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kp-eb0707-019506-9807 | CONCA, Sebastian, called Cavalier, a celebrated historical and portrait painter, was born at Gaeta in 1679. The churches and chapels of every part of Italy are enriched with some of his compositions, of which he painted an incredible number, as he lived to a very advanced age, and never discontinued his labours. He was... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019507-9807 | CONCAN, an extensive district of Southern India, in the province of Bejapoor, situated between the 16th and 19th degrees of north latitude. On the east it is bounded by the western Ghauts, and on the west by the Indian Ocean. On the north it is separated from Calliance by the small river Sawutry, and on the south it is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019508-9807 | CONCARNEAU, a city on a small island in the bay of Foret, on the coast of the department of Finisterre, in France. It has 2200 inhabitants, who are mostly employed in the fishing for sardinias, of which they take in good years 30,000 barrels, which are dispatched to Nantz, Rochelle, and Bordeaux. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019509-9807 | CONCATENATION, a term chiefly used in speaking of the mutual dependence of second causes upon each other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019510-9807 | CONCAVE, an appellation used in speaking of the inner surface of hollow bodies, but more especially of spherical ones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019511-9807 | CONCENTRATION, in general, signifies the bringing things nearer a centre. Hence the particles of salt in sea-water are said to be concentrated; that is, brought nearer each other, by evaporating the watery part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019512-9807 | CONCENTRIC, in Mathematics, something that has the same centre with another. It stands in opposition to eccentric. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019513-9807 | CONCEPTION, in the philosophy of the mind. See Metaphysics.
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Conception, in Physiology, denotes the first formation of the embryo or foetus in the womb.
Conception, Immaculate, of the Holy Virgin, is a feast established in honour of the holy virgin, particularly with regard to her having been conceived and b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019601-9820 | CONCERT, or Concerto, in Music, a number or company of musicians, playing or singing the same piece of music or song at the same time. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019602-9820 | CONCERTATO intimates the piece of music to be composed in such a manner, that all the parts may have their recitativos, be it for two, three, four, or more voices or instruments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019603-9820 | CONCERTO Grosso, the grand chorus of a concert, or those places where all the several parts perform or play together. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019604-9820 | CONCHITES Marmor, a name given by the ancients to a species of marble dug near Megara, and remarkable for containing a great number of sea-shells and other marine bodies imbedded in it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019605-9820 | CONCHOID, in Geometry, the name of a curve, given to it by its inventor Nicoedes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019606-9820 | CONCHOLOGY. See Mollusea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019607-9820 | CONCHON, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Dinagepoor, sixty-three miles north by east from Moorshedabad. Long. 88. 42. E. Lat. 26. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019608-9820 | CONCHYLIA, a general name for all petrified shells, as limpets, cochleae, natili, conchae, lepades, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019609-9820 | CONCIATOR, in the glass-making art, is, at the crystal-glass, what the founder is at the green-glass houses. He is the person who weighs and proportions the salt on ashes and sand, and works them with a strong fire till they run into lumps and become white; and if the metal be too hard, and consequently brittle, he add... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019610-9820 | CONCINNOUS Intervals, in Music, are such as are fit for music, next to and in combination with concords; being neither very agreeable nor disagreeable in themselves, but having a good effect, as by their opposition they heighten the more essential principles of pleasure, or by their mixture and combination with them, p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019611-9820 | CONCLAMATIO, in Antiquity, a shout raised by those present at burning the dead, before they set fire to the funeral pile. The word was also applied to the signal given to the Roman soldiers to decamp; and hence the expression conclamare vasa, conclamare arma, was a signal for battle. It was likewise used for the practi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019612-9820 | CONCLAVE, the place in which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic church meet, and are shut up, for the election of a pope.
The conclave is a range of small cells, each ten feet square, made of wainscot, which are numbered, and drawn for by lot. They stand in a line along the galleries and hall of the Vatican, with a s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019613-9820 | CONCLUSION, in Logic, the consequences or judgment drawn from what was asserted in the premises or previous judgments in reasoning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019614-9820 | CONCORD, in Grammar, that part of construction called syntax, in which the words of a sentence agree; that is, in which nouns are put in the same gender, number, and case, and verbs in the same number and person, with nouns, and pronouns. See Grammar. Concord, in Jfwsze, the relation of two sounds which are always agre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019615-9820 | CONCORDANCE, a dictionary or index to the Bible, in which all the leading words used in the course of the inspired writings are ranged alphabetically, and the various places where they occur referred to, in order to assist in finding out passages, and comparing the several significations of the same word.
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kp-eb0707-019701-9833 | CONCORDAT, in the canon law, denotes a covenant or agreement concerning some beneficiary matter, as a resignation, permutation, promotion, or the like. .
The council of Trent (sess. vi. de reform, cap. 4), speaking of concordats made without the authority and approbation of the pope, calls them concordias quoe tantum ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019702-9833 | CONCORDIA, a pagan divinity among the Romans, who had a temple on the declivity of the Capitol; another in the Portieo of Livia; and a third on Mount Palatine, built of brass by Cn. Flavius, on account of a vow made for reconciling the senate and people. She was represented with a cup in her right hand; while in her le... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019703-9833 | CONCRETE, in the school philosophy, an assemblage or compound. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019704-9833 | CONCRETION, the uniting several small particles of a natural body into sensible masses or concretes, by which it becomes figured and determined in a certain way, and is endued with certain properties.
Concretion is also the act by which soft bodies are rendered hard; or an insensible motion of the particles of a fluid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019705-9833 | CONCUBINAGE sometimes expresses a criminal or prohibited commerce between the two sexes; in which sense it comprehends adultery, incest, and simple fornication.
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kp-eb0707-019706-9833 | CONCUBINE, a woman whom a person takes to cohabit with him, in the manner and under the character of a wife, without being authorized to do so by a legal marriage.
Concubine is also used for a real, legitimate, and only wife, distinguished by no other circumstance but a disparity of birth or condition between her and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-019801-9846 | CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de la, a practical geographer and cultivator of science in general, son of Charles de la Condamine, a receiver-general of finances, and Margaret Louise de ChourCes, was born the ‘28th of January 1701.
His early education was by no means neglected, although he complains, in a manuscript memoir ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020001-9872 | CONDAPILLY, one of the Northern Circars of India, situated between the 16th and 17th degreeaof north latitude. This district, and that of Ellore, may be estimated to contain an area of 3400 miles, exclusive of the mountainous region towards the west, the greater part of which is well cultivated. The two districts occup... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020101-9885 | CONDAVIR, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, district of Guntoor, situated on a mountain, fifteen miles west of Guntoor. Long. 80. 5. E. Lat. 16.10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020102-9885 | CONDE, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of, was born at Paris on the 8th of September 1621. He was styled Duke d’Enghìen, till he succeeded to the title of Prince of Condé by his father’s death in the year 1646. As he was of a tender and delicate constitution, the prince sent him to the castle of Montrond, in Berri, that he mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020301-9911 | CONDEIXA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira. It is two leagues south of Coimbra, celebrated in the retreat of Massena from Torres Vedras, for having been the place whence he defiled towards the passes between the Mondego and the Serra Estrella. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020302-9911 | CONDEMNATION, the act of giving judgment, passing or pronouncing sentence against a person, who is thus subjected to some penalty or punishment, either in respect of life, liberty, reputation, or fortune. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020303-9911 | CONDENSATION, the act by which a body is rendered more dense, compact, and of greater specific gravity. ∙ The word is commonly applied to the conversion of vapour into water, by distillation, or by a natural process in the clouds. See the articles Cloud, Evaporation, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020304-9911 | CONDENSER, a pneumatic engine, or syringe, with which a greater quantity of air may be forced into a given space; so that ten or more atmospheres, or ten times as much air as there is at the same time in the same space, under the usual pressure, may be thrown in by means of it, and its egress prevented by valves proper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020305-9911 | CONDILLAC, Etienne Bonnot de, Abbé de Mu-reaux, well known as an eminent writer on metaphysics and education, was born at Grenoble in 1715. He was brother [7:7:204] to the Abbé de Mably; and, like him, arrived at high celebrity, though in a different line of pursuit. He seems to have been actuated by the purest motives... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020701-9963 | CONDITIONAL, something not absolute, but subject to conditions.
Conditional Conjunctions, in Grammar, are those which serve to make propositions conditional; as if, unless, provided, and so forth.
Conditional Propositions, in Logic, such as consist of two parts connected together by a conditional particle.
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kp-eb0707-020702-9963 | CONDOM, an arrondissement of the department of Gers, in France, extending over 650 square miles. It is divided [7:7:208]into six cantons and a hundred and twenty-eight communes, containing 64,578 inhabitants. The chief place, a ‘city of the same name, is situated in a charming valley, and contains 993 houses, with 7051... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 57' 55" N 0 15' 39" E | CONDOM |
kp-eb0707-020801-9976 | CONDOR, Pulo Isles, a cluster of small islands in the Eastern Seas, situated off the southern coast of Cambodia. The principal island is about twelve miles in length, and two in breadth; it is in the form of a crescent, and consists chiefly of a range of high and rugged mountains. On the east side of the island is a sp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020802-9976 | CONDORCET, Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nico as-Ca-ritat, Marquis of, a French philosophical, political, and biographical writer, of distinguished eminence, descended from an ancient family in the principality of Orange, and born at Ribemont, in Picardy, in 1743. He received his education at the college of Navarre, where he was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-020901-9989 | CONDORMIENTES, in Church History, religious sectaries, who took their name from sleeping all together, men [7:7:210]and women, young and old. They arose in the thirteenth century near Cologne, where they are said to have worshipped an image of Lucifer, and to have received answers and oracles from him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021001-0002 | CONDRIEU, a city of the department of the Rhone, in France, containing 4350 inhabitants. It is celebrated for the excellence of its red wine. Long. 4. 38. Ľ. Lat. 45. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021002-0002 | CONE, in Geometry, a solid figure, having a circle for its base, and its top terminated in a point or vertex. See Conic Sections. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021003-0002 | CONEGLI ANO, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Treviso, of the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy. It is situated on the river Mutego, at the foot of a mountain. It contains 4183 inhabitants, industriously employed in silk and cloth manufacture. Long. 12. 14. E. Lat. 45. 52. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021004-0002 | CONFARREATION, a ceremony among the ancient Romans, used in the marriage of persons whose children were destined for the honour of the priesthood.
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kp-eb0707-021005-0002 | CONFEDERATION of the Rhine, the name of a well-known league entered into by several German princes in 1805, by which they separated themselves from the empire, and formed a new political association, under the protection of France. This league was an immediate consequence of the reverses of Austria in the campaign of
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kp-eb0707-021101-0015 | CONFESSION, among divines, the verbal acknowledgment which a Christian makes of his sins.
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kp-eb0707-021102-0015 | CONFESSIONAL, or Confessionary, a place in churches under the great altar, where the bodies of deceased saints, martyrs, and confessors were deposited.
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kp-eb0707-021103-0015 | CONFESSOR, a Christian who has made a solemn and resolute profession of the faith, and has endured torments in its defence. A mere saint is called a confessor, to distinguish him from the roll of dignified saints, such as apostles, martyrs, and the like. In ecclesiastical history, we frequently find the word confessors... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021104-0015 | CONFIGURATION, the outward figure which bounds bodies, and gives them their external appearance; being that which, in a great measure, constitutes the specific difference between bodies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021105-0015 | CONFIRMATION, in Theology, the ceremony of laying on of hands, for the conveyance of the Holy Ghost. The antiquity of this ceremony is, by all the older writers, carried as high as the apostles, and founded upon their example and practice. In the primitive church, it used to be given the Christians immediately after ba... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021106-0015 | CONFLAGRATION, the general burning of a city or çther considerable place.
The word is commonly applied to that grand period or catastrophe of our world when the face of nature is to be changed by fire, as it formerly was by water. The ancient Pythagoreans, Platonists, Epicureans, and Stoics appear to have had a notion... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021107-0015 | CONFOLENS, an arrondissement of the department of the Charente, in France, extending over 495 square miles. It contains six cantons, divided into seventy communes, with 60,525 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Vienne, is a town of some trade in cattle and corn, wit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021201-0028 | CONFORMITY, in the schools, is the congruency or relation of agreement between one thing and another; as between the measure and the thing measured, the object and the understanding, the thing and the division thereof. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021202-0028 | CONFUCIUS, or Cong-fu-tse, or Koung-tsee, the most eminent and venerated of all the philosophers of China, and a descendant of the imperial family of the dynasty of Chang, was born in the kingdom of Loo, now called the province of Chang-tong, about 550 years before the commencement of the Christian era, which makes him... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021301-0041 | CONFUSION, in a general sense, is opposed to order, in the disturbance of which confusion consists; as when things prior in nature do not precede, or posterior do not follow.
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kp-eb0707-021302-0041 | CONFUTATION, in Rhetoric, a part of an oration, in which the orator seconds his own arguments and strengthens his cause by refuting and destroying the opposite arguments of the antagonist. This is done by denying what is apparently false, by detecting some flaw in the reasoning of the adverse party, by granting their a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021303-0041 | CONGE d’Elire, in ecclesiastical policy, the king’s permission-royal to a dean and chapter in the time of a vacancy, to choose a bishop; or to an abbey or priory, of his own foundation, to choose an abbot or prior.
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kp-eb0707-021304-0041 | CONGELATION. See the article Cold. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021305-0041 | CONGERIES, a Latin word, sometimes used in our language for a collection or heap of particles of bodies united in one mass oŗ aggregate.
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kp-eb0707-021401-0054 | CONGLETON, a town in the parish of Astbury, and hundred of Northwick, in Cheshire, 162 miles from London. A great trade in silk is carried on at this place, and there is a market on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 3861, in 1811 to 4616, and in 1821 to 6405. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021402-0054 | CONGO, a country of considerable extent in the southwest of Africa. It is bounded on the north by the river Congo or Zaire, which separates it from Loango, and on the west by the Atlantic. The interior boundaries are very uncertain, but it is conjectured that the country extends several hundred miles in every direction... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021601-0080 | CONGOON, a town of Laristan, in Persia, situated on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf. It contains six or seven thousand inhabitants, and has an excellent roadstead, where a frigate may ride in safety in the most tempestuous weather. Good water and firewood, which are both scarce in the gulf, may be procured at th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021602-0080 | CONGREGATION, an assembly of several ecclesiastics, united so as to constitute a body.
The term is principally used to signify assemblies of cardinals appointed by the pope, and distributed into several chambers, for the discharge of certain functions and jurisdictions, after the manner of our offices and courts. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021603-0080 | CONGREGATIONALISTS, in Church History, a sect of Protestants who reject all church-government, excepting that of a single congregation under the direction of one pastor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021604-0080 | CONGRESS, in political affairs, an assembly of corn missioners, envoys, or deputies, from several courts, meeting to concert matters for their common good.
Congress, in America, is the assembly of delegates from the United States. See United States. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021605-0080 | CONGREVE, William, a younger brother of an ancient family in Staffordshire. His father was employed in the stewardship of the great estate of the Earl of Burlington in Ireland, where he resided many years, and where our author was born in the year 1672. Mr Congreve, when he came to England, entered into the Middle Temp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021701-0093 | CONGRUITY, a suitableness or relation of agreement between things.
The terms congruity Άηά propriety are not applicable to any single object; they imply a plurality, and obviously signify a particular relation between different objects. Thus we are accustomed to say, that a decent garb is suitable or proper for a judg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021702-0093 | CONI, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, on the continent of Italy. It is bounded on the north by Saluzzo, on the north-east and north by Mondovi, on the south by Nice, and on the west by France. Its extent is 726 square miles, or 464,640 English acres. A great part of the southern and western portions of the provi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-021801-0106 | CONIC SECTIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
The mathematicians of antiquity regarded the straight line and the circle as the most simple of all geometrical lines, and the celebrated geometer Euclid has employed no other in his well known Elements. By these alone the ancients resolved a great number of problems, of which the more s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026301-0691 | CONICHTHYODONTES, or Plectronitae, in Natural History, a name by which the fossil teeth of fishes are sometimes distinguished. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026302-0691 | CONISSALAE, a term formerly used in natural history to signify a class of fossils, which were said to be naturally and essentially compound, uninflammable, insoluble in water, found in detached masses, and formed of crystalline matter debased by earth. It included sand and gritty substances. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026303-0691 | CONJEE, a district of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, intersected by the Palar river. It is comprehended in the collectorship of Arcot, and is generally flat and sandy, and, towards the Ghauts, thinly inhabited. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026304-0691 | CONJEVERAM, a considerable town of Southern India, in the Carnatic, which has all the appearance of a flourishing place. The streets are wide, and cross each other at right angles, and have a row of cocoa-nut trees on each side. The houses are generally built of mud; and have mud walls with tiled roofs. It contains sev... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026305-0691 | CONJUGATE Diameter, or Axis of an Ellipsis, the shortest of the two diameters, or that which bisects the axis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026306-0691 | CONJUGATION, in Grammar, a regular distribution of the several inflections of verbs into their different voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, so as to distinguish them from one another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026307-0691 | CONJUNCTION, in Astronomy, the meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac.
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kp-eb0707-026308-0691 | CONJURATION, magical words, characters, or ceremonies, by which evil spirits, tempests, and the like, are supposed to be raised or driven away. The priests of the Roman Catholic church pretend to expel devils, by preparing holy water in a particular manner, and sprinkling it over the possessed, accompanied with a numbe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026309-0691 | CONKAIR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, on the south bank of the Muhanuddy river, 105 miles south by west from Ruttunpoor. It is entirely surrounded by hills covered by thick woods, and inhabited by a barbarous race of mountaineers. Long. 83. 15. E. Lat. 20. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026310-0691 | CONNAUGHT, one of the four provinces into which Ireland was ecclesiastically divided by Pope Eugenius III. in 1152. It is bounded on the south by the province of 1 Munster, on the west by the Atlantic Oeean, on the east by the river Shannon, and on the north by the Atlantic and part of Ulster. It contains five counties... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026311-0691 | CONNECTICUT, one of the United States of North America, is bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island, on the south by Long Island Sound, and on the west by New York. The length of this state from east to west is eighty-five miles; the mean width sixty miles, and the area 5050 square miles. Conn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026401-0704 | CONNECTIVES, in Grammar, one of the four species under which, according to Mr Harris, all words may be included. They are of two kinds, and, according as they connect sentences or words, are called by the respective names of conjunctions and prepositions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026402-0704 | CONNOISSEUR, a French term, much used in English. It literally denotes a person well versed in any thing, being formed from the verb connoitre, to know or understand. Hence it has come to be used in our language for a critic, or person who is a thorough judge or master in any way, particularly in matters of painting, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026403-0704 | CONNOR, Bernard, a learned physician, was born in the county of Kerry, in Ireland, about the year 1666. Having determined to apply himself to the study of physic, he proceeded to France, and resided for some time in the university of Montpellier. He afterwards went to Paris, where he acquired great skill in medicine, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026404-0704 | CONOID, in Geometry, a solid body generated by the revolution of a conic section around its axis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026405-0704 | CONON, a renowned Athenian general and admiral, flourished 394 years before Christ. (See the article Attica.) After his defeat by Lysander, he fled to Evagoras, king of Cyprus, and then put himself under the protection of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, with whose army [7:7:265]he delivered Athens from the oppression of st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026501-0717 | CONOPS, in Zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order diptera. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026502-0717 | CONOVIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the Ordovices, in Britain. From its ruins arose, at the distance of four miles, Aberconway, at the mouth of the Conway, in Caernarvonshire; and on the spot where Conovium stood is an hamlet, called Caerhaen, or the old town. See Cambden. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026503-0717 | CONRAD, the second of that name, was elected Emperor of Germany in 1004. He was obliged to take the field against the German dukes who had revolted against him; and he put Ernest, duke of Suabia, under the ban of the empire. As this is one of the earliest instances of such a proscription, the formula is inserted here o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026504-0717 | CONRADIN, or Conrad, junior, son of Conrad the fourth of that name, was acknowledged as emperor by the Ghibbelincs, who received him in triumph at Rome; but Pope Alexander IV. had published a crusade against this orphan; and Urban VII. his successor, gave the empire to Charles of Anjou, brother of Louis IX. king of Fra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026505-0717 | CONSANGUINITY, or Kindred, is defined by the writers on this subject to be vinculum personarum ab eodem stipite descendentium, that is, the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. This consanguinity is either lineal or collateral.
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kp-eb0707-026506-0717 | CONSCIENCE, or the Moral Faculty. See Moral Philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026507-0717 | CONSCIOUSNESS, or the Mind’s Perception of its own Thoughts. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026508-0717 | CONSCRIPT, in Homan Antiquity, an appellation given to the senators of Rome, who were called conscript fathers, on account of their names being all entered in one register, called the censors’ roll. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026509-0717 | CONSECRATION, the act of devoting any thing to the service and worship of God. The Mosaic law ordained, that all the first-born, both of man and beast, should be sanctified or consecrated to God. We find also that Joshua consecrated the Gibconites, as Solomon and David did the Nethinims, to the service of the temple; a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026510-0717 | CONSENTES, the name which the Romans gave to the twelve superior gods, the Dii majorum gentium. The word has the same signification as consentientes, and indicates the gods who consented to the deliberations of Jupiter’s council. These were twelve in number, and their [7:7:266]names have been briefly expressed by Enniu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026601-0730 | CONSEQUENCE, in Logic, the conclusion, or that which results from the premises. The consequence is the proposition by which the extremes or premises of a syllogism are joined or separated, and is deduced from what was asserted in the premises. This word, in a more restricted sense, is used for the relation or connectio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026602-0730 | CONSERVATOR, an officer appointed for the security and preservation of the privileges of some cities and communities, and having a commission to judge of and determine the differences among them.
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