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kp-eb0702-008116-0862 | ACCEDAS ad curiam, in English Law, a writ used where a man has received, or fears, false judgment in an inferior court. It lies also for justice delayed, and is a species of the writ Recordare. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008117-0862 | ACCELERATION, in Natural Philosophy, denotes generally an increase of motion or velocity, and is chiefly applied to the motion of such bodies as go on, not with a uniform motion, but one which becomes continually quicker and quicker as they advance. A body, for example, rolling down a hill proceeds slowly at first, but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008301-0888 | ACCENDENTES, a lower order of ministers in the Romish church, whose office is to light and trim the candles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008302-0888 | ACCENDONES, in Roman antiquity, a kind of gladiators, whose office was to excite and animate the combatants during the engagement. The orthography of the word is contested: the first edition of Tertullian, by Rhenanus, has it accedones ; an ancient manuscript, accendones. Aquinas adheres to the former, Pitiscus to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008303-0888 | ACCENSI, in the Roman armies, certain supernumerary soldiers, designed to supply the place of those who should be killed or anywise disabled. They were thus denominated, quia accensebantur, or ad censum adjiciebantur. Vegetius calls them supernumerarii legionum. Cato calls them ferentarii, in regard they furnished thos... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008304-0888 | ACCENSION, the action of setting a body on fire: thus the accension of tinder is effected by striking fire with flint and steel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008305-0888 | ACCENT, in reading or speaking, an inflection of the voice, which gives to each syllable of a word its due pitch in-respect of height or lowness. See Reading. The word is originally Latin, accentus ; a compound of ad, to, and cano, to sing. Accentus quasi adcantus, or juxtα canturn. In this sense, accent is synonymous ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008601-0927 | ACCEPTER, or Acceptor, the person who accepts a bill of exchange, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008602-0927 | ACCEPTILATION, among civilians, an acquittance or discharge given by the creditor to the debtor without the payment of any value. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008603-0927 | ACCESSION, in Law, is a method of acquiring property, by which, in things that have a close connection or dependence upon one another, the property of the principal thing draws after it the property of the accessory: thus, the owner of a cow becomes likewise the owner of the calf. It sometimes likewise signifies consen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008604-0927 | ACCESSORY, or Accessary, something that accedes, or is added to another more considerable thing; in which sense the word stands opposed to principal. ACCESSORY, or Accessary, in Common Law, is chiefly used for a person guilty of a felonious offence, not principally, but by participation; as by advice, command, or conce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008605-0927 | ACCIAIOLI, Donato, a native of Florence, was born in 1428, and was famous for his learning and the honourable employments which he held. He wrote, a Latin translation of some of Plutarch’s Lives; Commentaries on Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics; and the Lives of Hannibal, of Scipio, and of Charlemagne. He was sent to Fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008606-0927 | ACCIDENT, in Grammar, implies a property attached to a word, without entering into its essential definition; for every word, notwithstanding its signification, will be either primitive, derivative, simple, or compound, which are the accidents of words. A word is said to be primitive when it is taken from no other word ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008701-0940 | ACCIDENTAL, in Philosophy, is applied to that effect which flows from some cause intervening by accident, without being subject, or at least without any appearance of being subject, to general laws or regular returns. In this sense accident is opposed to constant and principal. Thus the sun’s place is, with respect to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008702-0940 | ACCIPITER, among the Romans, signified a hawk, which, from its being very carnivorous, they considered as a bird of bad omen:
Odimus accipitrem, quia semper vivit in armis.
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Pliny however tells us, that in some cases, particularly in marriage, it was esteemed a bird of good omen, because it never eats the hearts ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008703-0940 | ACCIPITRES, the name of Linnaeus’s first order of birds. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008704-0940 | ACCISMUS denotes a feigned refusal of something which a person earnestly desires. The word is Latin; or rather Greek, ακκισμος ; supposed to be formed from Acco, the name of a foolish old woman noted in antiquity for an affectation of this kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008705-0940 | ACCIUS, Lucius, a Latin tragic poet, the son of a freedman, and, according to St Jerome, born in the consulship of Hostilius Mancinus and Attilius Serranus, in the year of Rome 583; but there appears somewhat of confusion and perplexity in this chronology. He made himself known before the death of Pacuvius by a dramati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008706-0940 | ACCLAMATION, a confused noise or shout of joy, by which the public express their applause, esteem, or approbation.
Acclamation, in a more proper sense, denotes a certain form of words, uttered with extraordinary vehemence, and in a peculiar tone somewhat resembling a song, frequent in the ancient assemblies. Acclamati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008801-0953 | ACCLIVITY, the rise or ascent of a hill, in opposition to the declivity or descent of it. Some writers on fortification use it for the talus of a rampart. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008802-0953 | ACCOLA, among the Romans, signified a person who lived near some place; in which sense it differed from incola, the inhabitant of such a place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008803-0953 | ACCOLADE, a ceremony anciently used in the conferring of knighthood.
Antiquaries are not agreed wherein the accolade pro·· perly consisted. The generality suppose it to be the embrace or kiss which princes anciently gave the new knight, as a token of their affection whence the word [7:2:89]accolade; q.d. a clasping, o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008901-0966 | ACCOLE’E, sometimes synonymous with Accolade. It is also used in various senses in heraldry: sometimes iţ is applied to two things joined; at other times, to animals with crowns or collars about their necks, as the lion in the Ogilvys’ arms; and, lastly, to keys, batoons, maces, swords, &c. placed saltierwise behind th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008902-0966 | ACCOLTI, Benedict, was born at Arezzo in 1415. He became a professor of law at Florence; and having been admitted a citizen, was elected chancellor of the republic in 1459. His death took place in 1466. He wrote in Latin a treatise concerning the war which the Christians carried on against the infidels to recover Judea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008903-0966 | ACCOMMODATION, the application of one thing, by analogy, to another; or the making two or more things agree with one another. To know a thing by accommodation, is to know it by the idea of a similar thing referred thereto.
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kp-eb0702-008904-0966 | ACCOMPANIMENT, Accompagnamento, Accompagnatura, in Music, denotes the instruments which accompany a voice, in order to sustain it, as well as to make the music more full. The accompaniment is used in recitative as well as in song, on the stage as well as in the choir, &c. The ancients had likewise their accompaniments ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008905-0966 | ACCOMPLICE, one that has a hand in a business, or is privy in the same design or crime with another. The Council of Sens, and the statutes of several other synods, expressly prohibit the revealing of accomplices. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008906-0966 | ACCOMPLISHMENT, the entire execution or fulfilling of any thing.
Accomplishment is principally used in speaking of events foretold by the Jewish prophets in the Old Testament, and fulfilled under the New. We say a literal accomplishment, a mystical or spiritual accomplishment, a single accomplishment, a double accompl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008907-0966 | ACCORD, in Painting, is the harmony that reigns, among the lights and shades of a picture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008908-0966 | ACCORDS, Sieur des. See Tabourot, Stephen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008909-0966 | ACCORSO (in Latin Accursius), Francis, an eminent lawyer, was born at Florence, according to some, in 1151, according to others, in 1182. He began the study of law at a late period of life; but such were his assiduity and proficiency, that he soon distinguished himself. He was appointed professor at Bologna, and became... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009001-0979 | ACCOUNT, or Accompt, in a genera! sense, a computation or reckoning of any thing by numbers.—Collectively, it is used to express the books which merchants, traders, bankers, &c. use for recording their transactions in business.
Chamber of ACCOUNTS, in the French polity, a sovereign court of great antiquity, which took... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009002-0979 | ACCOUNTANT, or Accomptant, in the most general sense, is a person skilled in accounts. In a more restricted sense, it is applied to a person or officer appointed to keep the accounts of a public company or office; as the South Sea, the India Company, the Bank, the Excise, &c.
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kp-eb0702-009003-0979 | ACCRETION, in Physics, the increase or growth of an organical body, by the accession of new parts.
Accretion, among civilians, the property acquired in a vague or unoccupied thing, by its adhering to or following another already occupied: thus, if a legacy be left to two persons, one of whom dies before the testator, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009004-0979 | ACCROCHE, in Heraldry, denotes a thing’s being hooked with another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009005-0979 | ACCUBATION, a posture of the body, between sitting and lying. The word comes from the Latin accubare, compounded of ad, to, and cubo, I lie down. Accubation, or Accubitus, was the table posture of the Greeks and Romans; whence we find the words particularly used for the lying, or rather (as we call it) sitting down to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009006-0979 | ACCUBITOR, an ancient officer of the emperors of Constantinople, whose business was to lie near the emperor. He was the head of the youth of the bed-chamber, and had the cubicularius and procubitòr under him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009007-0979 | ACCUMULATION, in a general sense, the act of heaping or amassing things together. Among lawyers it is used in speaking of the concurrence of several titles to the same thing, or of several circumstances to the same proof. “
Accumulation of Degrees, in a university, is the taking [7:2:91]of several of them together, or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009101-0992 | ACCURSED; something that lies under a curse, or ,sentence of excommunication.—In the Jewish idiom, accursed and crucified were synonymous. Among them, every one was accounted accursed who died on a tree. This serves to explain the difficult passage in Rom. ix. 3, where the apostle Paul wished himself accursed after the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009102-0992 | ACCUSATION, the charging of any person with à criminal action, either in one’s own name or in that of the public. The word is compounded of ad, to, and causari, to plead.
Writers on polities treat of the benefit and the inconveniences of public accusations. Various arguments are alleged both for the encouragement and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009103-0992 | ACCUSATIVE, in Latin Grammar, is the fourth case of nouns, and signifies the relation of the noun on which the action implied in the verb terminates; and hence, in such languages as have cases, these nouns have a particular termination, called accusative, as, Augustus vicit Antonium, Augustus vanquished Antony. Here An... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009104-0992 | ACE, among gamesters, a card or die marked only with one point. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009105-0992 | ACELDAMA, in Scripture history, a place without the south wall of Jerusalem,, beyond the brook of Siloam, which was called the Potter’s Field, because clay of which pots were made was dug out of it. It was afterwards bought with the money with which the high-priests and rulers of the Jews purchased the blood of Jesus C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009106-0992 | ACENTETUM, or Acenteta, in Natural History, a name given by the ancients to the purest and finest kind of rock-crystal. They used the crystal in many ways; sometimes engraving on it, and sometimes forming it into vases and cups, which were held next in value to the vasa murrhina of those times. The crystal they obtaine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009107-0992 | ACEPHALI, or Acephałitae, a term applied to several sects who refused to follow some noted leader. Thus, the persons who refused to follow either John of Antioch or St Cyril, in a dispute that happened in die council of Ephesus, were termed Acephali, without a head or leader. Such bishops, also, as were exempt from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009108-0992 | ACEPHALOUS, or Acephalus, in a general sense, without a head. The term is more particularly used in speaking of certain nations or people, represented by ancient naturalists and cosmographérs, as well as by some modern travellers, as formed without heads; their eyes, mouth, &c. being placed in other parts. Such are the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009201-1005 | ACEQUARA, a town of the kingdom of Naples, in the principality of Citra, with 2263 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009202-1005 | ACEQUARIA, a town of Italy, in the grand duchy of Modena, about 18 miles south-west from the capital, with 1360 inhabitants. It is chiefly celebrated for its mineral springs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009203-1005 | ACEQUI, a city, the capital of the province of the same name, in Italy. It is a walled city, partly on the banks of the Bormida, and partly on a hill rising above that river. It has a cathedral, three monasteries, and a nunnery. The inhabitants, who chiefly trade in silk, are 6600. There are some celebrated warm baths,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009204-1005 | ACER, the Maple or Sycamore Tree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009205-1005 | ACERA, the name of a town of Spain, on the river Carion, in the jurisdiction of Saldana and province of Valencia; and also of another on the Ebro, in the department of Reynosa and province of Toro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009206-1005 | ACERB, a sour rough astringency of taste, such as that of unripe fruit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009207-1005 | ACĘRENZA, a town of the kingdom of Naples, in the province of Basilicata, 80 miles east from Naples, containing 1800 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009208-1005 | ACERINA, in Ichthyology, a name given by Pliny and other old naturalists to the fish we at this time call the ruffe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009209-1005 | ACERNO, a town of Italy, in the citerior principality of Naples, with a bishop’s see, and 2400 inhabitants. It is situated 12 miles north-east of Saluno, in Long. 15. 46. E. Lat∙ 40. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009210-1005 | ACERRA, in antiquity, an altar erected among the Romans, near the bed of a person deceased, on which his friends daily offered incense till his burial. The real intention probably was to overcome any offensive smell that might arise about the corpse. The Chinese have still a custom like this: they erect an altar to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009211-1005 | ACESCENT, a word used to denote any thing which is turning sour, or which is slightly acid. It is only applied properly to the former of these two meanings. The second may be expressed by either of the two words acidulous or sub-acid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009212-1005 | ACESINES, in Ancient Geography, a large and rapid river of India, which Alexander passed in his expedition into that country. The kingdoιħ of Porus, which was conquered by Alexander, lay between the Hydaspes and this river, which, uniting with the former and other considerable rivers, pours its waters into the Indus. A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009213-1005 | ACESIUS, a bishop of Constantinople in the reign of Constantine, was a rigid adherent to the Novatian doctrines, according to which those whom persecutions had shaken from the faith, or who were guilty of any mortal sin after baptism, could not be admitted to the communion of the church, even after exhibiting the most ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009214-1005 | ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a measure used by the ancients, equal to one-eighth of our pint It seems to have acquired its name from a vessel in which acetum or vinegar was brought to their tables, and which probably contained about this quantity.
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kp-eb0702-009215-1005 | ACETARY. Grew, in his Anatomy of Plants, applies this term to a pulpy substance in certain fruits, e. g. the pear, which is inclosed in a congeries of small calculous bodies towards the base of the fruit, and is always of an acid taste. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009216-1005 | ACETOSA, Sorrel; by Linnaeus joined to the genus Pumex. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009217-1005 | ACETOSELLA, in Eotany, a species of Oxalis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009218-1005 | ACETOUS, an epithet applied to such substances as are sour, or partake of the nature of vinegar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009219-1005 | ACETUM, Vinegar, the vegetable acid of the chemists. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009220-1005 | ACHAEA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the island of Rhodes, in the district of Ialysus, and the first and most ancient of all; said to be built by the Heliades, or grandsons of the sun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009221-1005 | ACHAEANS, the inhabitants of Achaia Propria, a Peloponnesian state. This republic was not considerable, in early times, for the number of its troops, nor for its wealth, nor for the extent of its territories; but it was famed for its probity, its justice, and its love of liberty. Its high reputation for these virtues w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009301-1018 | ACHAEI, Achaeans, the inhabitants of Achaia Propria. In Livy, the people of Greece; for the most part called Achivi by the Roman poets. In Homer, the general name for Grecians. See Achaeans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009302-1018 | ACHAEMENES, according to Herodotus, was grandfather of Cambyses, and great-grandfather of Cyrus the first, king of Persia. Most of the commentators of Horace are of opinion, that the Achaemenes whom that poet mentions, Ode xii. of his 2d book, was one of the Persian monarchs; but if that were true, he must have reigned... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009303-1018 | ACHAEUS, cousin-german to Seleucus Ceraunus and Antiochus the Great, kings of Syria, became a very powerful monarch, and enjoyed the dominions he had usurped for many years; but at last he was punished for his usurpations in a dreadful manner, in the 140th year of Rome, as related by Polybius.^[1. Lib. iii. cap. 56. ] | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009304-1018 | ACHAFALAYA, a river in Louisiana, in North America, or more properly a secondary channel of the Mississippi, by which a part of its waters flows off from the main trunk, and passes to the Gulf of Mexico Its mouth is about 100 miles westward of the proper mouth of the Mississippi." | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009305-1018 | ACHAIA, a name taken for that part of Greece which Ptolemy calls Hellas, the younger Pliny Graecia ; now called Livadia. Achaia Propria, anciently a small district in the north of Peloponnesus, running westward along the, bay of Corinth, and bounded on the west by the Ionian Sea, on the south by Elis and Arcadia, and o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009306-1018 | ACHAIUS, son of Ethwin, was raised to the crown of Scotland, a. d. 788. The Emperor Charlemagne sent an embassy to this prince, to request an alliance with him against the English, whose pirates so infested the seas that the merchants could not carry on their trade. The alliance was concluded in France, upon conditions... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009307-1018 | ACHALALACTLI, a species of king’s-fisher. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009308-1018 | ACHAN, the son of Carmi, of the tribe of Judah, at the taking of Jericho, concealed two hundred shekels of silver, a Babylonish garment, and a wedge of gold, contrary to the express command of God. This sin proved fatal to the Israelites, who were repulsed at the siege of Ai. In this dreadful exigence, Joshua prostrate... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009309-1018 | ACHANE, an ancient Persian corn measure, contain-, ing 45 Attic medimni. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009310-1018 | ACHARACA, anciently a town of Lydia, situated between Tralles and Nysa; in which were the temple of Pluto and the cave Charonium, where patients slept in order to obtain a cure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009311-1018 | ACHAT, in Law, implies a purchase or bargain. And hence probably purveyors were called Achators, from their making bargains. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009312-1018 | ACHATES, the companion of Aeneas, and his most faithful friend, celebrated in Virgil.
Achates, in Natural History, the same as Agate. Achates, in Ancient Geography, a river of Sicily, now the Drillo ; which runs from north to south, almost parallel with, and at no great distance from the Gela; and rises in the north o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009313-1018 | ACHAZIB, or Achzib, in Ancient Geography, a town of Galilee, in the tribe of Asher, nine miles from Ptolemais.—Also a town in the more southern parts of the tribe of Judah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009314-1018 | ACHEEN, Ache', or Achen, a kingdom of Sumatra, in the East Indies, situated on the north-western part of the island, and not extending inland above 50 miles to the south-east. It was formerly a flourishing and extensive State, but has now greatly declined from its importance, having become a prey to anarchy, from the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009501-1044 | ACHELOUS, in fabulous history, wrestled with Hercules, for no less a prize than Dejanira, daughter of King Oeneus; but as Achelous had the power of assuming all shapes, the contest was long dubious. At last, as he took that of a bull, Hercules tore off one of his horns, so that he was forced to submit, and to redeem it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009502-1044 | ACHENWALL, Gottfried, a German writer, who obtained considerable celebrity from having first reduced statistics to a regular branch of study, and excited much of the attention of others to the subject. He was born at Elbing, in East Prussia, in October 1719. He studied, according to the custom of Germany, in several un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009503-1044 | ACHER, a river in the grand duchy of Baden, rising in the Mummel lake, and failing into the Rhine between Lechtenau and Greffern. ' * | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009504-1044 | ACHERI, Luke d’, a learned Benedictine of the congregation of St Maur, was born at St. Quintin, in Picardy, in 1609, and made himself famous by printing several works, which till then were only in manuscript: particularly, the Epistle attributed to St Barnabas; the Works of Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury; a collect... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009601-1057 | ACHERN, a city, chief of the bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the Acher, and on the mountain road; has 300 houses, and 1368 inhabitants, several of Whom are employed in woollen and in iron manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009602-1057 | ACHERNER, or Acharner, a star of the first magnitude in the southern extremity of the constellation Eridanus, but invisible in our latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009603-1057 | ACHERON, feigned by the poets to have been the son of Ceres, whom she hid in hell for fear of the Titans, and turned into a river, over which souls departed were ferried in their way to Elysium.
Acheron, in Ancient Geography, a river of Thesprotia, in Epirus; which, after forming the lake Acherusia, at no great distan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009604-1057 | ACHERSET, an ancient measure of corn, conjectured to be the same with our quarter, or eight bushels. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009605-1057 | ACHERUSIA PALUS, a lake between Cumae and the promontory Misenum, now II Lago della Colluxia. (Clu-verius.) Some confound it with the Lacus Lucrinus, and others with the Lacus Averni ; but Strabo and Pliny distinguish them.—Also a lake of Epirus, through which the Acheron runs.—There is also a cave of the same name, th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009606-1057 | ACHIAR is a Malayan word, which signifies all sorts of fruits and roots pickled with vinegar and spice. The Dutch import from Batavia all sorts of achiar, but particularly that of Bamboo, a kind of cane, extremely thick, which grows in the East Indies. It is preserved there, whilst it is still green, with very strong v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009607-1057 | ACHICOLUM is used to express the fornix, tholus, or sudatorium of the ancient baths; which was a hot room where they used to sweat. It is also called architholus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009608-1057 | ACHILLAEA, Yarrow, Milfoil, Nosebleed, or Sneezewort. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009609-1057 | ACHILLEID, Achilleis, a celebrated poem of Statius, in which that author proposed to deliver the whole life and exploits of Achilles; but being prevented by death, he has only treated of the infancy and education of his hero. See Statius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009610-1057 | ACHILLES, one of the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, was the son of Peleus and Thetis. He was à native of Phthia, in Thessaly. His mother, it is said, in order to consume every mortal part of his body, used to łay him every night under live coals, anointing him with ambrosia, which preserved every part from burning ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009611-1057 | ACHILLINI, Alexander, was born at Bologna in 1463. He was celebrated as a lecturer both in medicine and philosophy, and was styled the Great Philosopher. Achillini died in 1512. His philosophical works were printed in one volume folio, at Venice, in 1508, and reprinted with considerable additions in 1545, 1551, and 156... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009612-1057 | ACHIOTTE, or Achiote, a foreign drug, used in dyeing and in the preparation of chocolate. It is the same with the substance more usually known by the name of Ar-not to. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009613-1057 | ACHIROPOETOS, a name given by ancient writers to certain miraculous pictures of Christ and the Virgin, supposed to have been made without hands. The most celebrated of these is the picture of Christ preserved in the church of St John Lateran at Rome; said to have been begun by St Luke, but finished by the ministry of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009614-1057 | ACHMET, son of Seerim, an Arabian author, has left a book concerning the interpretation of dreams, according to the doctrine of the Indians, Persians, and Egyptians, which was translated into Greek and Latin. The original is now lost. He lived about the fourth century.
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kp-eb0702-009701-1070 | ACHMETSCHET, a town of the peninsula of the Crimea, the residence of the Sultan Galga, who is eldest son of the Khan of Tartary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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