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kp-eb0706-070404-6155 | CIRCUMCELLIONES. See Circoncelliones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070405-6155 | CIRCUMCISION, the act of cutting off the prepuce; a ceremony of the Jewish and Mahommedan religions, in which is cut off the foreskin of the males, who are to profess the one or the other law.
Circumcision commenced in the time of Abraham, and was the seal of a covenant stipulated between God and [7:6:705]him. It was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070501-6168 | CIRCUMFERENCE, in a general sense, denotes the line or lines bounding a plane figure. However, it is generally used in a more limited sense for the curve line which bounds a circle, otherwise called a periphery; the boundary of a right-lined figure being expressed by the term perimeter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070502-6168 | CIRCUMFERENTOR, an instrument used by surveyors for taking angles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070503-6168 | CIRCUMFLEX, in Grammar, an accent serving to note or distinguish a syllable of an intermediate sound between acute and grave, and generally somewhat long. The Greeks had three accents, the acute, the grave, and the circumflex, formed thus, ', ', ~. The acute raises the voice, and the grave lowers it, while the circumfl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070504-6168 | CIRCUMGYRATION, the whirling motion of any body round a centre, as that of the planets round the sun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070505-6168 | CIRCUMLOCUTION, an ambages, or tour of words, used either when a proper term is not at hand by which to express a thing naturally and immediately; or when one chooses not to do it out of respect, or for some other reason. The word comes from circumloquor, I speak about. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070506-6168 | CIRCUMPOLAR Stars, an appellation given to those stars which, by reason of their vicinity to the pole, move round it without setting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070507-6168 | CIRCUMPOTATIO, in Antiquity, a funeral feast provided in honour of the dead. Circumpotation was very frequent among the ancient Romans, as well as among the Athenians. Solon at Athens, and the decemviri at Rome, endeavoured to reform this custom, thinking it absurd that mirth and drunkenness should mingle with sorrow a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070508-6168 | CIRCUMSCRIBED, in Geometry, is said of a figure which is drawn round another figure, so that all its sides or planes touch the inscribed figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070509-6168 | CIRCUMVALLATION, or Line of Circumvalla-tion, in the art of war, is a trench bordered with a parapet, and thrown up quite round the besiegers’ camp. It is formed by way of security against any army that may attempt to relieve the place, and also serves to prevent desertion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070510-6168 | CIRCUS, in Antiquity, a large building, either round or oval, used for exhibiting shows to the people. Some derive the word from Circe, to whom Tertullian attributes the invention. Cassiodorus says that Circus is derived from circuitu. The Romans, Servius observes, at first had no other circus than that formed by the T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070601-6181 | CIRENCESTER, a borough and market town of the hundred of Crowthorne, in the county of Gloucester, and eighty-eight miles from London. The canal uniting the Thames and Severn is in connection with the town, and gives it access to the districts on both these rivers. This town was built by the Romans, and many antiquities... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070602-6181 | CIRIE, a market-town of Italy, in the province of Turin and kingdom of Sardinia, with 3460 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070603-6181 | CIRRIPEDES. See Mollusea, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070604-6181 | CISALPINE, any thing on this side the Alps. The Romans divided Gaul and the country now called Lombardy into Cisalpine and Transalpine. That which was Cisalpine with regard to the Romans is Transalpine with regard to us. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070605-6181 | CISLEU, in Hebrew chronology, the ninth month of their ecclesiastical and the third of their civil year, answering nearly to our November. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070606-6181 | CISPADANA Gallia, in Ancient Geography, a district of Italy, to the south of the Po, occupied by the Gauls in the time of the kings of Rome, and separated from Liguria on the west, by the Iria, running from south to north into the Po, and bounded on the south by the Apennines, and on the east by the Adriatic. The term ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070607-6181 | CISTERCIANS, in Church History, a religious order founded in the eleventh century, by St Robert, a Benedictine. They became so powerful that they governed almost all Europe, both in spiritual and temporal concerns. Cardinal de Vitri, describing their observances, says, they wore neither skins nor shirts, nor ate flesh,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070608-6181 | CISTERN denotes a subterraneous reservoir of rain water, or a vessel serving as a receptacle for rain or other water, for the necessary uses of a family. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070609-6181 | CISTERNINO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Bari, containing 3586 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070610-6181 | CITADEL, a fortified place, commonly of a pentagonal form, with bastions at the angles of the pentagon, and built on a convenient ground near a city, that it may command it in case of rebellion, or afford a place of refuge to the garrison, and enable it to hold out after the exterior works have been carried. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070611-6181 | CITADINESCA, a name given by some writers to the Florentine marble, which is supposed to represent towns, palaces, ruins, rivers, and the like. These delineations are merely accidental, and are commonly much assisted by the imagination, though the natural lines of a stone may sometimes luckily enough represent the ruin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070612-6181 | CITEAUX, a village of the department of Côte d’Or, in France, containing 670 inhabitants. It was a place of great note on account of its abbey, the abbot of which was the superior of the whole Cistercian order, and under whom were more than 1800 monks and nuns. It was the bury· ing-place of the ancient monarchs of Burg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070613-6181 | CITHAERON, in Ancient Geography, a mountain and forest of Boeotia, celebrated both in fable and in song. To the west it runs obliquely, a little above the Sinus Crislaeus, taking its rise contiguous to the mountains of Megara and Attica; then declining into plains, it terminates at Thebes. It is famous for the fate of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070614-6181 | CITHARA, in Antiquity, a musical instrument, the precise figure of which is not known. Some think it resembled the Greek delta Δ; and others that it had the form of a half-moon. At first it had only three strings, but the number was at different times increased to eight, nine, and lastly to twenty-four. It was used in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070615-6181 | CITIZEN, a native or inhabitant of a city, who is vested with the freedom and liberties thereof.
A citizen of Rome was distinguished from a stranger who belonged to no certain commonwealth subject to the Romans. A citizen is such either by birth or by election, and sons may derive the right from their fathers. To cons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070616-6181 | CITTA DI CASTELLO, a city of the papal dominions in Italy, in the delegation of Perugia. It stands on the: Tiber, and contains a cathedral and nine other churches,; twelve monasteries, nine nunneries, and 6000 inhabitants, who are employed in cultivating wine, oil, and silk.
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kp-eb0706-070701-6194 | CITTERN, a musical instrument resembling the guitar, for which it has been frequently mistaken. Anciently it was called the cistrum, and till latterly was held in great contempt both in France and Britain. The practice on this instrument being easy, it was formerly the amusement and recreation of lewd women and their v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070702-6194 | CITY, according to Cowel, is a town corporate, which has a bishop and cathedral church, and is called cłviias, oppidum, and urbs ; civitas, because it is governed by justice and order of magistracy; oppidum, because it contains a great number of inhabitants; and urbs, because it is in due form surrounded with walls.
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kp-eb0706-070801-6207 | CIUDAD RODRIGO, a city of Spain, in the province of Leon, with 11,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the right bank of the river Agueda, over which is a bridge of ten arches, and which runs to the north-west, and falls into the Duero. It is surrounded with some good pasture-land, but the country around may be generally... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070802-6207 | CIVET, a kind of perfume which bears the name of the animal from which it is taken, and to which it is peculiar.
Civet-Cat, the English name of the animal which produces the civet. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070803-6207 | CIVIC Crown was a crown given by the ancient Romans to any soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.
The civic crown was reckoned more honourable than any other crown, though composed of no better materials than oaken boughs. Plutarch, in his life of Coriolanus, accounts for the use on this occasion of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070804-6207 | CIVID ADE, a city of Italy, in the delegation Udine, of the kingdom of Venetian Lombardy. It is situated on the river Natisone, over which is a bridge of 250 feet in length. It contains a cathedral, seven churches, and 3600 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-070805-6207 | CIVIL, in a general sense, something regarding the policy, public good, or peace, of the citizens or subjects of the state; in which sense we say civil government, civil law, civil right, civil war, and the like.
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kp-eb0706-070806-6207 | CIVII. LAW
Is a term applied by way of eminence to the municipal law of the Romans. This system of jurisprudence has for many ages been regarded as one of the most conspicuous monuments of human wisdom and genius; and its powerful influence on modern legislation has been felt and acknowledged by every civilized nation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071901-6350 | CIVILIAN, in general, means one belonging to or connected with the civil law, and is more especially applied to the doctors and professors of this system of jurisprudence, who are accordingly denominated civilians. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071902-6350 | CIVITA CASTELLANA, a city of the papal dominions, in the delegation Viterbo, containing 3000 inhabitants. It is supposed to be the ancient Vegi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071903-6350 | CIVIT A DI PENNA, a city, the chief place of a district in the Neapolitan province of Abruzzo Ulteriore. It contains 8869 inhabitants, who are generally very poor and idle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071904-6350 | CIVITA VECCHIA, a delegation of the papal dominions, being the smallest division of this class. It extends over only 180 square miles, or 115,200 acres. It contains one city, one market-town, five villages, and 19,200 inhabitants. The capital of the delegation is a city of the same name, situated on the sea shore. It i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071905-6350 | CIVOLI, or Cigoli, Lewis, an Italian painter, who bore the family name of Cardi, was born at the castle of Cigoli, in Tuscany, in the year 1559. His Ecce Homo, which he performed as a trial of skill with Barochio and Michael Angelo de Caravaggio, was judged better than those executed by his competitors. He excelled in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071906-6350 | CTVRAY, an arrondissement of the department of Vienne, in France, containing 460 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these again into forty-eight communes, the inhabitants of which amount to 38,000. The chief place, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is situated on the right bank of the Charente... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071907-6350 | CLACKMANNAN, the capital of the shire of the same name, is pleasantly situated on an eminence gently rising out of a plain stretching from east to west, to the height ofl90 feet above the level of the Forth. It consists of one long street, which runs up the acclivity to the gate of the park surrounding Clackmannan towe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-071908-6350 | CLACKMANNANSHIRE, one of the counties of Scotland, situated between 56° 5' and 56° 14' north latitude, and between 3° 33' and 3° 56'west longitude from Greenwich, is bounded on the south and south-west by the river Forth, which separates it from Stirlingshire, by Fifeshire on the south-east, and in every other quarter ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072201-6389 | CLAGET, William, an eminent and learned divine, born in 1646. He was preacher to the society of Gray’s Inn, which employment he exercised until his death in 1688, when he was also one of the king’s chaplains. Archbishop Sharp gives him an excellent character, and Bishop Burnet has ranked him amongst those worthy men wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072202-6389 | CLAIR Obscure. See Claro Obscuro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072203-6389 | CLAIRAULT, Alexis-Claude, of the French academy of sciences, born at Paris in 1713, was one of the most illustrious mathematicians in Europe. He read to the academy in 1726, when he was not thirteen years old, a memoir upon four new geometrical curves of his own invention; and supported the character of which be had th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072204-6389 | CLAMECY, an arrondissement in the department of the Nievre, in France, extending over 596 square miles.
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kp-eb0706-072301-6402 | CLAMPING, in joinery, is the fitting a piece of board with the grain to another piece of board across the grain. Thus the ends of tables are commonly clamped, to prevent their warping. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072302-6402 | CLANDESTINE, any thing done without the knowledge of the parties concerned, or without the proper solemnities. Thus a marriage is said to be clandestine when performed without the publication of banns and the consent of parents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072303-6402 | CLANS, in history, and particularly in that of Scotland, tribes or septs. The nations which overran Europe were originally divided into many small tribes; and when theycame to parcel out the lands which they had conquered, it was natural for every chieftain to bestow a portion, in the first place, upon those of his own... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072304-6402 | CLAPHAM, one of those large villages touching on London, which contains the residences of the more wealthy citizens. It is situated in the hundred of Brixton, of the county of Surrey, and distant three miles from the bridges. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 5803, in 1821 to 7151, and in 1831 to 9958. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072305-6402 | CLAPPERTON, Hugh, a distinguished African traveller, was born at Annan, in Dumfriesshire, in the year 1788. His father was a respectable surgeon in the town where the subject of this memoir was born, but having a very numerous family to support, the future traveller received but an indifferent education. When able to d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072401-6415 | CLARE, a market-town of the hundred of Resbridge, in the county of Suffolk, on the river Stour, fifty-five miles from London. The market is held on Friday. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 1487, and in 1831 to 1619. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072402-6415 | CLARE, the most northern of the six counties which form the province of Munster in Ireland, is bounded on the north by the bay and county of Galway; on the east by Lough Dearg and the river Shannon, which separate it from the county of Tipperary; on the south by the estuary of the Shannon, which flows between it and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072701-6454 | CLARENCIEUX, the second king at arms, so called from the Duke of Clarence, to whom he first belonged; for Lionel, third son to Edward III. having by his wife the honour of Clare in the county of Thomond, was afterwards ' declared Duke of Clarence, which dukedom subsequently 1 escheating to Edward IV. he created this ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072702-6454 | CLARENDON, Constitutions of, certain constitutions made in the reign of Henry II. a. d. 1164, in a parliament held at Clarendon, by which the king checked the power of the pope and his clergy, and greatly narrowed the total exemption they claimed from secular jurisdiction.
Clarendon, Earl of. See IIyde. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072703-6454 | CLARET. See Wine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072704-6454 | CLARIAC, a city of the department of the Lot and Garonne, in France, on the right bank of the Lot, containing 5068 inhabitants, extensively occupied in the cultivation of hemp and flax. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072705-6454 | CLARICHORD, or Maniciiord, a musical instrument in the form of a spinet, but now out of use.
It has forty-nine or fifty stops, and seventy strings, which bear on five bridges, the first of which is the highest, while the rest diminish in proportion. Some of the strings are in unison, their number being greater than th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072706-6454 | CLARIFICATION, the act of cleaning or purifying any fluid from heterogeneous matter or feculencies.
The substances usually employed for clarifying liquor are the albumen of eggs, blood, and isinglass. The first two are used for such liquors as are clarified whilst boiling hot; the last for those which are clarified in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072707-6454 | CLARIGATIO, in Roman antiquity, a ceremony which always preceded a formal declaration of war. It was performed in this manner: Four heralds crowned with vervain were sent to demand satisfaction for the injuries which had been done the Roman state. These heralds having taken the gods to witness that their demands were j... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072801-6467 | CLARION, a kind of trumpet, the tube of which is narrower, and the tone acuter and shriller, than that of the common trumpet. It is said that the clarion now used among the Moors, and the Portuguese who borrowed it from the Moors, served anciently for a treble to several < trumpets, which sounded tenor and bass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072802-6467 | CLARISSES, an order of nuns so called from their: founder St Clara or St Clare. She was born in the town of As^isa in Italy; and having renounced the world to dedicate herself to religion, gave birth to this order in the year 1212; which comprehends not only those nuns who follow the rule of St Francis, according to th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-072803-6467 | CLARKE, Dr Samuel, a preacher and writer of considerable note in the reign of Charles II. was, during the interregnum, and at the time of the ejection, minister of St Dennet Fink, in London. In November J 660, he, in the name of the Presbyterian ministers, presented an address to the king for his declaration of liberty... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073201-6519 | CLASMIUM, an old term in Natural History, applied to some fossils, of the class of gypsums, the characters of which are, that they are of a soft texture, and of a dull opaque look, being composed, as are all the other gypsums, of irregularly arranged flat particles. The word is derived from the Greek ×kα<sμοζ, a fragra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073202-6519 | CLASS, an appellation given to the most general subdivisions of any thing. Thus, animal is subdivided into the classes of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and so forth, which are again subdivided into serieses or orders; and these last into genera. See Animal Kingdom and Botany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073203-6519 | CLASSIC, or Classical, an epithet applied chiefly to authors read in the classes at schools. This term seems to owe its origin to Tullius Servius, who, in order to make an estimate of every person’s estate, divided the Roman people into six portions, which he called classes. The estate of the first class was not to be ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073204-6519 | CLASSICUM was the alarm for battle, given by the Roman generals, and sounded by trumpets and other martial music throughout the army. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073205-6519 | CLATHRI, in Antiquity, bars of wood or iron, used in securing doors and windows. There was a goddess called Clathra, who presided over the clathri. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073206-6519 | CLAVARIUM, in Antiquity, an allowance made to the Roman soldiers for nails to secure their shoes withal. In later times they raised frequent mutinies, demanding largesses of the emperors under this pretence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073207-6519 | CLAUBERG, John, born at Salingen, in the duchy of Berg, in 1622, professed philosophy and theology, first at Herborn, and afterwards at Duisburg, where he died on the 3lst January 1665. He was one of the first who taught in Germany the doctrine of Descartes, which he had studied under John Ray at Leyden. His philosophi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073208-6519 | CLAUDE le Lorrain, or Claude Gelee, a celebrated landscape painter, and a striking example of the efficacy of industry to supply, or at least to call forth genius. Claude was born in the diocese of Toul, in Lorrain, in 1600, and, being dull and heavy at school, he was put an apprentice to a pastry-cook: he afterwards r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073301-6532 | CLAUDE, St, an arrondissement in the department of Jura, in France, extending over 398 square miles, and comprehending five cantons and 114 communes, with 48,667 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated at the conflux of the rivers Ison and Bienne, in a plain inclosed by three mountains. It co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 46 20' N 5 50' E | CLAUDE |
kp-eb0706-073302-6532 | CLAUDIA, a vestal virgin at Rome, who having been suspected of unchastity, is said to have been cleared of that imputation in the following manner: The image of Cybele being brought out of Phrygia to Rome in a barge, and happening to stick so fast in the river Tiber, that it could not be moved, Claudia tied her girdle,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073303-6532 | CLAUDIANUS, Claudius, a Latin poet, who flourished in the fourth century, under the emperor Theodosius, and under his sons Arcadius and Honorius. It is not agreed of what country he was a native; but he came to Rome in the year of Christ 395, when he was about twenty years old, and there insinuated himself into the fav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073304-6532 | CLAVES Insulae, a term used in the Isle of Man, where all weighty and ambiguous causes are referred to a jury of twelve, who are called claves insulae, the keys of the island. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073305-6532 | CLAVICHORD, and Clavicthľrium, two musical instruments used in the sixteenth century. They were of the nature of the spinet, but of an oblong figure. The first is still used by the nuns in convents; and that the practitioners may not disturb the sisters in the dormitory, the strings are muffled with small bits of fine ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073306-6532 | CLAVICYMBALUM, in Antiquity, a musical instrument of thirty strings. Modern writers apply the name to our harpsichords. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073307-6532 | CLAVI Vestium were flowers or studs of purple, interwoven with or sewed upon the garments of knights or senators; but, for distinction, the former used them narrow, and the latter broad. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073308-6532 | CLAVIS properly signifies a key, and is sometimes used in English to denote an explanation of some obscure passages of any book in writing.
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kp-eb0706-073401-6545 | CLAVIUS, Christopher, a German Jesuit, born at Bamberg, who excelled in the knowledge of the mathematics, and was one of the chief persons employed to rectify the calendar, the defence of which he also undertook against those who censured it, especially Sealiger. He died at Rome in 1612, aged seventy-five. His works ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073402-6545 | CLAUSE, in Grammar, denotes a member of a period or sentence.
Clause signifies also an article or particular stipulation in a contract, a charge or condition in a testament, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073403-6545 | CLAUSENBURG, a city of the Austrian province of Siebenbergen, the capital of the circle of Kolos, as well as of the province. It stands on the river Szamos, and is surrounded with walls. It is divided into the old and new city, and contains five Catholic and two Reformed churches, one Lutheran, and one Unitarian, with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073404-6545 | CLAUSTHAL, a city in the province Grubenhagen, in the kingdom of Hanover. It is situated in the centre of the Hartz forest, 1710 feet above the level of the sea; is well built, but chiefly ’ of wood; and contains 7192 inhabitants, who subsist by labour in the mines of lead and silver in the vicinity of the place, and b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073405-6545 | CLAVUS, in Antiquity, an ornament upon the robes of the Roman senators and knights, which was more or less broad, according to the dignity of the person; hence the distinction of tunica angusti-clavia and lali-clavia.
Clavus Annalis, in Antiquity. So rude and ignorant were the Romans at the rise of their state, that t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073406-6545 | CLAYTON, Robert, D. D., a prelate distinguished for learning, worth, and probity, and a respectable member of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London, was advanced to the bishopric of Killala in January 1729; translated to the see of Cork in December 1735; to that of Clogher in August 1745; and died, much lamente... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073407-6545 | CLEANTHES, a Stoic philosopher, and disciple of Zeno, flourished 240 years before Christ. He maintained himself in the day by working in the night; for, being questioned by the magistrates how he subsisted, he brought a woman for whom he kneaded bread, and a gardener for whom he drew water, and refused a present from t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073408-6545 | CLEARCHUS, a tyrant of Heraclea in Pontus, who was killed by Chion and Leonidas, Plato’s pupils, during the celebration of the festivals of Bacchus. He had enjoyed the sovereign power during twelve years. Clearcbus was also the name of a Lacedaemonian who was sent to quiet the Byzantines, and being recalled, refused to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073409-6545 | CLEATS, in naval affairs, pieces of wood having one or two projecting ends by which to fasten the ropes. Some of them are fastened to the shrouds below for this purpose, and others nailed to different parts of the ship’s deck or sides. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073410-6545 | CLECHE, in Heraldry, a kind of cross, charged with another cross of the same figure, but of the colour of the field. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073411-6545 | CLEDGE, among miners, denotes the upper stratum of fullers’ earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073412-6545 | CLEDONISM, Cledonismus, a kind of divination, in use among the ancients. The word is formed from κλ)jow>, which signifies two things, rumor, a report, and avis, a bird. In the first sense, cledonism should denote a kind of divination drawn from words occasionally uttered. Cicero observes, that the Pythagoreans observed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073413-6545 | CLEEVES, a circle in the Prussian province of Westphalia, containing the ancient sovereign principality of that name. It is bounded on the north by the Netherlands, on [7:6:735]the east by the Rhine and the Rees, on the south-east by Rheinburg, on the south by Guelders, and on the west by the Netherlands. It is 199 squ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073501-6558 | CLEF, or Cliff, in Music, derived from the Latin word clavis, a key; because by it is expressed the fundamental sound in the diatonic scale, which requires a determined succession of tones or semitones, whether major or minor, peculiar to the note whence we set out, and resulting from its position in the scale. Hence, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073502-6558 | CLEMENCY denotes nearly the same thingwith mercy, and implies a remission of severity towards offenders. The term is most generally used in speaking of the forgiveness exercised by princes or persons of high authority. It is the result, indeed, of a disposition which ought to be cultivated by all ranks, though its effe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073601-6571 | CLEMENS Romanus, bishop of Rome, where he is said to have been born, and to have been fellow-labourer with St Peter and St Paul. We have nothing remaining of his works that is clearly genuine, excepting one epistle, written to quiet some disturbances in the church of Corinth; which, next to holy writ, is esteemed as on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073602-6571 | CLEMENT V. Pope, the first who made a public sale of indulgences. He transplanted the holy see to Avignon in France, greatly contributed to the suppression of the knights templars, and was author of a compilation of the decrees of the general councils of Vienne, styled Clementines. He died in 1314.
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kp-eb0706-073701-6584 | CLEMENTE di Casauri, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Abruzzo Ulteriore, containing 6680 inhabitants, and including some villages, which form a part of the parish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-073702-6584 | CLEMENTI, Muzio, a celebrated musical composer and piano-forte player, was born in Rome in the year 1747. His genius for music being early developed, his studies were pursued with such successful assiduity, that he speedily acquired great proficiency in his profession. He enjoyed, during his life, the highest reputatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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