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kp-eb0702-009702-1070 | ACHMIM, Akmim, or Echmim, a considerable city of ’ Upper Egypt, situated in a district very fertile in grain, cotton, and sugar. The streets are broader and more regular than is usual in Egypt, though, being built only of unburnt brick, they have a dull gloomy appearance. The . Greeks have a church, which they hold in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009703-1070 | ACHONRY, a small town of Ireland, in the province of Connaught and county of Sligo, seated on the river Shannon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009704-1070 | ACHOR, a valley of Jericho, lying along the river Jordan, not far from Giłgal; so called from Achan, the troubler of Israel, being there stoned to death.
Achor, in Medicine, a species of Herpes. Achor, in Mythology, the god of flies; to whom, according to Pliny, the inhabitants of Cyrene sacrificed, in order to obtain... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-009705-1070 | ACHROMATIC, an epithet expressing want of colour. The word is Greek, being compounded of α privative, and χgωμα, colour. ACHROMATIC Telescopes are telescopes contrived to remedy the aberrations in colours. The invention of the telescope, by which the powers of vision are extended to the utmost boundaries of space, form... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010501-1174 | ACHTELING, a measure for liquids, used in Germany. Thirty-two axhtelings make a lιeemer ; four sciltims or sciltins make an achteling. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010502-1174 | ACHTYRKA, a city of Russia, the capital of the circle of the same name. It contains eight churches, one of which attracts many pilgrims, from an image of the Virgin on it; 1138 houses; and 12,788 inhabitants, who are employed in making woollen cloth, and some other articles. It is situated in Long. 34. 50. E. Lat. 50. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010503-1174 | ACHYR, a strong town and castle of the Ukraine, subject to the Russians since 1667. It stands on the river Uorsklo, near the frontiers of Russia, 127 miles west of Kiow. Long. 36. 0. E. Lat. 49. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010504-1174 | ACI, three remarkable towns, very populous, on the seacoast, in the province of Catania, in the island of Sicily. Their names are Aci St Lucia, Aci Catena, and Aci St Filipo. They are defended by the town of St Anna. The inhabitants are occupied in the fishery, or in making wine, and amount to 9200 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010505-1174 | ACICANTHERA, in Botany, the trivial name of a species of Rhexia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010506-1174 | ACICULAE, the small pikes or prickles of the hedgehog, echinus marinus, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010507-1174 | ACIDALIUS, Valens, would, in all probability, have been one of the greatest critics of modern times, had he lived longer to perfect those talents which nature had given him. He was born at Witstock, in Brandenburg; and having visited several academies in Germany, Italy, and other countries, where he was greatly esteeme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010508-1174 | ACIDALUS, a fountain in Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia, in which the Graces, who are sacred to Venus, bathed. Hence the epithet Acidalia, given to Venus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010509-1174 | ACIDITY, that quality which renders bodies acid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010510-1174 | ACIDOTON, in Botany, the trivial name of a species of Adelia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010511-1174 | ACIDS, in Chemistry, a class of substances which are distinguished by the following properties :—
1. When applied to the tongue, they excite that sensation which is called sour or acid.
2. They change the blue colours of vegetables to a red. The vegetable blues employed for this purpose are generally tincture of litm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010512-1174 | ACIDULAE. Mineral waters that are brisk and sparkling, without the action of heat, are thus named; but if they are hot also, they are called Thermae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010513-1174 | ACIDULATED, a name given to medicines that have an acid in their composition. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010514-1174 | ACIDULOUS denotes a thing that is slightly acid: it is synonymous with the word sub-acid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010515-1174 | ACIDUM Aereum, the same with fixed air; or, in modern chemistry, carbonic acid. ACIDUΜ pingue, an imaginary acid, which some German[7:2:106] chemists supposed to be contained in fire, and by combining with alkalies, lime, &c. to give them their caustic properties; an effect which is found certainly to depend on the los... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010601-1187 | ACILIUS GLABRIO, Marcus, consul in the year of Rome 562, and 211 years before the Christian era, distinguished himself by his bravery and conduct in gaining a complete victory over Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, at the Straits of Thermopylae in Thessaly, and on several other occasions. He built the temple of Piety... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010602-1187 | ACINODENDRUM, in Botany, the trivial name of a species of Melastoma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010603-1187 | ACINOS, in Botany, the trivial name of a species of Thymus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010604-1187 | ACINUS, or Acini, the small protuberances of mulberries, strawberries, &c., and by some applied to grapes. Generally it is used for those small grains growing in bunches, after the manner of grapes, as ligustrum, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010605-1187 | ACIS, in Mythology, the son of Faunus and the nymph Simaethis, was a beautiful shepherd of Sicily, who being beloved by Galatea, Polyphemus the giant was so enraged, that he dashed out his brains against a rock; after which Galatea turned him into a river, which was called by his name.—The Sicilian authors say, that Ac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010606-1187 | ACKERMANN, John Christian Gottlieb, a very learned physician and professor of medicine, was born at Zeulenrode in Upper Saxony, in the year 1756. Having acquired the rudiments of his medical education under the tuition of his father, who was also a physician, he proceeded to Jena and to Göttingen, and studied under Bal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010607-1187 | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, in a general sense, is a person’s owning or confessing a thing; but more particularly, is the expression of gratitude for a favour.
Acknowledgement -Money, a certain sum paid by tenants, in several parts of England, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgement of their new lords. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010608-1187 | ACLIDES, in Roman antiquity, a kind of missile weapon, with a thong affixed to it, by which it was drawn back. Most authors describe it as a sort of dart or javelin; but Scaliger makes it roundish or globular, and full of spikes, with a slender wooden stem to poise it by. Each warrior was furnished with two. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010609-1187 | ACLOWA, in Botany, a barbarous name of a species of Colutea. It is used by the natives of Guinea to cure the itch: they rub it on the body as we do unguents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010610-1187 | ACME, the top or height of any thing. It is usually applied to the maturity of an animal just before it begins to decline; and physicians have used it to express the utmost violence or crisis of a disease. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010611-1187 | ACMELIA, in Botany, the trivial name of a species of Spilanthus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010612-1187 | ACNIDA, [qv]Virginian Hemp[/qv]. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010613-1187 | ACNUA, in Roman antiquity, signified a certain measure of land, about an English rood, or fourth part of an acre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010614-1187 | ACO, a town of Peru, in South America. It is also the name of a river in Africa, which rises in the Abyssinian mountains, runs in a south-east course, and discharges itself into the Indian Ocean. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010615-1187 | ACOEMETAE, or Acoemeti, men who lived without sleep; a set of monks who chanted the divine service night and day in their places of worship. They divided themselves into three bodies, who alternately succeeded one another, so that the service in their churches was never interrupted. This practice they founded upon the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010616-1187 | ACOLUTHI, or Acoluthists, in antiquity, was an appellation given to those persons who were steady and immovable in their resolutions; and hence the Stoics, because they would not forsake their principles nor alter their resolutions, acquired the title of acoluthi. The [7:2:107]word is Greek, and compounded of α privati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010701-1200 | ACOLYTHIA, in the Greek church, denotes the office or order of divine service; or the prayers, ceremonies, hymns, &c. whereof the Greek service is composed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010702-1200 | ACOMINATUS, Nicetas, was secretary to Alexius Comnenus and to Isaacus Angelus successively. He wrote ahistory from the death of Alexius Comnenus in 1118, where Zonaras ended his, to the year 1203, which has gone through many editions, and has been much applauded by the best critics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010703-1200 | ACONCROBA, in Botany, the indigenous name of a plant which grows wild in Guinea, and is in great esteem among the natives for its virtues in the small-pox. They give an infusion of it in wine. The leaves of this plant are opaque, and as stiff as those of the philyrea; they grow in pairs, and stand on short foot-stalks;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010704-1200 | ACONITI, in antiquity, an appellation given to some of the Athletae, but differently interpreted. Mercurialis understands it of those who only anointed their bodies with oil, but did not smear themselves over with dust, as was the usual practice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010705-1200 | ACONITUM, Aconite, Wolfsbane, or Monks-hood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010706-1200 | ACONTIAS, in Zoology, an obsolete name of the anguis jaculus, or dart-snake, belonging to the order of amphibia serpentes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010707-1200 | ACONTIUM, ακοντιον, in Grecian antiquity, a kind of dart or javelin, resembling the Roman pilum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010708-1200 | ACONITUS, a young man of the island Cea, who having gone to Delos to see the sacred rites which were performed there by a crowd of virgins in the temple of Diana, fell desperately in love with Cydippe; but not daring to ask her in marriage, on account of the meanness of his birth, insidiously threw down at her feet an ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010709-1200 | ACORN, the fruit of the oak-tree.
Acorn, in sea language, a little ornamental piece of wood, fashioned like a cone, and fixed on the uppermost point of the spindle, above the vane, on the mast head. It is used to keep the vane from being blown off from the spindle in a whirlwind, or when the ship leans much to one sid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010710-1200 | ACORUS, Calamus Aromaticus, Sweet Flag, or Sweet Rush. Acorus, in the Materia Medica, a name sometimes given to the great galangal.
Acorus, in Natural History, blue coral. The true sort is very scarce; some, however, is fished on the coasts of Africa, particularly from Rio del Re to the river of the Camarones. This co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010711-1200 | ACOSTA, Joseph d’, a celebrated Spanish author, was born at Medina del Campo about the year 1539. In 1571, he went to Peru as a Provincial of the Jesuits, having entered into that society in his fourteenth year. After a residence in America of seventeen years, he returned to his native country, and became in succession... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010901-1226 | ACOSTAN, a mountainous island in the north seas, between Asia and America, observed by Captain Cook. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010902-1226 | ACOUSMATICI, sometimes also called Acoustici, in Grecian antiquity, such of the disciples of Pythagoras as had not completed their five years’ probation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-010903-1226 | ACOUSTIC, in general, denotes any thing that relates to the ear, the sense of hearing, or the doctrine of sounds.
Acoustic Disciples, among the ancient Pythagoreans^ those more commonly called Acousmatici. Acoustic Ducts, in Anatomy, the same with meatus auditorius, or the external passage of the ear.
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kp-eb0702-010904-1226 | ACOUSTICS, that branch of Natural Philosophy which treats of the nature of Sound, and the laws of its production and propagation. It is a subject extremely curious and interesting, and has at all times excited much attention among philosophers. In treating it here, it was at first our intention to embody the original a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012401-1421 | ACQS, a town at the foot of the Pyrenean mountains, in the department of Arriege and late province of Foix, in France. It takes its name from the hot waters in these parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012402-1421 | ACQUAPENDENTE, a pretty large town of Italy, in the territory of the Church and patrimony of St Peter, with a bishop’s see. It is seated on a mountain near the river Paglia, 10 miles west of Orvieto, and 57 north by [7:2:125]west of Rome. It takes its name from a fall of water near it, and is now almost desolate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012501-1434 | ACQUARIA, a small town of Italy, in Frigana, a district of Modena, which is remarkable for its medicinal waters. It is 18 miles south-west of the city of Modena. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012502-1434 | ACQUEST, or Acquist, in Law, signifies goods got by purchase or donation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012503-1434 | ÁCQUI, one of the provinces into which the continental dominions of the king of Sardinia are divided. It is bounded on the north-east by Alessandria, on the southeast and south by Genoa, on the south-west by Mondovi, on the west by Alba, and on the north-west by Asti. The extent is 534 square miles, or 341∙760 acres. I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012504-1434 | ACQUISITION, in general, denotes the obtaining or procuring something. Among lawyers it is used for the right or title to an estate got by purchase or donation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012505-1434 | ACQUITTANCE, a release or discharge in writing for a sum of money, witnessing that the party has paid the said sum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012506-1434 | ACRA, a considerable country near the eastern extremity of the Gold Coast of Africa. It is fertile, healthy, and the inhabitants are of a more polished and civilized character than the majority of those found upon that coast. While the slave-trade was carried on with activity, there was a great resort of the European n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012507-1434 | ACRAGAS, or Agragas, in Ancient Geography, so called by the Greeks, and sometimes by the Romans, but more generally Agrigentum by the latter; a town on the south coast of Sicily. See Agrigentum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012508-1434 | ACRAMAR. See Van. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012509-1434 | ACRASIA, among physicians, implies the predominancy of one quality above another, either with regard to artificial mixtures, or the humours of the human body. The word is Greek, and compounded of α privative, and κεξαννυμι, to mix ς q. d. not mixed in a just proportion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012510-1434 | ACRE, or Acra, a town and seaport of Palestine, in the pachalic of Acre, and formerly a splendid city of antiquity, called Ptolemais, from Ptolemy, king of Egypt. It was named Aera from its fortifications; and by the knights of St John of Jerusalem it was called St John d’Acre. No town has experienced greater changes f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012701-1460 | ACRIBEIA, a term purely Greek, literally denoting an exquisite or delicate accuracy; sometimes used in our language, for want of a word of equal signification. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012702-1460 | ACRIDOPHAGI, in Ancient Geography, an Ethiopian people, represented as inhabiting near the deserts, and to have fed on locusts. This latter circumstance their name imports, the word being compounded of the Greek ακ%ις, [7:2:128]locust, and φαγω, to eat. Dr Sparrman informs us,^[1. Voyage to the. Cape, vol. i. n. 36. ] ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012801-1473 | ACRISIUS, in fabulous history, king of Argos, being told by the oracle that he should be killed by his grandchild, shut up his only daughter Danae in a brazen tower; but Jupiter coming down in a golden shower, begot Perseus by her. After Perseus had slain the Gorgons, he carried Medusa’s head to Argos; which Acrisius s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012802-1473 | ACRITAS, in Ancient Geography, a promontory of Messenia, running into the sea, an’i forming the beginning of the bay of Messene; now Capo de Gallo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012803-1473 | ACROAMATIC, or Acroatic, in general denotes a thing sublime, profound, or abstruse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012804-1473 | ACROAMATICI a denomination given to the disciples or followers of Aristotle, &c. who were admitted into the secrets of the inner or acroamatic philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012805-1473 | ACROATIC is a name given to Aristotle’s lectures to his disciples, which were of two kinds, exoteric and acroatic. The acroatic were those to which only his own disciples and intimate friends were admitted; whereas the exoteric were public and open to all. But there are other differences. The acroatic were set apart fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012806-1473 | ACROBATES, in antiquity, were rope-dancers, who performed various feats by vaulting or tumbling on a rope; sliding down on a rope from a lofty station with arms and legs extended, in imitation of flying; and running, dancing, and leaping, on a rope stretched horizontally. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012807-1473 | ACROBATICA, or Acrobaticum, from ακ%ος, high, and βατεω or βαινω, I go ; an ancient engine whereby people were raised aloft, that they might see more conveniently about them. The acróbatìea among the Greeks amounted to the same with what they call scansorium among the Latins. Authors are divided as to the use of this e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012808-1473 | ACROCERAUNIA, or Montes Ceraunii, in Ancient Geography, mountains so called from their being often struck by thunder. They are on the western coast of Greece, and terminate at a cape in Lat. 40. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012809-1473 | ACROCHERISMUS, among the Greeks, a sort of gymnastic exercise, in which the two combatants contended with their hands and fingers only, without closing or engaging the other parts of the body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012810-1473 | ACROCORINTHUS, in Ancient Geography, a high and steep hill hanging over the city of Corinth, on which was built the acropolis, or citadel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012811-1473 | ACROMION, in Anatomy, the upper part of the scapula or shoulder-blade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012812-1473 | ACROMONOGRAMMATICUM, in Poetry, a kind of poem, wherein every subsequent verse begins with the letter wherewith the immediately preceding one terminated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012813-1473 | ACRON, a celebrated physician of Agrigentum, in Sicily, who lived about the middle of the fifth century before Christ. He first thought of lighting large fires, and purifying the air with perfumes, to put a stop to the pestilence that ravaged Athens, and which was attended with success. He wrote two treatises, accordin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012814-1473 | ACRONIĊAL, Achronycal, or Achronical, in Astronomy, is a term applied to the rising of a star when the sun is set in the evening; but has been promiscuously used to express a star’s rising at sunset, or setting at sunrise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012815-1473 | ACROPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, the citadel and one of the divisions of Athens, called Polis because constituting the first and original city, and the Upper Polis to distinguish it from the lower, which was afterwards built round it in a large open plain, the Acropolis standing on a rock or eminence in the heart of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012816-1473 | ACROPOLITA, George, one of the writers in the Byzantine history, was born at Constantinople in the year 1220, and educated at the court of the Emperor John Ducas at Nice. He was employed in the most important affairs of the empire, being sent ambassador to Larissa to establish a peace with Michael of Epirus; and was co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012901-1486 | ACROSPIRE, a vulgar term for what botanists call the plumes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012902-1486 | ACROSPIRED, in malt-making, is the grain’s shooting both at the root and blade end. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012903-1486 | ACROSTIC, in Poetry, a kind of poetical composition, disposed in such a manner that the initial letters of the verses form the name of some person, kingdom, place, motto, &c. The word is compounded of the Greek ακgoς, extremity, and στιχος, verse. The acrostic is considered by the critics as a species of false wit, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012904-1486 | ACROSTICHUM, Rustyback, Wall-rue, or Fork-Fern. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012905-1486 | ACROSTOLIUM, in ancient naval architecture, the extreme part of the ornament used on the prows of ships, which was sometimes in the shape of a buckler, helmet, animal, &c. but more frequently circular, or spiral. It was usual to tear them from the prows of vanquished vessels, and fix them to those of the conquerors, as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012906-1486 | ACROTELEUTIC, among ecclesiastic writers, an appellation given to any thing added to the end of a psalm; as the Gloria Patri, or Doxology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012907-1486 | ACROTERIA, in Architecture, small pedestals, usually without bases, anciently placed at the middle or two extremes of pediments or frontispieces, serving to support the statues, &c. It also signifies the figures placed as ornaments on the tops of churches, and the sharp pinnacles that stand in ranges about flat buildin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012908-1486 | ACROTHYMION, from ακgos, extreme, and duµoj, thyme; a sort of wart, described by Celsus as hard and rough, with a narrow basis and broad top: the top is of the colour of thyme. It easily splits and bleeds. This tumour is also called thymus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-012909-1486 | ACT, in general, denotes the exertion of power; and differs from power, as the effect from the cause.
Act, in Logic, is particularly understood of an operation of the human mind. Thus, to discern and examine are acts of the understanding; to judge and affirm are acts of the will.
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kp-eb0702-013101-1512 | ACTAE were meadows of remarkable verdure and luxuriancy near the sea-shore, where the Romans used to indulge themselves to a great degree in softness and delicacy of living. The word is used in this sense by Cicero and Virgil; but Vossius thinks it can only be used in speaking of Sicily, as these two authors did. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013102-1512 | ACTAEA, Herb-Christopher, or Bane-Berries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013103-1512 | ACTAEON, in fabulous history, the son of Aristaeus and Autonöe; a great hunter. He was transformed by Diana into a stag, because he looked on her while bathing; and was devoured by his own dogs. The effect of impertinent curiosity and expensive pleasures seem to be the moral of the fable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013104-1512 | ACTIAN Games, in Roman antiquity, were solemn games instituted by Augustus, in memory of his victory over Mark Antony at Actium, held every fifth year, and celebrated in honour of Apollo, since called Αctius. Hence Action Years, an era commencing from the battle of Actium, called the Era of Augustus. Virgil insinuates ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013105-1512 | ACTINIA, in Zoology, a genus belonging to the order of Vermes mollusea, called Animal Flowers and Sea Anemonies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013106-1512 | ACTIO, in Roman antiquities, an action at law in a court of justice. The formalities used by the Romans, in judicial actions, were these: If the difference failed to be made up by friends, the injured person proceeded in jus reum vocare, to summon the offending party to the court, who was obliged to go, or give bond fo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013107-1512 | ACTION, in a general sense, implies nearly the same thing with Act. Grammarians, however, observe some distinction between action and act ; the former being generally restricted to the common or ordinary transactions, whereas the latter is used to express those which are remarkable. Thus, we say it is a good action to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013201-1525 | ACTIONARY, or Actionist, a proprietor of stock in a trading company. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013202-1525 | ACTIVE denotes something that communicates action or motion to another; in which acceptation it stands opposed to passive.
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kp-eb0702-013203-1525 | ACTIVITY, in general, denotes the power of acting, or the active faculty.
Sphere of Activity, the whole space in which the virtue, power, or influence of any object is exerted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013204-1525 | ACTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town situated on the coast of Acarnania, in itself inconsiderable, but famous for a temple of Apollo, a Safe harbour, and an adjoining promontory of the same name, in the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius, opposite to Nicoolis, on the other side of the bay. It became famous on account of Augu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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