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BAROCHE. See Broach.
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BAROCHE
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BAROCO, in Logic, a term given to the fourth mode of the second figure of syllogisms. A syllogism in baroco has the first proposition a universal affirmative, but the second and third particular negatives, and the middle term is the predicate in the first two propositions. For example, Nullus homo non est bipes: Non o...
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BAROCO
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BAROMETER Our dictionaries contain such an account of the discovery and construction of this most valuable instrument, as can be drawn from the popular treatises of natural philosophy in the English language. But, unfortunately, the compilers of elementary works have seldom taken the trouble to remount to the original ...
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BAROMETER
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BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS. It was remarked in the preceding article, that the decisive experiment by which Pascal established the reality of atmospheric pressure, had likewise suggested to this ingenious philosopher the method of determining the elevations of distant points on the surface of the globe. But the first a...
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BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS
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BARON, a person who holds a barony. The origin and primary import of this term have been much contested. Menage derives it from the Latin baro, a word which we find used for vir, a “stout” or “valiant man ;” whence it was that those placed next the king in battles were, according to him, called barones, as being the br...
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BARON
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BARON, Robert, a dramatic author, who lived during the reign of Charles I. and the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell. He received the earlier part of his education at Cambridge, after which he became a member of Gray’s Inn. During his residence at the university he wrote a novel called the Cyprian Academy, in which he i...
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BARON
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BARONET, a dignity or degree of honour next below that of baròn, and above that of knight, with precedency of all knights excepting those of the Garter, and the only knighthood that is hereditary. The dignity of baronet is generally conferred by patent, and forms the lowest degree of honour that is hereditary. The ord...
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BARONET
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BARONI, Leonora, a celebrated singer and composer, was born at Naples, but spent the greater part of her life at Rome. She was daughter of Adriana Baroni of Mantua, baroness of Piancaretta, a lady also distinguished for her musical talents, and, on account of her beauty, surnamed the Fair. Leonora, like her mother, was...
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BARONI
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BARONIUS, Caesar, a pious and learned cardinal, was born at Sore in 1538. He studied at Rome, and put himself under the discipline of Philip de Neri. In 1593 he was made general of the congregation of the Oratory by the resignation of the founder Philip de Neri. Pope Clement VIII. made him his confessor, and raised him...
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BARONIUS
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BARONY, Baronia, or Baronagmm, the lordship or fee of a baron, either temporal or spiritual. Baronies, in their first creation, proceeded from the king himself, the chief lord of the whole realm, and could be holden immediately of no other lord. For example, the king enfeoffed a man of a great seigniory in land, to be ...
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BARONY
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BARRA, or Barray, island of. See Barray. Barra, in Commerce, a long measure used in Portugal and some parts of Spain, to measure woollen cloths, linen cloths, and serges. There are three sorts of barras; that of Valencia, thirteen of which make 12ŷ yards English measure; that of Castile, seven of which make 6⅜ yards; a...
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BARRA
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BARRABA, Desert of, a tract of land in Siberia, lying between the rivers Irtisch and Obi, in the province of Tobolsk. It is uninhabited, but not owing to any defect of the soil, which is excellent for tillage, and part of it might also be laid out in meadows and pastures. Itisin-terspersed with a great number of lakes,...
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BARRABA
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BARRACAN, in Commerce, a sort of stuff, not diapered, something like camlet, but of a coarser grain. It ιs used to make cloaks, surtouts, and such other garments. The cities where barracans are chiefly made in France are Valenciennes, Lisle, Abbeville, Amiens, and Rouen; but those of Valenciennes are the most valued.
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BARRACAN
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BARRACKPORE, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Bengal, about sixteen miles above Calcutta. [7:4:405]
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BARRACKPORE
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BARRACKS, called by the French Casernes, places for soldiers to lodge in, especially in garrisons. Till the middle of the year 1792, when there was a prospect of war with revolutionary France, and the British ministry became apprehensive of disturbances in this country, barracks were not numerous, nor were they under t...
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BARRACKS
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BARRAMAHAL, a district in the south of Hindostan, situated between the twelfth and fourteenth degrees of north latitude. This district was annexed by Hyder to the dominions of Mysore; and in 1792 it was ceded to the British government by the treaty of Seringapatam. At the time it was ceded it was in a miserable state; ...
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BARRAMAHAL
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BARRATOR, or Barretor, in the law of England, a person guilty of barretry. See Barretry. Lambert conceives the word barretor to have been formed from the Latin balatro, a vile knave; but the proper derivation is from the French barrateur, a deceiver; and this agrees with the description of a common barretor given by L...
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BARRATOR
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BARRATRY. See Barretry. Barratry, in a shipmaster, consists in defrauding the owners. If goods delivered on ship-board are embezzled all the mariners are bound, by the maritime law, to contribute to the satisfaction of the party that has lost his goods; and the cause is to be tried in the admiralty. In a case where a s...
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BARRATRY
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BARRAUX, a fortress of Dauphine, belonging to France, now in the department of Isère. It stands in the valley of Grésivaudan, and was built by a duke of Savoy in 1597. It is seated on the river Isère, in long. 5.10. E. and. lat. 45. 0. N.
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BARRAUX
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BARRAY, one of the Hebrides, about eight miles in length, of unequal breadth, and of an irregular figure. It produces oats, barley, and potatoes; and it contains about 20,000 superficial acres of wood. The fishery is prosecuted here with great activity, and about 30,000 ling and cod are annually caught and exported. A ...
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BARRAY
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BARRE, Louis François Joseph de la, a French historian and antiquary of some name, was born at Tournay in 1688. Besides various learned papers contributed to the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Letters, of which he was a member, he published in 1729, Mémoires pour servir a l' Histoire de France et de ...
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BARRE
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BARREL, in Commerce, a round vessel made of wood, in the form of a little tun. Barrel, formerly, was also a measure of liquids. The English barrel, wine measure, contained the eighth part of a tun, the fourth part of a pipe, and one half of a hogshead, or 31⅜ gallons; a barrel, beer-measure, contained 36 gallons; and ...
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BARREL
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BARREN Island Cape, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, lying in Bass’s Straits, between Great Island [7:4:407] on the north and Clarke’s Island on the south. It is about twenty miles in length by ten in breadth, and chiefly covered with low vegetation. Long. 148. 10. E. Lat. 40. 23. S. .
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BARREN
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BARREN Island, an island in the Bay of Bengal, about eighteen miles in circumference. It contains a volcano 1800 feet above the level of the sea, which is sometimes in a state of activity, and discharges immense columns of smoke and showers of red-hot stones. It is 45 miles east of the Lower Andaman Island. Long. 64.10...
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BARREN
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BARRETRY, in the Law of England, is the offence of frequently exciting and stirring up suits and quarrels between his majesty’s subjects, either at law or otherwise. The punishment for this offence in a common person is by fine and imprisonment; but if the offender, as is frequently the case, belongs to the profession ...
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BARRETRY
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BARRICADE, or Barricado, a military term for a fence formed in haste with vessels, baskets of earth, trees, palisades, or the like, to serve as a defence against the shot or assault of the enemy. The most usual materials for barricades consist of pales or stakes, crossed with batoons, shod with iron at the feet, and us...
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BARRICADE
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BARRIER, in Fortification, a kind of fence erected at a passage, retrenchment, or breach, to stop up the entry there. It is composed of great stakes, about four or five feet in height, placed at the distance of eight or ten feet apart, with transoms or overthwart rafters to stop either horse or foot that would enter or...
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BARRIER
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BARRINGTON, John Shute, Lord Viscount Bar- ∏∏gton, a nobleman distinguished for theological learn- 1 ∏g, was the youngest son of Benjamin Shute, merchant, and was born in 1678. He received part of his education at the university of Utrecht; and, after returning to Eng-and, studied law in the Inner Temple. In 1701 he co...
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BARRINGTON
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BARRISTER, is a counsellor learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon him the protection and defence of clients. Barristers at law are now termed jurisconsulti; in other countries they are called licentiati in jure; but anciently they were styled apprentices of the law, in Latin apprentici...
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BARRISTER
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BARRITUS, a word of German origin, ' adopted by the Romans to signify the general shout usually raised by the soldiers of their armies on their first encounter, after the classicum or alarm.
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BARRITUS
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BARROS, John DEi a celebrated Portuguese historian born about 1496. He was educated at the court of King Emanuel, among the princes of the blood, and made great progress in Latin and Greek. The Infant John, to whom he attached himself and became preceptor, having succeeded the king his father in 1521, De Barros obtaine...
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BARROS
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BARROW, Isaac, an eminent mathematician and divine, was the son of Mr Thomas Barrow, a linen-draper in London, where he was born in 1630. He was at first placed for two or three years at the Charter-house School. There, however, his conduct gave but little hopes of success in the profession of scholar; for he was extre...
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BARROW
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BARROWS, in ancient topography, artificial hillocks or mounds, intended as repositories for the dead, and formed either of stones heaped up, or of earth. The former, more generally known by the name of cairns, are almost exclusively confined to Scotland. Of the latter, Dr Plott takes notice of two sorts in Oxfordshire;...
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BARROWS
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BARRY, Girald, commonly called Giraldus Cam-brensis, or Ġirald of Wales, an historian and ecclesiastic in the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I., was born at the castle of Mainarper, near Pembroke, in 1146. By his mother lie was descended from the princes of South Wales; and his father, William Barry, was one of the ch...
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BARRY
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BARRY, James, an eminent painter, was born at Cork, in Ireland, on the 11th October 1741. His father had been a builder, and at one time of his life a coasting trader between the two countries of England and Ireland. To this business of trader was James destined, and he actually made, when a boy, several voyages; but t...
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BARRY
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BARSALLI. See Bur Salum.
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BARSALLI
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BARSANTI, Francisco, an eminent musical performer and composer, was born at Lucca about the year 1690. He studied the civil law in the university of Padua; but, after a short stay there, he chose music as a profession. Accordingly, he put himself under the tuition of some of the ablest masters in Italy; and, having att...
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BARSANTI
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BARTAS, William de Salluste du, a French poet, was born in the year 1544, and died in 1590. He was employed by Henry IV. of France, in England, Denmark, and Scotland; and he commanded a troop of horse in Gascony, under the marshal de Martignan. He wrote a number of poems, the principal of which, The Weck, or the Creati...
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BARTAS
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BARTER, or Tnucκ, is the exchanging of one commodity for another. The word comes from the Spanish l>aratar, to deceive or circumvent in bargaining, perhaps because those who deal this way usually endeavour to overreach one another. To transact properly, the price of one of the commodities, and an equivalent quantity of...
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BARTER
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BARTFELD, a city in the province of Hither Theis, in Hungary, on the river Tapola, with some manufactories for making cloth, shoes, and other goods. It contains 560 housesand 4480 inhabitants. Long. 21. 13. 6. E. Lat. 49. 16. 10. N.
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BARTH, or Bart, John, a brave fisherman of Dunkirk, who rose to the rank of admiral, and who is celebrated for his signal valour and naval exploits in the annals of France. He died in 1702, aged fifty-one.
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BARTHELEMY, John James, a celebrated literary character, born at Cassis, a little sea-port on the shores of the Mediterranean, in January 1716. At twelve years of age he was sent to school at Marseilles. Being admitted into the college of the oratory, he was put under the care of Father Renaud, a person of taste and wi...
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BARTHEZ, Paul Joseph, one of the most celebrated physicians of the university of Montpellier, equally remarkable for the variety and extent of his erudition, and for the vigour of mind displayed in his abstruse speculations. He was born on the 11th of December 1734, at Montpellier, and received his early education at N...
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BARTHIUS, Gaspard, a learned and copious writer, born at Custrin, in Brandenburg, the 22d of June 1587. Μ. Baillet has inserted the name of Barthius among his Enfans Célèbres, upon the ground that at twelve years of age he had translated David’s Psalms into Latin verse of every measure, and published several Latin poem...
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BARTHIUS
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BARTHOLINUS, Gaspard, a learned writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Malmoe, a town in the province of Schonen, which then belonged to Denmark. At three years of age he had such a quick capacity, that in fourteen days he learned to read; and in his thirteenth year he composed Greek and Latin orations, and del...
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BARTHOLOMEWS Day, St, a festival of the Christian church, celebrated on the 24th of August. St Bartholomew was generally considered identical with Nathaniel, one of the first disciples who came to Christ. It is thought this apostle travelled as far as India, to propagate the gospel; for Eusebius relates, that a famous ...
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BARTHOLOMEWS
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BARTHOLOMITES, a religious order founded at Genoa in the year 1307, but suppressed by Pope Innocent X. in 1650.
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BARTOLOCCI, Julius, a learned monk, and professor of Hebrew at Rome, was born at Celano in 1613, and distinguished himself by writing a Hebrew and Latin catalogue, in four volumes folio, of the Hebrew writers and writings; a work which was continued by Imbonati his disciple. He died in 1687.
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BARTOLOMEO, Francisco, a celebrated painter, born at Savignano, near Florence, in the year 1469, was the disciple of Cosimo Rosselli, but was much more beholden to the works of Leonardo da Vinci for his extraordinary skill in painting. He was so well versed in the principles of design, that Raphael, after quitting the ...
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BARTOLOMEO
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BARTOLOMEO in Saldo, a city in the province of Capitanata, of the kingdom of Naples, containing 4852 inhabitants. BΛRTON-on-Humber, a market-town in the hundred of Yarborough and county of Lincoln. It is miles from London, and one mile from the Humber, over which there is a ferry to Hull, greatly frequented. It h as t...
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BARUCH, the Prophecy of, one of the apocryphal books, subjoined to the canon of the Old r 1estament∙ Baruch was the son of Ncriah, the disciple and amanuensis of the prophet Jeremiah; and his prophecy has , 1 some been reckoned part of that of Jeremiah. It is difficult to determine in what language this prophecy wa ori...
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BARUCH
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BARUTH, an ancient town of Turkey, in Syria, with a Christian church of the Nestorian persuasion. It is situated on a fertile spot, but is now inconsiderable compared with what it was formerly. Long. 34. 40. E. Lat. 33. 30. N.
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BARYTONUM, in the Greek grammar, denotes a verb with no accent marked on the last syllable, but nevertheless understood to have the grave accent. In Italian music, barytono answers to our common pitch of bass. BAS-Relief. See Basso- Relievo. Bas, James Philip, le, a modern French engraver, by whom there are some admir...
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BASALTES. See Geology.
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BASAN, or Bash an, in Ancient Geography , a territory beyond Jordan, mentioned in Scripture, and called by Josephus, Eusebius, and Jerome, Batancea. The whole of the country beyond Jordan, from that of the Moabites, or Arabia, as far as Mount Hermon and Lebanon, was originally divided into two kingdoms, namely, that of...
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BASAN
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BASARHEL Υ, a large town of the province of Farther Theis, in the Austrian kingdom of Hungary. It is situated on the lake of Hods, which is united by a canal with the Theis. It is a place of considerable internal traffic, and contains 6500 inhabitants. Long. 20. 13. 10. E. Lat. 46. 25. 32. N.
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BASARTSCHIK, a town of Romania, in Turkey in Europe. It is pretty well built, with clean, broad streets; it carries on some trade, and is situated on the river Me-ritz, in Long. 24. 30. E. Lat. 4L 49. N.
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BASEDOW, John Bernard, a celebrated German writer, born at Hamburg, the 11th September 1723, was the son of a hair-dresser. Ill treatment made him abandon his father’s house. A physician in a neighbouring village took him into his service, and shortly after persuaded him to return home to his father. Being placed in on...
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BASEDOW
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BASEL, one of the cantons of Switzerland, extending over 266 square miles. It is bounded on the northwest by France, on the north by the Rhine, which separates it from Baden, on the east by the canton of Aargau, and on the south and west by those of Solothurn and Berne. It is a well-cultivated district, flat in the cen...
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BASEL
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BASHARIANS, a sect of Mahommedans, being a branch or subdivision of the Motazalites. The Basharians are those who maintain the tenets of Bashar Ebrt Motamer, a principal man among the Motazalites, but who varied in some points from the general tenets of the sect, carrying man’s free agency to a great length, even to th...
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BASHAW, more commonly written Pacha or Pasha, a Turkish governor of a province or district. Nothing more is necessary to raise an Osmanlee to the dignity of pasha than the firman of the grand seignior; but some ceremonies are usually observed at his investiture or installation. The badge of a pasha’s authority, as well...
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BASHEE Isles, a cluster of small islands in the Chinese Sea, due north of Luzon, the largest of the Philippines. They are five in number, with four rocky islets. They were visited by Dampier the English navigator in 1687, and named by him Orange, Monmouth, Grafton, Goats, and Bashee Island. These islands possess a fert...
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BASHEE
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BASIGNANA, a city of the province of Alessandria, in the kingdom of Sardinia, near the junction of the Po with the Tanaro. It contains 3500 inhabitants, and is celebrated for the treaty of peace concluded there in 1361, between Duke Otto of Brunswick and Count Galcazzo.
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BASIL the Great, one of the most learned and eloquent doctors of the church, was born at Caesarea, in Cappadocia, about the year 328, and went to finish his studies [7:4:426]at Athens, where he contracted an intimate friendship with Gregory Nazianzen. He returned to his native country in 355, where he taught rhetoric f...
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BASIL
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BASILAN, an island lying amid a cluster of small islands off the south-western extremity of Magindanao, about 60 miles in circumference, with a range of mountains in the centre. The island is fertile, and abounds in grain. Wild hogs and deer inhabit the interior, which is watered by considerable streams, but is thinly ...
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BASILAN
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BASILEUS, βα<nλsυς, a title assumed by the emperors of Constantinople, exclusive of all other princes, to whom they gave the title rex, or king. The title basileus was subsequently assumed by other kings, particularly the kings of England; as Ego Edgar totius Angliae basileus confirmavi. Hence also the queen of England...
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BASILEUS
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BASILĨAN Monks, a religious community of the order of St Basil. That saint, having retired into a desert in the province of Pontus, founded a monastery for the convenience of himself and his numerous followers; and, for the better regulation of this society, he drew up in writing the orders and rules which they were to...
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BASILĨAN
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BASILIC, or Basilica, in the ancient architecture, a kind of public hall or court of judicature, where the princes or magistrates sat to administer justice. This word is originally Greek, βαffιλιxη, meaning royal house, or palace. The basilicae consisted of a great hall, with ailes, porticos, tribunes, and tribunals. ...
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BASILIC
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BASILICA is also used by ecclesiastical writers for a church; in which sense the name frequently occurs in St Ambrose, St Austin, St Jerome, Sidonius Apollinaris, and other writers of the fourth and fifth centuries. The name was probably thus applied from many of the ancient churches having been formed out of the Roman...
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BASILICA
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BASILICA, rα BaΛλ∕κa, in the history of jurisprudence, a name given to a digest of laws, commenced by the emperor Basilius, and completed by his son Leo the philosopher. This collection, according to some, received the title of Basilica in honour of the emperor Basilius; while others think that it was so denominated fr...
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BASILICA
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BASILICATA, a province of the kingdom of Naples. It is bounded on the north by Capitanata, on the northeast by Bari and Otranto, on the east by the Bay of Taranto, on the south by Calabria, on the south-west by the Gulf of Policastro, and on the west by Principato-Ulteriore. It extends 3481 square miles over a country ...
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BASILICATA
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BASILICI, a denomination given in the Greek empire to those who carried the emperor’s orders and commands.
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BASILICI
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BASILIDIANS, ancient heretics, the followers of Basilides, an Egyptian, who lived near the beginning of the second century. He was educated in the Gnostic school, over which Simon Magus presided, and agreed with his master in holding that Christ was a man in appearance, that his body was a phantom, and that he gave his...
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BASILIDIANS
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BASILIPPUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Baetlca in Spain, now Cantìllana in Andalusia.
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BASILIPPUM
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BASILISK. See Reptilia, Index. Basilisk, in military affairs, a large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the fabulous serpent of that name. The basilisk threw an iron ball of 200 pounds weight. It was much talked of in the time of Sultan Solyman, particularly during the wars of Hungary, but i...
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BASILISK
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BASILIUS, surnamed the Macedonian, emperor of the Greeks. He was originally a common soldier, and of an obscure family in Macedonia; but having attracted the attention of the emperor Michael by his address in th©- management of horses, he became first equerry, then great chamberlain, and, having assassinated the famous...
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BASILIUS
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BASINGSTOKE, a market and borough-town of the hundred of Basing, in the county of Hants, forty-five miles from London, on the road to Exeter by Salisbury. The canal from hence to the river Wye and the Thames has contributed to increase the trade of the town. In 871 a sanguinary battle was fought here between the Danes ...
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BASINGSTOKE
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BASKERVILLE, Johk, an eminent artist of the eighteenth century, especially in letter-founding and in printing. He was born in 1706, at Wolverley in Worcestershire, and was heir to an estate of about L.60 a year, the whole of which income he allowed to his parents during their lives. In his early years he conceived a lo...
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BASKERVILLE
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BASKET, a utensil made of twigs interwoven together, in order to hold fruit, earth, or other substances. The ancient Britons were noted for their ingenuity in making baskets, which they exported in large quantities. These baskets were of very elegant workmanship, and bore a high price; and they are mentioned by Juvenal...
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BASKET
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BASMAN, a village of Persia, in the province of Khorassan and district of Kohistan, consisting of about 150 houses, and governed by a chief of the tribe of Beloches. Here is a singular hot well, about twelve yards in circumference, in the centre of which the water boils up with violence from a pipe of burnt clay. There...
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BASMAN
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BASNAGE, James, a learned author, and pastor of the Walloon church at the Hague, was born at Rouen in Normandy on the 8th of August 1653. He was the son of Henry Basnage, one of the ablest advocates in the parliament of Normandy. At the age of seventeen, having made himself master of the Greek and Latin authors, as wel...
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BASNAGE
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BASON, or Basin, in Hydraulics, a reservoir of water, used for various purposes. Bason, in Jewish Antiquities, the laver of the tabernacle, made of the brass looking-glasses belonging to those devout women who watched and stood as sentinels at the door of the tabernacle. Bason, or Dish, among glass-grinders. These ar...
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BASON
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BASS, the lowest of the four parts of music. The term is derived either from the Greek word βαg∣ς, a foundation, or from the Italian adjective basso, signifying low. Of all the parts it is the most important, as upon it the chords proper to constitute a particular harmony are determined; and hence the maxim among music...
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BASS
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BASSAN, Giacomo de Pont, or Le Bassan, a celebrated Venetian painter, was born in 1510. His subjects were generally peasants and villagers, busy at their different rural occupations, according to the various seasons of the year, together with cattle, landscapes, and historical designs; and in all these the figures are ...
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BASSAN
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BASSANI, Giovanni Battista, maestro di cappella of the cathedral church of Bologna about the middle of the last century, was a very voluminous composer of having given to the world no fewer than thirty-one different works. He is equally celebrated as a composer [7:4:433] for the church and for concerts; and was besides...
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BASSANI
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BASSANO, a city in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, in the delegation of Verona. It stands on the river Brenta, over which there is a bridge 186 feet in length. It is surrounded with walls, and has six gates, one of which, built by Palladio, is very much admired. It contains 30 churches with some fine paintin...
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BASSANO
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BASSANTIN, James, a Scotch astronomer, son of the laird of Bassantin, in Merse, was born in the reign of James IV. Educated at the university of Glasgow, he travelled through Germany and Italy, and then fixed his abode in the university of Paris, where he taught mathematics with great applause. Having acquired some for...
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BASSANTIN
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BASSE Terre, part of the island of St Christopher’s, one of the Caribbee Islands.
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BASSE
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BASSEIN, or Persaim, a town of the Burman empire, situated about sixty miles from the sea, on the river Bassein, which is the westernmost branch of the great Irrawady. It is a considerable mart of trade, through which are carried, from the sea-ports to the upper provinces, provisions and other articles. Long. 95. E. La...
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BASSEIN
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BASSET, or Basette, a game with cards, said to have been invented by a noble Venetian, who was banished for his invention. It was first introduced into France by Signior Justiniani, ambassador of Venice, in 1674. Severe laws were made against it by Louis XIV., to elude which they disguised basset under the name of pour...
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BASSET
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BASSETING, in the coal mines, denotes the rise of the vein of coal towards the surface of the earth, till it come within two or three feet of the surface itself. This is also called by the workmen cropping; and stands opposed to dipping, which is the descent of the vein to such a depth that it is rarely, if ever, follo...
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BASSETING
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BASSOON, a musical instrument of the wind sort, blown with a reed, furnished with eleven holes, and used as a bass in a concert of hautboys, flutes, &c.
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BASSOON
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BASSORA. See Bussorah.
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BASSORA
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BASTARD, bastardus (fancifully derived from the Greek βαwαξ∣ς, meretrix, but with more reason from the British bastaerd, nothus, spurius, or from the German bastart, composed of bas, low, and start, risen, Saxon steort, an upstart, homo novus), one whose father and mother were not lawfully married previous to his or he...
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BASTARD
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BASTARDY is a defect of birth objected to one born out of wedlock. In relation to its trial in law, bastardy is distinguished into general and special. General bastardy is a certificate from the bishop of the diocese to the king’s justices, after inquiry made whether the party is a bastard or not, upon some question of...
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BASTARDY
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BASTARNAE, or Basternae, a people of German original, manners, and language, who extended themselves a great way to the cast of the Vistula, among the Sarmatae, as far as the mouth of the Ister and the Euxine, and were divided into several nations.
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BASTARNAE
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BASTARNICAE Alpes, in Ancient Geography, mountains extending between Poland, Hungary, and Transylvania; called also the Carpates, and now the Carpathian Mountains.
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BASTARNICAE
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BASTIA, a circle in the island and department of Corsica, now a part of France. The circle contains twenty cantons, which are subdivided into eighty-two communes or parishes, with a population of 53,104 persons. The extent is 610 square miles. The city of the same name is the capital of the department. It stands on the...
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BASTIA
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BASTILE, or Bastille, denotes a small antique castle, fortified with turrets. Such was the famous Bastile of Paris, which seems to have been the last castle that retained the name. It was commenced in 1369, by order of Charles V., and finished in 1383, under the reign of his successor. Its chief use was for the custody...
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BASTILE
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BASTTMENTOS, the name of some small islands near Terra Firma, in South America, at the mouth of the Bay of Nombre de Dios.
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BASTTMENTOS