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CANICATTT, a city of the intendancy of Calatanisetta, in the island of Sicily. It is finely situated on the declivity of a hill, in a healthy situation, and contains 16,455 inhabitants, who mostly subsist on agriculture, and by trading in corn, wine, figs, almonds, and the other productions of the fertile environs.
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CANICATTT
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CANICULA is a name proper to one of the stars of the constellation Canis Major, called also simply the dog star ; by the Greeks '∑ι ∣ o ∣ ος, Sirius. It is situated in the mouth of the constellation, and is of the first magnitude, being the largest and brightest of all the stars in the heavens. From the rising of this ...
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CANICULA
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CANICULUM, or Caniculus, in the Byzantine antiquities, a golden standish or ink vessel, decorated with precious stones, in which was kept the sacred encaustum, or red ink, wherewith the emperors signed their deerecs, letters, &c. The word is by some derived from canis, or caniculus ; alluding to the figure of a dog whi...
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CANICULUM
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CANINE Madness. See Medicine.
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CANINE
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CANINI, John Angelo and Marc Anthony, brothers and Romans, celebrated for their love of antiquities. John excelled in designs for engraving on stones, particularly heads, and Marc engraved them. They were encouraged by Colbert to publish a succession of heads of the heroes and great men of antiquity, designed from meda...
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CANINI
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CANIS, or Dog. See Mammalia. Canis Major, the Great Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, below Orion’s feet, though somewhat to the westward of him. Canis Minor, the Little Dog, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; called also by the Greeks Procyon, and by the Latins Ante...
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CANIS
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CANISIUS, Henry, a native of Nimeguen, and one of the most learned men of his time, was professor of canon law at Ingoldstadt, and wrote a number of books, the principal of which are, 1. Summa Juris Canonici ; 2. Antiques Lectiones, a very valuable work. He died in 1609.
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CANISIUS
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CANITZ, the Baron of, a German poet and statesman, was of an ancient and illustrious family in Brandenburg, and born at Berlin in 1654, five months after his father’s death. Having completed his early studies, he travelled into France, Italy, Holland, and England; and, upon his return to his native country, was charged...
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CANITZ
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CANKER, a disease incident to trees, proceedingehiefly from the nature of the soil. It makes the bark rot and fall.
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CANKER
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CANNAE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Apulia, on the Adriatic, at the mouth of the river Aufidns, rendered famous by a terrible overthrow which the Romans here received from the Carthaginians under Hannibal. See Rome.
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CANNAE
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CANNE, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Bari. It is celebrated as the field of battle between Hannibal and the Romans, and even to this day weapons and other things belonging to the combatants are dug up.
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CANNE
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CANNEQUINS, in commerce, white cotton cloths brought from the East Indies. They are a proper commodity for trading in upon the coast of Guinea, particularly about the rivers Senegal and Gambia. These linens are folded in a square form, and are about eight ells long.
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CANNEQUINS
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CANNEL Coal. See Mineralogy.
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CANNEL
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CANNES, a maritime city of the department of the Var, in France, containing 600'houses, and 2804 inhabitants, whose subsistence depends chiefly on the fishery for anchovies and sardinias. The country around it is fruitful in oranges, olives, citrons, grapes, and figs. Long. 6. 55. 9. E. Lat. 43. 32. 58. N.
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CANNES
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CANNIBAL, a modern term for an anthropophagus or man-eater, more especially in the West Indies.
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CANNIBAL
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CANNING, George, a celebrated statesman and orator, was born in London on the 11th of April 1770. His father by an imprudent marriage had drawn down upon himself the displeasure of his parents, and was by them cut off with the scanty pittance of L.150 per annum. The youth, thus discarded by his family, who possessed co...
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CANNING
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CANNON, a military engine for throwing balls, &c. by the help of Gunpowder. The invention of brass cannon is by Laney ascribed to J. Owen. He says that they were first known in England in the year 1535; but he yet acknowledges that, in 1346, there were four pieces of cannon in the English army at the battle of Cressy,...
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CANNON
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CANNONADE, the application of artillery to the purposes of war, or the direction of its efforts against some distant object intended to be seized or destroyed, as a ship, battery, or fortress. - See Gunnery and War. *
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CANNONADE
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CANO. See Kano.
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CANO
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CANOE, a sort of Indian boat or vessel, formed of the trunk of a tree hollowed, and sometimes of several pieces of the bark put together. Canoes are of various sizes, according to the uses for which they may be designed, or the countries in which they are formed. The largest are made of the cotton tree; and some of th...
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CANOE
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CANON, a person who possesses a prebend, or revenue allotted for the performance of divine service in a cathedral or collegiate church. Canons are of no great antiquity. Paschier observes, that the name canon was not known before Charlemagne; at least the first we hear of are in Gregory de Tours, who mentions a colleg...
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CANON
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CANON LAW is a term used to denote the ecclesiastical law sanctioned by the church of Rome, and possessing more or less direct influence in all countries which acknowledge the authority of the pope. The word καvω∣∕ signifies a rule, and this word was not at first considered as too feeble to express the claims of the ch...
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CANON LAW
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CANONESS, in the Romish church, a woman who enjoys a prebend, affixed, by the foundation, to maids, without their being obliged to renounce the world, or make any vows.
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CANONESS
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CANONICA, in philosophical history, an appellation given by Epicurus to his doctrine of logic. It was called canonica, as consisting of a few canons or rules for directing the understanding in the pursuit and knowledge of truth. The canonica of Epicurus is represented as a very slight and insufficient logic by several ...
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CANONICA
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CANONICAL, something that belongs to, or partakes of, the nature of a rule or canon. Canonical Hours are certain stated times of the day, consigned, more especially by the Romish church, to the offices of prayer and devotion. Such are matins, lauds, sixth and ninth vespers. In our country the canonical hours are from ...
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CANONICAL
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CANONICUM, in a general sense, denotes a tax or tribute. Canonicum is more particularly used in the Greek church for a fee paid by the clergy to bishops, archbishops, and metropolitans, for degrees and promotions. Canonicum also denotes a due of first fruits, paid by the Greek laity to their bishops, or, according to...
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CANONICUM
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CANONIST, a person skilled in, or who makes profession of, the study and practice of the canon law. Canonists and civilians are usually combined in the same persons; and hence the title of∕wm utriuspue doctor, or legum doctor, usually expressed in abbreviature, J. U. D. or LL.D.
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CANONIST
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CANONIZATION, a ceremony in the Romish church, by which persons deceased are ranked in the catalogue of the saints. It succeeds beatification. Before a beatified person is canonized, the qualifications of the candidate are strictly examined into, in consistories held for that purpose; after which, one of the consistor...
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CANONIZATION
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CANONRY, the benefice filled by a canon. It differs from a prebend, in that the prebend may subsist without the canonicate, whereas the canonicate is inseparable from the prebend; again, the right of suffrages, and other privileges, are annexed to the canonicate, and not to the prebend.
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CANONRY
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CANOPUS, in Astronomy, a star of the first magnitude, in the rudder of Argo, a constellation of the southern hemisphere. Canopus, in Pagan Mythology, one of the deities of the ancient Egyptians, and, according to some, the god of water. It is said that the Chaldeans, who worshipped fire, carried their fancied deity th...
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CANOPUS
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CANOPY, in Architecture and Sculpture, a magnificent kind of decoration, serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, or the like. The word is formed from the barbarous Latin canopeurn, of κανω-Τί/ον, a net spread over a bed to keep off the gnats, from καv⅛∙∙ψ, a gnat. Canopies are also borne ...
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CANOPY
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CANOSA, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Bari, on the eastern side of the river Ofanto, with 4064 inhabitants. It was the ancient Greek city Canusium.
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CANOSA
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CANOVA, Antonio, one of the greatest sculptors of modern times, was born on the 1st of November 1757, at Passagno, an obscure village situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolano, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso. At three years of age Canova w...
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CANOVA
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CANSO, or Canceau, an island, cape, and small fishing bank, on the south-east coast of Nova Scotia, about forty leagues east by north of Halifax. The island is small, but has a good harbour. The Gut of Canso forms the passage from the Atlantic into the Gulf of St Lawrence, between Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia. La...
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CANSO
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CANSTADT, a city of the circle of the Neckar, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg. It is surrounded with walls, and contains 384 houses and 3219 inhabitants. Cotton mills are established, and some silks and satins are manufactured. It has some trade by the navigable river Neckar to the Rhine.
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CANSTADT
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CANT, a quaint affected manner of speaking, adapted chiefly to the lower orders. Skinner racks his invention for the origin of this word, which he successively deduces from the German, flemish, and Saxon tongues. According to the general opinion, Cant was originally the proper name of a Cameronian preacher in Scotland,...
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CANT
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CANTA, a province and government of Peru, bounded [7:6:99] on the north-east and east by Tarma, on the west by Chancay, and on the south by Huarochiri. It is twenty-four leagues in length from north to south, and thirty-five in width from east to west. The territory is mountainous, being generally situated in the Cordi...
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CANTA
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CANTABRIA, in Ancient Geography, a district of Tarraconensis, on the Oceanus Cantabricus, or Bay of Biscay; now Biscay. The inhabitants were famous for their warlike character. Dr Wallis seems to make the Cantabrian the ancient language of Spain; and it, according to him, like the Gaulish, gave way to a kind of broken ...
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CANTABRIA
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CANTABRUM, in Antiquity, a large kind of flag used by the Roman emperors, distinguished by its peculiar colour, and bearing on it some word or motto of good omen, to encourage the soldiers.
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CANTABRUM
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CANTACUZENUS, Johannes, of Constantinople, a celebrated statesman, general, and historian, was born in that city, and descended of a very ancient and noble family. He was bred to letters and to arms, and admitted to the highest offices in the state. The emperor Andronicus loaded him with wealth and honour, made him gen...
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CANTACUZENUS
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CANTAL, a department of the south-east part of France, formed out of the ancient province of Upper Auvergne. It is bounded on the north by the department Puy de Dôme, on the east by the Upper Loire, on the south-east by Lozère, on the south by Aveiron, and on the west by Lot and Corrèze. Its extent is 2332 square miles...
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CANTARINI, Simon, a famous painter, called the Pesarese, from his being born at Pesaro, was the disciple of Guido, and copied the manner of his master so happily that it is often difficult to distinguish between their works. He died at Verona in 1648.
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CANTATA, in AIusic, a song or composition, intermixed with recitatives, airs, and different movements, chiefly intended for a single voice, with a thorough bass, though sometimes for other instruments. It was first used in Italy, then in France, whence it passed to us.
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CANTATA
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CANTELEU, a town of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, near to Rouen, with 2842 inhabitants. It is celebrated for its excellent cider.
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CANTELEU
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CANTEMIR, Demetrius, son of a prince of Moldavia. Disappointed in not succeeding his father in that dignity, which was held under the Ottoman Porte, he went over with his army to the Czar Peter the Great, against whom he had been sent by the Grand Signior. He signalized himself in the czar’s service, and in the republi...
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CANTERBURY, a city in the hundred of Bridge and Petham, in the county of Kent, fifty-five and a half miles from London. It is the metropolitan see of all England. The situation is fine, in a valley surrounded by hills of easy elevation, and watered by the river Stour, whose various branches form between them several is...
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CANTERUS, William, an eminent linguist and philologer, who was born at Utrecht in 1541. He studied at Louvain and Paris, and gave surprising proofs of his progress in Greek and Latin literature. He afterwards visited the several universities of Germany and Italy, and died at Louvain in 1575, aged thirty-three. He under...
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CANTHARIDES, in the Materia Medica, flies which are employed to produce blisters on the skin.
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CANTICLES, a canonical book of the Old Testament, otherwise called the Song of Solomon, and by the Jews the Canticum Canticoum, or Song of Songs. The book of Cantieles is usually supposed to be an epithalamium composed by Solomon on occasion of his marriage with the king of Egypt’s daughter; but those who penetrate fur...
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CANTICLES
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CANTIMARONS, Catimarons, or Catamarans, a kind of floats or rafts, used by the inhabitants of the coast of Coromandel to go a fishing in, and to trade along the coast. They are made of three or four small canoes, or trunks of trees dug hollow, and tied together with cacao ropes, with a triangular sail in the middle, ma...
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CANTIUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory of Britain, literally denoting a headland; giving name to a territory called Cantium, now Kent; and to a people called Cantii, commended for their great humanity and politeness.
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CANTIUM
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CANTO denotes a part or division of a poem, answering to what is otherwise called a booh. The word is Italian, and properly signifies song. Tasso, Ariosto, and several other Italians, have divided their longer or heroic poems into cantos. In imitation of them, Scarron has also divided his Gigantamachia, and Boileau his...
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CANTO
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CANTON denotes a small district or country constituting a distinct government. Such are the cantons of Switzerland. Canton, Quang-tong, or Koanton, one of the southern provinces of China, bounded on the north-east by Fokien, on the north by Kiang-si, on the west by Quang-si and [7:6:101] the kingdom of Tonking, and ev...
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CANTON
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CANTONING, in the military art, is the allotting distinct and separate quarters to each regiment; the town where they are quartered being divided into as many cantons as there are regiments.
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CANTRED, or Cantretn, signifies a hundred villages. It is a British word, compounded of the adjective cant, meaning hundred; and tref, a town or village. In Wales some of the counties are divided into cantreds, as in England into hundreds.
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CANTRED
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CANTYRE, from Cantierre, signifying a “headland,” the southern division of the county of Argyle in Scotland. Mull of Cantyre, the south cape or promontory of the peninsula.
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CANVASS, a very clear unbleached cloth, of hemp or flax, wove regularly in little squares. It is used for working tapestry with the needle, by passing the threads of gold, silver, silk, or wool, through the intervals or squares. Canvass is also a coarse cloth of hemp, unbleached, and somewhat clear, which serves to co...
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CANVASS
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CANUSIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Apulia, on the right or south side of the Aufidus, to the west of Cannae, whither the Romans fled after the defeat sustained there. It was famous for its red shining wool, whence those who wore clothes made of it were called Canusinati. Now called Canosa. Canute, the first Dani...
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CANY, a town of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, with 240 houses and 1434 inhabitants.
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CANY
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CANZONE, in Music, signifies, in general, a song where some little figures are introduced; but it is sometimes used for a sort of Italian poem, usually pretty long, for which music may be composed in the style of a cantata. If this term be added to a piece of instrumental music, it signifies much the same as cantata; i...
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CANZONE
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CANZONETTA, a diminutive of canzone, denoting a little short song. The canzonette Neapolitane have two strains, each of which is sung twice over, as the vaudevilles of the French. The canzonetta Siciliana is a species of jig, the measure of which is usually twelve eighths, and six eighths, and sometimes both, as rondea...
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CANZONETTA
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CAORLO, a small island in the Gulf of Venice, on the coast of Friuli, twenty miles south-west of Aquileia; subject to Venice. It possesses a small town of the same name.
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CAORLO
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CAOUTCHOUC, Elastic Resin, or India Rubber, a substance produced from the syringe tree of Cayenne and other parts of South America, and possessed of singular properties. No substance is yet known which is so pliable, and at the same time so elastic; and it is further a matter of curiosity, as being capable of resisting...
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CAOUTCHOUC
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CAP, a part of dress made to cover the head. The origin of caps and hats is referred to the year 1449, the first seen in these parts of the world being at the entry of Charles VII. into Rouen; but from that time they began to take place of the hoods, or chaperoons, which had until then been used. When the cap was of ve...
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CAP
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CAPACITY, in a general sense, an aptitude or disposition to hold or retain any thing. Capacity, in Geometry, is the solid contents of any body; also our hollow measures for wine, bear, corn, salt, &c. are called measures of capacity.
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CAPACITY
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CAPALUAN, one of the smaller Philippine Islands, fourteen miles in length by five in average breadth. It lies about four miles south of the island of Luzon. Long. 121. 48. E. Lat. 13. 50. N.
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CAPALUAN
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CAPARASON, or Caparison, the covering or clothing laid over a horse, especially a sumpter horse, or horse of state. The word is Spanish, caparazon, being probably an augmentative of capa, a cloak. Anciently the caparasons were a kind of iron armour, wherewith horses were covered in battle.
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CAPARASON
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CAPE, a high land running out with a point into the [7:6:109] sea, as Cape Nord, Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. Cape Breton. See Breton. Cape Coast Castle. See Coast. Cape of Good Hope. See Good Hope. Cape Verd. See Verd.
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CAPE
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CAPELL, Edward, a gentleman well known by his indefatigable attention to the works of Shakspeare, was a native of the county of Suffolk, and received his education at the school of St Edmund’s Bury. In the dedication of his edition of Shakspeare, in 1768, to the Dųke of Grafton, he observes that “bis father and the gra...
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CAPELL
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CAPELLA, in Astronomy, a bright fixed star in the left shoulder of the constellation Auriga.
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CAPELLA
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CAPELLUS, Lewis, an eminent French Protestant divine, born at Sedan in Champagne about the year 1579. He was the author of some learned works, but is chiefly known from the controversy he engaged in with the younger Buxtorf Concerning the antiquity of the Hebrew points or Masora, which Capellus undertook to disprove. H...
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CAPELLUS
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CAPERNAUM, a city celebrated in the Gospels, being the place where Jesus usually resided during the time of his ministry. This city is nowhere mentioned in the Old Testament under this or any other name like it; and therefore it is not improbable that it was one of those towns which the Jews built after their return fr...
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CAPERNAUM
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CAPEROLANS, a congregation of religious in Italy, so called from Peter Caperole their founder, in the loth century. The Milanese and Venetians being at war, the enmity thereby occasioned spread itself to the very cloisters. The superiors of minor brothers in the province of Milan, which extended itself as far as the t...
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CAPEROLANS
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CAPH, a Jewish measure of capacity for things, estimated by Komehi at the thirtieth part of the log, by Arbuthnot at the sixteenth part of the hin or thirty-second of the seah, amounting to five eighths of an English pint. The caph does not occur in Scripture as the name of any measure.
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CAPH
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CAPHTOR, in Ancient Geography, a town or district of Upper Egypt; and hence the people called Caphtorim or Caphtorei. CAPI-Aga, or Capi-Agassi, a Turkish officer who is governor of the gates of the seraglio, or grand master of the seraglio. The capi-aga is the first dignity among the white eunuchs; he is always near th...
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CAPHTOR
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CAPIAS, in Law, a writ of two sorts; one before judgment in an action, and the other after. That beforejudg-ment is called capias ad respondendum, where an original is issued out, to take the defendant, and make him answer the plaintiff. That after judgment is of divers kinds; as, Capias ad Satisfaciendum, a writ of ex...
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CAPIAS
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CAPIGI, or Capidji, a porter or door-keeper of the Turkish seraglio. The word, in its original, signifies gate.
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CAPIGI
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CAPILLAMENT, in a general sense, signifies a hair; and hence the word is applied to several things which, on account of their length or their fineness, resemble hairs; as,
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CAPILLAMENT
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CAPILLARY, in a general sense, an appellation given to things on account of their extreme fineness, or resembling hair.
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CAPILLARY
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CAPILLARY ACTION. 1. When a solid body is partially plunged in a fluid, the level surface near it is disturbed, and the fluid is observed either to ascend or descend, so as to form a ring round the part immersed. If a tube of glass be inserted in a vessel containing water, the liquid will rise in a concave ring, both ...
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CAPILUPI, or Capilupus, Camillus, a native of Mantua, in the sixteenth century. He wrote a book entitled The Stratagem, in which he relates not only what was perpetrated at Paris during the massacre on St Bartholomew’s day, but also the artful preparations which preceded that horrid massacre. It is, howevpr, blended wi...
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CAPILUPI
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CAPISCOLUS, or Capiscnolus, in ecclesiastical writers, denotes a dignitary in certain cathedrals, who had the superintendence of the choir or band of music, and answers to what in other churches is called chanter or precentor. The word is also written cabiscolus and caput-scholoe, meaning the head of the school or band...
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CAPISCOLUS
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CAPITAL, from the Latin caput i the head, is used on various occasions to express the relation of a head, chief, or principal: thus, Capital City, in Geography, denotes the principal city of a kingdom, state, or province. Capital Stock, among merchants, bankers, and traders, signifies the sum of money which individual...
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CAPITAL
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CAPITANATA, a province of the kingdom of Naples, in the southern part of Italy. It is bounded on the north and the east by the Adriatic Sea, on the south-east by the provinces Bari and Basilicata, on the south by the Principato-Ulteriore, on the west by Molise, and on the north-west by Abruzzo. It extends over 5000 squ...
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CAPITANATA
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CAPITANEI, or Catanei, in Italy, was a denomination given to all the dukes, marquises, and counts, who were called capitanei regis. The same appellation was also given to persons of inferior rank who were invested with fees, and formerly distinguished by the appellation vala-sores majores.
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CAPITANEI
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CAPITANEUS, in ancient law writers, denotes a tenant in capite or chief. Capitaneus Ecclesiae, the same with advocate.
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CAPITANEUS
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CAPITANIA, an appellation given to the twelve governments established by the Portuguese in the Brazils.
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CAPITANIA
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CAPITATION, a tax or imposition raised on each person, in proportion to his labour, industry, office, rank, or station. It is a very ancient kind of tribute. The Latins call it tributum, by which taxes on persons are distinguished from taxes on merchandise, which were called vectigalia.
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CAPITATION
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CAPITE, in Law (from caput, that is, rex, whence tenere in capite is to hold of the king, the head or lord-paramount of all the lands in the kingdom), an ancient tenure of land, held immediately of the king, as of the crown, either by knight’s service or by soccage. Capite Censi, in Antiquity, the lowest rank of Roman...
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CAPITE
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CAPITOL, Capitolium, in Antiquity, a famous fort or castle, on the Mons Capitolinus at Rome, in which was a temple dedicated to Jupiter (thence also denominated Capitolinus), where the senate anciently assembled. It had its name of capitol from caput, a man’s head, said to have been found fresh, and yet bleeding, upon ...
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CAPITOL
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CAPITOLINE Games, annual games instituted by Camillus, in honour of Jupiter Capitolinus, and in commemoration of the escape of the capitol from capture by the Gauls. Plutarch tells us that a part of the ceremony consisted in the public criers putting up the Hetrurians to sale by auction; they also took an old man, and ...
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CAPITOLINE
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CAPITOLINUS, Julius, an historian in the beginning of the fourth age, under Diocletian, to whom he inscribed the Lives of Verus, Antoninus Pius, Clodius Balbinus, Macrinus, the Maximins, and the Gordians. He wrote other lives, which are most of them lost.
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CAPITOLINUS
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CAPITULARIES are certain laws enacted under the auspices of kings of the Frankish race. They are called Capitularia by a word of no classical authority, but derived from capitulum, the diminutive of caput ; and they are so described from the circumstance of their being enacted or digested capitulatim, by heads or chapt...
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CAPITULARIES
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CAPITULATION, in military affairs, a treaty made between the inhabitants or garrison of a place besieged and the besiegers, for the delivering up of the place on certain conditions. The most honourable and ordinary terms of capitulation are to march out at the breach with arms and baggage, drums beating, colours flying...
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CAPITULATION
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CAPITULUM, in the ancient military art, a transverse beam, wherein were holes,through which passed the strings whereby the arms of huge engines, as balistae, catapultae, and scorpions, were played or worked. Capitulum, in ecclesiastical writers, denoted part of a chapter of the Bible read and explained. In this sense ...
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CAPITULUM
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CAPIZZ1, a town of the intendancy of Messina, in the island of Sicily, in a healthy situation, containing 3400 inhabitants.
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CAPIZZ1
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CAPMANI, D. Antonio de, one of the most eminent of the later writers of Spain, was born in Catalonia in 1754. He lived for a considerable time in Barcelona, and latterly in Madrid, where he died in 1810. He ranks high both as a general scholar and as a political writer, and has, indeed, in the latter character, manifes...
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CAPMANI, D
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CAPNICON, in Antiquity, chimney money, or a tax which the Roman emperors levied for smoke, and which of consequence was due from all, even the poorest, who kept a fire. This was first invented by Nicephorus.
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CAPNICON
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CAPNOMANCY, a kind of divination by means of smoke, used by the ancients in their sacrifices. The words come from κ0wr∣∕05, smoke, and μαντuα, divination. The general rule was, when the smoke was thin and light, and rose straight up, it was a good omen; if the contrary, it was a bad one. There was also another species ...
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CAPNOMANCY
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CAPO D’Istria, the capital of the Austrian province of Istria, situated on a small island in the Gulf of Trieste. It contains about 5000 inhabitants, and possesses a bishop’s see. Long. 13. 50. E. Lat. 45. 40. N.
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