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kp-eb0703-064301-3920 | ARTIST, in a general sense, a person skilled in some art. Mr Harris defines an artist to be “a person possessing an habitual power of becoming the cause of some effect, according to a system of various and well-approved precepts.” It is generally applied to an individual who practises the liberal arts as a profession. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-064302-3920 | ARTLENBURG, a bailiwick in the province of Luneburg, in the kingdom of Hanover, extending over 27 square miles, or 17,280 acres, and containing 3020 inhabitants. A town of the same name, with 525 inhabitants, is the capital of the bailiwick. It is on the banks of the Elbe, and enjoys the benefit of a toll over the rive... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-064303-3920 | ARTOTYRITES, a Christian sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the eucharist with bread and cheese, saying that the first oblations of men were not only of the fruits of the earth, but of their flocks. The word is derived from aςrος, bread, and <ruy>ς, cheese. The Artotyrites admitted women to the priesthood and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-064304-3920 | ARTS.
Art is defined by Lord Bacon as a proper disposal of the things of nature by human thought and experience, so as to answer the several purposes of mankind; in which sense art stands opposed to nature.
Art is principally used for a system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; in whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065801-4115 | ARTS, Master of. See Degrees, Academical. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065802-4115 | ARVALES Fratres, in Roman Antiquity, a college of twelve priests, instituted by Romulus, and chosen out of the most noble families, he himself being one of that body. They assisted in the sacrifices of the ambervalia, annually offered to Ceres and Bacchus for the prosperity of the fruits of the earth, when they wore on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065803-4115 | AR VII. Supper, a feast or entertainment made at funerals in the north part of England. Arvil bread is the bread delivered to the poor at funeral solemnities. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065804-4115 | ARVIRAGUS, an ancient British king, who flourished in the time of the emperor Domitian. He gained a complete victory over Claudius; but being soon after besieged in the city of Winchester, he made a treaty with the Romans, and married the emperor’s daughter Genu-issa. This'monarch lived to a good old age: he confirmed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065805-4115 | ARUNDEL, a borough and market-town in the rape of the same name, in the county of Sussex, 57 miles from London. It is a well-built town, on the river Arun. Adjoining to it is the magnificent castle of the dukes of Norfolk, lately repaired and fitted up at a vast expense. The market is on a Saturday. It returns two memb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-065901-4128 | ARUNDELIAN Marbles, Oxford Marbles, or Parian Chronicle, are ancient stones, as has been supposed, whereon is. inscribed a chronicle of the city of Athens, engraven in capital letters in the island of Paros, one of the Cyclades, 264 years before Jesus Christ. They take their first name from Thomas, earl of Arundel, who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066101-4154 | ARUSPICES, or Haruspices, in Homan Antiquity, an order of priests who pretended to foretel future events by inspecting the entrails of victims killed in sacrifice; they were also consulted on occasion of portents and prodigies. The aruspices were also chosen from the best families; [7:3:662]and as their employment was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066201-4167 | ARX, in the ancient military art, a town, fort, or castle, for defence of a place. The arx in ancient Rome was a distinct edifice from the capitol, though some have confounded the two.
Arx also denotes a consecrated place on the Palatine Mount, where the augurs publicly performed their office. Some will have the arx t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066202-4167 | ARZEW, a s.caport in the western part of the kingdom of Algiers, containing very considerable, and sometimes beautiful, remains of antiquity. There are traces of very fine ancient cisterns, though all the water used by the inhabitants is brackish. At the distance of five miles there are very fine salt pits, which serve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066203-4167 | ARZILLA, a very ancient maritime town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fez, about five leagues from Tangiers. It is built at the mouth of a river, and inhabited by Moors and Jews, who carry on no trade. It was formerly a Roman colony, under the name of Julia Traducta. It afterwards fell under the government of the Goths, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066204-4167 | AS, in Antiquity, a particular weight, consisting of 12 ounces, being the same with libra, or the Roman pound. The word is derived from the Greek α ∣ ς, which, in the Doric dialect, is used for i ∣ ς, one, q. d. an entire thing; though others will have it named as quasi oes, because made of brass.
As was also the name... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066205-4167 | ASA, king of Judah, succeeded his father Abijam. He j pulled down the altars erected to idols, restored the worship of the true God, and, with the assistance of Benha-dad, king of Syria, took several towns from the king of Israel. He died 917 years before the Christian era, and was succeeded by Jehoshaphat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066206-4167 | ASAPH, St, a small episcopal city in the county of Flint, in North Wales, at the confluence of the rivers Clwd and Elwy, said to have been founded in the year 560. The situation is fine, but the town itself has a poor appearance, the houses being small and ill built. The chief objects are the cathedral, a plain buildin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066207-4167 | ASAR-ADDON, or Esar-Hadpon, the son of Sennacherib, succeeded his father about 712 years before the Christian era, and united the kingdoms of Nineveh and Babylon. He rendered himself master of Syria, sent a colony to Samaria, and his generals took King Manasses, and carried him loaded with chains to Babylon. Asar-Addon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066208-4167 | ASAROTA, αo ’ αgωrα, from a and da∕jω, I sweep, a kind of painted pavements in use before the invention of mosaic work. The most celebrated was that at Pergamus, painted by Sesus, which exhibited the appearance of crumbs, as if the floor had not been swept after dinner; hence, according to Pliny, the denomination. Perr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066209-4167 | ASBESTOS. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066210-4167 | ASCALON, a town of Palestine, on the sea coast, 14 miles north of Gaza, and 30 south-west of Jerusalem. It was one of the satrapes of Egypt, and was noted during the crusades. It contains some precious remains of antiquity, long streets, and innumerable red granite pillars, mostly fallen. Long. 34. 47. E. Lat. 31. 38. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066211-4167 | ASCANIUS, the son of Aeneas and Crusa, succeeded his father in the kingdom of the Latins, and defeated Mezentius, king of the Tuscans, who had refused to conclude a peace with him. At length he founded Alba Longa, and died about 1139 years before the Christian era, after a reign of 38 years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066212-4167 | ASCENDANT, in Astrology, denotes the horoscope, or the degree of the ecliptic which rises upon the horizon at the time of the birth of any one. This is supposed to have an influence on the person’s life and fortune, by giving him a bent and propensity to one thing more than another. In the celestial theme this is also ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066213-4167 | ASCENSION, a solitary island, or rather rock, in the midst of the Atlantic, about 700 or 800 miles from the western coast of Africa. It was discovered in 1501 by Joao de Nova Gallego, a Portuguese navigator, who named it Ilha de Nossa Senhora de Conceicao. It was seen a second time by Alfonso d’Albuquerque, in his voya... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066301-4180 | ASCETERIUM, in ecclesiastical writers, is frequently used for a monastery, or place set apart for the exercise of virtue and religion. The word is formed from ascesis, exercise; or ascetra, one who performs exercise. Originally it signified a place where the athletae or gladiators performed their exercises. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066302-4180 | ASCETIC, an ancient appellation given to such persons as, in the primitive times, devoted themselves more immediately to the exercises of piety and virtue in a retired life, and particularly to prayer, abstinence, and mortification. The word is derived from α<ixtω, exerceo, I exercise. Afterwards, when the monks came i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066303-4180 | ASCHAFFENBURG, a city in the Bavarian circle of die Lower Maine. It is situated on an elevation above the river Maine, containing eight churches, 755 houses, and 6590 inhabitants. The streets are narrow and crooked, the houses large and antique. Near it the castle, formerly the residence of the prince, is a fine buildi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066304-4180 | ASCHAM, Roger, a very distinguished scholar and Writer, was born at Kirby Wiske, a village in Yorkshire, near Northallerton, about the year 1515. John Ascham, his father, was house-steward in the family of Scroop, and by his wife, Margaret, was connected with several respectable families. A short time before his death,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066401-4193 | ASCHENDORF, a bailiwick in the circle of Meppen and province of Osnaburg, in the kingdom of Hanover. It lies on the banks of the Ems, and contains two towns and five villages, with 8972 inhabitants, almost wholly Catholics, with many remains of old German habits and prejudices.—The capital of the bailiwick is of the sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066402-4193 | ASCHERSLEBEN, a circle in the government of Magdeburg and province of Saxony, in Prussia, formed out of a part of the principality of Halderstadt and the abbey of Quedlinburg. It contains 198 square miles, or 126,720 acres. The population in 1817 amounted to 36,283 persons. The Bode and the Eine are the chief rivers; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066403-4193 | ASCII, among geographers, an appellation given to those inhabitants of the earth who at certain seasons of the year have no shadow: such are all the inhabitants of the torrid zone when the sun is vertical to them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066404-4193 | ASCITAE (from αΰκος, a bag or bottle'), in Antiquity, a sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They were so called because they introduced a kind of Bacchanals into their assemblies, who danced round a skin or bag blown up, saying they were those new bottles filled with new wine whereof our S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066405-4193 | ASCLEPIA, a festival of Aesculapius, the god of physic, observed particularly at Epidaurus, where it was attended with a contest between the poets and musicians, whence it was likewise called 'Itğoç Αγων, the sacred contention. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066406-4193 | ASCLEPIAD, in ancient poetry, a verse composed of four feet, the first of which is a spondee, the second a choriambus, and the last two dactyls; or of four feet and a caesura, the first a spondee, the second a dactyl, after which comes the caesura, then the two dactyls; as, Mae- cenas atavis edite regibus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066407-4193 | ASCLEPIADES, one of the most celebrated physicians among the ancients, was a native of Prusa in Bithynia, and practised physic at Rome under Pompey 96 years before the Christian era. He was the head of a new sect; and, by making use of wine and cold water in the cure of the sick, acquired a very great reputation. He wr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066408-4193 | ASCODUTAE, in Antiquity, a sect of heretics in the second century, who rejected all use of symbols and sacraments, on this principle, that incorporeal things can [7:3:665]not be communicated by tilings corporeal, nor divine mysteries by any thing visible. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066501-4206 | ASCOL1, one of the delegations into which the Papal States in Italy are divided. It comprises a part of the ancient mark of Ancona or of Fermo. It is bounded on the north-west and north by Fermo, on the east by the Adriatic Sea, on the south by the territory of Naples, and on the west by Spoleto. The extent is 480 squa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 51' N 13 28' 25" E | ASCOL1 |
kp-eb0703-066502-4206 | ASCOLIA, in Grecian Antiquity, a festival celebrated by the Athenian husbandmen in honour of Bacchus, to whom they sacrificed a he-goat, because it destroys the vines; and, to show the greater indignity to an animal hated by Bacchus, the peasants, after having killed him, made a foot-ball of his skin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066503-4206 | ASCRIPTITH, or Adscriptitii, a kind of serfs, so annexed to the lands that they may be transferred and sold with them. Adscriptitii is sometimes also used in speaking of aliens or foreigners newly admitted to the freedom of a city or country. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066504-4206 | ASDRUBAL, the name of several Carthaginian generals. See Carthage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066505-4206 | ASHANTEE, a country in Western Africa, situated in the interior of that part of Guinea called the Gold Coast. It forms now the most powerful of all the kingdoms in that quarter of Africa, and is perhaps the most improved of any among the completely native states which have remained strangers to the Arabic language and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066901-4258 | ASH-WEDNESDAY, the first day of Lent, supposed to have been so called from a custom in the church, of sprinkling ashes that day on the heads of penitents then admitted to penance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-066902-4258 | ASHBOURN, a market-town in the hundred of Wirksworth, and county of Derby. It is 139 miles from London, on the high road to the north-west part of the island. It stands on the small beautiful river Dove, by which [7:3:670]stream some mills for spinning cotton are turned. There is a good corn market held every Saturday.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067001-4271 | ASHBURTON, a market and borough-town in the hundred of Teignbridge, and county of Devon, 191 miles from London and 19 from Exeter. It stands in a valley surrounded on every side by hills, on the great road to Plymouth. The parish-church is in the cathedral form, with a lofty tower and spire. It is one of the four towns... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067002-4271 | ASHBY de la Zouch, a market-town in the hundred of West Goscote, of the county of Leicester. It is in a fine valley on the borders of Derbyshire, on the river Gilweskaw, and surrounded by a most fertile district. The town is well built. Near it is an ancient castle belonging to the Earls of Huntingdon, and a mineral sp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067003-4271 | ASHES, the fixed residue of combustible substances which remains after they have been burnt.
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kp-eb0703-067004-4271 | ASHFORD, a town in the hundred of Chart, in the county of Kent. It has a market on Tuesday. It is 57 miles from London and 12 from Canterbury, in a district of great fertility, watered by the rivers Esk and Stour. The church is a fine old Gothic edifice, containing a monument to a countess of Athol more than 400 years ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067005-4271 | ASHLAR, a term used among *builders, by which they mean common or free stones, as they come out of the quarry, of different lengths and thicknesses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067006-4271 | ASHLERING, among builders, signifies quartering, to lath to, in garrets, about two and a half or three feethigh, perpendicular to the floor, up to the under side of the rafters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067007-4271 | ASHMOLE, Elias, an industrious English antiquary and philosopher of the 17th century, was born at Lichfield in 1617. Having enjoyed the advantages of a country education, he went to London at the age of 16, and resided in the family of James Paget, Esq. one of the barons of the exchequer, and then turned his attention ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067101-4284 | ASHRUFF, an ancient and formerly splendid city of Persia, adorned with a magnificent palace built by Shah Abbas, which was his favourite residence. It is situated on the shore of a bay, on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. This palace is described in glowing terms by Hanway, who saw it in its splendour. It was vis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-067102-4284 | ASIA.
This division of the globe is distinguished by its vast extent; by the striking character of its interior geography; above all by the stupendous revolutions of which it has been the scene; and, lastly, by the high antiquity of its civilization, of which we can still faintly trace the precious remains. Stretching... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070201-4687 | ASIARCHAE (termed by St Paul, Chief of Asia, Acts xix. 31) were the Pagan pontiffs of Asia, chosen to superintend and have the care of the public games, which they did at their own expense; for which reason they were always the richest and most considerable men of the community. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070202-4687 | ASINARA, an island of Italy, on the western coast of Sardinia. Long. 8. 30. E. Lat. 4L 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070203-4687 | ASINIUS Pollio, a Roman consul and orator, distinguished himself under Augustus by his exploits and his literary works. He is frequently mentioned with praise by Horace and Virgil, and is said to have collected the first library at Rome. He died at Frescati, at eighty years of age. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070204-4687 | ASISIO, or Asιτo, a city of the pope’s territories in Italy, situated about 16 miles east of Perugia. Long. 13. 35. E. Lat. 43. 0. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070205-4687 | ASKEATON, a post town of Ireland, in the county of Limerick, on the river Deal, near its junction with the Shannon. Population 1239. 144 miles S. W. from Dublin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070206-4687 | ASKEREN, a place five miles from Doncaster, noted for a medicinal spring of a strongly sulphureous nature; it is also slightly impregnated with a purging salt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070207-4687 | ASKRIG, a town in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Long. 0. 5. W. Lat. 53. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070208-4687 | ASLANI, in Commerce, a silver coin, worth from 115 to 120 aspers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070209-4687 | ASMONEUS, or Assamoneus, the father of Simon, and chief of the Asmoneans, a family that reigned over the Jews 126 years. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070210-4687 | ASNA, or Èsna, a town in Upper Egypt, seated upon the Nile, and occupying the site of the ancient Latopolis. It is near the cataracts of the Nile, and is the last place of any magnitude on the side of Nubia. It contains several monuments of antiquity, and among the rest an ancient Egyptian temple, pretty entire, all pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070211-4687 | ASOLA, a town of the territory of Brescia, in the Austrian division of Italy. It is built on the river Chiese, about 20 miles south-east from Brescia, and contains a population of 3100 persons. Long. 10. 35. E. Lat. 45. 6. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070212-4687 | ASOLO, a town of Austrian Italy, in the delegation of Verona, on the river Musone. It is well built and finely situated. It has a cathedral and several other churches, with an ancient castle, and the remains of a Roman aqueduct. The inhabitants are mostly employed in cultivating silk. Long. 12. 1. 5. E. Lat. 45. 47. 37... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070213-4687 | ASOPH, a town of Cuban Tartary, in Asia, seated on the river Don, near its mouth, a little to the east of the Palus Maeotis or Sea of Asoph. Long. 39. 5. E. Lat 47. 18. N.
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kp-eb0703-070301-4700 | ASP, in Natural History, a small poisonous kind of serpent. It is said to be thus denominated from the Greek wsntς, a shield, in regard to the manner of its lying convolved in a circle, in the centre of which is the head, which it exerts or raises like the umbo or umbilicus of a buckler. This species of serpent is very... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070302-4700 | ASPASIA of Miletus, a celebrated courtezan who settled at Athens under the administration of Pericles. She was of admirable beauty: yet her wit and eloquence, still more than her beauty, gained her extraordinary reputation among all ranks in the republic. Her conversation was so entertaining and instructive, that notwi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070303-4700 | ASPASTICUM (from α&ταξομαι, I salute), among ecclesiastical writers, a place or apartment adjoining to the ancient churches, wherein the bishop and presbyters sat, to repeive the salutations of the persons who came to visit them, desire their blessing, or consult them on business. This is also called aspastìcum diaeoni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070304-4700 | ASPER, in Grammar, an accent peculiar to the Greek language, marked thus ('), and importing that the letters over which it is placed ought to be strongly aspirated, or pronounced as if an h were joined with them.
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kp-eb0703-070305-4700 | ASPERIFOLIATE, or Asperifolious, among botanists, such plants as are rough-leaved, having their leaves placed alternately on their stalks, and a monopetalous flower divided into five parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070306-4700 | ASPEROSA, a town of Turkey in Europe, situated on the coast of the Archipelago. It is a bishop’s see. Long. 25. 20. E. Lat. 40. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070307-4700 | ASPHALTITES, or Lake of Bitumen, so called from the bitumen which floats upon its surface, and equally well known under the name of the Dead Sea, a name associated with many fables, and derived from a long standing belief that no creature could live in its waters, or within the reach of its pestiferous exhalations.
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kp-eb0703-070401-4713 | ASPHALTUM, Bitumen Judaicum, or Jew’s Pitch, is a light, solid bitumen, of a dusky colour on the outside, and a deep shining black within; of very little taste, and having scarcely any smell, unless heated, when it emits a strong pitchy one. It is found in a soft or liquid state on the surface of the Dead Sea, and by a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070501-4726 | ASPHURELATA are semi-metallic fossils, fusible by fire, and not malleable in their purest state, being in their native state intimately mixed with sulphur and other adventitious matter, and reduced to what are called ores. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070502-4726 | ASPICUETA, or Azpilcueta, Martin de, commonly called the Doctor of Navarre, was descended of a noble family, and born on the 13th of December 1491, at Vara-sayn, a small city of Navarre, not far from Pampeluna. He entered very young into the monastery of regular canons at Roncevaux, where he took the habit, which he co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070503-4726 | ASS, in Zoology. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070504-4726 | ASSAI, in Music, signifies quick; and, according to others, that the motion of the piece be kept in a middle degree of quickness or slowness. As, assai allegro, assai presto. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070505-4726 | ASSAM, a kingdom of Asia, situated on the north-west of Bengal, between the 25th and 26th degrees of north latitude, and extending from 94 to 99 degrees of east longitude. The exact limits, however, are not precisely ascertained; for this country is very little known to Europeans, and what respects its extent to the ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070801-4765 | ASSARIUM, in Antiquity, denotes a small copper coin, being a part or diminutive of the as. The word atfiaj∕o⅛ is used by Suidas indifferently with oβολoς and wμι<sμα, to denote a small piece of money; in which he is followed by Cujacius, who defines a<Soayov by minimus aeris nurnrnus∙ We find mention of the assarium in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070901-4778 | ASSARO, a city in the island of Sicily, and intendancy of Calatanissetta, containing 3300 inhabitants. The situation is lofty and healthy, but there is nothing remarkable except a number of caverns in the hills in its neighbourhood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070902-4778 | ASSARON, or Omer, a measure of capacity in use among the Hebrews, containing five pints. It was the measure of manna which God appointed for every Israelite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070903-4778 | ASSASSIN, a person who kills another with the advantage either of an inequality in the weapons, or by means of the situation of the place, or by attacking him at unawares. The word assassin is said by some to have been introduced from the Levant, where it took its rise from a certain prince of the family of the Arsacid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070904-4778 | ASSAULT, in English Law, is an offer or attempt to hurt the person of another; as, if one lifts up his cane or his fist in a threatening manner at another, or strikes at him, but misses him, this is an assault; the actual touching of the person not being necessary to make the offence. Finch describes it to be “an unlaw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070905-4778 | ASSAY, Essay, or Say, in Metallurgy, the proof or trial of the goodness, purity, value, &c. of metals and metalline substances. In ancient statutes this is called touch, and those who had the care of it keepers of the touch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-070906-4778 | ASSAYING, taken generally, implies an examination or analysis of any ore or substance whose constituent parts are to be chemically determined. The term, however, more particularly relates to the ascertaining of the qualities of gold and silver in relation to their state of purity; and in the following observations we m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071501-4856 | ASSELYN, John, a famous painter, was born in Holland, and became the disciple of Isaiah Vandervelde, the battle-painter. He distinguished himself in history-painting, battles, landscapes; animals, and particularly horses. He travelled into France and Italy, and was so pleased with the manner of Bambochio that he always... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071502-4856 | ASSEMBLY, the meeting of several persons in the same place, upon the same design. Assemblies of the clergy are called convocations, synods, councils. The annual meeting of the church of Scotland is called a General Assembly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071503-4856 | ASSEN, a town of the Netherlands, capital of the province of Drenthe, containing 1173 inhabitants. It is a lively and pleasant place, being on the road between Groningen and Zwole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071504-4856 | ASSENDE, a market-town, with 3314 inhabitants, in the circle of Ceclo and province of East Flanders. It is in long. 3. 59. 22. E. and lat. 51. 13. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071505-4856 | ASSENHEIM, a jurisdiction belonging to the mediatized Count of Solme Rodelheim, now in the dominions of [7:3:716]the prince of Hesse Cassel, in Germany, containing one city, ten villages, 654 houses, and 3957 inhabitants. The chief place of the bailiwick is of the same name, and contains 615 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071601-4869 | ASSENS, a sea-port town of Denmark, situated upon the Little Belt, a strait of the Baltic which separates the isle of Funen from the continent. It is the common passage from the duchy of Sleswick to Copenhagen. Long. 10. 30. E. Lat. 55. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071602-4869 | ASSER, John, or Asserius Menevensis, that is, Asser of St David’s, bishop of Sherburn in the reign of Alfred the Great. He was born in Pembrokeshire in South Wales, and educated in the monastery of St David’s by the archbishop Asserius, who, according to Leland, was his kinsman. In this monastery he became a monk, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071603-4869 | ASSESSOR, an inferior officer of justice, appointed chiefly to assist the ordinary judge with his opinion and advice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071604-4869 | ASSETS, in English Law, are real or personal. Where a man hath lands in fee-simple, and dies seised thereof, the lands which come to his heirs are assets real; and where he dies possessed of any personal estate, the goods which come to the executors are assets personal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071605-4869 | ASSHETON, William, doctor of divinity, and rector of Beckenham in Kent, was born in the year 1641, and was educated at Brazen-nose College, Oxford. After entering into orders he became chaplain to the duke of Ormond, and was admitted doctor of divinity in 1673. Soon after he was nominated to a prebend in the church of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071606-4869 | ASSIDEANS, or Chasidaeans (from the Hebrew chasidim, merciful, pious), those Jews who resorted to .Mattathias to fight for the law of God and the liberties of their country. They were men of great valour and zeal, having voluntarily devoted themselves to a more strict observance of the law than other men; for after the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071607-4869 | ASSIENTO, a Spanish word signifying a farm, in commerce, is used to denote a treaty between the king of Spain and other powers, for importing negroes into the Spanish dominions in America. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071608-4869 | ASSIGNATION, in the law of Scotland, is the term applied to the transference of a right by deed of conveyance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071609-4869 | ASSIMILATION, in Physics, is that motion by which bodies convert other bodies into their own substance and nature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071610-4869 | ASSIN, an. African country of considerable extent, situated in the interior, now comprehended under the dominion of Ashantee. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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