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kp-eb0707-061207-5228 | DANCALI, an extensive territory of Eastern Africa, situated between Abyssinia and the Red Sea, the coast of which it occupies from the bay of Azab to that called by Lord Valentia Annesley Bay, leaving only a small portion of sea-coast, which is properly Abyssinian. This [7:7:613]tract is in general arid and barren, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061301-5241 | DANCE, or Dancing, as at present practised, may be defined an agreeable motion of the body, adjusted by art to the measures or tones of instruments, or of the voice. But, according to what some reckon more agreeable to the true genius of the art, dancing is the art of expressing the sentiments of the mind, or the passi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061601-5280 | DANDAR, a district of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated about the twenty-fifth degree of north latitude. It belongs to independent chiefs, and is little known to Europeans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061602-5280 | DANDINI, Pietro, an eminent painter, was born at Florence in 1646, and received his first instructions in the art of painting from Valero Spada, who excelled in small drawings with a pen. Whilst he was under the care of that artist, he gave such evident proofs of a ready genius, that he was then placed as a disciple wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061603-5280 | DANEGELT, an annual tax imposed on the Anglo-Saxons, for every hide of land throughout the realm, in order to maintain such a number of forces as were thought sufficient to clear the British seas of Danish pirates, who heretofore had greatly annoyed our coasts.
Danegelt was first imposed as a standing yearly tax on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061604-5280 | DANET, Peter, abbot of St Nicholas de Verdun, was one of the persons chosen by the Duke of Montausier to write on the classics for the use of the dauphin. He had a share in Phaedrus, which he published with notes and explanations in Latin. He also wrote a dictionary in Latin and French, and another in French and Latin.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061605-5280 | DANIEL, the fourth of the greater prophets, was born in Judea, of the tribe of Judah, about the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Josiah. He was led captive to Babylon, with other young Hebrew lords, after the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, who received them into his service. That prince gave them masters to in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061701-5293 | DANILOW, a circle in the Russian government of Jaroslaw, to the north of the city of that name. It is watered by the river Wolga. The population amounts to 64,540 persons, contained in one city and 765 villages, distributed into fifty-four parishes, with an equal number of churches. The capital is of the same name, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061702-5293 | DANMONH, an ancient British nation, supposed to have inhabited that tract of country which is now called Cornwall and Devonshire, bounded on the south by the British Ocean, on the west by St George’s Channel, on the north by the Severn, and on the east by the country of the Durotriges. Some other British tribes were al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061703-5293 | DANTE, Alighieri, one of the first poets of Italy, was born at Florence in May 1265, being descended of an ancient and honourable family. The name he received at his birth was Durante, which was abbreviated into Dante, in which form it has descended to posterity. Boccacio, who lived at the same period, has left a very ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-061901-5319 | DANTON, George-Jacques, born at Arcis-sur-Aube on the 28th October 1759, was, at the epoch of the revolution, advocate to the council of the king, and one of the most terrible enemies of the authority to which a little before he appeared to have attached his fortune. Nature seems to have fitted this man for the part wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062201-5358 | DANTZICK, Dantzik, or Dantzig, one of the provincial governments of West Prussia. It is bounded by Königsberg'on the east, by Marienwerder on the south, by Koslin on the west, and by the Baltic on the north. It extends over 3322 square miles, or 2,126,000 English acres. It comprehends eleven cities, seven market-towns,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 21' 5" N 18 33' 40" E | DANTZICK |
kp-eb0707-062202-5358 | DANUBE, Upper, one of the circles of the kingdom of Bavaria. It is composed of several portions, which have been secularized or mediatized of late years, namely, of the ecclesiastical states Augsburg, Kempten, and some smaller territories, and of the temporal states Augsburg, Lindau, Mindelheim, Schwabeck, of the lords... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062203-5358 | DAO, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near Timor. The inhabitants are employed in working in gold, and produce surprising specimens of their ingenuity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062204-5358 | DAOUD, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, belonging to the Mahrattas. Long. 74. 26. E. Lat. 23. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 7' N 74 26' E | DAOUD |
kp-eb0707-062205-5358 | DAOUDCANDY, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal and district of Tipperah, twenty-five miles south-east from Dacca, from which place to Comilah there is a passage by water on the river Goompty in the rainy season. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062206-5358 | DAOUDNAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, sixty-one miles south-west-by-south of Patna. Long. 84. 27. E. Lat. 25. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 25 6' N 84 27' E | DAOUDNAGUR |
kp-eb0707-062207-5358 | DAPHNE, a daughter of the river Peneus, by the goddess Terra, of whom Apollo became enamoured. This passion had been raised by Cupid, with whom Apollo, proud of his late conquest of the serpent Python, had disputed the power of his darts. Daphne heard with horror the addresses of the god, and endeavoured to remove hers... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062301-5371 | DAPHNEPHORIA, a festival in honour of Apollo, celebrated every ninth year by the Boeotians. It was then usual to adorn an olive bough with garlands of laurels and other flowers, and to place on the top a brazen globe, on which were suspended smaller ones. In the middle were arranged a number of crowns, and a globe of i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062302-5371 | DAPIFER, the dignity or office of grand master of a prince’s household. This title was given by the Emperor of Constantinople to the Czar of Russia as a testimony of favour. In France the analogous officer was instituted by Charlemagne; and the dignity of dapifer still, we believe, subsists in Germany. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062303-5371 | DARABJIRB, or Darab-guierd, a town of Persia, in the province of Kerman, situated on the banks of a river which runs through an extensive plain, interspersed with villages and cultivated lands. It is surrounded with groves of orange and lemon trees, which yield fruit in such abundance that the juice is exported to all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 29 N 54 15' E | DARABJIRB |
kp-eb0707-062304-5371 | DARAH, or Dras, a river of Northern Africa, which rises on the southern side of the great range of the Atlas, and runs through the country of the same name. It is now ascertained that this river, instead of falling into the Atlantic, as was supposed, after pursuing a course of about three hundred miles, divides into va... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062305-5371 | DARANAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Delhi, situated on the east side of the Ganges, sixty-eight miles north-east of Delhi. Long. 78. 4. Ľ. Lat. 29. 16. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062306-5371 | DARAPORAM, or Dharma-puram, a town of Hindustan, situated on the river Amarawati, in the province of South Coimbetoor. It was formerly a larger place, but declined greatly during the internal wars of the country in the latter part of the last century. It was visited by Dr Buchanan in 1800, when the plan of a new town h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062307-5371 | DARAPTI, among logicians, one of the modes of syllogisms of the third figure, the premises of which are universal affirmatives, whilst the conclusion is a particular affirmative: thus,
Every body is divisible; Every body is a substance; Therefore some substance is divisible. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062308-5371 | DARDA, a fortified town of Hungary, in the circle of the Farther Danube, on the banks of the river Moravitza, and the capital of the district Baranya. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062309-5371 | DARDANELLES, two old and strong castles on the straits of Gallipoli, or the Hellespont, sometimes called from them the Strait of the Dardanelles, between the Sea of Marmora and the Grecian Archipelago. The one is situated in Europe, and is called Sestos, or the Castle of Romania; the other stands on the Asiatic side of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062401-5384 | DARDANUS, a son of Jupiter and Electra, who, after the death of his brother Jasion, left Samothrace, his native country, and passed into Asia Minor, where he married Batia, the daughter of Teucer, king of Teucria. After the death of his father-in-law he ascended the throne, and reigned sixty-two years. He built the cit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062402-5384 | DARES, a Phrygian, who lived during the Trojan war, in which he was engaged, and of which he wrote the history in Greek. This history was extant in the age of Aelian; but the Latin translation, which is all that is known of it, is generally allowed to be spurious, though it is attributed by some to Cornelius Nepos. Thi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062403-5384 | DARFUR, or Darfoor, a considerable kingdom of Central Africa, occupying a large portion of the interval between Abyssinia and Bornou. Pur would appear to be the proper name, Dar signifying, in the language of the people, country in general; but the term Darfur is adopted in compliance with established usage. The bounda... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062501-5397 | DARIC, in Antiquity, a piece of gold, first coined by Darius the Mede about 538 years before Christ, probably during his stay at Babylon, out of the vast quantity of gold which had been accumulated in the treasury of that capital. The daric was thence dispersed over the East, and also in Greece; so that the Persian dar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062502-5397 | DARIEN, a province of South America, in the viceroyalty of New Grenada, bounded on the north-west by Panama, on the north-east by the Gulf of Darien, on the east by the province of Carthagena, on the south by Choco, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The country is for the most part mountainous and rugged, but there... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062901-5449 | DARH, in Logic, one of the modes of syllogism of the first figure, in which the major proposition is an universal affirmative, and the minor and conclusion particular affirmatives: thus,
Every thing that is moved, is moved by another;
Some body is moved;
I Therefore some body is moved by another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062902-5449 | DARIUS, the name of several kings of Persia. See Persia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062903-5449 | DARKEHMEN, a circle in the province of East Prussia, extending over 136 square miles, or 87,040 acres, and containing 20,530 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated on the river Angerap, sixty-three miles south-east of Konigsberg, and contains 164 houses and 1901 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062904-5449 | DARKNESS, the absence or privation of natural light. One of the most terrible sorts of darkness was that which Moses brought upon Egypt as a plague on the inhabitants of that country. The Septuagint, our translation of the Bible, and indeed most others, in explaining Moses’s account of this darkness, render it “a darkn... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062905-5449 | DARLINGTON, a town in the ward of the same name, in the county of Durham, 243 miles from London. It is situated on the river Skern, which runs into the Tees. There are some large establishments for making linen in the town. There is a collegiate church, and the remains of an episcopal palace, with a spacious market-pla... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062906-5449 | DARMAPOORAM, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Barramahal, 103 miles east by south from Seringapatam. Long. 78. 21. E. Lat. 12. 11. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062907-5449 | DARMSTADT, a city, the capital of the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, in Germany. It is situated on a small river of the same name, and is divided into the old and the new town. The former is surrounded with thick walls, and is gloomy and unsightly; the latter has good broad streets, well built, paved, and lighted, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062908-5449 | DARNETAL, a town of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, about two miles from Rouen, containing 600 houses and 5230 inhabitants, who make many of the finer kinds of woollen goods, as well as flannel and blankets. There are also tanneries, paper-mills, and cottonspinning machines. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-062909-5449 | DARNLEY’S Island, an island in the Eastern Seas, lying in Torres Strait, between New Holland and New Guinea. It is about fifteen miles in circumference, and covered with rich vegetation. It is inhabited by a treacherous race. Long. 142. 59. E. Lat. 9. 39. S.
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kp-eb0707-063001-5462 | DAROCA, a city of Spain, in the province of Aragon. It is situated in a most prolific valley, through which the river Xiloca runs, and by the waters of which it is liberally irrigated. The hemp and flax produced here arc highly esteemed throughout the whole of Spain. The place contains seven churches and 2683 inhabitan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063002-5462 | DARRA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, district of Monghir, eighty-four miles north-west from Moorshedabad. Long. 87. 4. E. Lat. 24. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063003-5462 | DARTFORD, a town of the hundred of Axton, in the county of Kent, fifteen miles from London. Near to it are several mills for making gunpowder. It is a great thoroughfare for travellers to the Continent. There is a good market, which is held on Saturdays. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2406, in 1811 to 3177, in 182... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063004-5462 | DARTMOUTH, a borough and sea-port of the hundred of Coleridge, in the county of Devon, thirty miles from Exeter, and 203 from London. It is a long town, facing the quay. It has three churches, and several good charity schools. The harbour is one of the finest on the southern coast of this island, but difficult to sail ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063005-5462 | DARUVAR, a town in the Austrian Sclavonish province of Siebenbergen, the capital of the district Janko-vice. It contains a Catholic, a Greek, and a Protestant church, and about 3000 inhabitants, who cultivate silk and wine, and manufacture woollen cloths. There is a salt spring near it, and some marble quarries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063006-5462 | DARU, Comte de, a peer of France, a member of the French Academy and of the Academy of Sciences, and a distinguished historian, was born at Montpellier, where his father held the office of secretary to the intendancy of Languedoc, about the year 1767. He entered the army at the age of sixteen, and at the period of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063007-5462 | DARWAR, a district of Hindustan, in the nizam’s dominions, in the province of Aurungabad, situated between the eighteenth and nineteenth degrees of north latitude. The chief towns are Darwar and Renapoor, the former situated in long. 76. 35. E. and lat. 18. 40. N.
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kp-eb0707-063101-5475 | DARWIN, Erasmus, a physician, poet, and medical writer, was born at Elston, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, on the 12th December 1731. He was the fourth son of Robert Darwin, Esq., and received the early part of his education at Chesterfield school, under the Rev-Mr Burrows, of whom he always spoke with great respect.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063201-5488 | DASAN, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the south-west coast of the island of Mindanao. Long. 121. 30. E. Lat. 6. 46. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 6 46' N 121 30' E | DASAN |
kp-eb0707-063202-5488 | DATA, among mathematicians, a term for such things or quantities as are given or known, in order thereby to find other things that are unknown. The data of Euclid is the first in order of the books which have been written by the ancient geometricians, to facilitate and promote the method of resolution or analysis. In g... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063203-5488 | DATE, an addition or appendage in writings, acts, instruments, letters, and the like, expressing the day and month of the year when the act or letter was passed or signed, together with the place where the same was done. The word is formed from the Latin datum, given, the participle of do, I give. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063204-5488 | DATISI, in Logic, a mode of syllogisms in the third figure, in which the major is an universal affirmative, and the minor and conclusion particular affirmative propositions. For example,
All who serve God are kings;
Some who serve God are poor;
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kp-eb0707-063205-5488 | DATIVE, in Grammar, the third case in the declension , of nouns, expressing the state or relation of a thing to [7:7:633]which some other thing is referred. It is called dative, because usually governed by a verb, implying something to be given to some person. As commodare Socrati, to lend to Socrates; utilis reipuhlic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063301-5501 | DAUBENTON, Louis-Jean-Marie, a distinguished naturalist, was born at Montbar, in the department of the Côte d’Or, in France, on the 29th of May 1716. His father, Jean Dauben ton, was a notary in that place, and his mother’s name was Marie Pichenot. In his youth he distinguished himself by the sweetness of his temper, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063401-5514 | DAUGHTER, a female child. Daughters, among the ancients, were more frequently exposed than sons, as they required greater charge to educate and settle them in the world. Those who had no legitimate sons were obliged by the Athenian laws to leave their estates to their daughters, who were confined to marry their nearest... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063402-5514 | DAULAKEE, a village of Persia, situated on a small rivulet. The peasantry collect naphtha from two wells in the vicinity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063403-5514 | DAULI, a river of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur, which, after a short course, joins the Alcananda at Vishnuprayaga, a holy resort of the Hindus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063404-5514 | DAUPHIN is a title given to the eldest son of the royal family of France, and heir presumptive of the crown, on account, as is said, of the province of Dauphine, which in 1343 was granted to Philip of Valois, on this condition, by Humbert, dauphin of the Viennois. The dauphin, in his letters patent, styled himself “By ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063405-5514 | DAURAT, or Dorat, in Latin Auratus, John, a French poet, born in the Limousin in 1507. In the reign of Henry II. he was preceptor to the king’s pages; and Charles IX. who took great delight in his conversation, honoured him with the title of his poet; but his generosity and want of management placed him among that clas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063406-5514 | DAVANAGIRI, a town in the south of India, province of Mysore, and district of Chitteldroog. It consists of 500 houses, with a small fort in the centre. It carries on a considerable trade, and has an extensive manufacture of blankets, called cumbies, which in their fabric greatly resemble English camblets. They form a p... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063407-5514 | DAVENANT, Sir William, a poet and dramatic writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Oxford in 1605. After some stay at the university, he entered into the service of Frances, first duchess of Richmond, and afterwards of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, who having an excellent taste for poetry, was much charmed with h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063501-5527 | DAVENTRY, a market-town in the hundred of Faws-ley, in Northamptonshire. It is an ancient place, situated near the two rivers Nen and Avon. The only manufacture is that of horse-whips. There is a good market on Wednesday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2583, in 1811 to 2758, in 1821 to 3326, and in 1831 to 3646. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063502-5527 | DAVID, king of Israel, was born at Bethlehem in 1085, and died 1014 years before Christ. The history of the royal Hebrew poet is particularly recorded in the sacred writings.
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kp-eb0707-063503-5527 | DAVID’S, St, a city in the county of Pembroke, in South Wales, 267 miles from London. As the see of a bishop, it has a cathedral, four archdeacons, and nineteen prebendaries, besides eight vicars choral. It is situated on the sea coast, on the promontory called St David’s Head. Opposite to it arc five or six rocks, dis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063504-5527 | DAVIDISTS, Davidici, or David-Georgians, a sect of heretics, the adherents of David George, a native of Delft, who in 1525 began to preach a new doctrine, publishing himself as the true Messiah, and declaring that he was sent thither to fill heaven, which was quite empty for want of people to deserve it. He is likewise... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063505-5527 | DAVIG, a town of Norway, in the bailiwick of Sondi-fiord, and province of Bergen, with 1985 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063506-5527 | DAVILA, Henry Catherin, a celebrated historian, was born on the 30th October, at Sacco, a village near Padua. He was the youngest son of Antonia Davila, grand constable of Cyprus, who, on the taking of that island by the Turks in 1570, had been obliged to retire into Spain, from which this family supposed that they had... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063601-5540 | DAVIS, Sir John, an eminent lawyer and poet, was born about the year 1570. He first distinguished himself by his poem on the Immortality of the Soul. He became attorney-general and speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland; and afterwards he was appointed lord-chief-justice of the court of King’s Bench in England, but... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063602-5540 | DAVIS’S Island, one of the Philippines, about forty miles in circumference, and situated about the 124th degree of east longitude, close to the island of Bool. It is also the name of one of those numerous islands which form the Mergui Archipelago at the southern extremity of the Bay of Bengal. It is about ten miles in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-063701-5553 | DAVY, Sir Humphry. This truly eminent man was born on the 17th of December 1778, in the small town of Penzance, in Cornwall, of very respectable parents, in the humbler walks of life. In that place he received the elements of his education, until 1793, when he was removed to the grammar-school of Truro, then under the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064301-5631 | DAY, according to the most natural and obvious sense of the word, signifies that space of time during which it continues to be light, in contradistinction to night, which is that portion of time during which it is dark; but the space of time in which it is light being somewhat vague and indeterminate, the time between ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064302-5631 | DAWLISH, a town of the hundred of Exminster, in Devonshire, 177 miles from London. It is one of those places which have grown from a village to a town since the fashion of sea-bathing has extended itstfif. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1424, in 1811 to 1882, in 1821 to 2700, and in 1831 to 3151. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064303-5631 | DAX, an arrondissement of the department of the Landes, in France, extending over 918 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons, and subdivided into 112 communes, containing 87,000 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the river Adour. It is fortified, and defended by a strong castle, and cont... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064304-5631 | DAZE, in Natural History, a name given by our miners to a glittering sort of stone, which often occurs in their works; and as it is an unprofitable substance, it is one of those things they call weeds. The word daze, in their phraseology, includes every stone that is hard and glittering, and therefore it comprehends th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064401-5644 | DEACON (Diaconus), a person in the lowest degree of holy orders, whose business it is to baptize, read in the church, and assistat the celebration of the eucharist. The word is formed from the Latin diaconus, of the Greek διάκονος, minister, servant. Deacons were instituted, seven in number, by the apostles (Acts, chap... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064402-5644 | DEACONESS, a female deacon; an order of women who had their distinct offices and services in the primitive church. This office appears to have been as ancient as the apostolical age; for St Paul calls Phebe a servant of the church of Cenchrea. The original word is διάκονος, answering to the Latin word ministra. Tertull... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064403-5644 | DEACONRY, Diaconate, the order or ministry of a deacon or deaconess. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064404-5644 | DEAD Reckoning, in Navigation, the judgment or estimation which is made of the place where a ship is situated, without any observation of the heavenly bodies. It is discovered by keeping an account of the distance she has run by the log, and of her course steered by the compass, and by rectifying these data by the usua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-064501-5657 | DEAF AND DUMB.
The education of those unfortunate children who, from birth or early infancy, have been destitute of the sense of hearing, and who are therefore precluded from receiving instruction in the ordinary way, must obviously be attended with peculiar difficulties. The senses being the only inlets to knowledge,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-065901-5839 | DEAFNESS, the state of a person who wants the sense of hearing; or the disease of the ear, which prevents the due reception and discrimination of sounds. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-065902-5839 | DEALS, a thin kind of fir-planks, of great use in carpentry. They are formed by sawing the trunk of a tree into a great many longitudinal divisions, of more or less thickness according to the purposes which they are intended to serve. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-065903-5839 | DEAL, a market-town of the hundred of Cornilo, in the county of Kent, seventy-four miles from London. It is situated on the sea-shore, facing the road-stead of the Downs, and is celebrated as the landing-place of Julius Caesar, and at a later period as that of Perkin Warbeck. It consists of one long street, on the shor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-065904-5839 | DEALPOOR, a district of Hindustan, in the province [7:7:660] of Moultan, and situated about the thirty-first degree of north latitude. It is annually overflowed by the waters of the rivers Beyah and Suttledge, and is famous for its pastures, on which are reared not only fine cattle, but an excellent breed of horses, fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066001-5852 | DEAN, an ecclesiastical dignitary in cathedral and collegiate churches, and head of the chapter.
The Rural-DsAN, called also Arch-Presbyter, originally exercised jurisdiction over ten churches in the country, and afterwards became only the bishop’s substitute, in order to grant letters of administration, probate of wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066002-5852 | DEANERY, is the office of a dean. Deaneries and prebends may become void like a bishopric, by death, by deprivation, or by resignation either to the king or bishop. If a dean, prebendary, or other spiritual person, be made a bishop, all the preferments of which he was before possessed become void; and the king may pres... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066003-5852 | DEARGOUN, an elevated country of Hindustan, in the province of Assam, situated on one of the branches of the Brahmaputra river, and in which there is a celebrated Hindu temple. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066004-5852 | DEATH is generally considered as the separation of the soul from the body; in which sense it stands opposed to life, which consists in the union of both.
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kp-eb0707-066101-5865 | DEBENHAM, a town in the hundred of Thredling, in Suffolk, eighty-two miles from London and twelve from Ipswich. The population amounted in 1801 to 1215,in 1811 to 1224, in 1821 to 1535, and in 1831 to 1629. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066102-5865 | DEBENTURE, a term of trade used at the customhouse for a kind of certificate signed by the officers of the customs, which entitles a merchant exporting goods to the receipt of a bounty or drawback. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066103-5865 | DEBRECZYN, or Debretzin, a city of Hungary, in the province of Farther Theis, and the capital of the circle of Sarrether. Next to Pest, it is the most considerable place in the kingdom. It is an ill-built open town, containing one Catholic, two reformed, and two Greek churches, several hospitals and monasteries, and 30... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066104-5865 | DEBRUIZED, in Heraldry, a term peculiar to the English, by which is intimated the grievous restraint of any animal debarred of its natural freedom, by any of the ordinaries being laid over it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066105-5865 | DEBT, National. See England, and Funding System. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066106-5865 | DECADE, a word used by some old writers for the number ten, and decades for an enumeration by tens. The word is formed from the Latin decas, which is derived from a Greek word of the same import. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066107-5865 | DECAGON, in Geometry, a plain figure with ten sides and ten angles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066108-5865 | DECALOGUE, the ten precepts or commandments delivered by God to Moses, after engraving them on two tables of stone.
The Jews, by way of excellence, call these commandments the ten words, from which they had afterwards the name of decalogue ; but it is to be observed that they joined the first and second into one, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066109-5865 | DECCAN, or the Country of the South, formerly included, according to the Hindu geographers, the whole of the countries situated to the south of the river Nerbuddah; at last, however, it came to apply to the country which was situated between this river and the Krishna, the latter being for a long period the southern bo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066110-5865 | DECANTATION, among chemists and others, the gently pouring off a liquor from its faeces, by inclining the lip or canthus of the vessel; and hence the name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066111-5865 | DECANUS, in Roman antiquity, an officer who presided over the other ten officers, and was head of the contubernium, or serjeant of a file of soldiers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066112-5865 | DECAPOLIS, in Ancient Geography, a district beyond Jordan, almost all of it belonging to the half tribe of Manassch; before the captivity called Bethsan, but afterwards occupied by the heathen, who could not be driven out of it. It comprised, as the name denotes, ten principal cities on the other side the Jordan, if we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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