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kp-eb0706-027109-0526 | CELIBATE, the same with celibacy; but it is chiefly used in speaking of the single life of the Popish clergy, or the obligation they are under to abstain from marriage. In this sense we speak of the law of celibate. Monks and religious persons take a vow of celibate, and, what is more, of chastity.
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kp-eb0706-027201-0539 | CELIDOGRAPHIA, the description of the spots which appear on the surfaces or discs of the sun and planets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027202-0539 | CELINDRO, or Chelindrch, a small sea-port and bay of Asia Minor, on the coast of Caramania, where the couriers from Constantinople embark for the island of Cyprus. It has several remains of antiquity near it, and it is supposed to be the ancient Celenderis of Strabo. It is fifty-four miles north of Cerino, in the islan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027203-0539 | CELL (Cella), in ancient writers, denotes a place or apartment, usually under ground, and vaulted, in which were stored up several kinds of necessaries, as wine, honey, and the like; and according to which it was called Celia Vinaria, Ollearia, Mellaria, &c. The word is formed from the Latin celare, to conceal.
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kp-eb0706-027204-0539 | CELLAR (Cellarium), in ancient writers, denotes the same with cella, namely, a conservatory of provisions or liquors. Cellar differs from vault, as the latter is supposed to be deeper, while the former is frequently but little below the surface of the ground. Cellarium also differed from pemis, inasmuch as the former w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027205-0539 | CELLARER, or Cellerer (Cellerarius or Cellarius), an officer in monasteries, to whom belonged the care and procurement of provisions for the convent. The denomination is said to have been borrowed from the Roman law, where cellarius denotes an examiner of accounts and expenses. Ulpian defines it thus: “Cellerarius, id ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027301-0552 | CELLARIUS, Christopher, was born in 1638, at Smalcalde, in Franconia, of which town his father was minister. He was successively rector of the colleges at Weimar, Zeitz, and Mcrsburg; and the king of Prussia having in 1693 founded a university at Halle, he was prevailed on to become professor of eloquence and history t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027302-0552 | CELLBRIDGE, or Kiłdrought, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kildare. It is situated upon the river Liffey, over which there is a fine stone bridge. The town consists chiefly of two broad avenues, intersecting each other at right angles, and presenting a regular appearance. Manufactures of woollen cloths and of chip ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027303-0552 | CELLERFELD, a bailiwick in the kingdom of Hanover, in the Hartz Forest, 56 square miles, or 35,840 English acres, in extent, comprehending four towns, three villages, and several insulated establishments, with 7753 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is 1740 feet above the level of the sea. It contains 3208 inh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027304-0552 | CELLINI, Benvenuto, an eminent statuary, who was bred a jeweller and goldsmith, but seems to have had an extraordinary genius for the fine arts in general. He was contemporary with Michel Angelo and Julio Romano, and was employed by popes, kings, and other princely patrons of sciences and arts, which were so highly cul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027305-0552 | CELSUS, Aurelius Cornelius, a celebrated physician of the first century, who wrote in elegant Latin eight books on medicine. He was the Hippocrates of the Latins; and Quintilian pronounces a high eulogium upon him. The great Boerhaave tells us that Celsus is one of the best authors of antiquity for letting us into the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027306-0552 | CELTAE, in Greek Keaτα∕, Celtes, or Celts, or Kelts, an ancient nation, by which most of the countries in Europe appear to have been occupied at a period anterior to the commencement of history.
When the Greek and Roman writers first began to turn their eyes westward, they found Europe, from the extremity of Ireland t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027701-0604 | CELTIBERIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Hither Spain, along the right or south-west side of the river Iberus or Ebro; though sometimes the greater part of Spain was called by the name of Celtiberia. ' The people were denominated Celtiberi, or the Celtae established on the Iberus. They were brave and warlike; and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027702-0604 | CEMENT. Any substance which is employed in uniting together things of the same or of different kinds may be termed a cement. The following are some of the principal of those used for various purposes.
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kp-eb0706-027801-0617 | CEMENTATION, the act of corroding or otherwise changing a metal by means of a cement. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027802-0617 | CEMETERY (Kοιματηξ ∣ οv, from Ko∕μαω, to sleep}, a place set apart or consecrated for the burial of the dead.
Anciently none was buried in churches or churchyards; it was even unlawful to inter in cities, and the cemeteries were without the walls. Among the primitive Christians these were held in great veneration. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027803-0617 | CENEDA, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Treviso, of the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy. It is situated on the river Maschio, and has, besides the cathedral, several other churches, and 4500 inhabitants, who are employed in woollen and in paper manufactories. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027804-0617 | CENEGILL, in the Saxon antiquities, an expiatory mulet, paid by one who had killed a man, to the kindred of the deceased. The word is compounded of the Saxon cinne, cognatio, relation, and gild, solutio, payment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027805-0617 | CENOBITE. See Coenobite. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027806-0617 | CENOTAPH, in Antiquity, an empty tomb, erected in honour of some person deceased, and distinguished from a sarcophagus, in which a coffin was deposited. Of these there were two sorts; one for those who had, and another for those who had not, been honoured with funeral rites in another place. The sign by which honorary ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027901-0630 | CENSER, in Antiquity, a vase containing incense to be used in sacrifices. Censer is chiefly used in speaking of the Jewish worship. Among the Greeks and Romans it is more frequently called thuribulum, λ ∣ ^avuτις, and accrra.
The Jewish censer was a small sort of chafing dish, covered with a dome, and suspended by a c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027902-0630 | CENSIO, in Antiquity, the act or office of the censor. Censio included both the rating or valuing of a man’s estate, and the imposing of mulcts and penalties.
Censio Hastaria, a punishment inflicted on a Roman soldier for some offence, as laziness or luxury, and so called because his hasta or spear was taken from him,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027903-0630 | CENSITUS, a person censed or entered in the tables of the census. In an ancient monument found at Ancyra, containing the actions of the Emperor Octavius, we read,
Quo lustro civium Romanorum
Censita sunt capita quadragies
Centum millia et sexaginta tria:
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kp-eb0706-027904-0630 | CENSOR (from censere, to estimate or judge), one of the principal magistrates in ancient Rome. Their business was to register the effects of the Roman citizens, to impose taxes in proportion to what each man possessed, ļ and to take cognizance or inspection of the manners of ' the citizens. In virtue of this last part ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027905-0630 | CENSORINUS, a grammarian and philosopher of the third century, well known by his treatise De Die Natali. This treatise, which was written about the year 238, Gerard Vossius calls a little book of gold, and pronounces it a most learned work, of the highest use and importance to chronologers, as connecting and determinin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027906-0630 | CENSURE, a judgment which condemns some book, person, or action, or more particularly a reprimand from a • superior. Ecclesiastical censures are penalties, by which, for some remarkable misbehaviour, Christians are deprived of the communion of the church, or prohibited from exercising the sacerdotal office. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-027907-0630 | CENSUS, in Roman antiquity, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the several subjects of the empire, of their respective names and places of abode. This declaration was registered by the censors, and contained an enumeration in writing of all the estates, lands, and inheritances they possessed; includin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-028001-0643 | CENT signifies properly a hundred, being an abridgment of the word centum ; but it is often used in commerce to express the profit or loss arising from the sale of any commodity; so that when it is said there is ten per cent, profit, or ten per cent, loss, upon any merchandise which has been sold, it is to be understoo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-028002-0643 | CENTAUR, in Astronomy, a part or moiety of a southern constellation, in form half man and half horse, usually joined with the wolf. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-028003-0643 | CENTAURS, in Mythology, a kind of fabulous monsters, half men and half horses. The poets pretended that the Centaurs were the sons of Ixion and a cloud, the reason of which fancy is, that they retired to a castle called wpsaj], which signifies a cloud. This fable is variously interpreted. Some suppose the Centaurs to h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-028004-0643 | CENTELLO, a town of Italy, in the province of Coni, of the kingdom of Sardinia, containing 3600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-028005-0643 | CENTENARIUS, or Centenario, in the middle ages, an officer who had the government or command, with the administration of justice, in a village. The centenarii as well as vicarii were under the jurisdiction and command of the court. We find them among the Franks, Germans, Lombards, Goths, and other nations.
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kp-eb0706-028006-0643 | CENTRE, or Center, a word borrowed from the French name ceintre or cintre, given to the frame of timber by which the brick or stone of arched vaulting is supported during its erection, and from which it receives its form and curvature.
It is not our intention to describe the variety of constructions which may be adopt... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029301-0812 | CENTESIMA Usura means a rate of interest which in a hundred months became equal to the principal, that is, where the money is laid out at one per cent, per month, answering to what in our style would be called twelve per cent. The Romans reckoned their interest not by the year, but by the month. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029302-0812 | CENTESIM ATION, a milder kind of military punishment[7:6:294] than decimation in cases of desertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029401-0825 | CENTILOQUIUM denotes a collection of a hundred ’sentences, opinions, or sayings. The centiloquium of Hermes contains a hundred aphorisms, or astrological sentences, supposed to have been written by some Arab, falsely fathered on Hermes Trismegistus. It is only extant in Latin, in which it has been several times printed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029402-0825 | CENTLIVRE, Susanna, a celebrated confie writer, was the daughter of Mr Freeman of Holbeach, in Lincolnshire; and exhibited such an early turn for poetry, that it is said she wrote a song when she was only about seven years old. Before she was twelve years of age, she could not only read Molière in French, but enter int... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029403-0825 | CENTO, in Poetry, a work wholly composed of verses or passages promiscuously taken from other authors, only disposed in a new form and order.
Cento, a city of Italy, in the papal delegation Bologna. It is a well-built place, and contains 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029404-0825 | CENTONARII, in Antiquity, certain of the Roman army, who provided different sorts of stuff called centones, made use of to quench the fire which the enemy’s engines threw into the camp. These centonarii kept with the carpenters and other officers of artillery. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029405-0825 | CENTORBI, a town of the intendancy of Catania, in the island of Sicily, on a rugged mountain, but in a healthy situation, containing 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029406-0825 | CENTRAL Forces, the powers which cause a moving body to tend towards, or recede from, the centre of motion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029407-0825 | CENTRIFUGAL Force, that force by which all bodies that move round any other body in a curve endeavour to fly off from the axis of their motion in a tangent to the periphery of the curve, and that in every part of it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029408-0825 | CENTRIPETAL Force, that force by which a body is everywhere impelled, or anyhow tends, towards some point as a centre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029409-0825 | CENTUMVIRI, in Roman Antiquity, judges appointed to decide common causes among the people. They were chosen three out of each tribe; and, though five more dian a hundred, were nevertheless called centumviri, from the round number centum, a hundred. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029410-0825 | CENTURION, among the Romans, an officer in the infantry, who commanded a century, or a hundred men. In order to have a proper notion of the centurions, it must be remembered, that every one of the thirty manipuli in a legion was divided into two ordines, or ranks; and consequently the three bodies of the hastati, princ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029411-0825 | CENTURY, in a general sense, any thing divided into, or consisting of, a hundred parts.
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kp-eb0706-029412-0825 | CEORLES, the name of one of the classes or orders into which the people weic distinguished among the Anglo-Saxons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029413-0825 | CEOS, Cea, Cia, or Cos, in Ancient Geography, one of the Cyclades, lying opposite to the promontory of Achaia, called Sιιnium, and fifty miles in compass. This island is commended by the ancients for its fertility and the richness of its pastures. The first silk stuffs, if Pliny and Solinus are to be credited, were wro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029501-0838 | CEPHALIC, in a general meaning, signifies any thing belonging to the head. Cephalic medicines are remedies for disorders of the head. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029502-0838 | CEPHALONIA, or Cephallenia, the largest of the islands constituting the Ionian republic. It was known in Homer’s time by the name of Samos and Epirus Melaena; and is about forty miles in length, from ten to twenty in breadth, and a hundred and fifty in compass. It had anciently four cities, one of which bore the name o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029503-0838 | CERAM, a large island in the Eastern Seas, between 160 and 180 miles in length, and about forty in breadth. It extends from the 128th to the 130th degree of east longitude, and is situated between the third and fourth degrees of south latitude. The island is very mountainous in its aspect, being intersected longitudina... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029504-0838 | CERAMLAUT Isles, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas, lying off the east end of the island of Ceram. The principal island is about five miles long, and is mountainous and uninhabited. Long. 131. 20. E. Lat. 3. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029505-0838 | CERAMI, a town of the intendancy of Catania, in the island of Sicily, on a hill of the Modonia range of mountains, and very healthy, with 3400 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029506-0838 | CERATION, the name given by the ancients to the small seeds of ceratonia, used by the Arabian physicians as a weight to adjust the doses of medicines; as the grain weight with us took its rise from a grain of barley.
Ceration, or Ceratium, was also a silver coin, equal to one third of an obolus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029507-0838 | CERBERUS, in fabulous history, a three-headed mastiff, born of Typhon and Echidna, and placed to guard the gates of hell. He fawned upon those who entered, but devoured all who attempted to get back. He was, however, mastered by Hercules, who dragged him up to the earth, when, in struggling, a foam dropped from his mou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029508-0838 | CERCELE, in Heraldry. A cross cercele is a cross which, opening at the ends, turns round both ways, like a ram’s horn. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029509-0838 | CERDONIANS, ancient heretics, who maintained most of the errors of Simon Magus, Saturninus, and the Manicheans. They took their name from their leader Cerdon, a Syrian, who went to Rome in the time of Pope Hyginus, and there abjured his errors, but in appearance only; for he was afterwards convicted -of persisting in t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029510-0838 | CEREALIA, in Antiquity, feasts of Ceres, instituted by Triptolemus, son of Celsus, king of Eleusin, in Attica, in gratitude for his having been instructed by Ceres, who was supposed to have been his nurse, in the art of cultivating corn and making bread. The cerealia passed from the Greeks to the Romans, who celebrated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029511-0838 | CEREBELLUM, the hinder part of the head. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029512-0838 | CEREBRUM, the Brain. See Anatomy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029513-0838 | CEREMONIAL Çceremoniale), a book in which is prescribed the order of the ceremonies to be observed in certain actions and occasions of solemnity and pomp. The ceremonial of the Roman church is called ordo Romanus. It was published in 1516, by the Bishop of Corcyra; but the College of Cardinals were so scandalized at it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029601-0851 | CEREMONY, an assemblage of actions, forms, and circumstances, serving to render a thing more magnificent and solemn.
Master of the Ceremonies, an officer instituted by King James I. for the more honourable reception of ambassadors and strangers of quality. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029602-0851 | CERES, a pagan deity, the inventor or goddess of corn; in like manner as Bacchus was of wine. According to the poets, she was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, and the mother of Proserpine, whom she had by Jupiter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029603-0851 | CERET, an arrondissement in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, in France, 680 square miles in extent. It is divided into four cantons and forty-six communes, and contains 28,629 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Tech, at the foot of the Pyrenees. The situation is picturesque,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029604-0851 | CERIGNOLA, an Italian city in the Neapolitan province of Capitanata. It suffered severely by an earthquake in 1730; but has been in some measure rebuilt since, and now contains a population of 6900 individuals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029605-0851 | CERIGO, an island in the archipelago, anciently called Cytherea ; noted for being the birth-place of Helen and of Venus. It is now one of the seven isles constituting the Ionian republic. See Ionian Islands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029606-0851 | CERINTHIANS, ancient heretics, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. They took their name from Cerinthus, one of the first heresiarchs in the church, and contemporary with St John. They believed that Jesus was a mere man, born of Joseph and Mary; but that, in his baptism, a celestial virtue descended upon him in for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029607-0851 | CERINTHUS, a heresiarch, contemporary with the apostles, who ascribed the creation not to God, but to angels. He taught that Jesus Christ was the son of Joseph, and that circumcision ought to be retained under the gospel. He is looked upon as the head of the converted Jews, who raised in the church of Antioch the tumul... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029608-0851 | CERIUM, a rare metal, discovered in the year 1803. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029609-0851 | CERNE Abbas, a market-town of the hundred of Totcombe, in the county of Dorset, seven miles from Dorchester, and 123 from London. It is chiefly remarkable for a figure of unknown ancient date, cut on the side of a hill. It represents a giant with a club. The height of the person is 180 feet, and it covers an acre of gr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029610-0851 | CEROPEGIA. See Botany' Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029611-0851 | CERRETO, a city of Italy, in the province of Terra di Lavoro, and kingdom of Naples, situated near the river Susano, and containing 4590 inhabitants, who are employed in woollen manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029612-0851 | CERTHIA. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029613-0851 | CERTIORARI, in Law, a writ which issues out of the chancery, directed to an inferior court, to call up the records of a cause there depending, in order that justice may be done. It is not only used out of the court of chancery, but likewise out of the king’s bench, in which last-mentioned court it lies where the king w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029614-0851 | CERVANTES. See Saavedra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029615-0851 | CERVERA, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia. It lies between Manresa and Lerida, rather nearer to the river Segre than the Llobregat. It contains a very magnificent university, which was established at the beginning of the last century, when the different colleges of Catalonia were abolished on account of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029616-0851 | CERVINARA, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Principato-Ulteriore, containing 5155 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029617-0851 | CERVUS, or Deer, in Zoology. See Mammalia. Servus Volans, in Natural History, is a name given to the stag-fly, or horned-beetle, a very large species of beetle with horns sloped, somewhat like those of the stag. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029618-0851 | CERYX, in Antiquity. The ceryces were a sort of public criers, appointed to proclaim or publish things aloud in assemblies. The ceryx among the Greeks answered to the praeco among the Romans. Our criers exercise only a small part of the office and authority which belonged to ceryces and preecones. There were two kinds ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029701-0864 | CESARE, among logicians, one of the modes of the second figure of syllogisms, the minor proposition of which is a universal affirmative, and the other two universal negatives; thus,
Ce
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Re
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kp-eb0706-029702-0864 | CESAROTTI, Melchior, an Italian poet, was born at Padua in the year 1730, of a family of considerable rank but small fortune. He was educated at the academy of Padua, where he early showed a strong inclination for literary pursuits, and made such progress in study that he was raised to the chair of rhetoric in the acad... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029801-0877 | CESENA, a city of Italy, in the papal delegation of Forli. It stands on the river Savio, at the foot of a hill projecting from the Apennines. It contains a theological college, a cathedral, fourteen monasteries, and seven nunneries. In the college of the Minorites is a library of 15,000 volumes, rich in ancient works. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029802-0877 | CESSIO Bonorum, in Scotch Law, the name of that action by which an insolvent debtor may apply for liberation from prison, upon conveying his whole real and personal estate to his creditors. See Bankrupt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029803-0877 | CESTUI, a French word, signifying he or him, frequently used in the English law writings. Thus, Cestui qui trust, a person who has lands or messuages committed to him for the benefit of another; and if such person does not perform his trust, he is compellable to it in chancery. Cestui qui vie, one for whose life any la... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029804-0877 | CESTUS, among ancient poets, a fine embroidered girdle said to be worn by Venus, to which Homer ascribes the power of charming and conciliating love. The word is also written cestum and ceston, being the same with κίΰτος, a girdle or zone embroidered or wrought with a needle, and is derived, according to Servius, from ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029805-0877 | CETOLOGY. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029806-0877 | CETTE, a city of the department of the Hérault, in France. It is situated on the sea-shore, on a tongue of land, and may be viewed as the chief outlet for the productions of Languedoc. It is a well-built city, containing 900 houses, and 8184 inhabitants. Long. 3. 37. 22. Ľ. Lat. 43. 23. 51. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029807-0877 | CETUS, in Astronomy, the whale; a large constellation of the southern hemisphere, under Pisces, and next the water of Aquarius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029808-0877 | CEUTA, a fortress on the coast of Africa, belonging to Spain. It is situated on a peninsula eastward of Tangier, and opposite to Gibraltar. It is formed of the high mountain Acho, and six smaller ones which are jointly denominated the Bulwark, and incloses a space from east-north-east to west-south-west of about one mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029809-0877 | CEVA, a city of Italy, in the province of Mondovi, of the kingdom of Sardinia, at the junction of the rivers Se-vetta and Tanaro. It is a fortified place, containing 5470 inhabitants, employed in the silk manufacture, and in ironworks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029810-0877 | CEVENNES, mountains of Languedoc, in France, remarkable for the frequent meetings of the Protestants there as a place of security against the tyranny of their governors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-029811-0877 | CEYLON, a large island in the East Indies, which lies between 6° and 10° north latitude, and between 78° and 82° east longitude. It is situated at the entrance of the Bay of Bengal, by which it is bounded on the north; on the north-west it is separated from the Coromandel coast by the Gulf of Manaar, a narrow strait fu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030601-0981 | CHABLAIS, a province of the duchy of Savoy, in the kingdom of Sardinia, bounded on the north-west and north by the lake of Geneva, on the east by Switzerland, on the south-east by Faussigny, on the south-west by Genevois, and on the west by Geneva. Its extent is 1400 square miles, or 225,280 acres, and it comprehends t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030602-0981 | CHACHAPOYAS, a province of Peru, in the department of Truxillo, is bounded on the east by the eastern ridges of the Andes, on the north-west by the province of Luyu, and on the west by Caxamarca. The chief produce of the district was formerly tobacco. The cultivation of the vine has recently been introduced, and also t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030603-0981 | CHADCHOD, in Jewish antiquity. Ezekiel mentions chadchod among the merchandise which was brought to Tyre. The old interpreters, however, not knowing the meaning of this term, continued it in their translation; and St Jerome acknowledges that he could not discover the interpretation of it. The Chaldee renders it pearls;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030604-0981 | CHADER, an island of the Arabian Irak, formed by a river running from the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, which extends from Bussora nearly to El Katif, 240 miles in length and thirty in breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030605-0981 | CHAERONEA, in Ancient Geography, a town, or rather village, of Boeotia, immediately adjoining Phocis; celebrated as the birthplace of Plutarch, and as the scene of the fatal defeat of the confederate Greeks by Philip of Macedon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030606-0981 | CHAFFERY, in the iron-works, the name of one of the two principal forges. The other is called the finery. When the iron has been brought at the finery into what is called an ancony, or square mass, hammered into a bar in its middle, but with its two ends rough, the business to be done at the chaffery is the reducing of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030607-0981 | CHAFFINCH. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-030608-0981 | CHAIN, a series of rings or links, fitted into one another, and thus connected as a whole.
Chain also denotes a kind of string of twisted wire, serving to hang watches, tweeser cases, and valuable toys upon. The invention of this piece of curious work belongs to the English; and hence, in foreign countries, it is deno... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 34 55' N 145 50' W | CHAIN |
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