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kp-eb0702-013205-1525 | ACTIUS, in mythology, a surname of Apollo, from Actium, where he was worshipped. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013206-1525 | ACTON, a large village in the county of Middlesex and hundred of Ossulton, about five miles from London. It was formerly frequented on account of some saline springs, which have now fallen into disuse. The grand [7:2:133] junction canal, in its way from Uxbridge to London, passes through the parish. It is a rectory in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013301-1538 | ACTOR, in general, signifies a person who acts or performs something.
Actor, among Civilians, the proctor or advocate in civil courts or causes; as Actor ecclesiae has been sometimes used for the advocate of the church, actor dominicus for the lord’s attorney, actor villae for the steward or head bailiff of a village.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013302-1538 | ACTORUM Tabulae, in antiquity, were tables instituted by Servius Tullius, in which the births of children were registered. They were kept in the treasury of Saturn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013303-1538 | ACTUAL, something that is real and effective, or that exists truly and absolutely. Thus, philosophers use the terms actual heat, actual cold, &c. in opposition to virtual or potential. Hence, among physicians, a red-hot iron, or fire, is called an actual cautery, in distinction from cauteries, or caustics, that have th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013304-1538 | ACTUARIAE Naves, a kind of long and light ships among the Romans, thus denominated because they were chiefly designed for swiftness and expedition. They correspond to what the French call brigantines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013305-1538 | ACTUARIUS, a celebrated Greek physician of the thirteenth century, and the first Greek author who has treated of mild purgatives, such as cassia, manna, senna, &c. He is the first also who mentions distilled waters. His works were printed in one volume folio, by Henry Stephens, in 1567.
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kp-eb0702-013306-1538 | ACTUATE, to bring into act, or put a thing in action. Thus an agent is said, by the schoolmen, to actuate a power, when it produces an act in a subject. Thus the mind may be said to actuate the body; and thus a medicine is said, by ancient physicians, to be actuated or brought into action, when by means of the vital he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013307-1538 | ACTUS, in Ancient Architecture, a measure, in length equal to 120 Roman feet. In Ancient Agriculture the word signified the length of one furrow, or the distance a plough goes before it turns.
Actus Intervicinalis, a space of ground four feet in breadth, left between the lands as a path or way.
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kp-eb0702-013308-1538 | ACUANITES, in Ecclesiastical History, the same with those called more frequently Manichees. They took the name from Acua, a disciple of Thomas, one of the twelve apostles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013309-1538 | ACULEATE, or Aculeati, a term applied to any plant or animal armed with prickles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013310-1538 | ACULEI, the prickles of animals or of plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013311-1538 | ACULER, in the Manege, is used for the motion of a horse when, in working upon volts, he does not go far enough forward at every time or motion, so that his shoulders embrace or take in too little ground, and his croupe comes too near the centre of the volt. Horses are naturally inclined to this fault in making demi-vo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013312-1538 | ACUMINA, in Antiquity, a kind of military omen, most generally supposed to have been taken from the points or edges of darts, swords, or other weapons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013313-1538 | ACUNA, Christopher de, a Spanish Jesuit, born at Burgos. He was admitted into the society in 1612, being then but 15 years of age. After having devoted some years to study, he. went to America, where he assisted in making converts in Chili and Peru. In 1640 he returned to Spain, and gave the king an account how far he ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013314-1538 | ACUPUNCTURE, the name of a surgical operation among the Chinese and Japanese, which is performed by pricking the part affected with a silver needle. They employ this operation in headachs, lethargies, convulsions, colics, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013315-1538 | ACUS, in Ichthyology, the trivial name of a species of Syngnathus.
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kp-eb0702-013401-1551 | ACUTE, an epithet applied to such things as terminate in a sharp point or edge; and in this sense it stands opposed to obtuse.
AcuτE-angled, in Geometry, is that which is less than a right angle, or which does not subtend 90 degrees.
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kp-eb0702-013402-1551 | ACUTIATOR, in writers of the barbarous ages, denotes a person that whets or grinds cutting instruments; called also in ancient glossaries acutor, ακονητης, samiarius, cotiarius, &c. In the ancient armies there were acutiatores, a kind of smiths, retained for whetting or keeping the arms sharp. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013403-1551 | AD, a Latin preposition, originally signifying to, and frequently used in composition both with and without the d, to express the relation of one thing to another.
AD Bestias, in antiquity, is the punishment of criminals condemned to be thrown to wild beasts.
• AD Hominem, in Logic, a kind of argument drawn from the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013404-1551 | ADAGE, a proverb, or short sentence, containing some wise observation or popular saying. Erasmus has made a very large and valuable collection of the Greek and Roman adages; and Mr Ray has done the same with regard to the English. We have also Kelly’s Collection of Scots Proverbs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013405-1551 | ADAGIO, in Music. Adverbially, it signifies softly, leisurely ; and is used to denote the slowest of all times. Used substantively, it signifies a slow movement. Sometimes this word is repeated, as adagio, adagio, to denote a still greater retardation in time of the music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013406-1551 | ADALIDES, in the Spanish policy, are officers of justice, for matters touching the military forces. In the laws of King A1phonsus, the adalides are spoken of as officers appointed to guide and direct the' marching of the forces in time of war. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013407-1551 | ADAM, the first of the human race, was formed by the Almighty on the sixth day of the creation. His body was made of the dust of the earth; after which, God animated or gave it life, and Adam then became a rational creature. His heavenly Parent did not leave his offspring in a destitute state to shift for himself, but ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013801-1603 | ADAMANT, a name sometimes given to the diamond. (See Diamond.) It is likewise applied to the scoriae of gold, the magnet, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013802-1603 | ADAMIC Earth, a name given to common red clay, alluding to that species of earth of which the first man is supposed to have been made. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013803-1603 | ADAMI Pomum, in Anatomy, a protuberance in the fore part of the throat, formed by the os hyoides. It is thought to be so called from a strange conceit, that a piece of the forbidden apple which Adam ate stuck by the way and occasioned it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013804-1603 | ADAMITES, or Adamians, in Ecclesiastical History, the name of a sect of ancient hereties, supposed to have been a branch of the Basilidians and Carpocratians.
Epiphanius tells us that they were called Adamites from their pretending to be re-established in the state of innocence, and to be such as Adam was at the momen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-013901-1616 | ADAMS, a township of Berkshire county, in the state of Massachusetts, in North America. It is 140 miles north-west of Boston, and contains 2040 inhabitants. In the northern part of this district, a stream called Hudson’s brook has worn a channel through a stratum of white marble, and over the channel the rocks form a f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014001-1629 | ADAMSHIDE, a district of the circle of Rastenburg, belonging to the king of Prussia, which, with Dombrosken, was bought, in 1737, for 42,000 dollars. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014002-1629 | ADAMSON, Patrick, a Scotish prelate, archbishop of St Andrews, was born in the year 1543 in the town of Perth, where he received the rudiments of his education; and afterwards studied philosophy, and took his degree of master of arts, at the university of St Andrews. In 1566 he set out for Paris as tutor to a young gen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014101-1642 | ADAMUS. The philosopher’s stone is so called by alchemists: they say it is an animal, and that it has carried its invisible Eve in its body since the moment they were united by the Creator. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014102-1642 | ADANA, a town of Asia Minor, in Natolia, and in the province of Carainania. It is situated on the river Choquen, on the banks of which stands a small but strong castle, built on a rock. It has a great number of beautiful fountains brought from the river by means of water-works. Over the river there is a stately bridge ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014103-1642 | ADANSON, Michael, a celebrated naturalist, was descended from a Scotish family which had at the Revolution attached itself to the fortunes of the house of Stuart; and was born the 7th of April 1727 at Aix in Provence, where his father was in the service of Μ. de Vin-timille, then archbishop of that province. On the tra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014301-1668 | ADANSONIA, Ethiopian Sour-gourd, Monkeys-bread, or African Calabash-tree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014302-1668 | ADAR, the name of a Hebrew month, answering to the end of February and beginning of March, the 12th of their sacred and 6th of their civil year. On the 7th day of it the Jews keep a fast for the death of Moses; on the 13th they have the feast of Esther; and on the 14th they celebrate the feast of Purim, for their deliv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014303-1668 | ADARCE, a kind of concreted salts found on reeds and other vegetables, and applied by the ancients as a remedy in several cutaneous diseases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014304-1668 | ADARCON, in Jewish antiquity, a gold coin mentioned in Scripture, worth about 15s. sterling. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014305-1668 | ADARME, in Commerce, a small weight in Spain, which is also used at Buenos Ayres, and in all Spanish America. It is the 16th part of an ounce, which at Paris is called the demi-gros. But the Spanish ounce is seven per cent, lighter than that of Paris. Stephens renders it in English by a drachm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014306-1668 | ADATAIS, Adatis, or Adatys, in Commerce, a mus∙
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lin or cotton cloth, very fine and clear, of which the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters broad. It comes from the East Indies, and the finest is made in Bengal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014401-1681 | ADCORDABILES Denarii, in old law-books, signify money paid by the vassal to his lord, upon the selling or exchanging of a feud. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014402-1681 | ADCRESCENTES, among the Romans, denoted a kind of soldiery, entered in the army, but not yet put on duty: from these the standing forces were recruited. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014403-1681 | ADDA, a river of Switzerland and Italy, which rises in Mount Branlio, in the country of the Grisons, and, passing through the Valteline, traverses the lake Como and the Milanese, and falls into the Po near Cremona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014404-1681 | ADDEPHAGIA, in Medicine, a term used by some physicians for gluttony, or a voracious appetite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014405-1681 | ADDER, in Zoology, a name for the Viper. Sea ADDER, the English name for a species of Syn- GNAT11US.
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kp-eb0702-014406-1681 | ADDEXTRATORES, in the court of Rome, the pope’s mitre-bearers; so called, according to Ducange, because they walk at the pope’s right hand when he rides to visit the churches. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014407-1681 | ADDICE, or Adze, a kind of crooked axe used by shipwrights, carpenters, coopers, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014408-1681 | ADDICTI, in antiquity, a kind of slaves, among the Romans, adjudged to serve some creditor whom they could not otherwise satisfy, and whose slaves they became till they could pay or work out the debt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014409-1681 | ADDICTION, among the Romans, was the making over goods to another, either by sale or by legal sentence: the goods so delivered were called bona addicta. Debtors were sometimes delivered over in the same manner, and thence called servi addicti. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014410-1681 | ADDICTIO in Diem, among the Romans, the adjudging a thing to a person for a certain price, unless by such a day the owner, or some other, give more for it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014411-1681 | ADDISON, Lancelot, son of Lancelot Addison, a clergyman, was born in the parish of Crosby-Ravensworth, in Westmoreland, in the year 1632. He was educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, and at the restoration of King Charles II. accepted of the chaplainship of the garrison of Dunkirk; but that fortress being delivered up t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014701-1720 | ADDITAMENT, something added to another. Thus physicians call the ingredients added to a medicine already compounded, additaments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014702-1720 | ADDITION, in Music, a dot marked on the right side of a note, signifying that it is to be sounded or lengthened half as much more as it would have been without such mark.
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kp-eb0702-014703-1720 | ADDRESS, in a general sense, is used for skill and good management, and of late has been adopted from the French. It is used also in commerce, as synonymous with direction to a person cκ place. The word is formed of the French verb adresser, to direct any thing to a person. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014704-1720 | ADDUCENT Muscles, or Adductors, in Anatomy, are those muscles which pull one part of the body towards another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014705-1720 | ADEB, in Commerce, the name of a large Egyptian weight, used principally for rice, and consisting of 210 okes, each of three rotolos, a weight of about two drams less than an English pound. But this is no certain weight, for at Rosetto the adeb is only 150 okes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014706-1720 | ADEL, a kingdom on the eastern coast of Africa, which reaches as far as the Straits of Babelmandel, which unite the Red Sea to the sea of Arabia. This country produces corn, and feeds a great number of cattle. The [7:2:148] inhabitants carry on a trade in gold, silver, ivory, oil, frankincense, a sort of pepper, and ot... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014801-1733 | ADELFORS, a town in Sweden, in the province of Jönköping and district of Oestra, wherein are two gold mines worked but very sluggishly; whilst the iron mines found there are very productive, and give employment both to the forges in making bar-iron, and to individuals as nail-makers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014802-1733 | ADELME, or Aldhelm, son to Kenred, nephew to Ina, king of the West Saxons, was bishop of Sherburn in the time of the Heptarchy. He was the first Englishman who wrote in Latin, and the first who made any considerable attempts in versification. He lived in great esteem till his death, which happened in 709. He was canoni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014803-1733 | ADELNAÜ, a circle in the province of Posen, in Prussia. It extends over 346 square miles, or 324,440 acres, and contains, in four cities and 111 villages, 31,718 inhabitants. The river Proszna waters the east side, and the Ollabok the centre of the circle. There are several smaller rivers, and some lakes, the most cons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014804-1733 | ADELPHIANI, in Church History, a sect of ancient heretics, who fasted always on Sundays. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014805-1733 | ADELSCALC, in ancient customs, denotes a servant of the king. The word is also written adclscalche, and adelscalus. It is compounded of the German adel, or edel, noble, and scale, servant. Among the Bavarians, adel-scalcs appear to have been the same with royal thanes among the Saxons, and those called ministri regis i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014806-1733 | ADELSHEIM, a city in the bailiwick of Osterburken, and circle of the Maine and Tauber, in the grand duchy of Baden. It belongs to a mediatised family of the same name, is walled, has two churches, 200 houses, and 1264 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014807-1733 | ADELSO, an island in Sweden, in the same lake in which the city of Stockholm is built, a little to the west of Munso, containing a parish of the same name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-014808-1733 | ADELUNG, John Christopher, a very eminent German grammarian, philologer, and general scholar, was born at Spantekow in Pomerania, on the 30th of August 1734. He acquired his elementary instruction at the public school of Ahclam, and that of Closterbergen, near Magdeburg, and completed his academical education at the un... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015001-1759 | ADEMPTION, in the Civil Law, implies the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015002-1759 | ADEN, a city on the Arabian coast, to the east of the Straits of Babelmandel. It is situated in Lat. 12. 50. N. Long. 45. 10. E. According to the Arabians, it derives its name from Aden, the son of Saba, and grandson of Abraham. Be this as it may, it was once the most flourishing city of Arabia, though it now presents ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015003-1759 | ADENANTFIERA, in Botany, Bastard Flowerfence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015004-1759 | ADENAU, a circle in the department Rhine Moselle, in the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine. It extends over 172 square miles, or 110,080 acres, and contains 19,210 inhabitants, all Catholics, except 16 Jews and eight Protestants, in one city, three market towns, and 267 villages. It is watered by the river Ahr. It i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015005-1759 | ADENBURG, or Aldenburg, a town of Westphalia, and in the duchy of Berg, subject to the elector palatine. It is 12 miles north-east of Cologne, and 17 west of Bonn. Long. 7. 25. E. Lat. 51. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015006-1759 | ADENOGRAPHY, that part of anatomy which treats of the glandular parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015007-1759 | ADENOIDES, glandulous, or of a glandular form; an epithet applied to the Prostatae. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015008-1759 | ADENOLOGY, the same with Adenography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015009-1759 | ADENOS, a kind of cotton; otherwise called marine cotton. It comes from Aleppo by the way of Marseilles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015010-1759 | ADEONA, in Mythology, the name of a goddess invoked by the Romans when they set out upon a journey. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015011-1759 | ADEPHAGIA, in Mythology, the goddess of gluttony, to whom the Sicilians paid religious worship. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015012-1759 | ADEPS, in Anatomy, the fat found in the abdomen. It also signifies animal fat of any kind. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015013-1759 | ADEPTS, a term among alchemists for those who pretended to have found the panacea and philosopher’s stone.
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kp-eb0702-015101-1772 | ADERBIJAN. See Adirbeitsan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015102-1772 | ADERNO, a city at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily, in the intendancy of Catania. It is built in an unhealthy situation, but contains 6600 inhabitants. It has several churches, the chief of which is supported by beautiful pillars of polished lava. It is the site of the ancient city Hadranum, whose ruins are still visib... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015103-1772 | ADES, or Hades, denotes the invisible state. In the heathen mythology, it comprehends all those regions that he beyond the river Styx, viz. Erebus, Tartarus, and Elysium. See Hell. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015104-1772 | ADESSENARIANS, Adessenarii, in Church History, a sect of Christians who hold the real presence of Christ’s body in the eucharist, though not by way of transubstantiation. They differ considerably as to this presence; some holding that the body of Christ is in the bread, others that it is about the bread, and others tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015105-1772 | ADFILIATION, a Gothic custom, whereby the children of a former marriage are put upon the same footing with those of the second. This is also called unio prolium, and still retained in some parts of Germany; though Hei-neceius observes that this is not adoption. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015106-1772 | ADHA, a festival which the Mahometans celebrate on the 10th day of the month Dhoulhegiat, which is the 12th and last of their year. This month being particularly destined for the ceremonies which the pilgrims observe at Mecca, it takes its name from thence; for the word signifies the month of Pilgrimage. On that day th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015107-1772 | ADHESION, a term chiefly used to denote the force with which the surface of a solid remains attached to the surface of a liquid, after they have been brought into contact. Suppose a polished glass plate to be suspended horizontally from one extremity of a balance, and to be exactly counterpoised by weights put into the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015201-1785 | ADHIL, m Astronomy, a star of the sixth magnitude,upon the garment of Andromeda, under the last star in her foot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015202-1785 | ADIANTUM, in Eotany, Maiden-Hair. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015203-1785 | ADIAPHORISTS, in Church History, a name importing lukewarmness, given in the 16th century to the moderate Lutherans, who embraced the opinion of Mclanch-thon, whose disposition was much more pacific than that of Luther. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015204-1785 | ADJAZZO, Adrazzo, or Ajaccio, a handsome town and castle of Corsica, in the Mediterranean, with a bishop’s see and a good harbour. It is populous, and fertile in wine. It is 27 miles south-west of Corte. Long. 4L 54. E. Lat. 38. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015205-1785 | ADJECTIVE, in Grammar, a kind of noun joined with a substantive, either expressed or implied, to denote its qualities or incidents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015206-1785 | ADIGE, a river in Italy, which, taking its rise south of the lake Glace, among the Alps, runs south by Trent, then east by Verona, in the territory of Venice, and falls into the Gulf of Venice north of the mouth of the Po. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015207-1785 | ADJOURNMENT, the putting off a court or other meeting till another day. There is a difference between the adjournment and the prorogation of the parliament; the former not only being for a shorter time, but also done by the house itself; whereas the latter is an act of royal authority. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015208-1785 | ADIPOCIRE, derived from adeps, fat, and cera, wax, denotes a substance which has been lately examined by chemists. It is formed by a certain change which the soft parts of animal bodies undergo when kept for some time in running water, or when a great number of dead bodies are heaped together in the same place. Great q... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015209-1785 | ADIPOSE, a term used by anatomists for any cell, membrane, &c. that is remarkable for its fatness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015210-1785 | ADIRBEITSAN, in Geography, a province of Persia, in Asia, and part of the ancient Media. It is bounded on the north by the province of Schirvan, on the south by Irac-Agemi and Kurdistan, on the east by Ghilan and the Caspian Sea, and on the west by Turcomania. Long. 42. to 48. E. Lat. 36. to 39. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015211-1785 | ADIT, in a general sense, the passage to, or entrance of, any thing.
Adit of a Mine, the hole or aperture whereby it is entered and dug, and by which the water and ores are carried away. The term is sometimes used for the airshaft, which is a hole driven perpendicularly from the surface of the earth into some part of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015212-1785 | ADJUDICATION, in Scotish Law, the name of that action by which a creditor attaches the heritable estate of his debtor, or his debtor’s heir, in order to appropriate it to himself either in payment or security of his debt; or that action by which the holder of an heritable right, labouring under any defect in point of f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015213-1785 | ADJUNCT, among philosophers, signifies something added to another, without being any necessary part of it. Thus, water absorbed by cloth or a sponge is an adjunct, but no necessary part of either of these substances.
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kp-eb0702-015301-1798 | ADJUTANT, in the military art, is an officer whose business it is to assist the major. Each battalion of foot and regiment of horse has an adjutant, who receives the orders every night from the brigade-major; which, after carrying them to the colonel, he delivers out to the serjeants. When detachments are to be made, h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015302-1798 | ADJUTORIUM, a term used by physicians for any medicine in a prescription but the capital one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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