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kp-eb0703-071611-4869 | ASSISSI, a city in the delegation of Perugia, in the papal territory of Italy. It contains 20 churches, 12 monasteries for begging friars, and about 4000 inhabitants, mostly poor, and depending for subsistence on the saintly devotees, who, to the number of many thousands, make annual pilgrimages to the cathedral, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071612-4869 | ASSITHMENT, a wiregeld, or composition, by a pecuniary mulct; from the preposition ad, and the Sax. sithe, vice ; quod vice supplicii ad expiandum delictum solvitur. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071613-4869 | ASSIZE, in old English law-books, is defined to be an assembly of knights and other substantial men, together with a justice, in a certain place and at a certain time; but the word, in its present acceptation, implies a court, place, or time, when and where processes, whether civil or criminal, are decided by judge and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071614-4869 | ASSOCIATION, the act of associating or constituting a society or partnership, in order to carry on some scheme, affair, or business, with more advantage. The word is Latin, associatio ; and compounded of ad, to, and socio, to join.
Association of Ideas. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071615-4869 | ASSODNAGUR, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Bejapoor, the capital of a Mahratta district of the same name, 68 miles S.E. from Poonah. Long. 74.55. E. Lat. 18. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 18 6' N 74 55' E | ASSODNAGUR |
kp-eb0703-071616-4869 | ASSOILZIE, in I^aw, to absolve or free by sentence of court. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071617-4869 | ASSONANCE, in Rhetoric and Poetry, a term used where the words of a phrase or a verse have the same sound or termination, and yet make no proper rhyme. These are usually accounted vicious in English, though the Romans sometimes used them with elegance, as Militem comparavit, exercitum ordinavit, aciem lustravit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071618-4869 | ASSONANT Rhymes is a term particularly applied to a kind of verses common among the Spaniards, where a resemblance of sound serves instead of a natural rhyme. Thus ligera, cubierta, tierra, mesa, may answer each other in a kind of assonant rhyme, having each an e in the penult syllable, and an a in the last. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071619-4869 | ASSUMPSIT, in the Law of England, a voluntary promise, whereby a person assumes or takes upon him to perform or pay any thing to another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071620-4869 | ASSUMPTION, a festival in the Romish church, in honour of the miraculous ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven. The Greek church also observes this festival, and celebrates it on the 15th of August with great ceremony.
Assumption, in Logic, is the minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
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kp-eb0703-071701-4882 | ASSUMPTIVE Arms, in Heraldry, are such as a person has a right to assume with the approbation of his sovereign and of the heralds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071702-4882 | ASSURANCE, or Insurance. See Insurance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071703-4882 | ASSYE, a small town of Hindostan, in the province of Berar, 24 miles N.N.E. from Jalnapoor, noted for a battle fought near it in September 1803, between a force of 4500 men under General Wellesley, afterwards the Duke of Wellington, and the combined armies of Sindia and the rajah of Nagpoor, amounting to 30,000 men, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071704-4882 | ASSYN-Kalesi, a village of Asia Minor, in Caria, occupying a peninsula among the branches of Mount Grius, with a mean but extensive fortress on the summit of the rock. This village stands on the site of the ancient Jasus, a considerable city, and many antiquities are still to be seen in it. Some of the most spacious se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 18' N 27 32' E | ASSYN-Kalesi |
kp-eb0703-071705-4882 | ASSYRIA, an ancient kingdom of Asia, concerning the commencement, duration, and extent of which historians are not agreed. Ctesias and Diodorus Siculus describe the Assyrian monarchy, under Ninus and Semiramis, as of very great extent; but the silence of Homer, and the brief Statements of Herodotus, are not easily reco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071801-4895 | ASTABAT, a town of Persian Armenia, situated near the river Aras, the ancient Araxes, 20 miles south-east of Nacsivan. It is a small but neat place, and each house is supplied with a well of water. The neighbouring country is fertile, and produces good wine. There is a root peculiar to this country, called ronas, used ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 N 46 30' E | ASTABAT |
kp-eb0703-071802-4895 | ASTAFORT, a town of France, in Gascony. It is the head of a canton in the department of the Lot and Garonne, arrondissement of Agen, and contains 4140 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071803-4895 | ASTANDA, in Antiquity, a royal courier or messenger, the same with Angarus. King Darius of Persia is said by Plutarch, in his book on the fortune of Alexander, to have formerly been an astanda. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071804-4895 | ASTARA, a town of Persia, and capital of a district, the governor of which is independent of Ghilan and Schirvan. It is situated on the river Astara. 70 miles N. of Reshd, and 100 E. of Tabriz. Long. 49. E. Lat. 38. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 38 20' N 49 E | ASTARA |
kp-eb0703-071805-4895 | ASTARAKAT, a town of Persia, in the province of Segistan or Seistan. 100 miles N. of Zareng; 220 W.N.W. of Candahar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071806-4895 | ASTAROTH, or Ashtaroth, in Antiquity, a goddess of the Sidonians. The word is Syriac, and signifies sheep, especially when their udders are turgid with milk. From the fecundity of these animals, which in Syria continue to breed a long time, they formed the notion of a deity, whom they called Astaroth or Astarte. Solomo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071807-4895 | ASTELL, Mary, an English authoress of some name, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the year 1668. Her father, who was a merchant, committed the education of his daughter to her uncle, who was a clergyman. Convinced of the general injury done to young ladies at that period by the deficiency of their education, he taugh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071808-4895 | ASTELL’S Island, one of the English Company’s islands, at the north-west part of the Gulf of Carpentaria, of moderate height, and wooded. Iron ore is found here. Lat. 11.55. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071809-4895 | ASTERIA or Star-Stone. This name is given to certain varieties of the perfect corundum, when cut in a peculiar manner. The structure of this gem is that of a hexagonal prism, surmounted by a double hexagonal pyramid, which, when cut perpendicular to the axis, and rounded off in the form of a ring-stone, very often pres... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071810-4895 | ASTERISK, a mark in form of a star (*), placed over a word or sentence, to refer the reader to the margin, or elsewhere, for a quotation, explanation, or the like.. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071811-4895 | ASTERN, a sea phrase, used to signify any thing at some distance behind the ship; being the opposite of Ahead, which signifies the space before her.
-ASTI, a province of the duchy of Piedmont, in the [7:3:719]continental dominions of the king of Sardinia. It is bounded on the north-east and east by Alessandria, on the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071901-4908 | ASTOMI, in anthropology, a people feigned without mouths. Pliny speaks of a nation of Astomi in India, who lived only by the smell or effluvia of bodies taken in by the nose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-071902-4908 | ASTORGA, a city of Spain, in the province of Leon, situated on a plain near the river Tuerto, and having the appellation of a marquisate, which title it confers on a noble family. It is surrounded with ancient fortifications, and has near it a castle in ruins. It has a cathedral, being the see of a bishop under the chu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 27' 9" N 5 38' 53" W | ASTORGA |
kp-eb0703-071903-4908 | ASTRABAD, or Asterabad, a small province of Persia, sometimes included in that of Mazanderan. It is bounded on the west by the Caspian Sea; to the south it is separated by a lofty ridge of mountains from the districts of Damgan and Bistan; it extends to 58° of east longitude, where it is divided from Dahistan by the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 50' N 54 25' E | ASTRABAD |
kp-eb0703-071904-4908 | ASTRACAN, a large city of Asiatic Russia, the seat of an archbishop, built on eminences surrounded by the marshes of the Volga, between 50 and 60 miles from its influx into the Caspian Sea. It is about three miles in circumference, or nearly five miles if we include the sub- ? urbs, and is surrounded by a wall mostly i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 21' N 47 44' E | ASTRACAN |
kp-eb0703-072001-4921 | ASTRAEA, in Astronomy, a name which some give tô the sign Virgo, by others called Erigone, and sometimes Isis. The poets feign that Justice quitted heaven to reside on earth in the golden age; but growing weary of the iniquities of mankind, she left the earth and returned to heaven, where she commenced a constellation ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-072002-4921 | ASTRAGALOMANCY, a species of divination performed by throwing small pieces, with marks corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, the accidental disposition of which formed the answer required. This kind of divination was practised in a temple of Hercules in Achaia. The word is derived from α<wgayαλog, and μrnrua, d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-072003-4921 | ASTROGNOSIA, the science of the fixed stars, or the knowledge of their names, constellations, magnitudes, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0703-072004-4921 | ASTROLABE, the name for a stereographic projection of the sphere, either upon the plane of the equator, the eye being supposed to be in the pole of the world, or upon the plane of the meridian, when the eye is supposed in the point of the intersection of the equinoctial and horizon.
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kp-eb0703-072005-4921 | ASTROLOGY, a pretended science, teaching to judge of the effects and influences of the stars, and to foretel future events by the situation and different aspects of the heavenly bodies.
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kp-eb0703-072101-4934 | ASTRONOMY, from αϋτηο or aerooy, a star, and vομος, a law, is the science which treats of the laws observed by the stars in their motions. By an extension of signification, it embraces every thing that is known relating to the nature and constitution, as well as to the motions, of the celestial bodies.
The present tre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-010101-0628 | ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS.
There are two principal objects to be accomplished by astronomical instruments; the one is the extension and improvement of the science; and the other its application to geography, navigation, and the ordinary wants of society. Here we give the name astronomical instruments to such as in thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011101-0758 | ASTRUC, John, a celebrated physician, was born in the year 1684, at the town of Sauves, in the province of Languedoc. His father, who was a Protestant clergyman, bestowed particular pains upon the earlier part of his education; after which he went to the university of Montpelier, where he took the degree of master of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011102-0758 | ASTURIAS, one of the provinces of the Spanish monarchy, distinguished by the title of a principality, and under that name conferred on the heir apparent to the throne of Spain. It is bounded on the east by Biscay, on the south by Leon, on the west by Galicia, and on the north by the ocean. It was known to the Romans du... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011201-0771 | ASTYAGES, son of Cyaxares, the last king of the Medes. He dreamed, that from the womb of his daughter Mandane, married to Cambyses king of Persia, there sprung a vine that spread itself over all Asia. She being with child, he resolved upon the destruction of the infant when born, and commissioned Harpagus to execute hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011202-0771 | ASTYANAX, the only son of Hector and Andromache. After the taking of Troy he was thrown from the top of a tower by Ulysses’s orders. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011203-0771 | ASTYNOMI, in Grecian antiquity, magistrates in Athens, corresponding to the aediles of the Romans: they were ten in number. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011204-0771 | ASYLUM, a sanctuary or place of refuge where criminals shelter themselves from the hands of justice. The word is compounded of the privative particle α, and πυλαω, I hurt; because no person could be taken out of an asylum without sacrilege. The asyla of altars and temples were very ancient, and likewise those of tombs,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011205-0771 | ASSYMETRY, the want of proportion between the parts of any thing; being the contrary of symmetry. Or, it is the relation of two quantities which have no common measure, as between 1 and √2, or the side and diagonal of a square. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011206-0771 | ASYMPTOTE, in Geometry, a line which continually approaches nearer to another, but, though continued infinitely, will never meet with it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011207-0771 | ASYNDETON, in Grammar, a figure which omits the conjunctions in a sentence. As in veni, vidi, vici, where et is left out; or in that of Cicero concerning Catiline, abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011208-0771 | ATE, the goddess of mischief, in the Pagan theology. She was daughter of Jupiter, and cast down from heaven at the birth of Hercules. For Juno having deceived Jupiter, in causing Eurystheus to be born before Hercules, Jupiter expressed his resentment on Ate, as the author of that mischief, and threw her headlong from h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011209-0771 | AIEMPO Giusto, in Music, signifies to sing or play in an equal, true, and just time.
Al ERGATIS, in Mythology, a goddess of the Syrians, supposed to be the mother of Semiramis. She was represented with the face and breasts of a woman, but the rest of her body resembled a fish. Vossius says the term signifies without f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011301-0784 | ATESTE, a town in Austrian Lombardy, in Italy, now called Este. Long. 12. 6. E. Lat. 45. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011302-0784 | ATH, or Aeth, a city of the circle of Tournay and province of Hennegau, in the kingdom of the Netherlands. It is situated on the river Dender, is well built and strongly fortified, has a new arsenal, with several bomb-proof magazines, and, exclusive of the garrison, contained in 1817 a population of 8296 inhabitants, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011303-0784 | ATHANASIAN Creed, a formulary or confession of faith, long supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, in the fourth century, to justify himself against the calumnies of his Arian enemies. But it is now generally allowed among the learned not to have been his. Dr Waterland ascribes it to Hilary,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011304-0784 | ATHANASIUS, St, bishop of Alexandria, and one of the greatest defenders of the faith against the Arians, was born in Egypt. He followed St Alexander to the council of Nice in 325, where he disputed against Arius, and the following year was made bishop of Alexandria, but in 335 was deposed by the council of Tyre; when, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011305-0784 | ATHEIST, a person who does not believe the existence of a Deity. Many, both ancient and modern, have pretended to atheism, or have been reckoned atheists by the world; but it may be justly questioned whether any man ever seriously adopted such a principle. Among us, the greatest philosophers have been the principal adv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011306-0784 | ATHELING, Adeling, Edeling, Ethling, or Etheling, among the Anglo-Saxons, was a title of honour, properly belonging to the heir-apparent or presumptive to the crown. This honourable appellation was first conferred by King Edward the Confessor on Edgar, to whom he was great uncle, when, being without any issue of his ow... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011307-0784 | ATHELSTAN, a Saxon king of England, natural son of Edward the Elder, and grandson of the great Alfred. He succeeded to the crown in 925, and reigned 16 years. There was a remarkable law passed by this prince, which shows his just sentiments of the advantages of commerce, as well as the early attention to it in this cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011308-0784 | ATHENAEUM, in Antiquity, a public place wherein the professors of the liberal arts held their assemblies, the rhetoricians declaimed, and the poets rehearsed their performances. The three most celebrated Athenaea were those at Athens, at Rome, and at Lyons; the second of which was built by the emperor Adrian.
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kp-eb0704-011401-0797 | ATHENAEUS, a Greek grammarian, born at Naucratis in Egypt in the third century, one of the most learned men of ’ his time. Of all his works we have none extant but his Deipnosophi, i. e. the Sophists at Table. There is an infinity of facts and quotations in this work, without which we should have been ignorant of many ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011402-0797 | ATHENAGORAS, an Athenian philosopher, flourished about the middle of the second century, and was remarkable for his zeal for Christianity, and his great learning, as appears from the apology which he addressed to the emperors Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Lucius Commodus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011403-0797 | ATHENODORUS, a famous Stoic philosopher, born' at Tarsus, went to the court of Augustus, and was made by him tutor to Tiberius. Augustus had a great esteem for him, and found him by experience a man of virtue and probity. He used to speak very freely to the emperor, and before he left the court to return home, warned h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011404-0797 | ATHENREE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Galway, and province of Connaught. Long. 8. 5. W. Lat. 53. 14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-011405-0797 | ATHENS, “ The eye of Greece” (to use Byron’s phrase), the capital of Attica, and the birthplace of the most distinguished orators, philosophers, statesmen, historians, and artists of antiquity, is situated in long. 23. 24. E. lat. 38. 32. N., at the western extremity of the ancient territory of Attica, about 100 miles ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-012901-0992 | ATHEROMA, in Surgery, an encysted tumour, containing a soft substance, resembling pap, intermixed with hard and stony particles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-012902-0992 | ATHERSTONE, a market town of the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick, 109 miles from London. It has the benefit of the Coventry canal, which passes near the town, and some trade in ribbons, woollen stuffs, and hats. The market is on Tuesday. Population in 1801, 2650; in 1811, 2921; and in 1821, 3434 inhabi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-012903-0992 | ATHERTON, or Chowbent, a township in the parish of Leigh, and hundred of West Derby, in Lancashire, 199 miles from London. It is one of those places which has [7:4:130]grown to wealth and populousness since the extension of the cotton trade. Population in 1801, 3249; in 1811, 3894; and in 1821, 4145. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013001-1005 | ATHLETAE, in Antiquity, persons of strength and agility, disciplined to perform in the public games. The word is originally Greek, c0ληr>jς, formed from c0λoς, certamen, combat; whence also, αSλoμ, the prize or reward adjudged to the victor. Under athletae were comprehended wrestlers, boxers, runners, leapers, throwers... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013002-1005 | ATHLONE, a market town in Ireland, lying partly in Westmeath, and partly in Connaught. It is situated on the river Shannon, by which it is intersected, the opposite sides being connected by an ancient stone bridge. This afforded the principal passage over the river; and hence, in the war of 1688, the possession of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013003-1005 | ATHOL, the most northern district of Perthshire, in Scotland, extending about 45 miles in length by 40 in breadth. It is bordered on the north by Badenoch, on the west by Lochaber, on the east and south-east by Mar and Gowrie, on the south by Stratherne and Perth Proper, and on the south-west by Breadalbane. This distr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013004-1005 | ATHOS, a celebrated mountain of Chalcidia, in Macedonia, situated in long. 26. 20. E. and lat. 40. 10. N. The ancients entertained extravagant notions concerning its height On many accounts it was famous amongst them, but it is no less so among the moderns. The Greeks, struck with its singular situation, and the venera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013005-1005 | ATIENZA, a town of Spain, in the southern division of the province of Sorea. It is on the declivity of a hill, contains five churches, a monastery, and 1950 inhabitants. Near to it are several salt springs, which are boiled in three villages in the neighbourhood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013006-1005 | ATKINS, Sir Robert, lord chief baron of the exchequer, was born in 1621, and educated at the university of Oxford, from whence he removed to the inns of court, and became eminent in the law. He was made knight of the bath, with many other persons of the first distinction, at the coronation of King Charles II. In 1672 h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013007-1005 | ATKYNS, Richard, was born of a good family at Tuffleigh, in Gloucestershire, in the year 1615. He was educated at Oxford, from whence he removed to Lincoln’s inn. During the civil wars he distinguished himself by his loyalty to King Charles I., and raised for him a troop of horse at his own expense. At the restoration ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013008-1005 | ATLANTIC Ocean, that sea which is bounded by Europe and Africa on the east, and by America on the west. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013009-1005 | ATLANTIDES, in Astronomy, a denomination given to the Pleiades, or seven stars, sometimes also called Ver-giliae. They are thus called, as being supposed by the poets to have been the daughters either of Atlas or his brother Hesperus, who were translated into heaven. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013010-1005 | ATLANTIS, Atalantis, or Atlantica, an island mentioned by Plato and some others of the ancients, concerning the real existence of which many disputes have been raised. Homer, Horace, and the other poets make [7:4:131]two Atlanticas,calling them Hesperides and Elysian Fields, and representing them as the habitations of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013101-1018 | ATLAS, king of Mauritania, a great astronomer, contemporary with Moses. From his taking observations of the stars on a mountain, the poets feigned him to have been turned into a mountain, and to sustain the heavens on his shoulders. Being an excellent astronomer, and the first who taught the doctrine of the sphere, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013102-1018 | ATMOMETER (from αrμος, vapour, and μsrgoι∕, a measure), an instrument contrived by Professor Leslie, for measuring the quantity of moisture exhaled from any humid surface in a given time. It consists of a very thin ball of porous earthenware, from one to three inches in diameter, having a small neck firmly cemented to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013201-1031 | ATMOSPHERE is the name applied to the invisible elastic medium which surrounds the globe of the earth to an unknown height. The fluid of which it is composed is usually distinguished by the name of air.
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kp-eb0704-013801-1109 | AIOM, in Philosophy, a particle of matter, so minute as to admit of no division. Atoms are the minima naturce i [7:4:139] and are conceived to be the first principles or component parts of all physical magnitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013901-1122 | ATOMICAL Philosophy, or the doctrine of atoms, a system which, from the hypothesis that atoms are endued with gravity and motion, accounted for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Democritus, and afterwards cultivated and improved by Epicurus, whence it is denominated the Epicu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013902-1122 | ATOMIC Theory. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013903-1122 | ATONEMENT. See Expiation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013904-1122 | ATOOI, one of the larger Sandwich Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Towards the north-east and northwest the country is rugged and broken, but to the southward it is more level. The hills rise from the sea with a gentle acclivity, and at a little distance back are covered with wood. The produce of this island is the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013905-1122 | ATREBATII, a people of Britain, who inhabited part of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, next to the Bibroci. This was one of those Bclgic colonies which came out of Gaul into Britain, and there retained their ancient name. They are mentioned by Caesar among the nations which composed the Belgic confederacy against him; and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013906-1122 | ATREUS, in Fabulous History, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, is supposed to have been king of Mycenae and Argos about 1228 years before the Christian era. He drove his brother Thyestes from court for having criminal intercourse with Aerope his wife; but, understanding that tw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013907-1122 | ATRI, or Atria, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra, with the title of a duchy. It is seated on a craggy mountain, 28 miles north-east of Aquila. Long. 13. 58. E. Lat. 42. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013908-1122 | ATRIENSES, in Antiquity, a kind of servants or officers in the great families of Rome, who had the care and inspection of the atria and the things lodged therein. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013909-1122 | ATRIUM, in Ecclesiastical Antiquity, denotes an open place or court before a church, making part of what was called the narthex or ante-temple. The atrium in the ancient churches was a large area or square plat of ground, surrounded with a porticoor cloister, situated between the porch or vestibule of the church and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013910-1122 | ATROPHY, in Medicine, a disease in which the body, or some of its parts, does not receive the necessary nutriment from the blood, but wastes and decays incessantly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013911-1122 | ATROPOS, in Fabulous History, the name of the third of the Parcae or Fates, whose business it was to cut the thread of life. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013912-1122 | ATTACHMENT, in English Law, implies the taking or apprehending of a person by virtue of a writ or precept. It is distinguished from an arrest by proceeding out of a higher court by precept or writ; wher t eas the latter proceeds out of an inferior court by precept only. An arrest lies only against the body of a man; wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013913-1122 | ATTACOTTI, an ancient people of Britain, mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus and St Jerome, as well as in the Notitia Imperii. They are represented as allies and confederates of the Scots and Picts, and therefore probably their neighbours; though their precise situation has not been determined by antiquaries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013914-1122 | ATTAINDER, in Law, is that species of infamy which is incurred by one who has been capitally convicted of a felony, treason, or other great crime. In that case the law sets a note of infamy upon him, puts him out of its protection, and takes no further care of him than barely to see him executed. He is then called atta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-013915-1122 | ATTENTION, a due application of the ear or of the mind to any thing said or done, in order to acquire a knowledge thereof. The word is compounded of ad, to, and the verbal substantive derived from tendo, I stretch.
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kp-eb0704-014001-1135 | ATTENUATION, the act of making any fluid thinner and less consistent than it was before, or of enlarging bodies in superficial extent. The word is compounded of ad, to, and tenuis, thin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-014002-1135 | ATTERBURY, Dr Francis, son of Dr Lewis Atterbury, was born at Milton in Buckinghamshire, in 1662; educated at Westminster; and thereafter elected to Christ Church in Oxford, where he soon distinguished himself by his fine genius and taste for polite literature. In 1687 he was made Μ. A., when he exerted himself in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-014201-1161 | ATTICA, An ancient kingdom of Greece, situated between the Strait of Euripus or Negropont on the north-east, and the Gulf of Saron or Aegina on the south-west, may be considered as forming a triangle, the base of which constituted the conterminous boundary with Boeotia, while the two other sides, washed by the sea, had... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017201-1551 | ATTICÜS, Titus Pomponius, one of the most distinguished men in ancient Rome. He understood so thoroughly the art of conducting himself with address, that without in any degree compromising his neutrality, he preserved the esteem and affection of all parties. His strict friendship with Cicero did not prevent him from be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017301-1564 | ATTIGNY, a small town of France, in the department of Ardennes. It was a place of some celebrity at an early-period, from its being usually selected as the summer residence of the kings of France. It is situated on the river Aione, in long. 4. 47. E. lat. 49. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017302-1564 | ATTILA, king of the Huns, surnamed the Scourge of God, may be ranked amongst the greatest and fiercest of conquerors, since there was scarcely any province of Europe which did not feel the weight of his victorious arms. His death was attended with singular circumstances. He had married a beautiful virgin named Ildico H... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017303-1564 | ATTLEBOROUGH, or Attleburgh, a market-town of the hundred of Shropham, in the county of Norfolk, ninety-three miles from London, and six from Norwich. This place is said to have been formerly a large city, the 1 capital of the county, and at one time had a collegiate church. There is a market held every Thursday, and a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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