705-0722 | ARCHCHANCELLOR, a high officer, who in ancient times presided over the secretaries of the court. Under the first two races of the kings of France, when their territories were divided into Germany, Italy, and Arles, there were three archchancellors; and hence the three archchancellors still subsisting in Germany—the arc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039801-0735 | ARCHCHANTER, the president of the chanters of a church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039802-0735 | ARCHCOUNT, a title formerly given to the earl of Flanders on account of his great power and riches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039803-0735 | ARCHDEACON, an ecclesiastical dignitary or officer, next to a bishop, whose jurisdiction extends either over the whole diocese or only a part of it. He is usually appointed by the bishop himself, and has a kind of episcopal authority, originally derived from the bishop, but now independent and distinct from his. He the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039804-0735 | ARCHDRUID, the chief or pontiff of the ancient druids of a nation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039805-0735 | ARCHDUKE, a title peculiar to the house of Austria, all the sons of which are archdukes, and the daughters archduchesses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039806-0735 | ARCHELAUS, a celebrated Greek philosopher, the disciple of Anaxagoras, flourished about 440 years before Christ. He read lectures at Athens, and did not depart much from the opinions of his master. He taught that there was a double principle of all things, namely, the expansion and condensation of the air, which he reg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039807-0735 | ARCHENA, a town of Murcia, in Spain. It is situated on the river Segura, at the eastern extremity of the delicious valley of Ricoe, and celebrated for its thermal springs. The waters retain a uniform heat of 41° of Reaumur, or 112° of Fahrenheit. These springs are much resorted to, though the situation is most melancho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039808-0735 | ARCHERS, a kind of militia or soldiery armed with bows and arrows. I he word is formed of arcus, a bow; whence arcuarius, and even arquis and arquites, as they are also denominated in the corrupt state of the Latin tongue. Archers were much employed in former times; but they are now laid aside, excepting in Turkey and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-039809-0735 | ARCHERY, the art or exercise of shooting with a bow and arrow.
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kp-eb0703-040301-0800 | ARCHES Court. See Court of Arches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040302-0800 | ARCHETYPE, the first model of a work, which is copied after to make another like it. Among minters it is used for the standard weight by which the others are adjusted. The archetypal world, among Platonists, means the world as it existed in the idea of God before the visible creation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040303-0800 | ARCHEUS (from the principal, chief, or first mover), a sort of primum mobile set up by Helmont, to superintend the animal economy, and preserve it. It is akin to Plato’s anima mιmdi. Hippocrates uses the words α fZ α 'Ι t0 signify the former healthy state before the attack of the disease. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040304-0800 | ARCIIIACOLYTHUS (from αgχρς, chief, and axoaou-A>i, minister), an ancient dignity in cathedral churches, the ministers whereof were divided into four orders or degrees, viz. priests, deacons, subdeacons, and acolythi, each of which had their chiefs. The chief of the accly-thi was called archiacolythus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040305-0800 | ARCHIATER, Archiatrus, properly denotes chief physician of a prince who retains several. The word is formed of αsγη, principium, chief, and ιaτρος, medicus, a physician. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040306-0800 | ARCHIDAPIFER (from αgχoj, and dapifer, sewer), or chief sewer, is a great officer of the empire. The elector of Bavaria is archidapifcr. The palatine of the Rhine at one time pretended this office was annexed to his palatinate, but he has since desisted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040307-0800 | ARCHIDONA, a city of Spain, on a small stream which flows into the river Guadalorza, in the province of Granada, lt is a well built town, with one church, five monasteries, and 5000 inhabitants, who derive their subsistence chiefly from the excellent oil which they make from their abundant olives.
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kp-eb0703-040308-0800 | ARCHIGALLUS, in Antiquity. the high priest of Cybele, or the chief of the eunuch priests of that goddess, called Galli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040309-0800 | ARCHIGERONTES (from aξχοζ, and γiξωv, old), in Antiquity, ⅛ e chiefs or masters of the several companies of artificers at Alexandria. Some have mistaken the archigerontes for the arch-priests appointed to take the confession of those who were condemned to the mines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040310-0800 | ARCHIGUBERNUS, Archiguberneta, or Archi-gubernites, in Antiquity, the commander of the imperial ship, or that which the emperor was aboard of. Some have confounded the office of archigubernus with that of proefectus classis, or admiral; but the former was under the ∣ command of the latter. Potter takes the proper offic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040311-0800 | ARCHIL, Archilla, Rocella, Orsielle, is a whitish moss which grows upon rocks, in the Canary and Cape de Verde Islands, and yields a rich purple tincture, fugitive indeed, but extremely beautiful. This weed is imported to us as it is gathered. Those who prepare it for the use of the dyer grind it between stones, so as ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040312-0800 | ARCHILOCHIAN, a term in poetry applied to a sort of verses, of which Archilochus‘was the inventor; consisting of seven feet, of which the first four are ordinarily dactyles, though sometimes spondees; the last three trochees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040313-0800 | ARCHILOCHUS, a famous Greek poet and musician, was, according to Herodotus, con temporary with Candaules and Gyges, kings of Lydia, who flourished about the 14th Olympiad, 724 years before Christ. But he is placed much later by modern chronologists, viz. by Blair 686, and by Priestley 660 years before Christ. He was bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040401-0813 | ARCHIMAGUS, the high priest of the Persian Magi or worshippers of fire. Darius Hystaspes took upon himself the dignity of Archimagus; for Porphyry tells us he ordered, before his death, that, among the other titles, it should be engraven on his monument that he had been Master of the Magi ; which plainly implies that h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040402-0813 | ARCHIMANDRITE, in Ecclesiastical History, was a name given by the ancient Christians to what we now call an abbot. Father Simon observes, that the word mandrite is Syriac, and signifies a solitary monk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040403-0813 | ARCHIMEDES, the most celebrated of the ancient mathematicians, was born at Syracuse, in Sicily, about the year 180 before the Christian era. Hiero, king of Syracuse, deemed it an honour to have this philosopher for his relative and friend. History does not inform us to whom he was indebted for the rudiments of literatu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040501-0826 | ARCHIPELAGO, in Geography·, a general term signifying a sea interrupted with islands; it is however more especially applied to that lying between Europe and Asia, which contains the islands anciently called Cyclades and Sporades. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040502-0826 | ARCHIPRESBYTER, or Archpriest, a priest established in some dioceses with a superiority over the rest. He was anciently chosen out of the college of presbyters at the pleasure of the bishop. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-040503-0826 | ARCHISYNAGOGUS, the chief of the synagogue, the title of an officer among the Jews, who presided in their synagogues and assemblies. The number of these officers was not fixed, nor the same in all .places, there being 70 in some, and in others only one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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