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kp-eb0702-015303-1798 | ADLE Eggs, such as have not received an impregnation from the semen of the cock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015304-1798 | ADLEGATION, a term formerly used in the public law of the German empire, to denote the right claimed by the states of the empire of adjoining plenipotentiaries, in public treaties and negotiations, to those of the emperor, for the transacting of matters which relate to the empire in general; in which sense adlegation d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015305-1798 | ADLOCUTION, Adlocutio, in Antiquity, is chiefly understood of speeches made by Roman generals to their armies, to encourage them before a battle. We frequently find those adlocutions expressed on medals by the abbreviature Adlocut. Con.—The general is sometimes represented as seated on a tribunal, often on a bank or mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015306-1798 | ADMANUENSES, in ancient law-books, persons who swore by laying their hands on the book, as was the case with laymen. Clerks did not swear on the book, their word being reputed as their oath; whence they were also denominated fide digm. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015307-1798 | ADMINICLE, a term used chiefly in old law-books to imply an aid, help, assistance, or support. The word is Latin, adminiculum; and derived from adminiculor, to prop or support.
Adminicle, in Scotish Law, signifies any writing or deed referred to by a party, in an action of law, for proving his allegations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015308-1798 | ADMINICULATOR, an ancient officer of the church, whose business it was to attend to and defend the cause of widows, orphans, and others destitute of help. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015309-1798 | ADMINISTRATION, in general, the government, direction, or management of affairs, and particularly the exercise of distributive justice. Among ecclesiastics, it is often used to express the giving or dispensing of the sacraments, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015310-1798 | ADMINISTRATOR, in English Law, he to whom the ordinary commits the administration of the goods of a person deceased, in default of an executor. If the administrator die, his executors are not administrators; but the court is to grant a new administration. The origin of administrators is derived from the civil law. Thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015311-1798 | ADMIRABILIS Sal, the same with Glauber’s Salt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015312-1798 | ADMIRAL, a great officer or magistrate, who has the government of a navy, and the hearing of all maritime causes.
Authors are divided with regard to the origin and denomination of this important officer. Sir Henry Spelman thinks that both the name and dignity were derived from the Saracens, and, by reason of the holy ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015601-1837 | ADMIRALTY, High Court of. This is a court of law, in which the authority of the lord high admiral is exercised, in his judicial capacity, and wherein all causes are determined appertaining to the sea, and all offences tried that are committed thereon. Very little has been left on record of the ancient prerogative of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015901-1876 | ADMONITION, in ecclesiastical affairs, a part of discipline much used in the ancient church. It was the first act or step towards the punishment or expulsion of delinquents. In private offences it was performed, according to the evangelical rule, privately; in case of public offence, openly, before the church. If eithe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015902-1876 | ADMONT, a town in the Austrian duchy of Steyer-mark, in the circle of Judenburg. In a Benedictine abbey is an establishment for education, with a director, six professors, and a library. There are some iron goods made, the metal for which is furnished by mines in the vicinity. The inhabitants were 824 in 1817. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015903-1876 | ADNATA, in Anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is called also conjunctiva and albuginea. Adnata is also used for any hair, wool, or the like, which grows upon animals or vegetables.
Adnata, or Adnascentia, among gardeners, denote those offsets which, by a new germination under the earth, proceed from the lily,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015904-1876 | ADNOUN is used by some grammarians to express what we more usually call an adjective. The word is formed by way of analogy to adverb, in regard adjectives have much the same office and relation to nouns that adverbs have to verbs. Bishop Wilkins uses the word ad-name in another sense, viz. for what we otherwise call a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015905-1876 | ADOLESCENCE, the state of growing youth, or that period of a person’s age commencing from his infancy and terminating at his full stature or manhood. The word is formed of the Latin adolescere, to grow. The state of adolescence lasts so long as the fibres continue to grow either in magnitude or firmness. The fibres bei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015906-1876 | ADOLLAM, or Odollam, a town in the tribe of Judah, to the east of Eleutheropolis. David is said to have hid himself in a cave near this town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015907-1876 | ADOM, a state or principality of the Gold Coast, in Africa. It is a populous, rich, and fertile country, abounding with corn and fruits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015908-1876 | ADON, a populous village in the province of Stuhl-Weissenburg, belonging to Hungary. It lies in a fruitful country, towards the river Danube. Long. 19. 20. E. Lat. 47. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015909-1876 | ADONAI, one of the names of the Supreme Being in the Scriptures. The proper meaning of the word is my lords in the plural number, as Adoni is my lord in the singular. The Jews, who, either out of respect or superstition, do not pronounce the name of Jehovah, read Adonai in the room of it as often as they meet with Jeho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015910-1876 | ADONIA, in Antiquity, solemn feasts in honour of Venus, and in memory of her beloved Adonis. The Adonia were observed with great solemnity by the Greeks, Phoenicians, Lycians, Syrians, Egyptians, &c. From Syria they are supposed to have passed into India. The prophet Ezekiel^[1. Ch. viii. 14. ] is understood to speak o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015911-1876 | ADONIDES, in Botany, a name given to botanists who described or made catalogues of plants cultivated in any particular place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-015912-1876 | ADONIS, son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, the favourite of Venus. Being killed by a wild boar in the Idalian woods, he was turned into a flower of a blood-colour, supposed to be the anemone. Venus was inconsolable’; and no grief was ever more celebrated than this, most nations having perpetuated the memory of it by a tra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016001-1889 | ADONISTS, a sect or party among divines and critics, who maintain that the Hebrew points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of the word Jehovah are not the natural points belonging to that word, nor express the true pronunciation of it, but are the vowel points belonging to the words Adonai and Elohim, applied to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016002-1889 | ADOPTIANI, in Church History, a sect of ancient heretics, followers of Felix of Urgel and Elipand of Toledo, who, towards the end of the eighth century, advanced the notion that Jesus Christ in his human nature is the Son of God, not by nature, but by adoption. « | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016003-1889 | ADOPTION, an act by which any one takes another into his family, owns him for his son, and appoints him for his heir.
The custom of adoption was very common among the ancient Greeks and Romans; yet it was not practised but for certain causes expressed in the laws, and with certain formalities usual in such cases. It w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016101-1902 | ADOPTIVE denotes a person or thing adopted by another. Adoptive children, among the Romans, were on the same footing with natural ones, and accordingly were either to be instituted heirs or expressly disinherited, otherwise the testament was null. The emperor Adrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; because ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016102-1902 | ADORATION, the act of rendering divine honours, or of addressing a being, as supposing it a god. The word is compounded of ad, to, and os, oris, mouth; and literally signifies to apply the hand to the mouth; manum ad os admovere, to kiss the hand; this being in the eastern countries one of the great marks of respect an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016201-1915 | ADOREA, in Roman Antiquity, a word used in different senses: sometimes for all manner of grain; sometimes for a kind of cakes made of fine flour, and offered in sacrifice; and, finally, for a dole or distribution of corn, as a reward for some service; whence by metonymy it is put for praise or rewards in general. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016202-1915 | ADOSCULATION, a term used by Dr Grew to imply a kind of impregnation without intromission; and in this manner he supposes the impregnation of plants is effected, by the falling of the farina foecundans on the pistil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016203-1915 | ADOSSEE, in Heraldry, signifies two figures or bearings being placed back to back. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016204-1915 | ADOUR, the name of a river of France, which rises in the mountains of Bigorre, in the department of the Upper Pyrenees, and running north by Tarbes through Gascony, afterwards turns east, and passing by Dax, falls into the Bay of Biscay below Bayonne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016205-1915 | ADOWA, the capital of Tigré in Abyssinia, is situated on the declivity of a hill, on the west side of a small plain, which is surrounded on every side by mountains. The name, signifying pass or passage, is characteristic of its situation; for the only .road from the Red Sea to Gondar passes by Adowa. The town consists ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016206-1915 | ADOXA, in Botany, Tuberous Moschatel, Hollow-root, or Inglorious. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016207-1915 | ADRA, a seaport town of the province of Granada, in Spain, 47 miles south-east of Granada. Long. 2. 37. E. Lat. 36. 42. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016208-1915 | ADRACHNE, in Botany, a species of the strawberry tree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016209-1915 | ADRAMMELECH, one of the gods of the inhabitants of Sepharvaim, who were settled in the country of Samaria in the room of those Israelites who were carried beyond the Euphrates. The Sepharvaites made their children pass through the fire in honour of this idol and another called Anammelech. It is supposed that Adramme-le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016210-1915 | ADRAMYTTIUM, in Ancient Geography, now Adra-miti, a town of Mysia, at the foot of Mount Ida, an Athenian colony, with a harbour and dock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016211-1915 | ADRASTEA, in Mythology, was the daughter of Jupiter and Necessity, and, according to Plutarch, the only fury who executed the vengeance of the gods. The name is derived from King Adrastus, who first erected a temple to that deity.
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kp-eb0702-016212-1915 | ADRASTUS, in Ancient History, king of Argos, son of Talaus and Lysianassa, daughter of Polybius, king of Sicyon, acquired great honour in the famous war of Thebes, in support of Polynices his son-in-law, who had been excluded the sovereignty of Thebes by Eteocles his brother, notwithstanding their reciprocal agreement.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016213-1915 | ADRAZZO, or Ajaccio, the same with Adjazzo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016214-1915 | ADRIA, a city of Italy, in the Austria-Venetian province of Bovigio. It is a city of high antiquity, and gave its name to the sea on whose shores it is built. From its situation on a peninsula formed by the rivers Po and Tartaro, it is very unhealthy. The inhabitants are 9620. The chief trade is that of tanning leather... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016215-1915 | ADRIAN, or Hadrian, Publius Aelius, the Roman emperor. He was born at Rome on the 24th of January, in the 76th year of Christ, A. u. c. 829. His father left him an orphan, at ten years of age, under the guardianship of Trajan, and Coelius Tatianus, a Roman knight. He began to serve very early in the armies, having been... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016501-1954 | ADRIANI, Joanni Battista, was born of a patrician family of Florence in 1511. He wrote a history of his own times in Italian, which is a continuation of Guicciardini, beginning at the year 1536; to which Thuanus acknowledges himself greatly indebted: besides which, he composed six funeral orations on the emperor Charle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016502-1954 | ADRIANISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics, divided into two branches. The first were disciples of Simon Magus, and flourished about the year 34. Theodore! is the only person who has preserved their name and memory, but he gives us no account of their origin. Probably this sect, and the six others which ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016503-1954 | ADRIANOPLE, a city of Turkey in Europe, called by the inhabitants Edrené. It is in the province of Romania or Romelia, on the river Marizza, at the spot where the Tundscha and Arda empty their waters into that stream. It is well fortified, and has a strong citadel; and, next to Constantinople, is the largest and most p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016504-1954 | ADRIANUM, or Adriaticum Mare, in Ancient Geography, now the Gulf of Venice, a large bay in the Mediterranean, between Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Greece, and Italy. It is called by the Greeks A¾∕ας Koanos, and Adria by the Romans, (as Arbiter Adriae Notus, Hor.) Cicero calls it Hadrianum Mare, Virgil has Hadriaticas Undas. It... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016505-1954 | ADRIPALDA, a city in the province of Principato Ulteriore, in the kingdom of Naples. It is situated on the river Sabato, near to Avellino. The number of inhabitants is 4236, who carry on trade in cloth and paper, in iron and copper goods, and make large quantities of nails. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016506-1954 | ADROGATION, in Roman Antiquities, a species of adoption, whereby a person who was capable of choosing for himself was admitted by another into the relation of a son. The word is compounded of ad, to, and rogare, to ask, on account of a question put in the ceremony of it, Whether the adopter would take such a person for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016507-1954 | ADSIDELLA, in Antiquity, the table at which the flamens sat during the sacrifices. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016508-1954 | ADSTRICTIQN, among physicians, a term used to denote the rigidity of any part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016509-1954 | ADVANCED, in a general sense, denotes something posted or situated before another. Thus, ADVANCED Ditch, in Fortification, is that which surrounds the glacis or esplanade of a place.
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kp-eb0702-016510-1954 | ADVENT, in the calendar, properly signifies the approach of the feast of the nativity. It includes four Sundays, and begins on St Andrew’s day or on the Sunday before or after it. During advent, and to the end of the octaves of epiphany, the solemnizing of marriage is forbidden without a special licence. It is appointe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016601-1967 | ADVENTURER, in a general sense, denotes one who hazards something.
Adventurers is particularly used for an ancient company of merchants and traders, erected for the discovery of lands, territories, trades, &c. unknown. The society of adventurers had its rise in Burgundy, and its first establishment from John duke of B... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016602-1967 | ADVERB, in Grammar, a particle joined to a verb, adjective, or participle, to explain their manner of acting or suffering, or to mark some circumstance or quality signified by them. The word is formed from the preposition ad, to, and verbum, a verb; and signifies literally a word joined to a verb, to show how, when, or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016603-1967 | ADVERSARIA, among the ancients, a book of accounts not unlike our journals or day-books. It is also used as a title for books of miscellaneous remarks and observations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016604-1967 | ADVERSATIVE, in Grammar, a word expressing some difference between what goes before and what follows it. Thus, in the phrase, he is an honest man, but a great enthusiast, the word but is an adversative conjunction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016605-1967 | ADVERSATOR, in Antiquity, a servant who attended the rich in returning from supper, to give them notice of any obstacles in the way, on which they might be apt to stumble. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016606-1967 | ADVERTISEMENT, in a general sense, denotes any information given to persons interested in an affair; and is more particularly used for a brief notice inserted in the public papers, for the information of all concerned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016607-1967 | ADULA, in Andient Geography, a mountain in Rhaetia, or the country of the Grisons, part of the Alps, in which are the fountains of the Rhine; now St Gothard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016608-1967 | ADULE, or Adulis, in Ancient Geography, a town of Egypt, built by fugitive slaves, distant from its port on the Red Sea 20 stadia. Pliny calls the inhabitants Adulitae. The epithet is either Adulitanus, as Monumentum Adu-litanum, on the pompous inscription of the statue of Ptolemy Euergetes, published by Leo Alatius at... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016609-1967 | ADULT, an appellation given to any thing that is arrived at maturity: thus, we say an adult person, an adult plant, &c. Among civilians, it denotes a youth between 14 and 25 years of age. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016610-1967 | ADULTERATION, the act of debasing, by an improper mixture, something that was pure and genuine. The word is Latin, formed of the verb, adulterare, to corrupt, by mingling something foreign to any substance.
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kp-eb0702-016611-1967 | ADULTERINE, in the Civil Law, is particularly applied to a child issued from an adulterous amour or commerce. Adulterine children are more odious than the illegitimate offspring of single persons. The Roman law even refuses them the title of natural children, as if nature disowned them. Adulterine children are not easi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016612-1967 | ADULTERY, an unlawful commerce between one married person and another, or between a married and unmarried person.
Punishments have been annexed to adultery in most ages and nations, though of different degrees of severity. In many it has been capital; in others venial, and attended only with slight pecuniary mulcts. S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016701-1980 | ADVOCATE, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, who undertook the defence of causes at the bar. The Roman advocates answered to one part of the office of a barrister in England, viz. the pleading part; for they never gave counsel, that being the business of the juris-consulti.
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kp-eb0702-016801-1993 | ADVOCATION, in Scotish Law, a mode of appeal from certain inferior courts to the supreme court. The writ employed is called a Bill of Advocation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016802-1993 | ADVOWEE, in ancient customs and law-books, denotes the advocate of a church, religious house, or the like. There were advowees of cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries, &c. Thus, Charlemagne had the title of advowee of St Peter’s; King Hugh, of St Riquier; and Bolandus mentions some letters of Pope Nicholas, by which he cons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016901-2006 | ADVOWSON, or Advowzen, in Common Law, signifies a right to present to a vacant benefice. Advowson is so called because the right of presenting to the church was first gained by such as were founders, benefactors, or maintainers of the church. Though the nomination of fit persons to officiate in every diocese was origin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016902-2006 | ADY, in Natural History, a name given to the palm-tree of the island of St Thomas. It is a tall tree, with a thick, bare, upright stem, growing single on its root, of a thin light timber, and full of juice. The head of this tree shoots into a vast number of branches, which being cut off, or an incision being made there... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016903-2006 | ADYNAMIA, in Medicine, of α privative, and δuναμις, strength, want of power, debility or weakness from sickness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016904-2006 | ADYNAMON, among ancient physicians, a kind of weak factitious wine, prepared from must boiled down with water, to be given to patients to whom genuine wine might be hurtful. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016905-2006 | ADYTUM, in Pagan Antiquity, the most retired and sacred place of temples, into which none but the priests were allowed to enter. The Sanctum Sanctorum of the temple of Solomon was of the nature of the pagan adytum, none but the high-priest being admitted into it, and he but once a year. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016906-2006 | ADZE, or Addice, a cutting tool of the axe kind, having its blade made thin and arching, and its edge at right angles to the handle; chiefly used for taking off thin chips of timber or boards, and for paring away certain irregularities which the axe cannot come at. The adze is used by carpenters, but more by coopers, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016907-2006 | AE, or AE, a diphthong compounded of A and E. Authors are by no means agreed as to the use of the ae in English words. Some, out of regard to etymology, insist on its being retained in all words, particularly technical ones, borrowed from the Greek and Latin; while others, from a consideration that it is no proper diph... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016908-2006 | AEACEA, in Grecian Antiquity, solemn festivals and games celebrated at Aegina in honour of Aeacus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-016909-2006 | AEACUS, the son of Jupiter by Aegina. When the isle of Aegina was depopulated by a plague, his father, in compassion to his grief, changed all the ants upon it into men and women, who were called Myrmidones, from ∕Aug, ⅛ijξ, an ant. The foundation of the fable is said to be, that when the country had been depopulated b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017001-2019 | AEBUDAE, a name anciently given to the Western Islands of Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017002-2019 | AECHMALOTARCHA, in Jewish Antiquity, a title given to the principal leader or governor of the Hebrew captives residing in Chaldea, Assyria, and the neighbouring countries. This magistrate was called by the Jews rasch-galuth, i. e. the chief of the captivity; but the above term, of like import in the Greek, is that used... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017003-2019 | AEDES, in Roman Antiquity, besides its more ordinary signification of a house, likewise signified an inferior kind of temple, consecrated to some deity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017004-2019 | AEDICULA, a term used to denote the inner part of the temple, where the altar and statue of the deity stood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017005-2019 | AEDILE (aedilis), in Roman Antiquity, a magistrate whose chief business was to superintend buildings of all kinds, but more especially public ones, as temples, aqueducts, bridges, &c. To the aediles likewise belonged the care of the highways, public places, weights and measures, &c. They also fixed the prices of provis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017006-2019 | AEDILITIUM Edictum, among the Romans, was that whereby a remedy was given to a buyer in case a vicious or unsound beast or slave was sold to him. It was called aedilitium, because the preventing of frauds in sales and contracts belonged especially to the curule aediles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017007-2019 | AEDITUUS, in Roman Antiquity, an officer belonging to the temple, who had the charge of the offerings, treasure, and sacred utensils. The female deities had a female officer of this kind called Aeditua. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017008-2019 | AEGAGROPILA, a ball composed of hair, generated in the stomach of the chamois goat, which is similar to those found in cows, hogs, &c. There is another species of ball found in some animals, particularly horses, which is a calculous concretion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017009-2019 | AEGEAN Sea, in Ancient Geography, now the Archipelago, a part of the Mediterranean, separating Europe from Asia Minor; washing, on the one hand, Greece and Macedonia; on the other, Caria and Ionia. The origin of the name is greatly disputed. Festus advances three opinions: one, that it is so called from the many island... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017010-2019 | AEGEUS, in fabulous history, was king of Athens, and the father of Theseus. The Athenians having basely killed the son of Minos, king of Crete, for carrying away the prize from them, Minos made war upon them; and being victorious, imposed this severe condition on Aegeus, that he should annually send into Crete seven of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017011-2019 | AEGIAS, among physicians, a white speck on the pupil of the eye, which occasions a dimness of sight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017012-2019 | AEGIDA, now Capo d’Istria, the principal town on the north of the territory of Istria, situated in a little island, joined to the land by a bridge. In an inscription it is called Aegidis Insula. Long. 14. 20. E. Lat. 45. 50. N. It was afterwards called Justinopolis, after the emperor Justinus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017013-2019 | AEGILOPS, the name of a tumour in the great angle of the eye, either with or without an inflammation. The word is compounded of α∕ξ, goat, and ω∙ψ, eye ; as goats are supposed extremely liable to this distemper. If the aegilopsbe accompanied with an inflammation, it is supposed to take its rise from the abundance of bl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017101-2032 | AEGIMURUS, in Ancient Geography, an island in the bay of Carthage, about 30 miles distant from that city, (Livy); now the Goletta. This island being afterwards sunk in the sea, two of its rocks remained above water, which were called Arae, because the Romans and Carthaginians entered into an agreement or league to limi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017102-2032 | AEGINA, in fabulous history, the daughter of Asopus, king of Boeotia, was beloved by Jupiter, who debauched her in the similitude of a lambent flame, and then carried her from Epidaurus to a desert island called Oenopia, which afterwards obtained her own name.
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kp-eb0702-017103-2032 | AEGINETA, Paulus, a celebrated surgeon of the island of Aegina, from whence he derived his name. According to Μ. le Clerc’s calculation, he lived in the fourth century; but Abu]faragius the Arabian, who is allowed to give the best account of those times, places him with more probability in the seventh. His knowledge in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017104-2032 | AEGINHARD, the celebrated secretary and supposed son-in-law of Charlemagne. He is said to have been carried through the snow on the shoulders of Imma, to prevent his being traced from her apartments by the emperor her father; a story which the elegant pen of Addison has copied and embellished in the third volume of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017105-2032 | AEGIPAN, in Heathen Mythology, a denomination given to the god Pan, because he was represented with the horns, legs, feet, &c. of a goat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017106-2032 | AEGIPHILA, in Botany, Goat-friend. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017107-2032 | AEGIS, in Ancient Mythology, a name given to the shield or buckler of Jupiter and Pallas. The goat Amalthaea, which had suckled Jove, being dead, that god is said to have covered his buckler with the skin; whence the appellation aegis, from α∕ξ, αιγος, she-goat. Jupiter afterwards restored the animal to life, covered i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017201-2045 | AEGISTHUS, in Ancient History·, was the son of Thyestes by his own daughter Pelopea, who, to conceal her shame, exposed him in the woods. Some say he was taken up by a shepherd, and suckled by a goat; whence he was called Aegisthus. He seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and lived with her during the siege of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017202-2045 | AEGIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Achaia Propria, five miles from the place where Helice stood, and famous for the council of the Achaeans, which usually met there, on account probably of the commodious situation of the place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-017203-2045 | AEGOBOLIUM, in Antiquity, the sacrifice of a goat offered to Cybele. The aegobolium was an expiatory sacrifice, which bore a near resemblance to the taurobolium and criobolium, and seems to have been sometimes joined with them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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