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kp-eb0707-026603-0730 | CONSERVATORĨOS, areltalian musical schools, established for the instruction of children in the profession of music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026604-0730 | CONSERVATORY, a term sometimes used to signify a green-house or ice-house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026605-0730 | CONSISTENTES, in church history, a kind of penitents who were allowed to assist at prayers, but who were not admitted to receive the sacrament. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026606-0730 | CONSISTORY, a term commonly used to denote a council-house of ecclesiastical persons, or place of justice in the spiritual court, and also a session or assembly of prelates.
Consistory, at Rome, denotes the college of cardinals, or the pope’s senate and council, before which causes are pleaded., Du Cange derives the w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026607-0730 | CONSONANT, a letter which cannot be sounded without the help of a vowel placed before or after it; as b, c, d, f m, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026608-0730 | CONSPIRACY, in Law, signifies an agreement between two or more persons falsely to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person, of felony. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026609-0730 | CONSPIRATORS are by statute defined to be such as bind themselves by oath, covenant, or other alliance, to assist one another falsely and maliciously to indict persons, or falsely to maintain pleas.
Conspirators in treason, are those who plot against the king and the government. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026610-0730 | CONSTABLE, according to some, is a Saxon word, compounded of honing, king, and staple, which signifies stay or support. But as we borrowed the name as well as the office of constable from the French, Sir William Blackstone is rather inclined to deduce it, with Sir Henry Spelman and Dr Cowel, from that language, in whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026701-0743 | CONSTABLE, Archibald, a very eminent bookseller and publisher, whose name, in the latter capacity, is connected with some of the most important and memorable productions of the Scottish Press, and is, besides, particularly deserving of notice in the present work, was born on the 24th February 1774, at Kellie, in the pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026901-0769 | CONSTANCE, a city of the grand duchy of Baden, on the north-west end of the lake of that name or the Bodensee, near to where the Rhine issues forth. It is a walled town, the chief place of the district, but with very little commerce of any kind. It contains 778 houses and 4503 inhabitants. This place is celebrated on a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 36' 10" N 9 2' 55" E | CONSTANCE |
kp-eb0707-026902-0769 | CONSTANCY, in a general sense, denotes immutability, invariableness, or uniformity. In ethics, or when applied to the human mind, the term implies resolution or steadiness, particularly under the sufferings and trials of adversity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026903-0769 | CONSTANTIA, a district at the Cape of Good Hope, consisting of two farms, which produce the wine known by the name of Cape or Constantia wine. This place is situated at the distance of a mile and a half from Alphen, in a bending or incurvation, formed by and nearly under the ridge of hills which runs from Meuisen-mount... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-026904-0769 | CONSTANTINA, a province of Algiers, in the eastern or Levantine government. It is bounded on the cast by Tunis, on the west by Tittery or Algiers Proper, on the south by the desert, and on the north by the Mediterranean. It is upwards of 230 miles in length and 100 in breadth. It is the most fertile, and every way the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 25' N 6 24' E | CONSTANTINA |
kp-eb0707-027001-0782 | CONSTANTINE the Great, the first emperor of the Romans who embraced Christianity. His father, Constantius Chlorus, rendered himself famous by his expeditions into Germany and Britain; and upon the abdication of Diocletian in 305, he shared the Roman empire with Galerius Maximinus, and was at that time at York, where he... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 53 12' N 31 35' E | CONSTANTINE |
kp-eb0707-027002-0782 | CONSTANTINOPLE, the capital of the Turkish empire, the Byzantium of the ancients, and the Stamboul or ltamboul of the Turks. The several branches of the government of the extensive dominions of the grand seignor are concentrated in the city, which contains the chief of the pashas, muftis, and ulemas, the patriarch and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-027101-0795 | CONSTANTINOPOLITAN History. Constantinople, anciently Byzantium, became the seat of empire under Constantine the Great. Its removal to this quarter is generally considered as having been one of the principal causes of the sudden decline of the western empire after this period.
In the year 332 the Sarmatians implored C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029101-1055 | CONSTELLATION, in Astronomy, a system of stars seen in the heavens near to one another. Astronomers not only mark out the stars, but distinguish them by their situation and position in respect to each other; and therefore they distribute them into asterisms or constellations, allowing several stars to make up one const... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029102-1055 | CONSTITUTION, in matters of policy, signifies the form of government established in any country or kingdom.
Constitution also denotes an ordinance, decision, regulation, or law, made by authority of any superior, ecclesiastical or civil.
Apostolical Constitutions, a collection of regulations attributed to the apostle... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029103-1055 | CONSTRICTOR, an appellation given to several muscles, on account of their drawing together or closing some of the orifices of the body. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029104-1055 | CONSTRUCTION, in Grammar, the arranging and connecting the words of a sentence according to the rules of the language. See Grammar and Language.
The construction is generally more simple, easy, and direct in the modern than in the ancient tongues. We have very few of those inversions which occasion so much embarrassme... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029105-1055 | CONSUALIA, in Antiquity, feasts which were held among the ancients in honour of the god Consus or Neptune, but different from those other feasts of the same deity called Neptunalia. They were introduced with a magnificent cavalcade or procession on horseback, because Neptune was reputed to have first taught men the use... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029106-1055 | CONSUBSTANTIAL, in Theology, a term of the same import with co-essential, denoting something of the same substance with another. The orthodox believe the Son of God to be consubstantial with the Father.
The term 0∕λo∕odu<∏of, consubstantial, was first adopted by the fathers of the councils of Antioch and Nice to expre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029107-1055 | CONSUBSTANTIATION, a tenet of the Lutheran church regarding the manner of the change made in the bread and wine in the eucharist. The divines of that profession maintain that, after consecration, the body and blood of our Saviour are substantially present, together with the substance of the bread and wine, which is cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029108-1055 | CONSUEGRA, a town of Spain, on the Amarguilla, in the province of Toledo, with 5432 inhabitants, who carry on a manufacture of cowls for the monks. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029109-1055 | CONSUL, the chief magistrate of the Roman common-wealth, invested with the regal authority for the space of one year. They were two in number, called consuls, a consulendo, and annually chosen in the Campus Martius. The two first consuls were L. Junius Brutus and L. Tarquinius Collatinus, who were chosen in the year of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029201-1068 | CONTAGION, in Medicine. See Disease. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029202-1068 | CONTANAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, district of Dinagepoor, 112 miles north by east from Moorshedabad. Long. 88. 34. E. Lat. 25. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 26' N 88 34' E | CONTANAGUR |
kp-eb0707-029203-1068 | CONTE, a fortified city in the department of the North, in France, at the confluence of the two navigable rivers Hesne and Scheldt, by whose waters it may be easily surrounded, by means of sluices under the power of the city. It contains 600 houses, and 6080 inhabitants. The chief trade consists in building river craft... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 56' N 3 30' E | CONTE |
kp-eb0707-029204-1068 | CONTEMPLATION, an act of the mind, by which it applies itself to consider and reflect upon the works of God, nature, or any other subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029205-1068 | CONTEMPORARY, or Cotemporary, a person or thing that existed or exists at the same time with another. Thus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristophanes, were contemporaries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029206-1068 | CONTEXT, among divines and critics, that part of Scripture or other writing which lies about the ∫ext, before or after it, or both. To ascertain the full and genuine sense of the text, the context must be taken into view. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029207-1068 | CONTEXTURE, a word frequently used in speaking of the works both of nature and of art, and denoting the disposition and union of the constituent parts with respect to one another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029208-1068 | CONTIGUITY, in Geometry, is when the surface of one body touches that of another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029209-1068 | CONTIGUOUS, a relative term understood of things disposed so near each other that their surfaces join or touch. The houses in ancient Rome were not contiguous as ours are, but insulated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029210-1068 | CONTINENCE, in Ethics, a moral virtue, by which we resist concupiscence. The term is most usually applied to men, as chastity is to women. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029211-1068 | CONTINENT, in Geography, a great extent of land not interrupted by seas, in contradistinction to island, peninsula, and the like. See Geography. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029212-1068 | CONTINGENT, something casual or eventual. Hence a contingent denotes a conditional event, which may or may not happen, according as circumstances fall out.
Contingent is also a term of relation,for the quota that falls to any person upon a general division. Thus each prince of the Germanic confederation is in time of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029213-1068 | CONTINUED, or Continual, in a general sense, means incessant, or proceeding without interruption.
Continued Bass, in Music, so called, says Rousseau, because it is continued throughout the whole piece. Its principal use, besides that of regulating the harmony, is to support the voice and preserve the tone. It is belie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029301-1081 | CONTINUO, in Music, signifies the thorough bass, as basso continuo is the continual or thorough bass, which is sometimes marked in music-books by the letters B. C. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029302-1081 | CONTOBABDITES, a sect which appeared in the sixth century. Their first leader was Severus of Antioch, who was succeeded by John the grammarian, surnamed Philoponus, and one Theodosius, whose followers were also called Theodosians. Part of them, who were willing to receive a book composed by Theodosius on the Trinity, f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029303-1081 | CONTOR, Condor, or Cundur, the American name of a species of vulture. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029304-1081 | CONTORSION, in general, signifies the action of twisting or wresting a member of the body out of its natural situation. Rope-dancers accustom themselves to contorsions of the limbs from their youth, in order to render the fibres of their articulations lax and supple, for all kinds of postures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029305-1081 | CONTOUR, in Painting, the outline, or that which defines a figure. See Painting. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029306-1081 | CONTOURNE, in Heraldry, is used wdιen a beast is represented standing or running with its face to the sinister side of the escutcheon, animals being always supposed to look to the right, if not otherwise expressed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029307-1081 | CONTOURNIATED, a term among antiquaries applied to medals, the edges of which appear as if turned in a lathe. This sort of work seems to have had its origin in Greece, and to have been designed to perpetuate the memories of great men, particularly those who had borne away the prize at the solemn games. Such are those o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029308-1081 | CONTRA, a circle in the grand duchy of Hesse-Cassel, which comprehends one city and twenty-seven villages, with 1710 houses, and 9830 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, on the river Contrasi, contains 1455 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029309-1081 | CONTRA-HARMONIC Proportion, is that relation of three terms, in which the difference of the first and second is to the difference of the second and third as the third is to the first. Thus, for instance, 3, 5, and G, are numbers contra-harmonically proportional; for 2: 1 :: G: 3. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029310-1081 | CONTRABAND, in Commerce, a prohibited commodity, or merchandise, bought or sold, imported or exported, in prejudice of the laws and ordinances of a state, or the fiscal prohibitions of the sovereign. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029311-1081 | CONTRACT, in a general sense, a mutual consent of two or more parties who voluntarily promise and oblige themselves to do or perform something. All donations, exchanges, leases, and the like, are so many different contracts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029312-1081 | CONTRACTILE Force, that property or power inherent in certain bodies, by which, when extended, they are enabled to draw themselves up again to their former dimensions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029313-1081 | CONTRACTION, in Physics, the diminishing the extent or dimensions of a body, or the causing its parts to approach nearer to each other; in which sense it is opposed to dilation or expansion.
Contraction, in Grammar, is the reducing of two syllables into one, as>cant for cannot, should’st for shouldest, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029314-1081 | CONTRADICTION, a species of direct opposition, where one thing is found diametrically opposite to another. 1 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029315-1081 | CONTRADICTORY Propositions, are opposites, one of which imports a mere and naked denial of the other. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029316-1081 | CONTRARIETY, an opposition between two things, which imports their being contrary to one another, and consists in this, that one of the terms implies a negation of the other, either mediately or immediately; so that contrariety may be said to be the contrast or opposition of two things, one of which imports the absence... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029317-1081 | CONTRAST, opposition or dissimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the visibility or effect of the others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029318-1081 | CONTRE, in Heraldry, an appellation given to several bearings, on account of their cutting the shield contrary and opposite ways. Thus we meet with contre-bend, con-trc-chevron contre-paic, and the like, when there are two ordinaries of the same nature opposite to each other, so that colour may be opposed to metal, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029319-1081 | CONTRITION, in Theology, a sorrow for our sins, resulting from the reflection of having offended God, and arising from the sole consideration of his goodness, without any regard to the punishment due to the trespass, and attended with a sincere resolution of forsaking them. The word is derived from the Latin conterere,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029320-1081 | CONTROL is properly a double register kept of acts, issues, and the like, of the officers or commissioners in the revenue, army, or other departments, in order to perceive the true state, and to certify the truth thereof, and the due keeping of the acts subject to the enregistcrment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029321-1081 | CONTROLLER, an officer appointed to control or oversee the accounts of other officers, and, on occasion, to certify whether or not things have been controlled. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029322-1081 | CONTUSION, in Medicine and Surgery, any hurt of the body that is inflicted by a blunt instrument. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029323-1081 | CONVALESCENCE, in Medicine, the insensible recovery of health, or that state in which, after the. cure of a disorder, the body that has been reduced has not yet regained its vigour, but begins to resume its powers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029324-1081 | CONVENTICLE, a diminutive of convent, denoting, properly, a cabal, or secret assembly, of a part of the monks of a convent, to form a brigue or party in the election of an abbot. From the bad use of these assemblies, the word has come into disrepute; and now stands for any mischievous, seditious, or irregular assembly.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029325-1081 | CONVENTION, a treaty, contract, or agreement between two or more parties.
Convention is also a name given to an extraordinary assembly of parliament, or the estates of the realm, held without the king’s writ, as the convention parliament which restored Charles II. This parliament met about a month before his return, s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029326-1081 | CONVENTUAL, something belonging to a convent or monastery.
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Conventual is particularly used for a religious person, who actually resides in a convent; in contradistinction to those who are only guests, or in possession of benefices depending on the house. See Monk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029401-1094 | CONVENTUS Juridici were courts of justice established in the Roman provinces, with an extent of jurisdiction circumscribed within certain limits of district, and to which all who were included had to repair for justice. The unseasonable affectation of changing forms of war into forms of civil courts proved the ruin of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029402-1094 | CONVERGING, or Convergent Lines, in Geometry, are such as continually approach nearer to one another, or whose distances become still less and less. These are opposed to divergent lines, the distances of which become continually greater. The lines which converge one way diverge the other.
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kp-eb0707-029403-1094 | CONVERSATION, or Discourse, signifies an interlocution between two or more persons; with this distinction, that conversation is used for any general intercourse of sentiments whatever, whereas a discourse means a conversation limited to some particular subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029404-1094 | CONVERSE, in Mathematics. One proposition is called the converse of another, when, after a conclusion is drawn from something assumed in the converse proposition, that conclusion is supposed, and then the one which in the other was supposed, is now drawn as a conclusion from it. Thus when two sides of a triangle are eq... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029405-1094 | CONVERSION, in a moral sense, implies a repentance for conduct unworthy of our nature, and unbecoming our obligations to its Author, and a resolution to act a wiser and a better part for the future. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029406-1094 | CONVERT, a person who has undergone conversion. '
Convert is chiefly used in respect of changes from one religion, or religious sect, to another. Converts with relation to the religion espoused are denominated apostates with regard to that which they have relinquished.
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kp-eb0707-029407-1094 | CONVEX, an appellation given to the exterior surface of gibhous or globular bodies, in opposition to the hollow inner surface of such bodies, which is called concave. Thus we say a convex frieze, lens, mirror, superficies, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029408-1094 | CONVEXITY, the exterior surface of a convex, that is, gibbous and globular thing; in opposition to concavity, or the inner surface, which is hollow or depressed.
A convex lens is either convex on both sides, called a convexo-convex ; or it is plain on one side and convex on the other, called a plano-convex ; or concav... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029409-1094 | CONVICT, in Common Law, a person who is found guilty of an offence by the verdict of a jury. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029410-1094 | CONVICTION, in Law. When a jury has given a verdict, upon trial, finding the prisoner guilty, he is said to be convicted of the crime of which he stands indicted.
Conviction, in Theology, expresses the first degree of repentance, in which the sinner becomes sensible of his guilt, of the evil nature of sin, and of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029411-1094 | CONVOCATION, an assembly of the clergy of England, by their representatives, to consult of ecclesiastical matters. It is held during the session of parliament, and consists of an upper and a lower house. In the upper sit the bishops, and in the lower the inferior clergy, who are represented by their proctors, consistin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029412-1094 | CONVOLUTION, a winding motion proper to the trunks of some plants, as the convolvulus, or bind-weed, the claspers of vines, bryony, &c.
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kp-eb0707-029501-1107 | CONVOY, in naval affairs, one or more ships of war, employed to accompany and protect merchant ships, and prevent their being insulted by pirates, or the enemies of the state in time of war.
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kp-eb0707-029502-1107 | COOCH BAHAR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, situated between the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh degrees of north latitude. It comprehends an area of 1300 square miles, and is bounded on the north by Bootan, on the south-west by Rungpoor, and on the east by Bootan and Rangamatty. This country towar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-029503-1107 | COOK, Sir Anthony, descended from Sir Thomas Cook, lord mayor of London, was born in 1506, and is supposed to have been educated at Cambridge. He was so eminent for his learning, piety, and prudence, that the guardians of King Edward VÌ. appointed him chief instructor in learning to that prince, whose manners it was al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030401-1224 | COOKERY, the art of preparing and dressing victuals for the table; an art, in its simplest and ordinary modes, sufficiently familiar to every housekeeper, and, in its luxurious refinements, copiously detailed in manuals and directories published for the purpose. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030402-1224 | COOLOO, a mountainous and woody district of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, bounded on the east by the Sutledge river, on the west by the Ravey, and nearly divided into two by the Beyah river, dt is situated between the 33d and 34th degrees of north latitude. The chief town is of the same name, and is situated on... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030403-1224 | COOLOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, and district of Moodgul, belonging to the Nizam. Long. 77. 2. E∙ Lat. 16. 4. Ń. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030404-1224 | COOPANG, a town of the island of Timor, situated in a bay which forms an excellent harbour for shipping. This settlement was formed in 1630, and is now the only one in the island which the Dutch still retain. They have a fortified factory, which is placed close to the sea, with a Chinese village in the neighbourhood. A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030405-1224 | COOMASSIE, a large town of Africa, the capital of the Ashantee country. It stands upon the side of a large rocky hill, and is nearly surrounded by a marsh. It is built in an oblong form, and is about four miles in circumference, not including the suburbs, which are about half a mile distant, and were formerly connected... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030406-1224 | COOPER, an artificer who makes casks and coops, tubs, barrels, and all kinds of wooden vessels which are bound together with hoops. It would appear that the art [7:7:305]of the cooper is of great antiquity, and that it soon attained all the perfection which it at present possesses.
But although this art is very ancien... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030701-1263 | COORG, a mountainous and woody district of Southern India, among the western Ghauts, situated between the province of Mysore and the British province of Malabar. This country is considered as extending from the Tambacherry Pass on the south, to the confines of the Bed-nore country on the north. The mountains produce sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030702-1263 | COOSERAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar. Itformerly possessed one of those strong forts which are so common, and which enabled the Zemindars to def; the authority of government. It is forty-eight miles S.E from Patna. Long. 85. 47. E. Lat. 28. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030703-1263 | COOTRA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, situated on the south side of the river Betwah. sixty-four miles N. by W. from Chatterpoor. In 1807 the districts of Cootra and Puway were restored by the British government to their legitimate owner, Rajah Bukht Sing, a Bundelcund chief. Long. 79. 28. E. Lat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030704-1263 | COPARCENARY, the share or quota of a coparcener. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030705-1263 | COPARCENERS (from con, together, and particeps, partner) or Parceners, such as have equal portions in the inheritance of their ancestor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030706-1263 | COPE, an ecclesiastical ornament, usually worn by chanters and subchanters when they officiate on solemn occasions. It reaches from the shoulders to the feet. The ancients called it Pluviale. The word is also used to signify the roof or covering of a house. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030707-1263 | COPENHAGEN, the capital of the Danish dominions. It is situated on the Baltic Sea, on both sides of the narrow strait which separates the island of Arnack from Zealand. It contains a population of 103,166 individuals, including 2442 Jews, and the military, amounting to 4000. It is probably an ancient city, but there ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030801-1276 | COPERNICAN, in general, any thing belonging to Copernicus. Hence Copernican System or Hypothesis, that system of the world in which the sun is supposed to be at rest in the centre, and the planets, with the earth, to move in ellipses round him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-030802-1276 | COPERNICUS, Nicoas, was born at Thorn, in Prussia, on the 19th February 1473. Zernecke, in his Chronicle of Thorn, affirms that he was the son of a peasant serf, and that his name was Zopernick; but the commonly received opinion is, that he was descended from a family of distinction in that part of the Prussian territo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031001-1302 | COPHIT, Copti, or Copiits, a name given to the Christians of Egypt, who are of the sect of Jacobites, or rather Cobites, and descended from the ancient native population of the country.
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kp-eb0707-031002-1302 | COPHTIC, or Coptic, the language of the Cophts, being the language of the ancient Egyptians, mixed with a little Greek, and written in letters which are chiefly Greek, though fashioned on the model of the enchorial, demotie, or civil characters of the country. It has a form and construction peculiar to itself, having n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031003-1302 | COPIAPO, the most northern province of Chili, in South America. It contains an area of 18,750 square miles. It has a dry and sterile aspect, except in those places where streams irrigate and .fertilize the soil, giving birth to luxuriant vegetation. The rains are here of rare occurrence, and the showers which do fall a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031004-1302 | COPIATA, under the western empire, a grave-digger. In the first ages of the church there were clerks destined for this employment. In the year 357, Constantine made a law in favour of the priests copiatae, or of those who had the care of interments, exempting them from the lustral contribution, which all other traders ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031005-1302 | COPPER must be treated both as a metaland asami-neral. Under the first head, its history and uses maybe described; and under the second, its charactersand combinations, as it occurs in nature.
Copper got the name of Venus among the alchymists, on account of the facility with which it unites with other metallic bodies,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031201-1328 | COPPERAS, a name given to the factitious sulphate of iron. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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