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kp-eb0706-024007-0123 | CATARA, a town of Dalmatia, and capital of the territory of the same name, with a strong castle and a bishop’s see. It is subject to Venice, and is seated on a gulf of the same name. Long. 19. 19. E. Lat. 42. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024008-0123 | CATARRH, in Medicine, a distillation or defluxion from the head upon the mouth and aspera arteria, and through them upon the lungs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024009-0123 | CATASTASIS, in Poetry, the third part of the ancient drama, being that in which the intrigue or action set forth in the epitasis is supported, carried on, and heightened, till it be ripe for the unravelling in the catastrophe. Scaliger defines it the full growth of the fable, while things are at a stand, and in that co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024010-0123 | CATASTROPHE, in Dramatic Poetry, the fourth and last part in the ancient drama, or that immediately succeeding the catastasis, or, according to others, the third only, the whole drama being divided into protasis, epitasis, and catastrophe, or, in the language of Aristotle, prologue, epilogue, and exode. The catastrophe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024101-0136 | CATEAU, Le, a city of France, in the department of the North, and arrondissement of Cambray. It stands on the river Selles, and contains 741 houses, with 4133 inhabitants. The finest thread for making lace, and for the finest cambric, is spun here, and occupies a long space of time, as well as the minutest degree of ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024102-0136 | CATECHESIS, in a general sense, denotes instruction given to any person in the first rudiments of an art or science, but more particularly of the Christian religion. In the ancient church catechesis was instruction given viva voce, either to children or adult heathens, preparatory to their receiving baptism. In this se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024103-0136 | CATECHETIC, or Catechetical, something that relates to oral instruction in the rudiments of Christianity. Catechetic schools were buildings appointed for the office of the catechist, adjoining to the church, and called catechumena ; such was that in which Origen and many other famous men read catechetical lectures at A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024104-0136 | CATECHISM, in its primary sense, means instruction or institution in the principles of the Christian religion, delivered viva voce, and so as to require frequent repetitions, from the disciple or hearer, of what has been said. The word is formed from xαrηχtω, a compound of %αrα, and r l χοi, q. d. circumsono, alluding ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024105-0136 | CATECHIST (×aτtχ t ιδrης, catecheta), he who catechises, that is, he who instructs novices in the principles of religion.
Catechist more particularly denotes a person appointed by the church to instruct those intended for baptism, by word of mouth, in the fundamental articles of the Christian faith. The catechists of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024106-0136 | CATECHUMEN, a candidate for baptism, or one who prepares himself for receiving that rite.
The catechumens, in church history, were the lowest order of Christians in the primitive church. They had some title to the common name of Christian, being a degree above pagans and heretics, though not consummated by baptism. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024107-0136 | CATEGORICAL, in a general sense, is applied to those things ranged under a Category. Categorical also imports a thing to be absolute, and not relative; in which sense it stands opposed to hypothetical. We say, a categorical proposition, a categorical syllogism, and the like.
A categorical answer denotes an express and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024108-0136 | CATEGORY, in Logic, a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under any genus. The scłiool philosophers distribute all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into certain genera or classes, which the Greeks called categories, and the Latins predicaments. See Aristotle’s Philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024109-0136 | CATERPILLAR, in Zoology, the name of all winged insects when in their reptile or worm state. See Entomology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024110-0136 | CATERVA, in ancient military writers, a term used in speaking of the Gaulish or Celtiberian armies, denoting a body of 6000 armed men. The word caterva, or catervarius, is also frequently used by ancient writers to denote a party or corps of soldiers in disorder or disarray, and therefore it is distinguished from cohor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024111-0136 | CATHARINE. Knights of St Catharine of Mount Sinai, an ancient military order, instituted for the assistance and protection of pilgrims going to pay their devotion to the body of St Catharine, a virgin of Alexandria, distinguished for her learning, and said to have suffered martyrdom under Maximin. The body of the marty... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024201-0149 | CATHARTICS, in Medicine, remedies which promote evacuation by stool. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024202-0149 | CATHEDRA, in a general sense, a chair. The word is more particularly used to denote a professor’s chair or a preacher’s pulpit.
Cathedra is also used for the bishop’s see, or throne in a church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024203-0149 | CATHEDRAL, a church in which is a bishop’s see or seat. The word comes from the Greek καdi¾<z, a chair, from w⅛iζομaι, sedeo, I sit. The denomination of cathedral seems to have taken its rise from the manner of sitting in the ancient churches, or assemblies of primitive Christians. In these the council, that is, the el... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024204-0149 | CATHEM, Kadhema, or Kouext, a sea-port town of Arabia, in the province of Lachsa, situated on a small river which flows into the Persian Gulf. At this port some of the English East India cruizers frequently lie for the purpose of receiving overland dispatches from Europe. A scheik exercises authority in the town, near ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024205-0149 | CATHERINE Parr. See Parr.
C atiierine I., Empress of Russia, was the natural daughter of a country girl, and was born at Ringen, a small village upon the Lake Virtcherve, near Dorpt, in Livonia. The year of her birth is uncertain; but according to her own account she came into the world on the 5th of April 1687. Her o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024601-0201 | CATHERINE’S, St, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, contiguous to the coast of Brazil. It is six miles in breadth from east to west, and twenty-four in length from north to south. A channel, in some places scarcely a mile and a half in breadth, separates it from the main land. The soil of this island is extremely f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024602-0201 | CATHETUS, in Geometry, a line or radius falling perpendicularly on another line or surface. Thus the catheti of a right-angled triangle are the two sides that include the right angle.
Cathetus of Incidence, a right line drawn from a point of the object, perpendicular to the reflecting line.
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kp-eb0706-024603-0201 | CATHNESS. See Caithness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024604-0201 | CATHOLIC, in a general sense, denotes any thing that is universal or general.
Catholic Church. The rise of heresies induced the primitive Christian church to assume to itself the appellation of catholic, to distinguish itself from all sects, who, though they had party names, sometimes sheltered themselves under the na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024701-0214 | CATILINE, Lucius Sergius, a Roman of a noble family, who, having spent his whole fortune in debauchery and vice, formed the design of oppressing his country, destroying the senate, assassinating the consuls, seizing the public treasury, setting Rome on fire, and usurping a sovereign power. In order to prosecute this de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024702-0214 | CATMANDOO, or Catamandoo, a city of Northern Hindustan, the capital of the Nepaul country, and the residence of the Goorkhali rajah. It is situated in a romantic valley of Nepaul proper, on the east bank of the Bishen-mutty river, forty miles south of the Himalaya Mountains, and about a hundred and fifty miles north of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024703-0214 | CATO, Marcus Portius, the Censor, one of the greatest men among the ancients, was born at Tusculum in the year of Rome 519, about the 232d before Christ. He began to bear arms at seventeen, and on all occasions showed extraordinary courage. He was a man of great sobriety, and reckoned no bodily exercise unworthy of him... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024901-0240 | CATOPTRICS is that part of optics which explains the properties of reflected light, and particularly that which is reflected from mirrors. See Optics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024902-0240 | CATOPTROMANCY, Karon , rgoμavriia, a kind of divination among the ancients, so called, because consisting in the application of a mirror. The word is formed from xarοπτgw, speculum, a mirror, and μarrita, divinatio, divination. Pausanias says it was in use among the Achaians, where those who were sick, and in danger of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024903-0240 | CATRINE, a village of Scotland, in the centre of Ayrshire, pleasantly situated on the northern bank of the river Ayr, about fourteen miles distant from that town. The population may amount to about 3000, who are chiefly employed at the cotton-mills of the place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024904-0240 | CATROU, Francis, a famous Jesuit, born at Paris in 1659. He was engaged for twelve years in the Journal de Trévoux, and applied himself at the same time to other works, which rendered him distinguished among the learned. He wrote a general history of the Mogul empire, and a Roman history, in which he was assisted by Fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024905-0240 | CATTARO, the southernmost of the circles into which the Austrian kingdom of Dalmatia is divided. It is surrounded, except on the sea frontier, by the Turkish dominions, and comprehends the district distinguished as the Mouths of the Cattaro. It extends over 585 square miles, or 366,000 English acres, and contains about... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024906-0240 | CATTI, a people of Germany, very widely diffused, reaching on the east to the river Sala, on the north to Westphalia, and occupying, besides Hesse, the Wetterau, and part of the tract on the Rhine and on the banks of the river Lohne. The Hercynian forest began and ended in their country. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024907-0240 | CATTIVELLAUNI, anciently a people of Britain, who occupied the country which is now divided into the counties of Hertford, Bedford, and Bucks. The name of this ancient British people is written in several different ways by Greek and Roman authors, by whom they are called Catti, Cassii, Catticulcani, Cattidudani, Cattic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024908-0240 | CATTOLICA, a city of Sicily, in the intendancy of Girgenti, situated on the river Platani, on the side of a hill on the sea shore, with 7200 inhabitants, who growand spin cotton, and obtain and refine sulphur from an extensive mine in the vicinity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-024909-0240 | CATULLUS, Caius Valerius, a Latin poet, born at Verona in the year of Rome 666. The harmony oÇ his numbers acquired him the esteem and friendship of Cicero, and other great men of his time. Many of his poems, however, abound with gross obscenities. He wrote satirical verses against Caesar, under the name of Marmoro. Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025001-0253 | CAUBUL. See /Afghanistan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025002-0253 | CAUCASUS, a vast chain of mountains in Western Asia, commencing to the south of the fortress of Kopil, at the mouth of the river Kuban, which falls into the Black Sea, and, after running to the south, traverses Mingrelia in an easterly direction to the town of Georgiefsk, and the source of the river Kuma. Here the ridg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025101-0266 | CAUDEBEC, a city of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, at the foot of a hilly district, on the left bank of the Seine. It contains 460 houses, and 2507 inhabitants. Long. 0. 37. E. Lat. 49. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025102-0266 | CAUFIRISTAN, a mountainous country of Asia, situated partly upon the Hindoo Coosh, and partly upon the Beloor Taugh. Its boundaries are Caubul, Budukshaun, and Bulkh. This territory consists of vast mountains covered with snow, inclosing a few narrow but fertile valleys. It is inhabited by a singular people, the Caufir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025103-0266 | CAUKING, or Cavlking of a Ship, is driving a quantity of oakum, or old ropes untwisted and drawn asunder, into the seams of the planks, or into the intervals where the planks are joined together in the ship’s decks or sides, in order to prevent the entrance of water or leakage. After the oakum is driven very hard into ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025104-0266 | CAULABAGH, a town of Afghanistan, in the province of Caubul. It is a singularly built place, the houses being situated on terraces cut out of the declivity of the hill. Here it is that the country of the real Afghans commences; and that country as far as Peshawer is inhabited by a variety of tribes. In the vicinity of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025105-0266 | CAULIFLOWERS, in Gardening, a much esteemed species of cabbage. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025106-0266 | CAUNE, La, a town of the department of Tarn, in France, on the Sigon, with 340 houses, and 2830 inhabitants, chiefly Protestants, who are employed in the manufacture of woollen fabrics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025107-0266 | CAURSINES, or Caursini, were Italians who came into England about the year 1235, terming themselves the pope’s merchants, but driving no other trade than that of lending money; and, having great banks in England, they differed little from Jews, save that they were rather more merciless to their debtors. Some think that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025201-0279 | CAUSEWAY, or Causey, a massive construction of stones, stakes, and fascines, or an elevation of fat viscous earth, well beaten, serving either as a road in wet marshy places, or as a mole to retain the waters of a pond, or prevent a river from overflowing the lower grounds. See Road. The word is derived from the French... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025202-0279 | CAUSSADE, a city of the department of the Tarn and the Garonne, in France, on the river Comte, containing 443 houses, and 5121 inhabitants, by whom much linen and woollen cloth is manufactured. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025203-0279 | CAUSSIN, Nicholas, surnamed the Just, a French Jesuit, was born at Troyes in Champagne, in the year 1580, and entered into the order of Jesuits when he was twenty-six years of age. He taught rhetoric in several of their colleges, and afterwards began predication, by which he gained great reputation. He increased this r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025204-0279 | CAUSTICITY, a quality belonging to several substances, by means of which the parts of living animals may be corroded and destroyed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025205-0279 | CAUSTICS is an appellation given to substances of so hot and fiery a nature, that, being applied, they consume, and as it were burn, the texture of the parts, like hot iron. Caustics arc generally divided into four sorts; the common stronger caustic, the common milder caustic, the antimonial caustic, and the lunar caus... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025206-0279 | CAUTERIZATION, the act of burning or searing some morbid part, by the application of fire either actual or potential. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025207-0279 | CAUTERY, in Surgery, a medicine for burning, eating, or corroding any solid part of the body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025208-0279 | CAUTIONER, in Scotch Law, that person who becomes bound for another to the performance of any deed or obligation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025209-0279 | CAVAILLON, a city of the department of Vaucluse, in France, on the river Durance, in a place which has been called the Garden of France. The streets are narrow, and the houses ancient; but much industry prevails, especially in the various branches of the silk trade, in gardening, paper-making, and cotton-spinning. It c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 44 9' N 4 40' E | CAVAILLON |
kp-eb0706-025210-0279 | CAVALCADE, a formal pompous march or procession of horsemen and equipages, byway of parade or ceremony, to grace a triumph, public entry, or the like.
CAVALER-Maggiore, a town of Italy, in the province of Saluzzo, and kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated on the river Grana, and contains 4950 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025211-0279 | CAVALIER, a horseman, or person mounted on horseback; especially if he be armed withal, and have a military appearance. Anciently the word was restricted to a knight or miles. The French still use chevalier in the same sense. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025212-0279 | CAVALIERE, Cape, a lofty promontory of Asia Minor, on the coast of Caramania. It rises to the height of 600 or 700 feet above the level of the sea, and consists of white marble cliffs. An isthmus about 400 yards across, and fortified at every accessible point, connects this cape with the main land. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025213-0279 | CAVALIERI, Bonaventure, an eminent mathematician of the seventeenth century, a native of Milan, and a friar of the order of the Jesuati of St Jerome, was professor of the mathematics at Bologna, where he published several mathematical books, particularly the Method of Indivisibles. He was a scholar of Galileo. His Dire... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025214-0279 | CAVALLO, Tiberius, an electrician and natural philosopher, born at Naples on the 30th March 1749, and son of a physician established in that city.
His father died when he was only eleven years old, but he received a liberal education through the kindness of his friends, and completed his studies at the university of N... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025501-0318 | CAVALRY, a body of soldiers who act on horseback. See Army. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025502-0318 | CAVAN, the most southern county of the province of Ulster, in Irelend, is bounded by the counties of Leitrim, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Louth, Meath, Westmeath, and Longford. Its form is nearly circular, with the exception of the barony of Tullaghagh, which projects in a northwestern direction between the two first named of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025801-0357 | CAVE, any large subterranean hollow. Cases were probably the primitive habitations, before men began to build edifices above ground. The primitive method of burial was also to deposit the bodies in caves; which seems to have been the origin of catacombs. Caves long continued the proper habitations of shepherds. Among t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-025901-0370 | CAVENDISH, Thomas, of Suffolk, the second Englishman who sailed round the globe, was descended from a noble family in Devonshire. Having dissipated his fortune, he resolved to repair it at the expense of the Spaniards. He sailed from Plymouth with two small ships in 1586, passed through the Straits of Magelhaens, took ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026501-0448 | CAVERY, or Cauvery, a river of Hindustan, in the province of Tanjore, which rises among the Coory Hills, near the coast of Malabar, and passing through the Mysore near Seringapatam, Coimbetoor, and the Carnatic, below the Ghauts, falls into the sea by several mouths, after a winding course of nearly 400 miles. Opposite... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026502-0448 | CAVERYPANK, a large town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, district of Conjee. Near it is a large tank, about eight miles long by three broad. Long. 79. 32. E. Lat. 12. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 59' N 79 32' E | CAVERYPANK |
kp-eb0706-026503-0448 | CAVERYPORUM, a town of Hindustan, in the district of North Coimbetoor, situated on the Cavery, which, du- ∙ring the rainy season, is here a 4 wide stream. The fort was built by a polygar, who ruled over a large territory in the neighbourhood. The suburbs contain about a hundred houses, with the ruins of a much greater ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 49' N 77 55' E | CAVERYPORUM |
kp-eb0706-026504-0448 | CAVIANO, a town of Italy, in the province of Terra di Lavoro, of the kingdom of Naples, containing 5431 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026505-0448 | CAVIARE, a kind of food made of the hard roes of sturgeon, formed into small cakes, about an inch thick [7:6:266]and three or four inches broad. This kind of food is in great request among the Muscovites, on account of their three lents, which they keep with a superstitious exactness. A pretty large quantity of the com... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026601-0461 | CAVITE, a town in the Philippines, in the island of Luzon, situated on a tongue of low land within the Bay of Manilla. It is the capital of a province of the same name, and was formerly a place of more importance. It now has a garrison of 150 men, who occupy the castle of St Philip, which is of a square form, with four... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 34' N 120 48' E | CAVITE |
kp-eb0706-026602-0461 | CAWNPORE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, situated on the western bank of the Ganges. It is an ancient Hindu town, on the high road between Culpec and Lucknow, forty-nine miles south-west from the latter place; and it formerly carried on a considerable trade. It is now better known as the chief milit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 30' N 80 21' E | CAWNPORE |
kp-eb0706-026603-0461 | CAXAMARCA, a province of Peru, bounded on the north by Jaen, on the east by Chachapoyas, on the southeast by Caxamarquilla, on the south by Huamachuco, and on the west by Sana and Truxillo. It is a hundred and twenty miles in length by a hundred and eight in breadth, and lies between the fifth and eighth degrees of sou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 7 3' S 78 35' W | CAXAMARCA |
kp-eb0706-026604-0461 | CAXAMARQUILLA, a province of Peru, sometimes called Pataz or Pata. It is bounded on the east by the mountainous country possessed by the Indians, on the northeast and north by Chachapoyas, on the west and north-west by the river Amazons, here called the Tunguragua, and on the south by Guainalies. It is seventy-eight mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026605-0461 | CAXATAMBA, a province of Peru, bounded on the north by Guailas, on the north-east by Chonchuios, on the east by Guamalies, on the south-east by Tarma, on the south by Chancay, and on the north-west by Santa. It is a hundred miles from north-east to south-west, and about the same extent from north-west to south-east. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026606-0461 | CAXTON, William, memorable for having first introduced the art of printing into his native country, was born in Kent about the year 1410. Having served an apprenticeship to a mercer, Caxton on his demise went to the Netherlands as agent for the mercer’s company, in which situation he continued about twenty-three years.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026607-0461 | CAYAGAN Sooloo Isles, a group of islands in the Eastern Seas, lying off the north-east coast of Borneo. The largest is about twenty miles in circumference, of a middling size. The soil is rich and luxuriant, and it is covered with trees. In 1774 it was dependent on Sooloo, and was much frequented by pirates. Long. 118.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 70 N 118 50' E | CAYAGAN |
kp-eb0706-026701-0474 | CAYENNE, an island of South America, in French Guiana, abcut eighteen miles in length by ten in breadth. It has the Atlantic Ocean on the north and east, and is separated from the main land of Guiana by the rivers Cayenne and Ouya. The soil is fertile, and that part which faces the north is pleasant and healthy. To the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026702-0474 | CAYLUS, Anne-Claude, Philippe de Tubieres, de Grimoard, de Pestels, de Levi, Count de, Marquis d’Esternay, Baron de Bransac, was born at Paris in October 1692. He was the eldest of the two sons of John Count de Caylus, lieutenant-general of the armies of the king of France, and of the marchioness de Villette. His fathe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026801-0487 | CAYSTER, or Caystrus, in Ancient Geography, a river of Ionia, the embouchure of which Ptolemy places between Colophon and Ephesus. It is commended by the poets for its swans, which it had in great numbers. Its source was in the Montes Cilbiani. After many windings through the plains of Ephesus, it becomes deeper, and f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026802-0487 | CAZIC, or Cazique, a title given by the Spaniards to the petty kings, princes, and chiefs, of the several countries of America. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026803-0487 | CEBES, of Thebes, a Socratic philosopher, author of the admired Tablet of Cebes ; or, Dialogzιes on the Birth., Life, and Death of Manhind. He flourished about 405 years before Christ. The above piece is mentioned by Lucian, Diogenes Laertius, Tertullian, and Suidas; but of Cebes himself we have no account, save an acc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026804-0487 | CECIL, William, Lord Burghlcy, treasurer of England in the rcign of Queen Elizabeth, was the son of Richard Cecil, Esq. master of the robes to King Henry VIII. He was born in the house of his grandfather, David Ceci), Esq. at Bourn, in Lincolnshire, in the year 1520, and received the rudiments of his education in the g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-026901-0500 | CECILIA, St, the patroness of music, has been honoured as a martyr ever since the fifth century. Her story, as delivered by the Notaries of the Roman Catholic church, and thence transcribed into the Golden Legend and other books of the like kind, says that she was a Roman lady, born of noble parents about the year 295;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027001-0513 | CECROPS, the founder and first king of Athens, supposed to have been contemporary with Moses the lawgiver of the Hebrews. He was the first who established civil government, religious rites, and marriage among the Greeks; and he died after a reign of fifty years. See Athens and Attica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027002-0513 | CEDRENUS, George, a Grecian monk, who lived in the eleventh century, and wrote Annals, or an abridged History, from the beginning of the world to the reign of Isaac Comnenus, emperor of Constantinople, who succeeded Michael IV. in 1057. This work is no more than a compilation from several historians. There is an editio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027003-0513 | CEFALU, a city of Italy, in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sieily. It stands on the sea-shore, is surrounded with walls, and contains 1460 houses, and 8937 inhabitants, who subsist chiefly by the fisheries, and by carrying on a coasting trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027004-0513 | CEILING, in Architecture, the top or roof a lower room; or a covering of plaster over laths nailed on the bottom of the joists which support the floor of the upper room, or, where there is no upper room, on joists for the purpose, hence called ceiling joists. The word ceiling answers pretty accurately to the Latin lacu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027005-0513 | CEIMELIA, from κιιμα ∣ , to be laid up, in Antiquity, denotes choice or precious pieces of furniture or ornaments, reserved or laid up for extraordinary occasions and uses. In this sense sacred garments, vessels, and the like, are reputed of the ceimelia of a church. Medals, antique stones, figures, manuscripts, record... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027006-0513 | CEIMELIARCHIUM, the repository or place where ceimelia are preserved. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027007-0513 | CEIMELIOPHYLAX (from zi∕∕xηλ∕ov and poaαrrω, I keep), the keeper or curator of a collection of ceimelia, sometimes also denoted ceimeliarcha. The ceimeliarcha, or ceimeliophylax, was an officer in the ancient churches or monasteries, answering to what was otherwise denominated chartophylax and custos archivorum. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027008-0513 | CELARENT, among logicians, a mode of syllogism, in which the major and the conclusion are universal negative propositions, and the minor a universal affirmative.
E. gr. cE None whose understanding is limited can be omniscient.
IΑ Every man’s understanding is limited.
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kp-eb0706-027009-0513 | CELASTRUS. In Senegal the negroes use the powder of the root of this plant as a specific against gonorrhoeas, which it is said to cure in eight, and sometimes in three days. An infusion of the bark of a species of staff-tree, which grows in the Isle of France, is said to possess the same virtues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027010-0513 | CELEBES, an extensive island in the Indian archipelago, situated between Java and Borneo, and extending from about 2° north to 6° south latitude, and from 119° to 125° east longitude. It is of the most irregular form, consisting of four long peninsulas united together at a central point. It was first discovered by the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027101-0526 | CELERES, in Roman antiquity, a regiment of bodyguards belonging to the Roman kings, established by Romulus, and composed of three hundred young men, chosen out of the most illustrious Roman families, and approved by the suffrages of the curiae of the people, each of which furnished ten. The name was given them because ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027102-0526 | CELERI, the English name of a variety of the Apium Graveolens. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027103-0526 | CELERITY, in Mechanics, the swiftness of any body in motion. It is also defined to be an affection of motion, by which any movable body runs through a given space in a given time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027104-0526 | CELESTINS, a religious order, so called from their founder Peter de Meuron, afterwards raised to the pontificate under the name of Celestin V. This Peter, who was born of mean parents at Ifernia, a little town in the kingdom of Naples, in the year 1215, retired, while very young, to a solitary mountain, in order to ded... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027105-0526 | CELETES, or Celetae (from κι ∖ ης, a race-horse), in Antiquity, denote single or saddle-horses, by way of contradistinction from those which were yoked or harnessed together, and called bigarii, quadrigarii, &c. The same denomination is also given to the cavaliers, or riders on horseback; and hence some deduce celeres,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027106-0526 | CELEUSMA, or Celeuma, in Antiquity, the shout or cry of the seamen, by which they animated each other in their work of rowing. The word is formed from κsasuε∕r, to call, or give the signal. Celeusma was also a kind of song or formula, rehearsed or played by the master or others, to direct the strokes and movements of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027107-0526 | CELEUSTES, in ancient navigation, the boatswain or officer appointed to give the rowers the signal when they were to pull, and when to stop, He is also denominated epopius, and by the Romans portisculus, sometimes simply hortator. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027108-0526 | CELIBACY, the state of unmarried persons. Scaliger derives the word from the Greek κοίτη, hed f and λe ∣ πω, linquo, I leave; others say it is formed from coeli beatitudo, that is, the blessedness of heaven.
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