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kp-eb0707-037704-2173 | CORRUPTION, the destruction, extinction, or at least cessation for a time, of the proper mode of existence of any natural body.
Corruption of Blood, in Law, one of the consequences of an attainder. It goes both upwards and downwards; so that an attainted person can neither inherit lands or other hereditaments from his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037705-2173 | CORSAIR, a pirate or person who seours the seas, especially the Mediterranean, with a vessel armed for war, without commission from any prince or power, in order to plunder merebant vessels. The word is formed from the Italian corsare or corso, or a cursibus, by reason of their courses or excursions. The name was commo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037706-2173 | CORSEE, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, and district of Raybaugh, situated on the banks of the Kistnah river, which here runs in an easterly direction, and is about five hundred yards from bank to bank. It was formerly, while under the Mahommedan government, a place of considerable note; but it ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 16 40' N 74 56' E | CORSEE |
kp-eb0707-037707-2173 | CORSELET, or Corslet, a small cuirass, or, according to others, a piece of armour or coat made to cover the whole body, anciently worn by the pikemen, who were placed in the front and flanks of the battle, to resist the enemy’s assaults, and guard the soldiers placed behind them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037708-2173 | CORSHAM, a town of the hundred of Chippenham, in the county of Wilts, ninety-seven miles from London. It is well built, in a healthy situation. Some broad cloths are made, but to a less extent than formerly. The market is held on Wednesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 2394, in 1821 to 2727, and in 1831 to 2952. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037709-2173 | CORSICA, an island in the Mediterranean, now forming one of the departments of the kingdom of France. It extends from 8. 30. to 9. 31. east longitude, and from 4L 15. to 42. 59. north latitude. The greatest length from north to south is about a hundred and five miles, its breadth from east to west is forty-six miles, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037801-2186 | CORSNED, or Morsel of Execration, a species of trial or purgation anciently in use among us, and which probably arose from an abuse of revelation in the dark ages of superstition. It consisted of a piece of cheese or bread, about an ounce in weight, which was consecrated with a form of exorcism; praying the Almighty th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037802-2186 | CORSTORPHINE, a village of Scotland, in the county of Edinburgh, and about four miles west from that metropolis. In former times it was of much larger size and more importance than it is at present. The population of the parish and village amounts to 1159. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037803-2186 | CORT, Cornelius, a celebrated engraver, was born at Hoorn, in Holland, in 1536. After having learned the first principles of drawing and engraving, he went to Italy to complete his studies, and visited all the places famous for the works of the great masters. At Venice he was courteously received by Titian, and engrave... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037804-2186 | CORTE, an arrondissement in the island of Corsica, 1254 square miles in extent. It is divided into 15 cantons and 182 communes, containing 44,704 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated in the centre of the island, on the river Tavignano. It is defended by a strong fortress. Paoli founded a unive... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 42 12' N 8 50' E | CORTE |
kp-eb0707-037805-2186 | CORTES of Spain, a term purely Spanish, literally signifying the courts, and.applied to the states, or assembly of the states, of the kingdom. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-037806-2186 | CORTES, Hernan, conqueror of Mexico was bornât Medellin, a small town of Estremadura, in 1485. He was descended from a noble family of decayed fortune, who destined him for the bar, and sent him at an early age to the university of Salamanca. But being soon disgusted with a species of study ill suited to his ardent gen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038001-2212 | CORTOMARK, a market-town of the province of West Flanders, in the circle of Bruges, containing 3180 inhabitants, employed in making various woollen goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038002-2212 | CORUMBAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Chuta Nagpore, situated in a wild, uncultivated country. It is 222 miles north-north-west from Calcutta. Long. 85. 3. E. Lat. 23. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 21' N 85 3' E | CORUMBAH |
kp-eb0707-038003-2212 | CORUNDUM. Adamantine spar.—,Korund and De-mantspath, Werner ; Telesie, Corindon, Haüy.
This mineral was long known in Europe under the name of adamantine spar. It was imported from India, where it was used in cutting and polishing gems; but its history was wholly unknown until the late Right Honourable Charles Grevill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038004-2212 | CORUNNA, a city of Spain, in the kingdom or province of Galicia. It is a sea-port of considerable importance, with an excellent harbour, secure against all winds except those which blow from the points between the south and the east. It is well fortified towards the sea, but a hill which commands it renders it but an i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 43 28' N 7 43' 3" W | CORUNNA |
kp-eb0707-038101-2225 | CORUS, Omer, Homer, or Chômer, in Jewish antiquities, a measure containing ten baths, or seventy-five gallons and five pints, as a measure of things liquid, and thirty-two pecks and one pint as a measure for things dry. The corns or omer was most commonly a measure for things dry, and the greatest that was used among t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038102-2225 | CORUSCATION, a glittering or gleam of light issuing from any thing. It is chiefly used for a flash of lightning darting from the clouds in time of thunder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038103-2225 | CORVORANT, otherwise written Cormorant. Sec Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038104-2225 | CORVUS, the Raven or Crow kind, a genus of birds of the order of picae. See Ornithology. Corvus (ZΛ r it∙en), in Astronomy, a constellation of the southern hemisphere, whose stars in Ptolemy’s catalogue are seven, in Tycho’s the same number, and in the Britannic catalogue nine.
Corvus, in Roman antiquity, a military e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038105-2225 | CORWEN, a town in the hundred of Edern; r on, in the county of Merioneth, in Wales, 202 miles from London, on the new post road to Dublin by Holyhead. The inhabitants amounted in 1811 to 1417, in 1821 to 1742, and in 1831 to 1980. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038106-2225 | CORYATE, Thomas, an extraordinary personage, who seems to have made himself notorious by his whimsical extravagances, was the son of a clergyman, and born at Oldcombe, in Somersetshire, in 1577. He acquired Greek and Latin at Oxford, and proceeding afterwards to London, was received into the household of Henry prince o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038107-2225 | CORYBANTES, in Antiquity, priests of Cybele, who danced and capered to the sound of flutes and drums. Catullus, in his poem called Atys, gives a picturesque description of the Corybantes, whom he represents· as sheer madmen. Accordingly, Maximus Tyrius says, that those possessed with the spirit of the Corybantes, as so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038108-2225 | CORYBANTICA, a festival held in Crete in memory of the Corybantes, who educated Jupiter when concealed in that island frorp his father Saturn, when the latter wished to devour him. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038109-2225 | CORYCEUM, in Antiquity, that part of the gymnasium where people undressed. It was otherwise called apody-terion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038110-2225 | CORYCOMACHIA, among the ancients, was a sort of exercise in which they pushed forwards a ball suspended from the ceiling, and at its return either caught it with their hands or suffered it to meet their body. Oribasius informs us that it was recommended for the purpose of extenuating too gross bodies.
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kp-eb0707-038201-2238 | CORYMBIUM, in Antiquity, an ornament of the hair worn by the women. Its form was that of a eoryitibus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038202-2238 | CORYMBUS properly signifies a eluster of ivy berries. Among botanists it is a mode of flowering, in which the lesser or partial flower-stalks are produced along the common stalk on both sides; and, though of unequal lengths, rise to the same height, so as to form a flat and even surface at the top. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038203-2238 | CORYPHAEUS, in the ancient tragedy, was the chief or leader of the company who composed the chorus. The word is formed from the Greek κoguprj, the top of the head. Whenever the chorus took part in the action, the eory-phaeus spoke for all the rest, in quality of a person of the drama, during the course of the acts. Hen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038204-2238 | CORYVRECKAN, Whirlpool of, a dangerous passage in the sea, about a mile in breadth, which lies between the south end of Scarba and the north point of Jura, on the west coast of Argyllshire. It is so named from a young Danish prince who perished there. Towards the Scarba side the sea is in almost perpetual tumult, arisi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038205-2238 | CORYZA, in Medicine, a catarrh of the nose. See Medicine, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038206-2238 | CORZOLA. See Curzola. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038207-2238 | COSAH, a river of Hindustan, which has its source in the Himalaya Mountains, to the north of Nepaul, from which, after a winding course of about 400 miles in a south-south-east direction, it joins the Ganges in the Bengal district of Purneah. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038208-2238 | COSCINOMANCY, the art of divination by means of a sieve. The word comes from xoŵ/vov, cribrum, a sieve, and μαντύα, divination. The sieve being suspended, a formula of words is rehearsed, after which it is taken between two fingers only, and the names of the parties suspected repeated; when he at whose name the sieve t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038209-2238 | COSECANT, in Geometry, the secant of an arch which is the complement of another to 90°. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038210-2238 | COSENING, or Cozening, in Law, an offence by which any thing is done deceitfully, in or out of contracts, that cannot be fitly described by any special name. In the civil law it is called stellionatus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038211-2238 | COSENZA, a city of Italy, the capital of the Neapolitan province of Calabria Citeriore. It is built in the lovely valley of the same name, at the junction of the river Crati with the Busiento. Within the walls the inhabitants are 7900; but the suburbs and adjoining villages, the residents in which frequent the city dai... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 39 34' N 16 25' E | COSENZA |
kp-eb0707-038212-2238 | COSFELD. See Kosfeld. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038213-2238 | COSHERING, in the feudal customs, a kind of right of the lords to lie and feast themselves and their followers at their tenants’ houses. The word coshering may perhaps be derived from the old English word coshe, a cot or cottage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038214-2238 | COSINE, in Trigonometry, the sine of an arch which is the complement of another to 90°. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038215-2238 | COSMETIC, in Physic, any medicine or preparation which renders the skin soft and white, or helps to beautify and improve the complexion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038216-2238 | COSMICAL, a term in Astronomy, expressing one of the poetical risings of a star. Thus a star is said to rise cosmically when it rises with the sun, or with that point of the elliptic in which the sun is at that time; and the cosmícal setting is when a star sets in the west at the same time that the sun rises in the eas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038217-2238 | COSMOGONY, in Physics, signifies the science of the formation of the universe. It is formed of ζοβμο;, the world, and γίνομαι, I am born, or exist. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038218-2238 | COSMOGRAPHY, the description of the world, or the art which teaches the construction, figure, disposition, and relation of all the parts of the world, with the manner of representing them on a plane surface. The word conies from κoσ∕tog, world, and ygapω, I describe. Cosmography consists chiefly of two parts; Astronomy... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038219-2238 | COSMOLABE (from ×o<sμoς, world, and λα i α,Cαιw, Italie), an ancient mathematical instrument, serving to measure distances both in the heavens and on the earth. The cosmolabe is in a great measure the same with the astrolabe. It is also called pantacosm, or the universal instrument, by Morgard, in a treatise written ex... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038220-2238 | COSMOLOGY (from κοσμο;, world, and aoyoς, discourse), the science of the world in general. This Wolfius calls general or transcendental cosmology, and has written a treatise on the subject, in which he endeavours to explain how the world arose from simple substances, and treats of the general principles, of the modific... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038221-2238 | COSMOPOLITE, or Cosmopolitan, a term sometimes used to signify a person who has no fixed living or place of abode, or a man who is a stranger nowhere. The word comes from the Greek κοσ,αο;, world, and -woa∕ς, city. One of the ancient philosophers being interrogated what country he belonged to, answered, he was a cosmop... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038222-2238 | COSNE, an arrondissement of the Nièvre, in France, extending over 620 square miles. It is divided into six cantons, and subdivided into sixty-six communes, containing 5Ş,667 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated at the junction of the Nouain with the Loire. It contains 734 houses, and 5394 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038301-2251 | COSOCETO, a town of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Ulteriore. In 1783 an earthquake destroyed in this town, and eleven villages around it, 3515 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038302-2251 | COSSACKS are certain Russian tribes who inhabit the southern and eastern parts of the empire. They are a species of military democracy, being independent of the imperial government in their internal administration, and paying no taxes into its treasury, but performing the duty of soldiers instead, in which capacity the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038303-2251 | COSSATO, a town of Italy, in the province of Biclla, and kingdom of Sardinia. It is situated on the canal of Santhia, and contains 2170 inhabitants, whose chief pursuit is the cultivation of vineyards. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038304-2251 | COSSE de Geniste, an order of knighthood instituted in 1234, by Louis IX. on the occasion of his marriage with Margaret of Provence. The motto on the collar of this order was Exaltat humiles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038305-2251 | COSSIMBAZAR, a large manufacturing town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, nearly adjoining the southern suburbs of Moorshedabad, of which it may be considered as the port. It is situated on the south-east bank of the Bhagarutty river, and is one of the largest trading towns in Bengal. ∙ It has long been celebrat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038306-2251 | COSSIMCOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, which was taken by the British in 1758. Long. 83. 10. E. Lat. 17. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038307-2251 | COSTA, or ACOSTA, Christopher, a celebrated botanist of the sixteenth century. He was born in Africa, being of Portuguese descent; and, in order to perfect himself in the knowledge of simples, went into Asia, where he was taken prisoner; but he found means to make his escape, and, after several voyages, practised physi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038308-2251 | COSTA RICA, a province of Guatemala, extending from Nicaragua to the district of Chiriqui, in the jurisdiction of Veraguas, a distance of one hundred and sixty leagues from west to east; and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of sixty leagues from north to south. Its limit on the Atlantic is from the mo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038401-2264 | COSTAL, an appellation given by anatomists to several parts belonging to the sides. Thus we meet with costal muscles, vertebra?, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038402-2264 | COSTANZO, Angelo di, a celebrated Italian historian and poet of the sixteenth century, descended of a noble Neapolitan family, and lord of Cantalupo, was born at Naples about the year 1.507. Connected by ties of friendship with Sannazaro, and several other great men who then lived in the capital, he was encouraged by t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038403-2264 | COSTARD, George, a clergyman of the church of England, and author of several learned works, was born about the year 1710. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and took the degree of A. Μ. in 1773. The first ecclesiastical preferment he obtained was that of curate of Islip, in Oxfordshire. In 1747 he published, in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038404-2264 | COTA, Rodríguez, a Spanish poet, born at Toledo in the fifteenth century, was surnamed El Tio, or the Uncle. No details of his life are found in any of the biographies. He is believed to have flourished under the reign of Don Juan IL, king of Castille; and the celebrated tragi-comedy of Calista y Melibea, as well as a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038405-2264 | COTANGENT, the tangent of an arch which is the complement of another to 90°. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038406-2264 | COTCHUNG, or Coociiung, a district of Khorassan, in Persia. It is governed by an independent chieftain, who can bring 12.000 men into the field. He resides in a town of the same name, tw enty-three forsungs or ninety miles E.S.E. of Merid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038407-2264 | COTE-CAUNGRA, a strong fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, which was taken by the Emperor Acbar after a year’s siege. In the neighbourhood is the celebrated temple of Nagur Cote, which continued to retain its reputation for sanctity many years after the country was invaded by the Mahommedans. It is 122 mi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 32 20' N 75 42' E | COTE-CAUNGRA |
kp-eb0707-038501-2277 | COTELERIUS, John Baptist, fellow of the Sorbonne, and regius professor of Greek, was born at Nismes, in Lan-¶ guedoc, in 1627. He made a collection of the fathers who lived in the apostolic age, which he published at Paris in two volumes folio in 1672, revised and corrected from several manuscripts, with a Latin transl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038502-2277 | COTERELLUS. Cotarius and Coterellus, according to Spelman and Du Fresne, are servile tenants; but in Doomsday-book and other ancient manuscripts, there appears a distinction, as well in their tenure and quality as in their name; for the cotarius had a free soccage tenure, and paid a stated firm or rent in provisions or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038503-2277 | COTERIE, a term adopted from the French trading associations or partnerships, where each person advances bis quota of stock, and receives his proportion of gain; and it retains its original meaning when applied to little assemblies or companies associated for mirth and social enjoyment, where each one furnishes his quo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038504-2277 | COTES, Roger, a celebrated mathematician and philosopher, was born in 1682, at Burbach, in the county of Leicester, of which his father was rector or curate. Before his twelfth year he showed a decided predilection for the mathematics, which one of his uncles afforded him the means of cultivating; and he made such rapi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038505-2277 | COTESWOLD, several sheep-cotes, and sheep feeding on hills. It comes from the Saxon cote, that is, casa, a cottage, and wold, a place where there is no wood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038506-2277 | COTHURNUS, Buskin, a very high shoe or patten raised on soles of cork, worn by the ancient actors in tragedy, in order to make them appear taller and more like the heroes they represented, most of whom were supposed to be giants. It covered the greater part of the leg, and was tied beneath the knee. Aeschylus is said t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038507-2277 | COTICE, or Cotise, in Heraldry, is the fourth part of the bend, which with us is seldom or never borne except in couples, with a bend between them, whence probably the name. It comes from the French coté, side, cotices being borne, as it were, beside the bend. A bend thus bordered is said to be cotised, coticé. Thus, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038508-2277 | COTIGNAC, a market-town of the department of the Var, in France, containing 3227 inhabitants, who trade in leather and the fruits grown in its vicinity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038509-2277 | COTILLON, the name of a brisk dance, in which eight persons take part. The term is French, and signifies an under pettieoat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038510-2277 | COTIOTE, a small district of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar, which, according to the report given in by surveyors, contains an area of 312 British square miles. The face of the country, like that of the other parts of Malabar, contains low hills separated by narrow valleys, which are fit for the cultivation of r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038601-2290 | COTOPAXI, the most remarkable volcanic mountain of the Andes, in Quito, thirty-five miles south-south-east of Quito. It rises 18,898 feet above the level of the sea, and is considered as the most beautiful of the colossal summits of the Andes. Its eruptions have been numerous and very destructive; those which took plac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038602-2290 | COTRONE, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province of Calabria Ulteriore. It is situated on the seashore,and is walled and defended by a strong fort. It contains 4600 inhabitants, who are occupied in various trades, and in seafaring pursuits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038603-2290 | COTT, or Cot, a particular sort of bed-frame, suspended from the beam of a ship, for the officers to sleep in, between decks. This contrivance is much more convenient at sea than either the hammocks or fixed cabins, being a large piece of canvass sewed into the form of a chest, about six feet in length and one foot in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038604-2290 | COTTACOTTA, a town of Hindustan, in the Balaghaut ceded territories, fifty-seven miles north by west from Cuddapah. It was formerly the residence of the rajah. Long. 78. 47. E. Lat. 15. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038605-2290 | COTTAPATAM, a town of Hindustan, on the sea coast of the Southern Carnatic, sixty-five miles south from Tanjore. Long. 79. 15. E. Lat. 9. 58. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038606-2290 | COTTAGE, a little house for habitation, with a small portion of land attached to it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-038607-2290 | COTTAGE SYSTEM.
Among the various schemes devised for checking the progress of pauperism in England, and for augmenting the comfort and happiness of the lower classes, few seem to have obtained a greater degree of popularity, or to be more generally patronised, than the cottage system ;—that system which proposes, und... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-039401-2394 | COTTEE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Behar, ninety miles south by west from Patna. Long. 84. 40. E. Lat. 24. 21. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-039402-2394 | COTTIWAR, or Cattivad, a considerable district of Hindustan, in the centre of the Gujerat peninsula, situated between the 21st and 23d degrees of north latitude. The present inhabitants, who are supposed to have been long in possession of the country, are Hindus, but of the sect which pays adoration to the sun. They ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-039501-2407 | COTTON is a soft vegetable down, the produce of the gossypium or cotton tree, of which there are many varieties. It grows naturally in all the tropical climates of Asia, Africa, and America, whence it has been transplanted, and has become an important article of cultivation in the southern parts of the United States, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-039502-2407 | COTTON MANUFACTURE.
The cotton manufacture had its origin in the East, where the cotton plant is indigenous, and where the climate renders a light and absorbent fabric a suitable clothing for the people. It has in consequence been long established over every part of Asia, although it is only in India that it is carrie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042301-2771 | COTTON, Sir Robert, an eminent English antiquary, descended from an ancient family, was born in 1570. In his eighteenth year he began to collect ancient records, charters, and other manuscripts. Camden, Selden, and Speed have acknowledged their obligations to him in their respective works. He was highly distinguished b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042401-2784 | COTULA, or Cotyla, a liquid measure in use among the ancients. Fannius says the cotyla was the same thing with the hemina, which was half a sextary.
At cotylas, quas si placeat, dixisse licebit Heminas recepit geminas sextarius unus.
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kp-eb0707-042402-2784 | COTYS, a name common to several kings of Thrace, of Cappadocia, and of the Cimmerian Bosphorus. The most ancient of these was Cotys, king of Thrace, who, about the year 600 b. c. permitted Alyattes, king of Lydia, to carry a colony of Mysians. The kings of this family called themselves descendants of Eumolpus; and henc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042403-2784 | COTYTTO, the goddess of debauchery. Her festivals, called cotyttia, were celebrated by the Athenians, Corinthians, Thracians, and other races of people, during the night. Her priests were called baptae, and nothing but debauchery and wantonness prevailed at the celebration of these festivals. A festival of the same nam... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042404-2784 | COUCH, in Painting, denotes a lay or impression of colour, whether in oil or water, with which the painter covers the canvass, wall, wainscot, or other matter to be painted. The word is also used for a lay or impression on any thing, to make it firm and consistent, or to screen it from the weather.
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kp-eb0707-042405-2784 | COUCHANT, in Heraldry, is understood of a lion or other beast when lying down, but with the head raised, so as to distinguish the posture of couchant from that of dormant, in which last he is supposed to be quite stretched out and asleep. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042406-2784 | COUCHE, in Heraldry, denotes any thing lying along. Thus chevron-couche is a chevron lying sidewise, with the two ends on each side of the shield, although they should properly rest on the base. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042407-2784 | COUERON, a market-town in the department of the Lower Loire, in France, on the banks of the Loire, containing 3834 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042408-2784 | COULAN, a town of Hindustan, situated on the coast of Travancore. It is a very ancient place, having, according to tradition, been built in 825; and in confirmation of this event, the inhabitants commence their era at the period of its foundation. It was at this place that Alexius Menezes, the first archbishop of Goa, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042409-2784 | COULOMB, Charles Augustin, a profound and ingenious theoretical mechanic and natural philosopher, descended from a distinguished family of Montpellier, was born at Angoulême, on the 14th of June 1736. At an early period 'of his life he felt a strong preference for mathematical studies, and would gladly have devoted his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042901-2849 | COULOMMIERS, an arrondissement in the department of the Seine and Marne, in France, extending over 465 square miles, and containing 50,243 inhabitants. The city which gives its name to the arrondissement is on the right bank of the great Morin, and contained 570 houses and 3530 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-042902-2849 | COUNCIL, in a general sense, an assembly of various considerable persons, to concert measures relative to the state.
In Britain, the law, in order to assist the king in the discharge of his duties, the maintenance of his dignity, and the exertion of his prerogative, has assigned him a diversity of councils to advise w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043001-2862 | COUNSEL, in a general sense, signifies advice or instruction how to act in any difficult matter.
Counsel, or Advocates, in English courts of law, are of two kinds.or degrees, namely, barristers and serjeants.
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kp-eb0707-043002-2862 | COUNSELLOR, in general, a person who advises another. Thus we say, a counsellor at law, a privy counsellor, and the like.
Privy Counsellor. See Privy Council. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043003-2862 | COUNT, Comes, a nobleman who possesses a domain erected into a county. English and Scottish counts we distinguish by the title of Earls; foreign ones still retain their proper designation. The dignity of count is intermediate between that of duke and baron. According to the modern use, most plenipotentiaries and ambass... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-043101-2875 | COUNTER, a term which enters into the composition of various words of our language, and generally implies opposition, but when applied to deeds means an exact copy kept by the contrary party, and sometimes signed by both parties.
Counter- Changed, in Heraldry, the intermixture or opposition of a metal with a colour.
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