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kp-eb0707-031202-1328 | COPPICE, or Copse, the produce of a wood or plantation which is cut down at stated periods, and used for firing and making charcoal, once in sixteen or seventeen years. In Westmoreland and other copse countries these rotations are denominated falls, and are accordingly calculated in the valuation of lands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031203-1328 | COPRAJA, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, between the extremity of Corsica and the island of Elba. It is of volcanic origin, but yields wine, pulse, honey, and wax, by trading in which articles the inhabitants, who are 1500, procure subsistence. The chief town is Tratozzio. Long. 9. 42. 52. Ľ. Lat. 43. 0. 18. N∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031204-1328 | COPTOS, in Ancient Geography, a trading town of th⅜ Thebais, at some distance from the Nile, inhabited by Egyptians and Arabs; now Kypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031205-1328 | COPY, in a law sense, a transcript of a writing or instrument, made for the use and satisfaction of some of the parties concerned, or in order to preserve the document itself.
Copy is also used for an imitation of any original work,, particularly a painting, draught, figure, or the like.
Copy, among printers, denotes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-031301-1341 | COPYRIGHT.
Copyright denotes the property which an author has in his literary works, or which a bookseller, or any other person, may acquire by purchase; a property consisting, in either case, in the exclusive right to print, publish, and sell a particular work. The subject involves two important inquiries; one the ob... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032001-1432 | COQUES, Gonzalez, a painter of portraits and conversations, was born at Antwerp in 1618, and was a disciple of David Ryckaert the elder, under whose direction he applied himself diligently to cultivate the promising talents which he possessed; not only by practising the best rules administered to him by his instructor,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032002-1432 | COQUIMBO, a province of Chili, in South America, is bounded on the north by Copiapo, on the east by the Andes, on the south-east by Aconcagua, on the southwest by Quillota, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. This province suffers for want of rain, and is by no means so fertile as many other parts of Chili. It presen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032003-1432 | COR Caroli, in Astronomy, an extra-constellated star in the northern hemisphere, situated between the Coma Berenicis and Ursa Major, so called by Dr Halley in honour of King Charles.
Cor IIydrec, a fixed star of the first magnitude, in the constellation of FIydra.
Cor Leonis, in Astronomy, a fixed star of the first m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032004-1432 | CORACHIE, a seaport town of the province of Sinde, district of Tatta, supposed to be the Sangada of Arrian, or the port of Alexander. It is the only good seaport of Sinde, and is situated seventeen miles east by south of Cape Monze, at the head of a bay which affords good shelter for shipping; and from the beginning of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032101-1445 | CORADGE, a river of Syria, which runs into the Mediterranean, four miles south of Tortosa. It is supposed by Pococke to be the Kerseos of Ptolemy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032102-1445 | CORAH, or Koraii, a district of Hindustan, in Allahabad, called also Jehanabad, situated in the plains between the Ganges and Jumna, and between the 26th and 27th degrees of north latitude. It is in general a level country, with the exception of the high banks of the Ganges, on which the villages are usually 7 situated... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032103-1445 | CORACOMANTES, in Antiquity, persons who foretold events from observations on crows or ravens. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032104-1445 | CORALLINA. See Zoophytes, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032105-1445 | CORALLINES. See Zoophytes, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032106-1445 | CORAM, Captain Thomas, a gentleman distinguished for his humanity, was born about the year 1668, and spent the early part of his life in the station of master of a vessel trading to the colonies. He afterwards resided in the eastern part of the metropolis, among seafaring people; and business often obliging him to go e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032107-1445 | CORAN, or Alcoran. See Alcoran. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032108-1445 | CORBAN, in Jewish antiquity, were those offerings which had life, in opposition to the minchab, or those which had not. It is derived from the word harab, which signifies to approach, because the victims were brought to the door of the tabernacle.
Corban is also a ceremony which the Mahommedans , perform at the foot o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032109-1445 | CORBEIL, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France. Its extent is 420 square miles; and it is divided into four communes, containing 51,750 inhabitants. The city which gives name to the circle is situated at the junction of the Essonne with the Seine, and contains 800 houses, and 3404 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032110-1445 | CORBEILS, in Fortification, little baskets about a foot and a half in height, and eight inches wide at the bottom by twelve at the top. These being filled with earth, are frequently set one against another upon the parapet or elsewhere, leaving intervening spaces open, through which to fire upon the enemy under cover. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032111-1445 | CORBET, Richard, bishop of Norwich, and a poet of some note, was born at Ewell, in Surrey, towards the latter end of the sixteenth century, and educated at Oxford, where he was esteemed one of the most celebrated wits of the university. Having entered into holy orders, he became a popular preacher, and was made chaplai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032201-1458 | CORCULUM, a diminutive from cor, the heart, the essence of a seed, or the principle of life of the future plant, attached to and contained within the lobes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032202-1458 | CORCYRA, in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian Sea, opposite to 'Thesprotia, a district of Epirus, and called Scheria and Phaeacia by Homer. In Callimachus it is called Drepane, which, according to the Scholiast, was its most ancient name. It is famous for the shipwreck of Ulysses and the gardens of Alcinous. C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032203-1458 | CORD, or Chord, an assemblage of several threads of hemp, cabled or twisted together by means of a wheel. See Cordage. The word çomes from the Greek %oj⅜, which properly signifies an intestine or gut, of which cords may be made.
Cord of Wood, a certain quantity of wood for burning, so called because it was formerly me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032204-1458 | CORDAGE, , a term used in general for all sorts of cord, whether small, middling, or large. See Rope-Making. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032205-1458 | CORDATED, an appellation frequently given by naturalists to things somewhat resembling a heart. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032206-1458 | CORDAY D’ARMANS, Marie-Anne-Charlotte, was born in 1768, at St Saturnin, near Séez, in Normandy, and descended of a noble family. After the events of the 31st May 1793, the heads of the republican party of the convention, Guadet, Gensonné, Pétion, and others, having been proscribed by Robespierre, sought refuge in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032301-1471 | CORDED, in Heraldry. A cross corded some authors take for a cross wound or wrenched about with cords; but others, with more probability, consider it as a cross made of two pieces of wood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032302-1471 | CORDELIER, a Franciscan, or religious person of the order of St Francis. The Cordeliers were clothed in thick gray cloth, with a little cowl, a chaperon, and a cloak of the same stuff, and they had a girdle of rope or cord tied with three knots; and hence the name. They are otherwise called Minor Friars, which was thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032303-1471 | CORDEMOI, Gerald de, a philosopher and historian, born at Paris about the beginning of the seventeenth century, made himself known to Μ. Bossuet, who placed him about the dauphin in the quality of reader. He instructed that young prince with great assiduity, and in 1675 was received into the French Academy. He wrote a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032304-1471 | CORDILLERAS, mountains of South America, otherwise called Andes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032305-1471 | CORDON, in fortification, a row of stones, rounded on the outside, and set between the wall of the fortress which lies aslope, and the parapet which stands perpendicular, in such a manner, that the difference may not be offensive to the eye. Hence the cordons serve only as an ornament, ranging round about the place, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032306-1471 | CORDOVA, one of the four divisions of the province of Andalusia, in Spain. It is now in all public documents usually called the kingdom of Cordova. It is bounded on the north side by Castile, on the west by Estremadura, on the south by Seville, and on the east by Murcia. The superficial extent is 724 square miles, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032401-1484 | CORDUS, Valerius, a learned botanist, was the son of Ericius Cordus, a physician and poet of Germany. Having learned the languages, he applied himself to the study of botany, in the prosecution of which he examined the mountains of Germany, and travelled into Italy; but being wounded in the leg by the kick of a horse, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032402-1484 | CORDWAINERS, or Cordiners, the term by which the statutes denominate shoemakers. The word is formed from the French cordonnier, which Menage derives from corduan, a kind of leather brought from Cordova, of which the upper leathers of shoes were formerly made. Others derive it from corde, rope, because anciently shoes w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032403-1484 | COREA, a large peninsula of Asia, formed on one side by the Yellow Sea, and on the other by the Sea of Japan. It is situated immediately to the east of China; and its le ngth may be estimated at 400 miles, by 150 in average breadth. A great part of what was formerly supposed to be its western coast has been found, from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032404-1484 | COREIA, in Antiquity, a festival in honour of Proserpine, named Core, Ko^, which, in the Molossian dialect, signifies a beautiful woman. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032405-1484 | CORELLA, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre. It is situated on the river Alhama. It has a considerable trade in the manufacture of shoes, with the upper parts of straw and the bottoms of wood, which are very commonly worn by the poorer classes of the inhabitants. Near this place are mines of antimony, which is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032406-1484 | CORELLI, Arcangelo, the celebrated musician and composer, was born at Fusignano, near Imola, in the territory of Bologna, in February 1653. He received his first instructions in counterpart from Matteo Simonelli of the Papal chapel; and, entertaining an early inclination for the violin, he was put under Bassani, a mast... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032501-1497 | CORFAU, a village of Asia Minor, on the road from Is Nikmid to Constantinople, ten miles west of Is Nikmid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032502-1497 | CORFE-CASTLE, a borough town of the hundred of Hasler, in the county of Dorset, 120 miles from London. The castle from which it takes its name is one of the finest piles of ruins of ancient times. It is situated on a conical hill of near half a mile in circuit, with walls twelve feet in thickness. It was formerly a pri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032503-1497 | CORFU, the chief of those islands which form the Ionian republic. It is situated at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea, between the latitudes 39. 22. and 39.26. N. and the longitudes 19. 55. and 20. 27. E.; and in extent it is 235 square miles, or about 150,000 English acres, and is divided into seven cantons. It is oppo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032601-1510 | CORGO, an island in the Persian Gulf, about two miles north of Karak. Its area is about two square miles. It is of a light sandy soil; and it abounds in water. Though not inhabited at present, it is capable of being cultivated, and produces both wheat and barley during the rainy season. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032602-1510 | CORIA, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on the banks of the river Alagon, which runs into the Tagus. The plain on which it is built is beautiful and fertile, and yields abundance of wine and vinegar from its vineyards, which are very extensive. It is situated in long. 6. 16. W. and in lat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032603-1510 | CORIDOR, or Corridor, in fortification, the covertway which is formed between the fosse and palisade on the counterscarp. The word, which is derived from the Italian coridore, or the Spanish coridor i is becoming obsolete as a military term.
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kp-eb0707-032604-1510 | CORIGLIANO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Otranto, containing 4000 inhabitants.
Corigliano, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Citeriore. It lies in the midst of a very extensive olive wood, from which oil is made, the trade in which furnishes subsistence to the 6000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032605-1510 | CORINGA, a sea-port of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Rajamundry, situated on the western side of the bay of Bengal. It is the best port on the coast of Coromandel, and affords the only smooth water on that coast in the south-west monsoon, Point Godavery projecting out to the southward, and breakin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032606-1510 | CORINJAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, belonging to the Nagpoor rajah, forty-eight miles west by north from Nagpoor. Long. 79. 2. E. Lat. 21. 13. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032607-1510 | CORINNA, a Grecian lady, celebrated for her beauty and poetic talents, was born at Tanagra, in Boeotia, near Thebes, and was the disciple of Myrtis, another Grecian lady. Her verses were so much esteemed by the Greeks, that they gave her the name of the lyric muse. She lived in the time of Pindar, about 495 years befor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032608-1510 | CORINTH, a celebrated city of antiquity, for some [7:7:327] time the most illustrious of the Greek cities. It is said to have been founded 1514 years before Christ, by Sisyphus the son of Aeolus. Various reasons are given for its name, but most authors derive it from Corinthus the son of Pelops. It was situated on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032801-1536 | CORINTHIAN, in general, denotes any thing belonging to or connected with Corinth. Thus we say, Corinthian brass, the Corinthian order, and the like.
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kp-eb0707-032802-1536 | CORIO, Bernardino, an historian, born of an illustrious family at Milan, in the year 1459. He was secretary of state to that duchy; and Ludovico duke of Sforza, employed him to write the history of Milan. He died in 1519. The best edition of his history is that of Milan, 1503, folio. It is printed in Italian, and is ve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032803-1536 | CORIO, a market-town of Italy, in the province of Turin, of the kingdom of Sardinia. It is divided into five parts, which together number 5200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032804-1536 | CORIOLANUS, Caius Marcius, a celebrated Roman captain, who took Corioli, a town of the Volscians, whence he derived his surname. At last, having disgusted the people, he was banished from Rome by the tribune Decius. He went over to the Volscians, and having persuaded them to take arms against the Romans, encamped withi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-032805-1536 | CORK, the bark of a tree of the same name; Quercus Suber, Lin.
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kp-eb0707-033201-1588 | CORLEONE, a city of Italy, in the intendancy of Palermo, in the island of Sicily. It is situated on a volcanic soil, at the source of the river Belio. It contains 1808 houses, with 12,520 inhabitants, who are sedulously employed in agriculture, upon the most fertile of lands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-033202-1588 | CORMANDEL. Sec Coromandel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-033203-1588 | CORN, the grain or seeds of plants separated from the spica or car, and used for making bread.
There are several species of corn, such as wheat, rye, and barley, millet and rice, oats, maize, and lentils, peas, and a number of other kinds, each of which has its peculiar qualities and usefulness. Egypt was anciently th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-033301-1601 | CORN LAWS AND CORN TRADE.
I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CORN LAWS.
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kp-eb0707-036501-2017 | CORNAGE, an ancient tenure, the service of which was to blow a horn when any invasion of the Scots was perceived. This tenure was very frequent in the northern counties, near the Pictish wall; but by the statute 12 Car. II. all tenures are converted into free and common soccage. An old rental calls cornage newt-geldt, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036502-2017 | CORNARISTS, in ecclesiastical history, the disciples of Theodore Cornhert, an enthusiastic secretary of the states of Holland, who wrote at the same time against the Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists. He maintained that every religious communion needed reformation; but he added, that no person had a right to engage ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036503-2017 | CORNARIUS, or Haguenbot, John, a celebrated German physician, born at Zwickow, in Saxony. His preceptor made him change his name of Haguenbot to that of Cornarius, under which he is best known. At twenty years of age he taught grammar, and explained the Greek and Latin poets and orators to his scholars; and at twenty-t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036504-2017 | CORNARO, Luigi, a Venetian of noble extraction, memorable for having lived in a healthful and active condition till above a hundred years of age, in consequence of observing a rigid course of temperance. By the ill conduct of some of his relations he was deprived of the dignity of nobility in Venice; and seeing himself... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036505-2017 | CORNEILLE, Peter, the celebrated dramatic author, was born at Rouen in the year 1606. He was educated for the bar, which he soon abandoned for pursuits more congenial to his taste. A little amorous adventure first developed his poetical talent, the incidents of which are said to have formed the groundwork of Mélite, hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036601-2030 | CORNELIA, daughter of Scipio Africanus, was the mother of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus. She was courted by a king, but she preferred being the wife of a Roman citizen to that of a monarch. Iler virtues have been deservedly commended, as well as the wholesome principles which she inculcated on her two sons. When a Campan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036602-2030 | CORNET, in the military system of the ancients, an instrument of the nature of a trumpet, upon the sounding of which the ensigns were to march without the soldiers; whereas, when the trumpet sounded, the soldiers were to move forward without the ensigns. The cornets and buc-cinae sounded the charge and retreat, and the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036603-2030 | CORNEUS, the name which Linnaeus gives to a kind of tin ore, found in black columns, with irregular sides, and terminating in prisms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036604-2030 | CORNICULARIUS, in an officer in the Ro man army, whose business was to assist the military tribune in quality of lieutenant.
The cornicularii went the rounds instead of the tribune, visited the watch, and were nearly what adjutants are in modern armies.
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kp-eb0707-036605-2030 | CORNU. See Horn. Cornu Ammonis, in Natural History, fossil shells, called also serpent-stones or snake-stones. They are found of all sizes, from the breadth of a sixpence to more than two feet in diameter, and a few even larger; some of them rounded, others greatly compressed, and lodged in different strata of stones a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036606-2030 | CORNUCOPIA, among the ancient poets, a horn out of which proceeded plenty of all things; and, by a particular privilege which Jupiter granted his nurse, supposed to be the goat Amalthaea. The interpretation of the fable is, that in Libya there is a little territory, shaped not unlike a bullock’s horn, and exceedingly f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036607-2030 | CORNWALL is the most westerly county in England, and stretches also farthest to the south. It is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the east, where it meets Devonshire in a few places, and is separated from it, for the most part, by the river Tamar. From this last boundary its breadth is diminished till it term... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-036901-2069 | CORNWALLIS, Charles, the first Marquis, second Earl, and sixth Baron Cornwallis, was born on the 31st of December 1738, of an ancient and honourable family, which had been settled during many centuries in the county of Suffolk. He was educated at Eton School, and afterwards entered of St John’s College, Cambridge, by t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037001-2082 | COROLLA, among botanists, the most conspicuous part of a flower, surrounding the organs of generation, and composed of one or more flower-leaves, most commonly called petals, to distinguish them from the leaves of the plant; according as there is one, two, or three of these petals, the corolla is said to be monopetalou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037002-2082 | COROLLARY is a consequence drawn from something already advanced or demonstrated. Thus, it being demonstrated that a triangle which has two equal sides, has also two angles equal, it follows that a triangle which has three sides equal, has also its three angles equal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037003-2082 | COROLISTAE, a name by which Linnaeus distinguishes those systematic botanists who have arranged vegetables according to the regularity, figure, number, and other circumstances, of the petals, or beautifully-coloured leaves of the flowers. The best systems of this kind are those of Rivinus and Tourneront. The former pro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037004-2082 | COROLLULA, a term used by botanists to express the little partial flowers which make up the compound ones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037005-2082 | COROMANDEL, or Cholamandalu. This coast extends in a long line on the western side of the bay of Bengal, from Point Calymere to the mouths of the Krishna river, being about 350 miles in length. Along the whole extent of this coast there is not a good harbour, though there are several flourishing towns; and, with the ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037101-2095 | CORONA, or Halo, in Optics, a luminous circle, surrounding the sun, the moon, the planets, or fixed stars. Sometimes these circles are white, and sometimes coloured like the rainbow; sometimes one only is visible, and sometimes several concentric coronas make their appearance at the same time. Those which have been see... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037201-2108 | CORONACH, among the Scotch and Irish, the custom of singing at funerals, anciently prevalent in Scotland and Ireland, and still practised in several parts. Of this custom Mr Pennant gives the following account :—“I had not the fortune to be present at any in North Britain, but formerly assisted at one in the south of I... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037301-2121 | CORONATION, the ceremony of investing with a crown, particularly applied to the crowning of kings, upon their succeeding to the sovereignty. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037302-2121 | CORONELLI, Vincent, a well-known geographer, was born at Venice. His skill in the mathematics having brought him to the knowledge of the Count d’Estrées, the latter employed him in making globes for Louis XIV. With this view Coronelli spent some time at Paris, and left a great number of globes there, which are much est... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037303-2121 | CORONER (coronator), an ancient officer in England, so called because he has principally to do with pleas of the crown, or those in which the king is more immediately concerned. And in this light the lord chief justice of the king’s bench is the principal coroner in the kingdom, and may, if he pleases, exercise the jur... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037304-2121 | CORPORAL, a rank and file man, with superior pay to that of the common soldiers, and nominal rank under a Serjeant, who has charge over one of the divisions or squads of the company, places and relieves sentinels, and keeps good order in the corps-de-garde. He also receives the word from the inferior rounds which pass ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037401-2134 | CORPORATION, a body politic or incorporated, and so called because the persons or members are joined into one body, and are qualified to take, grant, convey, &c.
There is a great variety of subsisting corporations for the advancement of religion, learning, and commerce, in order to preserve entire those rights and imm... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037601-2160 | CORPOREAL, those qualities or accidents which belong to body. See Incorporeal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037602-2160 | CORPOREITY, the quality of that which is corporeal, or has body; or that which constitutes it such. The corporeity of God was the capital error of the Anthropomorphites. Some authors reproach Tertullian with admitting a corporeity in the Deity; but it is manifest that, by body, he means no more than substance. The Maho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037603-2160 | CORPULENCY, the state of a person too much loaded with flesh or fat. Corpulency was held infamous among the ancient Lacedaemonians. Sennertus mentions a man who weighed six hundred pounds, and a woman thirty-six years of age who weighed four hundred and fifty. Bright of Malden, who died at the age of twenty-nine years ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037604-2160 | CORPUS Christi, a festival of the church of England, observed on the next Thursday after Trinity Sunday. It was instituted in honour of the eucharist; to which also one of the colleges of Oxford is dedicated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037605-2160 | CORPUSCLE, in Physics, a minute particle, or physical atom, such as a natural body is composed of. By this word is not meant the elementary particles, nor hypostatical principles of chemists; but those particles, whether of a simple or compound nature, the parts of which will neither be dissolved nor dissipated by ordi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037606-2160 | CORPUSCULAR Philosophy is that method of philosophising which endeavours to explain things, and to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, attraction, or repulsion of the corpuscles, or the minute particles of matter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037607-2160 | CORRADINI di Sezza, Peter Marcellinus, a learned civilian and cardinal, born at Sezza in 1658, acquired the esteem and confidence of Clement XI. and died at Rome in 1743. He was the author of a learned and curious work, entitled Vetus Latium, profanum et sacrum, 2 vols. folio; and a History of Sezza, in 4to. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037608-2160 | CORRADO, Sebastian, an Italian grammarian of the sixteenth century, taught the Greek and Latin tongues at Reggio, where he formed an academy of polite literature; and at length removed to Bologna, in order to become professor of those languages. He wrote several works, the most esteemed of which is Questura in qua Cice... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037609-2160 | CORRECTION, in Printing, the act of retrenching the faults of a work; or the reading which the corrector gives the first proofs, in order to point out and amend the faults which are to be rectified by the compositor.
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kp-eb0707-037610-2160 | CORREGIDOR, the name of an officer of justice in Spain, and in countries subject to the Spanish government. He is the chief judge of a town or province. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037611-2160 | CORREGGIO, a city of Italy, in the province of Reggio, of the duchy of Modena. It is a poor place, without industry, containing within the walls only 2200 inhabitants; but, including the extensive suburbs, about 7500. It was the birth-place of the celebrated painter Antonio Allegri. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037612-2160 | CORREGGIO. See Allegri. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037613-2160 | CORRELATIVE, something opposed to another in a certain relation. Thus father and son are correlatives; while light and darkness, motion and rest, are correlative and opposite terms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037614-2160 | CORREZE, a department of France, formed out of the ancient division Limousin. It is bounded on the north by the departments of the Upper Vienne and the Creuse, on the east by the Puy de Dome and Cantal, on the south by the Lot, and on the west by Dordogne and Upper Vienne. The extent is 2190 square miles, or, according... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037701-2173 | CORRIENTES, a town of Buenos Ayres, in Santa Fe, situated at the junction of the Parana and Paraguay, 440 miles north of Buenos Ayres. The population amounts to about 4500. Long. 60. 36. W. Lat. 27. 50. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037702-2173 | CORROSION, in a general sense, is the action of gnawing away, by degrees, the continuity of the parts of bodies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037703-2173 | CORRUPTICOLAE, a sect which arose out of the Monophysites, in Egypt, about the year 519, under their chief Severus, the pretended patriarch of Alexandria.
The distinguishing doctrine, from which they derived their name, was, that the body of Jesus Christ was corruptible.·, that the fathers had owned it; and that to de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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