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kp-eb0704-017304-1564 | ATTLEBURY, a town in the county of Norfolk in England. Long. 0. 40. E. Lat. 52. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017305-1564 | ATTOCK, a celebrated town and fort of Hindostan, in the province of Lahore, situated on the eastern bank of the Indus, which is here from three fourths to one mile across. It is the place where Alexander, Tamerlane, and Nadir Shah crossed the river in advancing eastward into India. The emperor Akbar built the present f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 33 6' N 71 15' E | ATTOCK |
kp-eb0704-017306-1564 | ATTORNEY at Law answers to the procurator or proctor of the civilians and canonists. He is one who is put in the place, stead, or room of another, to manage his matters of law.
Attorney-General, a great law-officer under the king, whose duty it is to exhibit informations, and prosecute for the crown, in matters crimin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-017307-1564 | ATTRACTION.
The word Attraction is used to denote what we observe when one body approaches another, or tends to approach it, without any apparent impulse or other cause to which the motion can be ascribed.
We have instances of attraction when iron approaches the magnet, when certain bodies are placed near an excited ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018701-1746 | ATTRIBUTE, in a general sense, is that which mąy be predicated of a person or thing as a determining characteristic, inherent quality or accident, the negation of which involves either a falsehood, a contradiction, or an absurdity. Thus understanding is an attribute of mind, and extension an attribute of matter. That a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018702-1746 | ATTRIBUTES, in Theology, the several qualities or perfections of the divine nature.
Attributes, in Logic, are the predicates of any subject, or what may be aflirmed or denied of any thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018703-1746 | ATTRIBUTIVES, in Grammar, are words which are significative of attributes; and thus include adjectives, verbs, and particles, which are attributes of substances, together with adverbs, which denote the attributes only of attributes. Mr Harris, who introduced this distribution of words, denominates the former attributiv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018704-1746 | ATTRUCK, a river of Persia, which has its rise in a branch of the Elburz Mountains that borders on the northern deserts of Khorassan. It collects the streams of an extensive valley, and of several subordinate glens, and conveys in a westerly direction to the desert a large body of water, which being joined by several o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018705-1746 | ATTU, or Aττoo, one of the Aleutian Islands, about 60 miles in length, mountainous, and covered with snow, but inhabited. It is 215 miles east of Behring’s Island. Long. 172. E. Lat. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018706-1746 | ATWOOD, George, an author celebrated for the accuracy of his mathematical and mechanical investigations, and considered particularly happy in the clearness of his explanations, and the elegance of his experimental illustrations, was born in the early part of the year 1746. He was educated at Westminster school, where h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018801-1759 | AUBAGNE, a town of France, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, and arrondissement of Marseilles. It possesses manufactures of earthenware, and has a population of about 5000. It lies on the Veaune, 17 leagues N. W. of Aix. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018802-1759 | AUBAINE, in the old customs of France, a right vested in the king, by virtue of which he claimed the inheritance of all foreigners that died within his dominions, notwithstanding any testamentary settlement made by the deceased. An ambassador was not subject to the right of aubaine; and the Swiss, Savoyards, Scots, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018901-1772 | AUBE, a department of France, deriving its name from that of the chief river by which it is watered. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Marne, on the east by that of the Upper Marne, on the south-east by that of the Côte d’Or, on the south-west by that of the Yonne, and on the north-west by that of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018902-1772 | AUBENTON, a small town of France, in the department of Aisne, situated on the river Aube. Long. 4. 30. E. Lat. 44. 37. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018903-1772 | AUBETERRE, a small town of France, in the department of the Charente, nine leagues south of Angoulême. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018904-1772 | AUBIGNY, or Avigny, a town of France, in the department of the Cher. It contains about 2500 inhabitants, who manufacture cloth, and carry on a trade in woollens, thread, linen, &c. Long. 2. 31. E. Lat. 47. 29. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018905-1772 | AUBIN DE CORMIER, St, a town of France, in the department of the I∏e and Vilaine, containing about 1500 inhabitants. It is situated six leagues N. E. of Rennes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018906-1772 | AUBONNE, a circle in the canton of Waadt or Vaud, in Switzerland, containing one town, four villages, and 6620 inhabitants. The capital of the circle is of the same name. It is small but well built, containing 1700 inhabitants, who make good wine, and pursue agriculture with skill. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018907-1772 | AUBREY, John, descended from an ancient family in Wiltshire, was born in 1626. He made the history and antiquities of England his peculiar study and delight, and contributed considerable assistance to the Monastico Anglicanum, He succeeded to several good estates; but law-suits and other misfortunes consumed them all, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018908-1772 | AUBURG, a bailiwick on the Aue, belonging to Hesse till 1815, but then ceded to Hanover, and now included in the province Hoya and Diepholz of that kingdom. It is about 22 square miles or 14,000 acres in extent, but has no town, and only 274houses, with 2309 inhabitants, who subsist by agriculture, and spinning and wea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018909-1772 | AUBURN, or Albourn, a market-town of Wiltshire, in England, about 70 miles from London. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018910-1772 | AUBUSSON, an arrondissement in the department of the Creuse, in France. Its extent is 860 square miles, or 5u0,400 acres. It is divided into 10 cantons, and these into 113 communes, containing 93,298 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is a city on the banks of the river Creuse, containing a population of 3520 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018911-1772 | AUCH, one of the arrondissements of France, in the department of the Gers. It extends over 540 square miles, or 537,600 acres, and is divided into six cantons and 136 communes, containing 56,098 inhabitants. The chief city, of. the same name, is situated on the river Gers. It contains a population of 9215 persons, most... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018912-1772 | AUCHTERARDER, a town and parish of Scotland, in the county of Perth. The town consists of a single street about a mile in length. It was formerly a royal burgh, but is now disfranchised. It has near it an ancient castle, said to have been a hunting seat of Malcolm Canmore. This place is 15 miles S. S. W. of Perth, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018913-1772 | AUCHTERMUCHTY, a town and parish of Scotland, in the county of Fife. The town has not the privilege of voting for a member of parliament, though it is governed by its own magistrates. A considerable manufacture of brown linen is carried on here. The population is 2404, and it is nine miles west from Cupar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018914-1772 | AUCKLAND-BISHOPS, a market-town in the ward of Darlington and county of Durham, 257 miles from London and 12 from the city of Durham. It stands on the banks of the river Wear, at its confluence with the Gaun-less or Wandless. Its name is derived from the great number of oak-trees that formerly surrounded it, and from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018915-1772 | AUCTION, a kind of public sale, much in use for the disposal of household goods, books, plate, and other articles. By this method of sale the highest bidder is always the buyer. Auction was originally a kind of sale among the ancient Romans, performed by the public crier sub hasta, i. e. under a spear stuck up on the o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018916-1772 | AUDE, a department of France, taking its name from the river, which rises in the Eastern Pyrenees, and runs through it in two branches to the Mediterranean Sea. It is bounded by the department of Hérault on the northeast, that of the Tarn on the north, by the Mediterranean on the east, and by the department of the Arri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018917-1772 | AUDEUS, the chief of the Audeans, obtained the name of a heretic, and the punishment of banishment, for celebrating Easter in the manner of the Jews, and attributing a human form to the Deity. He died in the country of the Goths, about the year 370. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-018918-1772 | AUDITOR, in a general sense, a hearer, or one who listens or attends to any thing.
Auditor of the Receipts is an officer of the exchequer who files the tellers’ bills, makes an entry of them, and gives the lord treasurer a certificate of the money receiv [7:4:190]ed the week before. He also makes debentures to every t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019001-1785 | AUDITORS, in Ecclesiastical History, those who formed one branch of the Manichean sect, which was divided into elect and auditors ; corresponding, according to some writers, to clergy and laity, and according to others, to the faithful and catechumens among the Catholics. By the Manichean rule, a different course of li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019002-1785 | AUDITORIUM, in the ancient churches, was that part of the church where the auditors stood to hear and be instructed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019003-1785 | AUDRAN, Claude, a French engraver, the first of the celebrated artists of that name, was the son of Louis Audran, an officer belonging to the wolf-hunters in the reign of Henry IV. of France, and was born at Paris in 1592. He never made any great progress in that art, so that his prints are held in little or no estimat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019101-1798 | AUERBACH, a small city, with 1350 inhabitants, in the bailiwick of Eschenbach and circle of the Upper Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria.
Auerbach, a city on the river Golzsch, with 18Õ0 inhabitants, mostly weavers of cotton goods. It is in the bailiwick of Plauen and circle of Voigtland, in the kingdom of Saxony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019102-1798 | AUERSTADT, a village of 500 inhabitants, celebrated for the victory more commonly known by the name of the neighbouring city of Jena, which the French gained over the Prussians in October 1806. It is situated in the circle of Eckartsburg and government of Merseburg, in The Prussian province of Saxony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019103-1798 | AUGEAS, in fabulous history, was king of Elis, and particularly famed for his stable, which contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for thirty years. Hercules was desired to clear away the filth from this stable in one day; and Augeas promised, if he performed it, to give him a tenth part of the cattle. This task... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019104-1798 | AUGRE, or Awgre, an instrument used by carpenters and joiners to bore large round holes, and consisting of a wooden handle, and an iron blade terminated at bottom with a steel bit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019105-1798 | AUGSBURG, a city of Bavaria, the capital of the circle of the Upper Danube, celebrated in all the periods of German history. It is built on a beautiful plain between the rivers Lech and Wertach, and is surrounded with walls and ditches; but these form very imperfect defences against an enemy. The city is generally ill ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019106-1798 | AUGUR, an officer among the ancient Romans, appointed to foretell future events by the chattering, flight, and feeding of birds. There was a college or community of these functionaries, consisting originally of three members; afterwards the number was increased to nine, four of whom were patricians and five plebeians. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019107-1798 | AUGURY, in its proper sense, the art of foretelling future events by observations on birds; though it is used by some writers in a more general signification, as comprising all the different kinds of divination.
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kp-eb0704-019108-1798 | AUGUST (augustus), in a general sense, something majestic, venerable, or sacred. The appellation was first conferred by the Roman senate upon Octavius, after he had been confirmed by them in the sovereign power.
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kp-eb0704-019109-1798 | AUGUSTA, or Austa, an island in the Adriatic Sea, on the coast of Dalmatia, near Ragusa, subject to Venice. Long. 17. 50. E. Lat. 42. 35. N.
Augusta, a city in the intendancy of Catania, in Sicily. It stands on a tongue of land near Cape Croce, and has a good harbour, from which some salt, honey, and wine are exported... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019110-1798 | AUGUSTALES, in Boman Antiquity, an epithet given [7:4:192]to the'flamens or priests appointed to sacrifice to Augustus after his deification; and also to the ludi or games celebrated in honour of the same prince on the fourth of the ides of October. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019201-1811 | AUGUSTALIA, afestival instituted by the Romans in honour of Augustus Caesar, on his return to Rome, after having settled peace in Sicily, Greece, Syria, Asia, and Parthia; on which occasion they likewise built an altar to him, inscribed Fortunae Reduci. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019202-1811 | AUGUSTALIS Praefectus, a title peculiar to a Roman magistrate who governed Egypt, with a power much like that of a proconsul in other provinces. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019203-1811 | AUGUSTAN Confession. See Augsburg Confession. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019204-1811 | AUGUSTENBURG, a ducal circle in the divisions of the Danish kingdom, known as the adlichen or noble districts. The duchy consists of seven parishes on the island of Alsen, and of one town and two villages on the continent. It is a part of the duchy of Sleswick. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019205-1811 | AUGUSTIN, or Austin, St, the first archbishop of Canterbury, was originally a monk in the convent of St Andrew at Rome, and educated under St Gregory, afterwards Pope Gregory I., by whom he was sent into Britain with forty other monks of the same order, about the year 596, to convert the English Saxons to Christianity.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019206-1811 | AUGUSTINE, St, an illustrious father of the church, was born at Thagaste, a city of Numidia, on the 13th of November 354. His father, a burgess of that city, was called Patricius, and his mother Monica, who being a woman of great virtue, instructed him in the principles of the Christian religion. In his early youth, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019207-1811 | AUGUSTINS, or Augustini ans, an order of religious, thus called from St Augustine, whose rule they observe. The Augustins, popularly also called Austin friars, were originally hermits, whom Pope Alexander IV. first congregated into one body, under their general Lanfranc, in 1256. Soon after their institution this order... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019208-1811 | AUGUSTOW, a woiwodship of Poland, which takes its name from the city which is its capital. The woiwodship is the northernmost part of the kingdom, a long strip, extending from the Bug to the Niemen, between long. 21. 20. and 23. 9. E. and lat. 52. 40. and 55. 5. N. Its extent is 6870 square miles, and it incloses the g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019301-1824 | AUGUSTUS, Fort, a small fortress seated on a plain at the head of Loch Ness, in Scotland, between the rivers Tarf and Oich.
Augustus, the appellation conferred upon Caesar Octavianus, the first Roman emperor. The obscure name Octavianus, Mr Gibbon observes, he derived from a mean family in the little town of Aricia. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019302-1824 | AUK. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019303-1824 | AULA is used by Spelman for a court-baron; by some old ecclesiastical writers for the nave of a church, and sometimes for a court-yard.
Aula Regia, or Regis, a court established by William the Conqueror in his own hall, composed of the king’s great officers of state, who resided in his palace, and were usually attenda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019304-1824 | AULCESTER, a market-town in the county of Warwick, distant 103 miles from London and 14 from Warwick. It stands at the junction of the two rivers Alne and Arrow. It was formerly a place of more importance, and the residence of some of our monarchs in remote periods. It still has a church, which is a fine Gothic structu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019305-1824 | AULETES, in Antiquity, denotes a flute-player. One of the Ptolemies, kings of Egypt, father of Cleopatra, bore the surname or denomination of Auletes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019306-1824 | AULIC, an epithet given to certain officers of the empire, who compose a court which decides, without appeal, in all processes entered in or submitted to it.
Aulic, in the Sorbonne and foreign universities, is an act which a young divine maintains upon being admitted a doctor of divinity. It begins by a harangue of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019307-1824 | AULPS, a city on the river Braque, with 2947 inhabitants, in the arrondissement of Draguignan, in the department of the Var, in France. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019308-1824 | AULUS Gellius. See Gellius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019309-1824 | AUMBRY, a country word denoting a cupboard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019310-1824 | AUME, a Dutch measure for Rhenish wine, containing 40 English gallons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019311-1824 | AUNCEL WEIGHT, an ancient kind of balance, now out of use, being prohibited by several statutes, on account of the many deceits practised by it. It consisted of scales hanging on hooks, fastened at each end of a beam, which a man lifted up on his hand. In many parts of England auncel weight signifies meat sold by the h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019312-1824 | AUNE, a long measure used in France to measure cloths, stuffs, ribbons, &c. At Rouen it is equal to one English ell. at Calais to 1’52, at Lyons to 1∙061, and at Paris to 0"95. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019313-1824 | AUNGERVYLE, Richard, commonly known by the name of Richard de Bury, was born in 1281, at St Edmund’s Bury, in Suffolk, and educated at the University of Oxford; after which he entered into the order of Benedictine monks, and became tutor to Edward prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward III. Upon the accession of his r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019314-1824 | AUNIS, formerly a small province in France, but now included in the department*of the Lower Charente, and belonging to the arrondissements of Rochefort, La Rochelle, and Varennes.
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kp-eb0704-019401-1837 | AURACH, a town of Germany, with a good castle, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019402-1837 | AURAE, in Mythology, a name given by the Romans to the nymphs of the air. They are mostly to be found in the ancient paintings of ceilings, where they are represented as light and airy, generally with long robes and flying veils of some lively colour or other, and fluttering about in the rare and pleasing element assig... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019403-1837 | AURAY, a small seaport town of Lower Brittany, in France, situated on the gulf called Morbihan, and in the department of the same name. It consists of only one handsome street, and is chiefly known for its trade. Long. 2. 25. W. Lat. 47. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019404-1837 | AURELIA, in Natural History, the same with what is more usually called chrysalis, and sometimes nymph. See Entomology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019405-1837 | AURELIANUS, Lucius Domitius, emperor of Rome, commanded the armies of the emperor Claudius with such glory, that after the death of that emperor all the legions agreed to place him on the throne. This happened in the year 270. He defeated the Goths, Samaritans, Marcomanni, the Persians, Egyptians, and Vandals, and conq... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019406-1837 | AURELIUS Victor. See Victor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019407-1837 | AUREOLA, in its original signification, signifies a jewel, which is proposed as a reward of victory in some public dispute. Hence the Roman schoolmen applied it to denote the reward bestowed on martyrs, virgins, and doctors, on account of their works of supererogation; and painters use it to signify the crown of glory ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019408-1837 | AUREUS, a Roman gold coin, equal in value to 25 denarii. According to Ainsworth, the aureus of the higher empire weighed near five pennyweights, and in the lower empire little more than half that weight. We learn from Suetonius that it was customary to give aurei to the victors in the chariot races. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019409-1837 | AURICH, a bailiwick in the Hanoverian province of East Friesland, which contains, in one city and 23 villages, 3950 houses and 20,087 inhabitants. The extent is 270 square miles, or 172,800 acres. The land is marshy, but there are some good meadows. The capital of the bailiwick is of the same name, containing 2660 inha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019410-1837 | AURICLE, in Anatomy, that part of the ear which is prominent from the head, called by many authors auris externa. Auricles are likewise two muscular bags situated at the basis of the heart, and intended as diverticula for the blood during the diastole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019411-1837 | AURIFLAMMA, in the French history, properly denotes a flag or standard belonging to the Abbey of St Denis, suspended over the tomb of that saint, which the religious, on occasion of any war in defence of their lands or rights, took down with great ceremony, and gave to their protector or advocate, to be borne at the he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019412-1837 | AURIGA, the Waggoner, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere. It contains, in Bode’s catalogue, 261 stars. Capella, a well-known, beautiful, double star, is in this constellation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019413-1837 | AURILLAC, an arrondissement in the department of the Cantal, in France, extending over 796 square miles, or 509,440 acres. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 94 communes, containing 90,576 inhabitants. The chief city of the same name stands on the river Jordone, and contains 10,333 inhabitants, employed i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019414-1837 | AURIOL’S Island, one of the Aladin Islands, on the east side of the Bay of Bengal, about 12 miles in circumference. Lat. 9. 22. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019415-1837 | AURISCALPIUM, an instrument to clean the ears, and serving also for other operations in disorders of that part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-019416-1837 | AURORA, the morning twilight, or that faint light which appears in the morning when the sun is within 18 degrees of the horizon.
Aurora, the goddess of the morning, according to the Pagan mythology. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, according to Hesiod, but of Titan and Terra, according to others. It was und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 15 6' S 168 24' E | AURORA |
kp-eb0704-020201-1941 | AURUNGABAD, a large province of Hindostan, in the Deccan, about 300 miles in length by 160 in average breadth. It is situated principally between the 18th and 19th degrees of north latitude, and is bounded on the north by Gujerat, Khandeish, and Berar; on the east by Beeder; on the south by Bejapoor, from which it is s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020301-1954 | AUSCHWITZ, a city at the confluence of the Sola and the Vistula, formerly a ducal seat, in the circle of Myslenicze, in the Austrian province of Galicia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020302-1954 | AUSI, an ancient and very savage people of Libya. Herodotus tells us that they were unacquainted with marriage, and had all their women in common. The children were brought up by their mothers till they were able to walk; after which they were introduced to an assembly of the men, who met every three months, and the ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020303-1954 | AUSONIA, the ancient name of Italy, so called from its earliest inhabitants the Ausones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020304-1954 | AUSONIUM Mare, in Ancient Geography, a part of the Ionian Sea, extending southward from the promontory Japygium to Sicily, which it washes on the east, as it does the Bruttii and Magna Graecia on the south and east. It is separated from the Tuscan Sea by the Strait of Messina. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020305-1954 | AUSONIUS (Decimus Magnus), one of the best poets of the fourth century, was the son of an eminent physician, and born at Bourdeaux. Great care was taken of his education, the whole family interesting themselves in it, either because his genius was very promising, or that the scheme of his nativity, which had been cast ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020306-1954 | AUSPEX, a name originally given to those who were afterwards denominated augurs. The word is evidently formed from avis, bird, and inspicere, to inspect; auspices, q. d. avispices. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020307-1954 | AUSSERHODEN, one of the districts of the canton of Appenzell, in Switzerland, comprehending two thirds of that territory, being 227 square miles, or 145,280 acres, and containing 42,000 inhabitants. It is subdivided into two parts, namely, the Hither and Farther Gitten. All the inhabitants of this latter district adher... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020308-1954 | AUSTER, one of the four cardinal winds, as Servius calls them, blowing from the south. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020309-1954 | AUSTERLITZ, a small town of Moravia, situated twelve miles south-east of Brunn. It contains hardly 2000 inhabitants, but has been rendered memorable by the great victory obtained in its vicinity, on the 2d December 1805, by the French under Napoleon, over the united forces of Austria and Russia under their respective e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020310-1954 | AUSTLE, St, a market-town of the hundred of Pow-den, in the county of Cornwall. It stands in the centre of the county, and is surrounded by a district rich in mines, and abounding in clay used in the potteries of Staffordshire. There are also some manufactures of woollen cloths. The market is held on Friday, and is wel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-020311-1954 | AUSTRALASIA, In modern geography, ↑heβfth great division of the earth’s •surface. A systematic classification in geography is as necessary to enable us to form clear and comprehensive views of its objects, as it is in botany, mineralogy, geo- !°gy> or any other department of physical science, though incapable of being ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-021901-2162 | AUSTRIA.
This great empire is situated nearly in the centre of Europe, extending from the 44th to the 51st degree of north latitude, and from the 8th to the 26th degree of east longitude. Its configuration is irregular, but its extent corresponds to that of an oblong of fully 600 miles in length from east to west, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-022201-2201 | AUSTRIA, THE ARCHDUCHY.
The archduchy of Austria consists of two nearly equal parts, viz. Upper and Lower Austria. The river Ens, flowing northward from the Alps to the Danube, intersects the archducal territory nearly in the middle; thθ country to the east of the river being Lower, and that to [7:4:223]the west Upper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-022801-2279 | AUSTRIAN ITALY.
We now enter on a very different scene; for nothing can exhibit a stronger contrast than the portion of Italy subject to Austria, and the mountainous provinces which separate it from the rest of the empire. In treaties and other public acts, this country is styled the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, from it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023801-2409 | AUTOCHTHONES, an appellation assumed by some nations, importing that they sprung, or were produced, from the same soil which they still inhabited. In this sense Autochthones is nearly synonymous with Aborigines. The Athenians valued themselves on their being Autochthones, self-born, or γr i γοκις, earth-born ; it being... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023802-2409 | AUTOCRATOR, a person vested with an absolute independent power, by which he is rendered unaccountable to any other for his actions. The power of the Athenian generals or commanders was usually limited; so that, at the expiration of their office, they were liable to render an account of their administration. But, on som... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023901-2422 | AUTO da Fe, act of faith. See Act of Faith. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0704-023902-2422 | AUTOAUTODIDACTUS, a self-taught scholar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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