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ARCHITECT (Latin Architectus, Greek Απηχτων, from the primitive words uζγr<, the beginning, origin, or cause, and τι ∖ rχω, to contrive, construct, build), an originator, a contriver of structures; one who designs and executes works of architecture. An architect is either civil, naval, or military. To a civil architect...
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ARCHITECT
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ARCHITRICLINUS, in Antiquity, the master or director of a feast, charged with the order and economy of it, the covering and uncovering of the tables, the command of the servants, and the like. The architriclinus was sometimes called servus tricliniarcha, and by the Greeks π1ογιo<sτr ∖ ς, i. e. proegustator or foretaste...
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ARCHITRICLINUS
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ARCHIVE, or Archives, a chamber or apartment wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences, of a state, house, or community, are preserved, to be consulted occasionally. Thus, we say, the archives of a college, of a monastery, &c.
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ARCHIVE
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ARCHIVIST, or Arcmvista, a keeper of an archive. Under the emperors the archivist was an officer of great dignity, held equal to the proconsuls, vested with the quality of a count, styled clarissimtts, and exempted from all public offices and taxes. Among the ancient Greeks and Persians, the trust was committed to none...
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ARCHIVIST
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ARCHLUTE, or Arcii cuto, a long and large lute, having its bass strings lengthened after the manner of the theorbo, and each row doubled, either with a little octave or a unison. It is used by the Italians for playing a thorough bass.
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ARCHLUTE
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ARCHMARSHAL, the grand marshal of the empire, a dignity belonging to the elector of Saxony.
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ARCHMARSHAL
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ARCHONS, in Grecian History, were magistrates appointed after the death of Codrus. They were chosen from the most illustrious families till the time of Aristides, who got a law passed, by which it was enacted, that, in electing these magistrates, less regard should be paid to birth than to merit. The tribunal of the a...
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ARCHONS
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ARCHONTICI, in Ecclesiastical History, a branch of Valentinians who maintained that the world was not created by God, but by angels called Archontes. ,
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ARCHONTICI
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ARCHPRIEST, or Archpresbyter, a priest or presby [7:3:476]ter established in some dioceses, with a pre-eminence over the rest. Anciently the archpriest was the first person f after the bishop: he was seated next to him in the church, and in his absence acted as his vicar in all spiritual matters. In the sixth century t...
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ARCHPRIEST
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ARCHYTAS of Tarentum was a Pythagorean philosopher, well skilled in mathematics and geography. He lived in the time of Plato, and, according to report, inter-pos'cd his influence with Dionysius the tyrant, in order to save the life of that philosopher. According to this date, it would appear that Jamblichus is mistaken...
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ARCHYTAS
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ARCIS-SUR-AUBE, an arrondissement in the department of the Aube, in France, extending over 499 square miles, or 319,360 acres, and containing four cantons, 90 communes, and 33,260 inhabitants.—The capital of the arrondissement is of the same name, containing 366 houses, and 2500 inhabitants, who carry on some manufactu...
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ARCIS-SUR-AUBE
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ARCO, a strong town and castle in the Trentin, belonging to the house of Austria. It stands on the river Sarca, near the northern extremity of the lake Garda. Long. 10. 48. E. Lat. 45. 52. N.
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45 52' N 10 48' E
ARCO
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ARCON, J. C. E. Le Michaud d’, a French engineer and military writer of eminence, and memorable as the inventor of the floating batteries employed against Gibraltar, was born at Pontarlier in the year 1733. He was originally destined for the church; ‘but, instead of em-plying himself in the studies suited to that profe...
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ARCONA, a strong town situated on the island of Rugen in the Baltic. It stood on a high promontory, with the east, north, and south sides defended by steep and lofty precipices, and the west by a wall 50 feet high, proportionably thick, and secured by a deep and broad ditch. It was, however, taken and ruined in 1168, b...
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ARCONA
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ARCOS de la Frontera, a Spanish town in Andalusia, between Ronda and Santa Maria. It is situated on the banks of the river Guadalette, celebrated for that decisive battle of three days’ continuance, by the event of which the crown of the Gothic kings of Spain was transferred to the Arabian invaders. It contains two par...
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ARCOS
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ARCOT, a large district of Hindostan, under the presidency of Madras, to which it was transferred in 1801, being previously an independent state. It is now divided into north and south, and, since 1809, when an improved mode of management was introduced, the condition of the country has been greatly ameliorated under t...
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ARCOT
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ARCTIC, in Astronomy, an epithet given to the north pole, or the pole raised above our horizon. It is called the arctic pole, on occasion of the constellation of the little bear, in Greek called aporος, the last star in the tail of which nearly points out the north pole. ARcTĩC Circle is a lesser circle of the sphere,...
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ARCTIC
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ARCTURUS, in Astronomy, a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Arctophylax, or Bootes. The word is formed of αgκτoς, hear, and ovga, tail, bears lαil, as being very near it.
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ARCTURUS
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ARCY, Patrick d, member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, a general officer in the French army, Chevalier of the order of St Louis, &c. was born in Ireland in 1725. His parents, in consequence of their attachment to the house of Stuart, left Ireland, and settled in France. He studied mathematics with distinguished s...
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ARCY
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ARDAMON, or Ardama, in Antiquity, a vessel of water placed at the door of a person deceased till the time of burial, as a token that the family was in mourning, and to serve to sprinkle and purify persons as they came out of the house.
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ARDAMON
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ARDATOW, a circle of the Russian government of Nishegorod, between long. 41. 37. and 43. 24. E. and lat. 54. 57. and 55. 44. N. It is watered by the rivers Tescha, Lemela, and some smaller streams, consists of gentle hills, and is abundantly wooded. The arable land is small, but it produces much cattle, flax, and wood;...
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ARDATOW
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ARDEBIL, or Ardebeel, a town of Persia, in the province of Azerbijan, on a river which runs into the Aras or Araxes. It is situated on the southern side of the desert plain of Ardebil, which is 60 miles in length by 40 in breadth. The town contains about 500 or 600 families, and appears to have been built from some for...
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ARDEBIL
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ARDELAN, a province of Persia, which forms the eastern division of Kurdistan. It extends in length 200 miles from the little river Sharook to the Turkish district of Zohaub, and it is nearly 160 miles in breadth. It is divided from the plain of Hamadan by a small range of hills, and its western boundary is 100 miles be...
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ARDELAN
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ARDEN, the common name of forests among the Celtae. It is written Ardum by Caesar and Tacitus in speaking of the forest in Gaul. Arduen, Ardven, or Arden, then, means a considerable wood.
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ARDEN
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ARDENBURG, a town of the Netherlands, in Dutch Flanders, and formerly the most considerable in that country; but it has been dismantled by the Dutch. Long. 3. 30. E. Lat. 51. 16. N.
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ARDENBURG
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ARDENNE, a forest in France, formerly of vast extent. At present it extends from Thionville, near the country of Liege, to Doncherry and Sedan, on the confines of Champagne.
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ARDENNE
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ARDENNES, a department of France, formed out of a part of the ancient forest of the same name. It is bounded by the Netherlands and the department of the Meuse on the north and east, by the department of the Aine on the west, and that of the Marne on the south. The extent is 1,142,720 acres, and the population 258,896....
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ARDENNES
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ARDENTES, among middle-age writers, an appellation given to those afflicted with the ignis sacer, or erysipelas. They were so called from their appearing as if scorched or burned with the disease. The abbey of St Genevieve at Paris is said to have received the name of Domus Ardentium because great numbers were cured of...
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ARDENTES
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ARDE b, a town of France, in Lower Auvergne, and now in the department of Puy de Dome. It serves as a mart for the commodities and trade between Upper and Lower Auvergne. Long. 3. 10. E. Lat. 45. 22. N.
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45 22' N 3 10' E
ARDE
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ARDFERT a town of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, of which it was formerly the capital, though it is now a ruinous and decayed village. It had at one time a university, and was a bishop’s see; but it is now united to that of Limerick. Here are several religious edifices· and a pillar tower, which stood near the cathed...
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ARDFERT
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ARDOYE, a market-town, with 6150 inhabitants, on the river Drybeke, in the arrondissement of Bruges and province of West Flanders, in the kingdom of the Netherlands.
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ARDOYE
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ARDRAH, a considerable town, capital of a territory of the same name, situated on the Slave Coast of Africa. It lies about twenty-five miles inland, on the interior shore of a lake nearly 60 mdes in length and from 3 to 12 in breadth, agreeably diversified with numerous islands. The surrounding country is fertile and b...
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6 26' N 3 42' E
ARDRAH
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ARDRES, a town of France, in Lower Picardy. Here was an interview between Francis I. and Henry VIII. king of England in 1520. It is eight miles south of Calais. Long. 2. 0. E. Lat. 50. 35. N.
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50 35' N 2 0' E
ARDRES
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ARDROSSAN, a sea-port and parish of Scotland, in the county of Ayr, which has been of late years laid out on a regular plan, and with commodious buildings, and is now a sea-bathing resort. It has a safe and spacious harbour. Population of the parish 3105.
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ARDROSSAN
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ARDSISCH, or Argisch, a circle in the province of Wallachia, now comprehending within it the circle of Lowwishta. It lies to the south of the Carpathian Mountains, through which, by the pass of Rothe Thurm, there is a way into Hungary. The circle contains two cities, two market-towns, and 202 villages and hamlets. The ...
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ARDSISCH
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AREA, in general, denotes any plam surface whereon we walk, &c. The word is Latin, importing more properly a threshing floor; and is derived from arere to be dry. Area, in Architecture, denotes the space or site of ground on which an edifice stands. It is also used for inner courts and other l inclosed spaces, > ∙ ⅛ ι...
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AREA
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AREBO, a considerable town of Benin, in Africa, on the river Formosa. Both the English and Dutch once held factories there, which they have now abandoned. Long. 5. 8. W. Lat. 5. 58. N.
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5 58' N 5 8' W
AREBO
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AREMBERG, a small town of Germany, in the circle of Westphalia, defended by a castle. It is the capital of a county of the same name, and was erected into a principality by the emperor Maximilian II. in favour of John de Ligne, lord of Barbazon, who took the name of Aremberg. It is seated on the river Aer. Long. 6. 44....
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50 27' N 6 44' E
AREMBERG
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ARENA, in Roman Antiquity, a place where the gladiators fought; so called from its being always strewed with sand to conceal from the view of the people the blood spilt in the combat. Nero is said to have strewed the arena with gold dust.
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ARENA
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ARENARII, in Antiquity, gladiators who combated with beasts in the arena or amphitheatre. The arenarii were slaves of the lowest rank; so that, though manumitted, they were not capable of being Roman citizens. They were the same with what were otherwise called Bestiarii.
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ARENARII
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ARENARIUM, in ecclesiastical writers, denotes a cemetery or burying ground. The arenaria were properly a kind of pits or holes under ground, in which the ancient Christians not only buried their dead, but held their religious assemblies in times of persecution.
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ARENARIUM
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ARENSBERG, one of the governments (regierungs-bezirk) into which the Prussian province of Westphalia is divided. It is subdivided into 14 portions called circles (kreis'). It comprises within its limits part of the ancient duchy of Westphalia, the county of Mark, with Dortmund, the city of Lippstadt, the principality o...
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ARENSBERG
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ARENSBURG, a circle in the Russian government of Livonia, comprehending the islands of Oesel, Moen, Ruh-na, and several smaller ones, in the Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea. The surface of these islands is 2176 square miles, and, in spite of a rigorous climate, they are moderately fertile, producing rye, buck-wheat, fla...
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ARENSBURG
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ARENSWALDE, a circle in the government of Frankfort, and province of Pomerania, in Prussia. Its extent is 472 square miles, or 302,080 acres, and the population amounted in 1817 to 20,705 persons. It has a number of small lakes, which yield good fish. The corn land produces some rye, and the inhabitants are also employ...
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ARENSWALDE
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AREOLA, among anatomists, the coloured circle surrounding the nipple of the breast.
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AREOLA
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AREOPAGUS, a sovereign tribunal at Athens, famous for the justice and impartiality of its decrees, to which the gods themselves are said to have submitted their differences. See the article Attica.
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AREOPAGUS
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ARETAEUS of Cappadocia, a Greek physician of the sect of the Pneumatists, who, according to some, lived in the reign of Augustus; according to others, under Trajan or Adrian. He wrote several treatises, in the Ionian dialect, on acute diseases and other medicinal subjects, some of which are still extant. The best editi...
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ARETAEUS
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ARETHUSA, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, and the companion of Diana, who changed her into a fountain to deliver her from the pursuit of her lover Alpheus. Arethusa, a celebrated fountain near the city of Syracuse, in Sicily, famous for the quantity of its waters, and the number of fishes it contained. Many fables w...
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ARETHUSA
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ARETIN, Guido, famous for his musical improvements, lived in the 13th century. He was a native of Arezzo, a city in Tuscany; and having been taught the practice of music in his youth, and being probably retained as a chorister in the service of the Benedictine monastery founded in that city, he became a monk professed,...
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ARETIN
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ARETOLOGI, in Antiquity, a sort of philosophers, chiefly of the Cynic or Stoic school, who frequented the tables of great men, and entertained them in their banquets with disputations on virtue, vice, and other popular topics. These are sometimes also denominated Circulatores Philosophi.
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ARETOLOGI
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AREVALO, a town of Spain, in Old Castile, situated at the junction of the river Adaja with the Arevalillo. Lat. 41. 3. 57. N. and long. 4. 7. 57. W. It contains two magazines for corn, and has 1600 houses and 4500 inhabitants.
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AREVALO
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AREZZO, a city of Italy, in Tuscany, seated in the territory of Florence, on the declivity of a hill that overlooks the neighbouring plain, between the Citta di Castelli and Florence. It is a bishop’s see, subordinate only to the pope, and has two collegiate churches, 15 parishes, 18 religious houses, and four hospital...
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AREZZO
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ARGEA, or Àrgoei, in Boman Antiquity, thirty human figures made of rushes, thrown annually by the priests or vestals into the Tiber on the day of the ides of May.
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ARGEA
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ARGELES, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Pyrenees, in France, extending over 594 square miles, or 380,160 acres. It is divided into five cantons, and subdivided into 102 communes, with 36,912 inhabitants.— The chief city of the arrondissement is of the same name. It is situated in the beautiful valley ...
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ARGELES
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ARGENCES, a town of France, in Lower Normandy, now the department of Calvados, on the river Meance. Long. 0. 10. W. Lat. 49. 15. N.
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ARGENCES
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ARGENT, the common French word for silver. It is used in heraldry to signify purity, beauty, and gentleness.
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ARGENT
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ARGENTAC, a town of France, in the Limousin, on the river Dordogne. Long. 2. 3. E. Lat. 45. 5. N∙
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ARGENTAC
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ARGENTAN, an arrondissement in the department of the Orne, in France, extending over 737 square miles, or 470,630 acres. It comprehends 11 cantons, divided into 248 communes, with 115,512 inhabitants.—The chief city of the arrondissement is of the same name. It is situated on an elevation in a beautiful plain, through ...
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ARGENTAN
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ARGENTARIUS is frequently used in Roman writers for a money-changer or banker. The argentarii were capitalists, who made a profit either by the changing or lending of money at interest. They had their tabernae or offices in dne. forum Bamanum, built there as early as the reign of L. Tarquinius Priscus.
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ARGENTARIUS
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ARGENTEUIL, a town in the arrondissement of Versailles and department of the Seine, on the right bank of the river. It contains 4524 inhabitants. The vicinity yields some wine and abundance of culinary vegetables, and near it are some extensive quarries of gypsum.
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ARGENTEUIL
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ARGENTIERA, a small island in the Archipelago, near Milo. It is about 18 miles in compass, and is full of mountains, producing nothing but barley, cotton, and a few grapes. Long. 23. 10. E. Lat. 36. 50. N.
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ARGENTIERA
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ARGENTIERE, U, an arrondissement in the department of the Ardeche, in France, extending over 716 square miles, or 458,240 acres, divided into 10 cantons, and again into 104 communes, with 84,909 inhabitants.— The capital of the arrondissement is a city of the same name. It is in a deep valley, in which silk-mills are t...
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ARGENTIERE, U
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ARGENTINUS, a deity worshipped by the ancients as the god of silver coin; as Aesculanus, whom they made his father, was the god of brass money, which was in use before silver.
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ARGENTINUS
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ARGENTON, a town of France, divided into two by the river Creuse. Here was formerly a castle, but it was demolished by Louis XIV. Long. 1. 38. E. Lat. 40. 30. N.
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ARGENTON
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ARGENTUM Aleum, in our old customs, silver coin, or pieces of bullion that anciently passed for money. . Argentum Dei, Gods penny, anciently signified earnest money, or money given to bind a bargain; in some [7:3:482] places called erles or arles i and by the civilians and canonists arrhae.
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ARGENTUM
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ARGIMNA, a town of Armenia, in the pachalic of Diarbckir, on the head waters of the Tigris, 40 miles north-west from Diarbekir. It is situated on a lofty mountain, and such is the declivity of the ground, that the houses appear to be piled one above another; and in winter the torrents rush down the streets with such vi...
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ARGIMNA
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ARGISH, or Argiscii, the ancient Arzes, a town of Armenia, in the government of Van, situated on the northwest side of the lake Van, three days’ journey from the town of that name. It contains 6000 inhabitants.
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ARGISH
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ARGO, in Antiquity, a ship or vessel celebrated among the poets, being that wherein the Argonauts, of whom Jason was the chief, made their expedition in quest of the golden fleece. Jason having happily accomplished his enterprise, consecrated the ship Argo to Neptune, or, as others say, to Minerva, in the isthmus of Co...
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ARGO
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ARGONAUTS, a company of illustrious Greeks who embarked along with Jason in the ship Argo. “The designs of the Argonauts,” says Dr Gillies, in his History of Greece, “are veiled under the allegorical, or at least doubtful, phrase of carrying off the golden fleece ; which, though easily explained, if we admit the report...
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ARGONAUTS
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ARGOS, an ancient name of Peloponnesus, from Argos, one of the kings. Several ancient cities bore the name of Argos, particularly the capital of Argolis or Argeia.
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ARGOS
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ARGUIN, a small island in a bay of the same name, situated on the western coast of Africa, near the southern termination of the Great Desert. Major Rennell supposes it to be the island to which the ancients, and particularly Hanno, gave the name of Cerne. The Portuguese early formed a settlement there, and even made it...
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ARGUIN
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ARGUN, Argan, or Ergon, a river of Tartary, in the country of the Mongols, which rises from a lake called Dalai, or Koulon-nor, situated in long. 119. 14. E. and lat. 49. N. It is considered to be the original source of the Amur, and by the treaty of Nertschinsk, concluded in 1690, is established as the mutual boundary...
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ARGUN
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ARGUS, in fabulous history, was the son of Aristor, and had 100 eyes, 50 of which were always open. Juno made choice of him to guard Io, whom Jupiter had transformed into a white heifer; but Jupiter, pitying Io for being so closely confined, sent Mercury, who with his flute charmed Argus to sleep, scaled up his eyes wi...
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ARGUS
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ARGUTIAE, witty and acute sayings, which commonly signify something further than the mere words at first sight seem to import.
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ARGUTIAE
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ARGYLESHIRE or Argyllshire, an extensive county in the west of Scotland, is usually described under two great divisions,—the mainland, and" such of the Western Islands as-are politically attached to it. It is of the former only that we propose to give some account at present, referring to the article Hebrides for the i...
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ARGYLESHIRE
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ARGYRASPIDES, or Argyroaspides, in Antiquity, persons armed with silver bucklers, or bucklers silvered.
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ARGYRASPIDES
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ARIADNAEA, in Grecian Antiquity, two festivals at Naxos, in honour of two women named Ariadne. One of them being the daughter of King Minos, they had, in the solemnity dedicated to her, a show of sorrow and mourning; and, in memory of her being left by Theseus near the time of child-birth, it was usual for a young man ...
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ARIADNAEA
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ARIADNE, daughter of Minos, king of Crete. Theseus being sent to destroy the Minotaur, Ariadne was so taken with him, that, as a testimony of her love, she gave Theseus a clue of thread to guide him out of the labyrinth. Theseus, having killed the Minotaur, carried off the Athenians he had relieved, together with Ariad...
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ARIADNE
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ARIANCOOPAN, a small town of Hindostan, on the sea-coast of the Carnatic, which in 1748 was taken by Admiral Boscawen. The fortifications have long disappeared; and the place still belongs to the French, who have a church here, and resort to it on festival days. 3 miles south of Pondicherry. Long. 79. 52. E. Lat. 11. 5...
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ARIANCOOPAN
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ARIANO, a city of the Principato-Ultra in Naples, with 10 churches and convents, and 11,718 inhabitants. .
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ARIANO
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ARIANS, followers of Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria about the year 315, who maintained that the Son of God was totally and essentially distinct from the Father; that he was the first and noblest of those beings whom God had created, the instrument by whose [7:3:486]subordinate operation he formed the un...
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ARIANS
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ARIAS Montanus, a learned Spanish divine, employed by Philip II. of Spain to publish another edition of the Bible after that of Cardinal Ximenes, which he finished with applause, and died at Seville in 1598.
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ARIAS
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ARICINA, in Mythology, a surname of Diana, under which appellation she was honoured in the forest Aricine, so called from Aricia, a princess of the blood-royal of Athens.
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ARICINA
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ARIENZO, a city of Naples, in the province of Lavoro. It stands on a hill, with an ancient castle overlooking it, contains seven parish churches, an hospital, and 10,770 inhabitants, including the populous suburbs.
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ARIENZO
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ARIES, in Astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its denomination.
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ARIES
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ARIMANIUS, the evil god of the ancient Persians. The Persian magi held two principles—a good demon or god, and an evil one; the first the author of all good, and the other of all evil: the former they supposed to be represented by light, and the latter by darkness, as their truest symbols. The good principle they named...
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ARIMANIUS
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ARIOLI, in Antiquity, a kind of prophets or religious conjurers, who, by abominable prayers and horrible sacrifices at the altars of idols, procured answers to their questions concerning future events. Isid. Orig. lib. viii. cap. 9. These are also called harioli, and their operation hariolation. Sometimes they were den...
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ARIOLI
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ARION, an excellent musician and poet, inventor of dithyrambics. Periander entertained him at his court, where, getting an estate, and returning to Corinth, the sailors, in order to possess themselves of his money, threw him into the sea, when, according to the poets, a dolphin, charmed with his music, took him on her ...
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ARION
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ARIOSTO, Lodovico, one of the greatest poets of Italy, was born at Reggio in Lombardy, on the 8th day of September 1474. His father was Niccolò Ariosto, commander of the citadel of Reggio, and his mother Daria Malaguzzi of that city, where the family still exists. He showed a strong inclination to poetry from his earli...
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ARIOSTO
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ARIPO, a town on the western coast of the island of Ceylon, at the mouth of the river Sarunda. To the east of this town is a bank, where they fish for pearls. Long. 80. 25. E. Lat. 8. 42. N.
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ARIPO
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ARISTAEUS, son of Apollo and Cyrene, whom, for the many services he had rendered to mankind by his knowledge of all profitable arts, the gods placed among the stars.
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ARISTAEUS
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ARISTANDER, a famous soothsayer under Alexander the Great, over whom he gained a wonderful influence by the good success of his art. He had already had the same employment at the court of King Philip; and it was he who explained better than his brethren the dream that this prince had after having married Olympias.
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ARISTANDER
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ARISTARCHUS, a Grecian philosopher of Samos, one of the first who maintained that the earth revolves round the sun. He was the contemporary of Cleanthes, the successor of Zeno. The opinion ascribed to him with respect to the motion of the earth is not to be found in his only existing work, namely his Treatise of the Gr...
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ARISTARCHUS
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ARISTIDES, surnamed the Just, one of the most celebrated characters of his age for purity and integrity, and contemporary with Themistocles, was the son of Lysimachus, a man of middle rank, and born at Athens. His dispositions and temper from his youth all conjoined in anticipating that greatness to which he afterwards...
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ARISTIDES
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ARISTIPPUS, the founder of the Cyrenaic sect of philosophy, was the son of Aretades, and born at Cyrene in Libya. He flourished about the 96th Olympiad. The great reputation of Socrates induced him to leave his own country and remove to Athens, that he might have the satisfaction of hearing his discourses. He was chief...
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ARISTIPPUS
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ARISTO, a Stoic philosopher, the disciple of Zeno, flourished about 290 years before the Christian era. He differed but little from his master Zeno. He rejected logic as of no use, and natural philosophy as being above the reach of the human understanding. It is said that being bald, the sun burnt his head; and that th...
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ARISTO
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ARISTOCRACY, a form of government by which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of the state. The word is derived from apοτος, optimus, and κgατiω, impero, I govern. See the article Government.
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ARISTOCRACY
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ARISTOGITON, a famous Athenian, who, with Harmodius, killed Hipparchus, tyrant of Athens, about 513 years before the Christian era. The Athenians erected a statue to him.
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ARISTOGITON
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ARISTOPHANES, a celebrated comic poet of Athens. He was contemporary with Plato, Socrates, and Euripides; and most of his plays were written during the Peloponnesian war. His imagination was warm and lively, and his genius particularly turned to raillery. He had also great spirit and resolution, and was a declared enem...
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ARISTOPHANES
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ARISTOTELIA, in Antiquity, annual feasts celebrated by the citizens of Stagyra, in honour of Aristotle, who was born there; and in gratitude for his having procuredfrom Alexander the rebuilding and repeopling of that city, which had been demolished by king Philip.
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ARISTOTELIA