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kp-eb0707-066113-5865 | DECAPROTI, Decemprimi, in Roman antiquity, officers for gathering the tributes and taxes.
The decaproti were also obliged to pay for the dead, or to answer to the emperor for the quota of such as died out of their own estates. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066114-5865 | DECASTYLE, in the ancient architecture, a building with ten columns in front, such as the temple of Jupiter Olympius. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066115-5865 | DECEMBER, the last month of the year, in which the sun enters the tropic of Capricon, and makes the winter solstice. In Romulus’s year, December was the tenth month, and hence the name is probably composed of decem, ten, and ab vere, from the spring; for the Romans began [7:7:662]their year in March. The month of Decem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066201-5878 | DECEMPEDA, ∆eκα∙rouς, ten-feet rod, an instrument used by the ancients in measuring.
The decempeda was a rule or rod divided into ten feet; and hence its name, from decem, ten, and pes, foot. The foot was subdivided into twelve inches, and each inch into ten'digits. The decempeda was used both in the measuring of land... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066202-5878 | DECEMVIRI, ten magistrates of absolute authority among the Romans. The privileges of the patricians raised dissatisfaction among the plebeians, who, though freed from the power of the Tarquins, still saw that the administration of justice depended upon the will and caprice of their superiors, without any written statut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066203-5878 | DECENNALIA, ancient Roman festivals, celebrated by the emperors every tenth year of their reign, with sacrifices, games, and largesses for the people. The emperor Augustus first instituted these solemnities, in which he was imitated by his successors. At the same time the people offered up vows for the emperor, and for... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066204-5878 | DECHALES, Claudius Frances Milliet, a mathematician, mechanic, and astronomer, descended from a noble family, and born at Chambery in 1611. His principal performances are an edition of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, in which the unserviceable propositions are rejected, and the uses of those retained annexed; a discours... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066205-5878 | DECIDUOUS, an appellation chiefly used in respect of plants; thus the calyx or cup of a flower is said to be deciduous when it falls along with the flower-petals; and, on the contrary, it is called permanent when it remains after they have fallen. Again, deciduous leaves are those which fall in autumn, in contradistinc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066206-5878 | DECIL, in Astronomy, an aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066207-5878 | DECIMAL Arithmetic, the art of computing by decimal fractions. See Arithmetic. Circulating Decimals, called also recurring or repeating decimals, are those in which a figure or several figures are continually repeated. They are distinguished into single and multiple, and these again into pure and mixed.
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kp-eb0707-066301-5891 | DECIMATION, a punishment inflicted by the Romans on such soldiers as quitted their posts, or behaved themselves in a cowardly manner in the field. The names of the guilty were put into an urn or helmet, and as many having been drawn out as made the tenth part of the whole number, these were put to the sword and the oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066302-5891 | DECIPHERING, the art of finding the alphabet of a cipher, or discovering a method of reading an unknown character or tongue. See Cipher. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066303-5891 | DECIUS Mus, a celebrated Roman consul, who, after many glorious exploits, devoted himself to the gods manes for the safety of his country in a battle against the Latins, about 340 years before the Augustan age. His son Decius imitated his example, and devoted himself in like manner in his fourth consulship, when fighti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066304-5891 | DECIZE, a city of the department of the Nièvre, in France, upon an island in the Loire. It contains 158 houses, and 2468 inhabitants. Some good coal is obtained near this place. Long. 3. 31. 3. E. Lat. 46. 50. 24. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066305-5891 | DECK of a Ship (from decken, to cover), the planked floors of a ship, which connect the sides together, and serve as platforms to support the artillery and lodge the men, as also to preserve the cargo from the sea in merchant vessels. See Ship-building. FIusJi-Dece. implies a continued floor laid from stem to stern, up... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066306-5891 | DECKNALL, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cuttack, thirty-eight miles north-north-west from the town of Cuttack. Long. 85. 55. Έ. Lat. 21. 1. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066307-5891 | DECLA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Canara, on the coast of Malabar, thirty miles south from Mangalore, near to which are the ruins of an extensive wall or rampart, which divides the province from Malabar. Long. 75. 6. E. Lat. 12. 26. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066308-5891 | DECLAMATION, a speech made in public, in the tone and manner of an oration, uniting the expression of action to propriety of pronunciation, in order to give the sentiment its full impression upon the mind. According to the manners and customs of the present age, public harangues are made only in the pulpit, in the sena... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066401-5904 | DECLINATION, in Grammar, an inflection of nouns, according to their divers cases; as nominative, genitive, dative, and so on. See Grammar. Declination, in Astronomy, the distance of any celestial object from the equinox, either northward or southward. It is either true or apparent, according as the real or apparent pla... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066501-5917 | DECLINATOR, or Declinatory, an instrument chiefly used in practical dialing, for taking the declinations, inclinations, or reclinations of the planes on which the dials are to be delineated. See Dialing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066502-5917 | DECOCTION usually signifies either the action of boiling a substance in water, or the water itself in which the substance has been boiled. It is only applicable to matters containing principles soluble in water; such particularly as animal and vegetable matters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066503-5917 | DECOLLATION, Beheading, a term seldom used except in the phrase decollation of St John Baptist; which denotes a painting representing the Baptist’s head struck off from his trunk, or the feast held in honour of that martyr. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066504-5917 | DECOMPOSITION, in Chemistry, usually signifies the disunion or separation of the constituent parts of bodies. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066505-5917 | DECORATION, in Architecture, any thing that adorns and enriches a building, church, triumphal arch, or the like, either without or within.
Decoration is more particularly applied to the scenes of theatres. In operas and other theatrical performances, the decorations must frequently be changed, conformably to the subje... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066506-5917 | DECORUM, in Architecture, is the suitableness of a building, and the several parts and ornaments thereof, to the station and occasion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066507-5917 | DECOUPLE, in Heraldry, the same as uncoupled. Thus a chevron decouple is a chevron wanting so much of it towards the point, that the two ends stand at a distance from one another, being parted and uncoupled. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066508-5917 | DECOY, in naval affairs, a stratagem employed by a ship of war to betray a vessel of inferior force into an un-cautious pursuit, until she has drawn her within the range of her cannon, or what is called within gun-shot distance. It is usually performed by painting the stern and sides in such a manner as to disguise the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066509-5917 | DECREE, an order made by a superior power for the regulation of an inferior.
Decree, in the civil law, is a determination which the emperor pronounced upon hearing a particular cause between the plaintiff and defendant.
Decrees of Councils are the laws made by councils in order to regulate the doctrine and policy of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066510-5917 | DECREMENT, in Heraldry, signifies the wane of the moon from the full to the new. The moon in this state is called moon decrescent or in decours ; and when borne in coat armour, she faces to the left side of the escutcheon, as she does to the right side when in the increment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066511-5917 | DECREPITATION, in Chemistry, signifies the quick separation of the parts of a body, occasioned by a strong heat, and accompanied with a crackling noise. This effect is most frequently produced by water contained betwixt the parts of the decrepitating body, when these parts possess a certain degree of adhesion. This wat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066512-5917 | DECRETAL, in the canon law, is a letter of a pope, determining some point or question in the ecclesiastical law. The decretals compose the second part of the canon law. The first genuine decretal, acknowledged by all the learned as such, is a letter of Pope Siricius, written in the year 385, to Himerus, bishop of Tarra... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066513-5917 | DECTAN, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Malwah, situated among the Vinduya Mountains, 28 miles south from Oojain. Long. 75. 40. E. Lat∙ 22. 49. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066514-5917 | DECUMATES Agri, tithed fields, or fields granted on a tithe, as appears from Tacitus, to the rabble of Gauls who succeeded the Marcomanni, who had till then proved a check to the Roman conquests up the Rhine; and hence probably their name, which signifies people living on the marches or limits of the empire. In Cicero ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066515-5917 | DECUPLE Proportion, that of ten to one. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066516-5917m | DECURIO, a subaltern officer in the Roman armies. He commanded a decuria, which consisted of ten men, and was the third part of a turma, or the thirtieth part of a legion of horse, which was composed of 580 men. There were certain magistrates in the provinces, called decuriones municipales, who represented the Roman se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066601-5930m | DECURY, ten persons ranged under one chief or leader, called the decurio. The Roman cavalry was divided into decuries, which were subdivisions of a century, each century containing ten decuries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066602-5930m | DECUSSATION, a term in geometry, optics, and anatomy, signifying the crossing of two lines, rays, or nerves, when they meet in a point, and then proceed separately. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066603-5930m | DECUSSORIUM, a surgeon’s instrument, which, by pressing gently on the dura mater, causes an evacuation of the pus collected between the cranium and the membrane just mentioned, through the perforation made by the trepan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066604-5930m | DEDDINGTON, a town of the hundred of Wootton, in Oxfordshire, sixty-nine miles from London, and seventeen from Oxford. In the neighbourhood are two medicinal springs. It has a market, which is held on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801. to 1172, in 1811 to 1296, in 1821 to 1404, and in 1831 to 1590. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066605-5930m | DEDHAM, a town of the hundred of Lcxden, in the county of Essex, fifty-three miles from London, and situated in a pleasant valley on the river Stour. It has a good market on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1537, in 1811 to 1432, in 1821 to 1651, and in 1831 to 1770. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066606-5930m | DEDICATION, the act of consecrating a temple, altar, statue, palace, or other work, to the honour of some deity.
The use of dedications is very ancient, both amongst the worshippers of the true God and amongst the heathens. In the Scripture we meet with dedications of the tabernacle, of altars, of the first and second... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066607-5930m | DEE, John, a mathematician and astrologer, was born in July 1527, at London, where his father was a wealthy vintner. In 1542 he was sent to St John’s College, Cambridge. After five years’ close application to mathematical studies, particularly astronomy, he went to Holland, in order to visit several eminent mathematici... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066701-5943m | DEED, an instrument written on paper or parchment, comprehending some contract, bargain, or agreement between the parties thereto, in relation to the matter therein contained. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066702-5943m | DEEG, a town and celebrated fortress in the province of Agra, belonging to the Jauts. In 1760 this place was occupied and strongly fortified by Soorag Mull, the rajah of the Jauts. In 1776 it was taken from that tribe by Nujuff Khan, after a siege of twelve months, but was soon afterwards restored to them. In 1805, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066703-5943m | DEEMSTERS, or Demsters, from the Saxon dema, judge or umpire. All controversies in the Isle of Man are decided without process, writings, or any charges, by certain judges, chosen yearly from among the people, called deemsters, there being two of them for each division of the island. The deemsters sit as judges in all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066704-5943m | DEEPING-MARKET, a town of the hundred of Ness, and division of Kesteven, in the county of Lincoln, eighty-eight miles from London. It is situated in a fenny but fertile district on the river Welland. The market-day is Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 803, in 1811 to 899, in 1821 to 1016, and in 1831 to 109... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066705-5943m | DEER. See Mammalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066706-5943m | DEERLYK, a market-town in the circle of Courtrai, and province of West Flanders, containing 4340 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066707-5943m | DEES, or Deescii, a market-town in the Austrian province Siebenbergen, at the junction of the two rivers Szamos, containing a Catholic, a reformed, and a Lutheran church, and a Franciscan convent, with about 2200 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066708-5943m | DEFAMATION, the speaking slanderous words of another; for which the slanderer is punishable, according to the nature of his offence, either by action upon the case at common law, or by statute in the ecclesiastical court. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066709-5943m | DEFAULT, in Law, is generally taken for non-appearance in court at a day assigned; but it imports any omission of that which we ought to do, for which judgment may be given against the defaulter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066710-5943m | DEFECTION, the act of abandoning or relinquishing a party or interest which a person had been engaged in. The word is formed from the Latin deficio, to fall off. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066711-5943m | DEFECTIVE, in general, an appellation given to things which want some of the properties that they ought naturally to possess. Thus, Defective, or Deficient Nouns, in Grammar, are such as want either a whole number, a particular case, or are totally indeclinable. The term defective is also applied to a verb which has no... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066712-5943m | DEFENCE, in Fortification, all sorts of works which cover and defend the opposite posts, as flanks, casements, parapets, and faussebraies.
Line of Defence, a supposed line drawn from the angle of the curtain, or from any other part in the curtain, to the flanked angle of the opposite bastion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066713-5943m | DEFEND, in general, signifies much the same with protecting or warding off injuries offered to any person either by enemies or otherwise.
Defend, in our ancient laws and statutes, signifies to prohibit or forbid; as Usuarios defendit quoque rex Edwardus ne remanerent in regno. L. L. Edw. Conf. c. 38, and 5 Rich. IL c.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066714-5943m | DEFENDER of the Faith (Fidei Defensor), a peculiar title belonging to the king of England, as Catholicus to the king of Spain, and Christianissimus to the king of France. These titles were given by the popes of Rome. That of Fidei Defensor was first conferred by Leo X. on King Henry VIII. for writing against Martin Lut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066801-5956m | DEFENDERS were anciently notable dignitaries both in church and state, whose business it was to look to the preservation of the public weal, to protect the poor and helpless, and to maintain the interests and causes of churches and religious houses. (See Protector.) The council of Chalcedon (can. 2) calls the defender ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066802-5956m | DEFERENS, or Deferent, in the ancient astronomy, an imaginary circle, which sweeps round the body of a planet, and is the same with the eccentric, being invented to account for the eccentricity, perigee, and apogee of the planets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066803-5956m | DEFILE, in Fortification, a straight narrow passage, through which a company of horse or foot can pass only in file. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066804-5956m | DEFINITE, in Grammar, is applied to an article which has a precise determinate signification, such as the article the in English, le and la in French, which fix and ascertain the noun they belong to, to some particular, as the king, le roi; whereas, in the quality of king, de roi, the articles of and de mark nothing pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066805-5956m | DEFINITION, in general, a short description of a thing by its properties; or, in logic, the explication of the essence of a thing by its kind and difference. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066806-5956m | DEFINITIVE, a term applied to whatever terminates a process, question, or the like, in opposition to provisional and interlocutory. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066807-5956m | DEFLAGRATION, in Chemistry, the kindling or setting fire to a salt or mineral, either alone, or mixed for the purpose with a sulphureous substance, in order to purify it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066808-5956m | DEFLECTION, the turning of any thing aside from its course by some adventitious or external cause. The word is often applied to the tendency of a ship to deviate from her true course by means of currents, or the like, which turn her out of her right way. It is likewise applied by astronomers to the tendency of the plan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-066809-5956m | DEFOE, Daniel, a man of varied and original genius, who distinguished himself as a political writer, and, above all, immortalized his name by the incomparable romance of Robinson Crusoe, was born in London about the year 1663. He was the son of James Foe, butcher in the parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, and grandson of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067201-6008m | DEFOLIATION (from de, and folium, a leaf), the fall of the leaves. A term opposed to frondescentia, the annual renovation of the leaves, produced by the unfolding of the buds in spring.
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kp-eb0707-067202-6008m | DEFORMITY, the want of that uniformity necessary to constitute the beauty of an object.
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kp-eb0707-067701-6073m | DEFOSSION (Defossio'), the punishment of burying alive, inflicted amongst the Romans on vestal virgins guilty of incontinency. It is also a custom among the Hungarians to inflict this punishment on women convicted of adultery. Heretics were likewise punished in this manner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067702-6073m | DEGENERATION, or Degenerating, in general, denotes the growing worse, or losing some valuable qualities of which a thing was formerly possessed. Some naturalists have been of opinion, that things are capable of degenerating into quite a distinct species, but this is chimerical. All that happens in the degeneration of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067703-6073m | DEGRADATION, in our law books called disgradation and deposition, the act of depriving or stripping a person for ever of a dignity or degree of honour, and taking away the title, badge, and privileges thereof.
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kp-eb0707-067801-6086m | DEGREE, in Geometry, a division of a circle, including a three hundred and sixtieth part of its circumference.
Degree of Latitude. See Latitude. Degree of Longitude. See Longitude.
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kp-eb0707-067802-6086m | DEHINDAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Nizam’s territories, in the province of Berar, forty miles south-west from Elli¢hpoor. Long. 77. 47. E. Lat. 20. 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067803-6086m | DEIPHON, in fabulous history, a brother of Triptolemus, son of Celeus and Metanira. When Ceres travelled over the world, she stopped at his father’s court, and undertook to nurse him and bring him up. In order to reward the hospitality of Celeus, the goddess began to make his son immortal, and every evening she placed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067804-6086m | DEISCAL, in the ancient British customs, the name of a ceremony originally used in the druidícal worship, and retained in many places down to a very late period, as a civil ceremony towards persons of particular distinction. The temples of the ancient Britons were all circular; and the druids, in performing the public ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067805-6086m | DEISM, the doctrine or belief of the deists. Deism, from Θiος, God, is properly used to denote natural religion, as comprehending those truths which have a real foundation in reason and nature; and in this sense it is so far from being opposed to Christianity, that it is one great design of the gospel to illustrate and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067806-6086m | DEISTS, a class of people known also under the denomination of Frce-thinhers, whose distinguishing character it is not to profess any particular form or system of religion; but only to acknowledge the existence of a God, and to follow the light and law of nature, rejecting revelation, and opposing Christianity.
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kp-eb0707-067901-6099m | DEITY, Godhead, a common appellation given to God, and also by the poets applied to the heathen gods and goddesses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067902-6099m | DEJANIRA, in fabulous history, daughter of Oeneus, King of Aetolia, and wife of Hercules. The centaur Nessus having endeavoured to ravish her, was slain by Hercules with a poisoned arrow. Nessus, when dying, gave his bloody tunic to Dejanira, assuring her that it was a sovereign remedy to cure her husband if ever he pr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067903-6099m | DEJECTION, in Astrology, is applied to the planets when in their detriment, as astrologers speak, that is, when they have lost their force or influence, as is pretended, by reason of their being in opposition to some others which check and counteract them; or it is used when a planet is in a sign opposite to that in wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-067904-6099m | DELAMBRE, J. B. J. an eminent mathematician and astronomer, was born at Amiens on the 19th September 1749. He studied in the gymnasium of that tow n, and by his intimate acquaintance with the Latin and Greek languages, as well as his amiable disposition and prodigious memory, he drew the attention of his preceptor, the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068101-6125m | DELAOUD, a town of Hindustan, belonging to the Mahrattas, in the province of Malwah, twenty-four miles north from Bopal. Long. 77. 26. E. Lat. 23. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068102-6125m | DELAWARE, one of the United States, bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the east by Delaware River and Bay, and on the south and west by Maryland. It is in long. 74. 56. to 75. 40. W. lat. 38. 29. to 39. 47. N.; is ninety-two miles long, and twenty-three broad; and contains 2120 square miles. It is divided into th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068201-6138m | DELDEN, a city in the circle of Ahnelo, of the province Overyssel, in the Netherlands, containing 3875 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068202-6138m | DELEGATE, in a general sense, a deputy or commissioner appointed for a specific purpose.
Delegates, commissioners appointed by the king under the great seal, to hear and determine appeals from the ecclesiastical court.
Court of Delegates, the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes. These delegates are app... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068203-6138m | DELETERIOUS, an appellation given to things of a destructive or poisonous nature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068204-6138m | DELEYTOSA, a town of Spain, in the province of Estremadura. It is situated on the south of the Tagus, near the bridge of Arzobispo, to which the allies retreated after the battle of Talavera. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068205-6138m | DELFSHAVEN, a market-town in the circle of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, with a good harbour on the right bank of the Maas, in which the Delft vessels lie. It carries on great fisheries for herrings and stock-fish, and has large distilleries for gin. The inhabitants amount to 2680. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068206-6138m | DELFT, a city of the circle of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, situated on the river Schie. It is the seat of the engineer, artillery, and marine schools, and is a naval arsenal. It is a regular, well-built city, intersected with canals, and containing seven churches, one of them with a tower three hundred feet in heigh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068301-6151m | DELFZYL, a fortified city of the province Groningen, in the Netherlands. It stands at the junction of the Fi-vel with the Ems, contains 3103 inhabitants, and has considerable trade, and extensive occupation in fishing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068302-6151m | DELHI, an extensive province of Hindustan, situated principally between the twenty-eighth and thirty-first degrees of north latitude. To the north it is bounded by Lahore and Northern Hindustan west of the Goggra, to the south by Agra and Ajmeer, on the east it has Oude and Northern Hindustan, and on the west Ajmeer an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068601-6190m | DELIA, in Antiquity, a festival celebrated every fifth year in the island of Delos, in honour of Apollo. It was first instituted by Theseus, who on his return from Crete placed at Delos a statue which he had received from Ariadne. At the celebration they crowned the statue of the god with garlands, appointed a choir of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068602-6190m | DELIACAL Problem, a celebrated problem among the ancients, concerning the duplication of the cube. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068603-6190m | DELIBAMENTA, in Antiquity, a libation to the infernal gods, always offered by pouring downwards. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068604-6190m | DELIBERATIVE, an appellation given to a branch of rhetoric, employed in proving a proposition, or in convincing an assembly that it ought to be put in execution.
To have a deliberative voice in an assembly is to have a right to give one’s advice and vote therein. In councils the bishops have deliberative voices; but t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068605-6190m | DELILLE, Jacques, early acquired deserved celebrity as the founder of a new school in French poetry, but unfortunately his ambition extended with his fame, till he left behind him as many didactic poems as Sir Richard Blackmore has epics, and we suspect the greater number of them are already almost as little known. The... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068801-6216m | DELIQUESCENCE, in Chemistry, signifies the property which certain bodies have of attracting moisture from the air, and thereby becoming liquid. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068802-6216m | DELIQUIUM, or Deliquium Animi (from delinquo, to swoon), a swooning or fainting away; called also syncope, lipothymia, lipopsychia, eclysis, and asphyxia. Deliquium (from deliquesco, to dissolve), in Chemistry, is the dissolution or melting of a salt by suspending it in a moist cellar. Salt of tartar, or any fixed alka... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068803-6216m | DELIRIUM (from deliro, to rave or talk idly). When the ideas excited in the mind do not correspond with external objects, but are produced by the change induced on the sensorium, the patient is said to be delirious. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068804-6216m | DELITZSCH, a circle in the Prussian province of Sax-pny, extending over 308 square miles, or 197,120 English acres, comprehending three cities or towns and 174 villages, with 34,514 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, on the Lober, is a fortified town, containing 499 houses and 2953 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068805-6216m | DELLAMCOTTA, a fortress of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Bootan. It is situated on a range of lofty mountains, which rises about a mile and a half above the plains of Bengal, and commands the principal pass into Bootan. It was stormed by the British troops in 1773, which so alarmed the Booteans that they petit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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