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kp-eb0707-068806-6216m | DELMENHORST, one of the circles into which the duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, is divided. It extends over 380 square miles, and contains 28,460 inhabitants, who subsist by agriculture. The chief town, of the same name, is situated on the river Delme, and contains 242 houses, with 1510 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068807-6216m | DELOS, an island of the Archipelago, famous in ancient history. It is said to have been originally a floating island; but afterwards it became fixed and immoveable. It is held sacred on account of its being the birth-place of Apollo and Diana. Anciently this island was governed by its own kings. The Persians allowed th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-068901-6229m | DELPHI, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phocis, situated on the south-western extremity of Mount Parnassus. It was famous for the temple and oracle of Apollo, the origin of which is ascribed to an accidental discovery. A number of goats which were feeding on Mount Parnassus happened, it is said, to approach a place whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-069001-6242m | DELPHINIA, in Antiquity, feasts which the inhabitants of Aegina celebrated in honour of Apollo, surnamed Delphinius, as is pretended, because he assumed the form of a dolphin, in order to conduct Castilius and his colony from the isle of Crete to the Sinus Crissoeus Delphinium, one of the courts of judicature of the At... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-069002-6242m | DELPHINIUS, in Astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, the stars of which are ten in Ptolemy’s catalogue, in Tycho’s the same number, in Hevelius’s fourteen, and in Flamsteed’s eighteen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-069003-6242m | DELPHOS, or Castri as it is most frequently named by the inhabitants, a wretched village in the province of Livadia, consisting of about seventy houses, which occupy the site of the ancient city of Delphi. The remains of the gymnasium, stadium, and other buildings, are still extant in its vicinity; but except these, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-069004-6242m | DELTA is a part of Lower Egypt, included in the space between the branches of the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea. The ancients called it the Isle of Delta, because it is in the shape of a triangle, like the Greek letter of that name. It is about a hundred and thirty miles along the coast from Damietta to Alexandria, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-069005-6242m | DELUGE.
A deluge is an inundation or overflowing of the earth, either wholly or in part, by water.
We have several deluges recorded in history; as that of Ogyges, which overflowed almost all Attica, and that of Deucalion, which drowned Thessaly, in Greece: but the most memorable was that called the Universal Deluge, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070401-6424m | DEMADES, an Athenian, who, from being a mariner, became a great orator, and appeased Philip by his eloquence, after the famous victory which the Macedonian monarch gained over the Athenians at Chaeronea in the year b. c. 338. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070402-6424m | DEMAIN, or Demesne, in Law, is commonly understood to be the lord’s chief manor place, with the lands thereto belonging, which he and his ancestors, time out of mind, have kept in their own manual occupation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070403-6424m | DEMBEA, a very extensive lake, situated in the heart of Abyssinia, and supposed to be about 450 miles in circumference. It contains many islands, one of which is of considerable size, and is made a place of confinement for state prisoners. The numerous streams which descend from the mountains of Damot and Gojam flow in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070404-6424m | DEMBO, an extensive district in the south-eastern part of the kingdom of Congo, in Africa. It has been described as divided into the districts of Aembo, Angongo, and Quingengo, but very little is known about it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070405-6424m | DEMERARA, or Demerary, a colony belonging to Great Britain, in the northern part of South America. It is now composed of what formerly constituted the two governments of Demerara and Essequibo, both of which having been permanently secured to Great Britain by the peace of 1814, have been formed into one settlement, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070701-6463m | DEMESNE. See Domain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070702-6463m | DEMETRIA, a festival in honour of Ceres, called by the Greeks Demeter. The votaries of the goddess lashed themselves with whips made of the bark of trees. The Athenians celebrated a festival of the same name in honour of Demetrius Poliorcetes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070703-6463m | DEMETRIUS, a son of Antigonus and Stratonice, surnamed Poliorcetes, or the Taker of Cities. At the age of twenty-two he was sent by his father against Ptolemy, who had invaded Syria, and he was defeated near Gaza; but he soon repaired his loss by a victory which he obtained, over one of the generals of the enemy. He af... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070801-6476m | DEMI (formed from dimidium), a word used in composition with other words to signify half. DEMi-Attici, boroughs or larger villages of Attica. The Athenian tribes were distinguished into Demi. Homer, in his catalogue, distinguishes the Athenians by the appellation of Demos. When Theseus prevailed on them to quit the cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070802-6476m | DEMISE, in Law, is applied to an estate either in fee simple, fee tail, or for a term of life or years; and so it is commonly taken in many writs. The king’s death is in law termed the demise of the king.
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kp-eb0707-070803-6476m | DEMIURGE (from br i μιος, which denotes a public servant, and ssyov, work), in the mythology of the eastern philosophers, was one of the Aeons employed by the supreme Deity in the creation of the world. He is represented as claiming dominion over the new world he had formed, and totally excluding the supreme Deity from... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070804-6476m | DEMMIN, a city of the Prussian Pomeranian province of Stettin, situated on the river Peene, and containing 391 houses, with 3968 inhabitants. It carries on some shipping trade. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070805-6476m | DEMOCRACY (from bτ↑μος, people, and xgaruν, to command or govern), the same with a popular government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people. Such were the governments of Rome and Athens of old; but the most perfect example of democracy is afforded by the United States of North America at the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070806-6476m | DEMOCRITUS, one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity, was born at Abdera, a town of Thrace, about the 80th Olympiad, that is, about 460 years before Christ. His father, says Valerius Maximus, was able to entertain the whole army of Xerxes; and Diogenes Laertius adds, upon the testimony of Herodotus, that the king,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070901-6489m | DEMOIVRE, Abraham, an eminent mathematician, was born at Vitry, in Champagne, on the 26 th of May 1667. The revocation of the edict of Nantz, in 1685, determined him to fly into England rather than abandon the religion of his fathers. Having laid the foundation of his mathematical studies in France, he perfected himsel... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070902-6489m | DEMONSTRABLE, a term used in the schools to signify that a thing may be clearly proved. Thus it is demonstrable that the three angles of a plane triangle are equal to two right ones. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070903-6489m | DEMONSTRATION, in Logic, a series of syllogisms, whose premises are either definitions, self-evident truths, or propositions already established. See Logic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070904-6489m | DEMONSTRATIVE, in Grammar, a term given to such pronouns as serve to indicate or point out a thing. Of this number are hie, hac, hoc, and ille, illa, illud, among the Latins; and this, that, these, those, in English. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070905-6489m | DEMONTE, a town of Italy, in the province of Coni, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It stands on the river Stura, and contains 6000 inhabitants. Near to it are some mines of lead, which are extensively worked. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-070906-6489m | DEMOSTHENES, the famous Athenian orator, was born at Athens in the year b. c. 381. He lost his father at the early age of seven, and was placed under the conduct of guardians, who robbed him of his substance and neglected his education. But Demosthenes repaired this loss by his love of eloquence and his extraordinary a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071001-6502m | DEMPSTER, Thomas, one of the most learned men whom Scotland has produced, was born at Cliftbog in Aberdeenshire, on the 23d of August 1579, being the twenty-fourth out of twenty-nine children by the same mother. His father, who bore the same name with himself, he describes as proprietor of Muresk, Auchterless, and Kill... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071601-6580m | DEMSTER, or Deemster. See Deemster. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071602-6580m | DEMULCENTS, among physicians, medicines for removing or counteracting acrimonious humours. Such are the roots of marsh-mallows, white lilies, liquorice, and viper-grass, and the five emollient herbs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071603-6580m | DEMURRAGE, in Commerce, an allowance made to the master of a ship by the merchants, for staying in a port longer than the time first appointed for his departure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071604-6580m | DEMURRER, in Law, a stop put to any action upon some point of difficulty which must be determined by the court before any further proceedings can be had in the suit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071605-6580m | DENAICOTT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Coimbetoor, seventy-two miles south by east from Seringapatam. Long. 77. 11. E. Lat. 11. 28. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071606-6580m | DENARIUS, in Roman antiquity, the chief silver coin among the Romans, worth in our money about sevenpence three farthings. As a weight it was equal to the seventh part of a Roman ounce.
Denarius is also used in our law-books for an English penny. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071607-6580m | DENBIGH, a town, the capital of the county of that name, in North Wales, 218 miles from London. It stands at the foot of a craggy elevation near the centre of the beautiful Vale of Clwyd. The town is well built, and the views around it are very delightful, especially from the ruins of an ancient castle demolished in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071608-6580m | DENBIGHSHIRE, a county of North Wales. This district, which in Welsh is called Sir Dinbech, was in the time of the Romans included in that part of Cambria occupied by the Ordovices, and formed a portion of Venedotia, one of the minor partitions of Britannia Secunda.
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kp-eb0707-071801-6606m | DENDERA, a town of Egypt, on the western side of the Nile. Near it are very magnificent ruins, supposed to be those of an ancient temple of Serapis. It is 48 miles southsouth-east of Girge, and 242 south of Cairo. Long. 31. 40. E. Lat. 26. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071802-6606m | DENDERMONDE, sometimes called Termonde, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of East Flanders, in the Netherlands. It is at the junction of the Dender with the Scheldt, is strongly fortified, and can be defended by flooding the vicinity. It contains 1200 houses, with 5796 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071803-6606m | DENDRACHATES, in Natural History, the name given to certain agates containing delineations of trees, mosses, sea-plants, and the like, so elegantly represented that many have erroneously taken them for real plants included in the substance of the stone. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071804-6606m | DENDROMETER (from διvδgov, a tree, and 1 α∑τρsω, I measure), an instrument invented by Duncombe and Whittel, for which they obtained a patent, and so called from its use in measuring trees. It is fitted to a theodolite, and may be used either with or without it, as occasion requires.
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kp-eb0707-071805-6606m | DENDROPHORIA, in Antiquity, the carrying of boughs or branches of trees; a religious ceremony, so called because certain priests, thence called dendrophori or tree-bearers, marched in procession, carrying the branches of trees in their hands in honour of some god, as Bacchus, Cybele, and Sylvanus. The college of the de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071806-6606m | DENEB, an Arabic term signifying tail, and used by astronomers to denote several fixed stars. Thus, deneb elect signifies the bright star in the lion’s tail, and deneb adigege that in the swan’s tail. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071807-6606m | DENHAM, Sir John, an eminent English poet, the only son of Sir John Denham, chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, and one of the lords commissioners there, was born at Dublin in 1615; but his father having, in 1617, been made a baron of the exchequer in England, he received his education in that country. In his yout... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071808-6606m | DENIA, a small city of Spain, in the province of Valencia. It has a tolerable port, and is fortified with a castle and batteries sufficient to protect it. The country around is prolific in vines, and considerable quantities of the grapes are dried here, and exported to England, and various parts of the northern contine... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071901-6619m | DENIER, a small French copper coin, of which twelve make a sol. There are two kinds, the one tournois, the other parisois, the latter of which was worth a fourth part more than the former. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-071902-6619m | DENINA, Charles John Maria, an eminent Italian writer, was born at Revel, in the principality of Piedmont, in the year 1731. Having studied at Saluzzo, he was about to enter into the order of the Grand Augustines at Ceva, at the age of fifteen, when one of his uncles appointed him to a benefice. He accordingly assumed ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-072001-6632m | DENIZEN, in Law, an alien made a subject by the king’s letters patent; otherwise called donaison, because his legitimation proceeds ex donatione regis, “ from the king’s gift.”
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kp-eb0707-072002-6632m | DENIZLEY, or Degnizla, a town of Asia Minor, in the province of Natolia, pleasantly situated on a low hill, towards the southern part of a spacious plain, amidst vineyards, the produce of which is partly converted into raisins, and partly affords a syrup resembling treacle, which is substituted on all occasions for sug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-072003-6632m | DENMARK,
A kingdom in the north of Europe, limited in extent and population, but known in history since an early period of the Christian era. There is no authentic account of the origin of the name of Denmark, nor of the quarter from which the country received its early inhabitants. From the similarity of the Danish a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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A | |
kp-eb0707-073101-6775m | DENNIS, John, a celebrated critic, was the son of a respectable tradesman in London, and born in the year 1657. He received the first branches of education at the great school in Harrow on the Hill, where he commenced acquaintance and intimacy with many young noblemen and gentlemen, who afterwards made a considerable f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073201-6788m | DENOMINATION (from denomino, compounded of de, and nomen, a name), a name imposed upon any thing, and usually expressive of some quality predominant therein. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073202-6788m | DENOMINATOR, in Arithmetic, a term used in speaking of fractions.
Denominator of a Patio is the quotient arising from the division of the antecedent by the consequent. Thus 6 is the denominator of the ratio 30 to 5; because 30 divided by 5 gives 6. This is otherwise called the exponent of the ratio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073203-6788m | DENSITY of Bodies is that property directly opposite to rarity, by which they contain a certain quantity of matter under a certain bulk. Accordingly, a body is said to have double or triple the density of another body, when, the bulk being equal, the quantity of matter in the one is double or triple the quantity of mat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073204-6788m | DENTATUS, Curius, a renowned and highly disinterested Roman general, whose virtues render him more memorable than even his great military reputation, flourished 272 years ß. c. He was thrice consul; he conquered the Samnites, Sabines, and Lucanians; and he gave each citizen forty acres of land, reserving no more for hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073205-6788m | DENTIFRICE, in Medicine, a remedy or preservative for the teeth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073206-6788m | DENTTLES, or Dentils, in Architecture, an ornament in cornices, bearing some resemblance to teeth, and particularly used in the Ionic and Corinthian orders. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073207-6788m | DENITSCALPRA, in Surgery,ŭn instrument for scouring yellow, livid, or black teeth, which being applied near the gums, scrapes off the foul morbid crust. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073208-6788m | DENTITION, the breeding or cutting of the teeth in children. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073209-6788m | D’ENTRECASTEAUX’S Channel, a strait on the
I south-east coast of Van Diemen’s Land, from which it separates Bruny’s Isle. It is about thirty or forty miles in length, but of little breadth. It contains several harbours and three islets. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073210-6788m | DENUNCIATION, a solemn publication or promulgation of any thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073211-6788m | DEOBSTRUENTS, in Pharmacy, such medicines as open obstructions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073212-6788m | DEODAND, in our customs, a thing given or forfeited as it were to God, for the pacification of his wrath in a case of misadventure, by which a Christian comes to a violent end without the fault of any reasonable creature.
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kp-eb0707-073213-6788m | DEODHUR, a town of Hindustan, situated on the northwest frontier of Gujerat. It consists of about a thousand houses, inhabited principally by Rajpoots and Coolies, who subsist principally by plundering their neighbours. It possesses a citadel 150 yards square, which is well fortified, and is surrounded by a wall and de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073214-6788m | DEOGIRE, or Deogur, an ancient city and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Berar. It has fallen into decay since the Mahratta conquest and the removal of the seat of government to Nagpore. Long. 79.12. E. Lat. 21. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073215-6788m | DEOGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, at which place multitudes of pilgrims are seen carrying the water of the Ganges to the western side of India. In this article a considerable trade is carried on. Long. 86. 40. E. Lat. 24. 30. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073216-6788m | DEONELLA, or Deoniiully, a town and fort of Hindustan, in Southern India, belonging to the rajah· of Mysore. The inhabitants have an extraordinary custom, by which every mother, on the marriage of her eldest daughter, is bound to amputate two of her fingers. Some say that it was the birth-place of Hyder Ali, and that i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073217-6788m | DEOPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Monghir, forty miles west by south from Moorshedabad. Long. 86. 33. E. Lat. 24. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073218-6788m | DEOSIR, a small district of Hindustan, in the province of Cashmere, extending along the north side of the Jel-lum, or Colhumah, between the 34th and 35th degrees of north latitude. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073219-6788m | DEPHLEGMATION is an operation by which the superabundant water of a body is drawn off, and it is principally[7:7:733] effected by means of evaporation or distillation. Dephlegmation is also called Concentration·, particularly when acids are the subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073301-6801m | DEPHLOGISTICATED, in Chemistry, any thing deprived of the phlogiston supposed to be contained in it.
Dephlogisticated Air is the same with oxygen gas in the modern chemistry. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073302-6801m | DEPILATORY Medicines are those applied in order to take off the hair. Such are known to be the effects of lime and orpiment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073303-6801m | DEPONENT, in Latin grammar, a term applied to verbs which have active significations, but passive terminations or conjugations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073304-6801m | DEPOPULATION, the act of diminishing the number of people in any country, whether by war, disease, or political causes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073305-6801m | DEPORTATION, a sort of banishment used by the Romans, by which some island or other place was allotted to a criminal as the place of his abode, with a prohibition not to stir therefrom upon pain of death. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073306-6801m | DEPOSIT, among civilians, something that is committed to the custody of a person, to be kept without any reward, and to be returned again on demand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073307-6801m | DEPOSITARY, in Law, a person intrusted as keeper or guardian of a deposit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073308-6801m | DEPOSITION, in Law, the testimony given in court by a witness upon oath.
Deposition is also used for the sequestrating or depriving a person of his dignity and office.
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kp-eb0707-073309-6801m | DEPRECATION, in Rhetoric, a figure by which the orator invokes the aid and assistance of some one, or prays for some great evil or punishment to befall him who speaks falsely, whether that person be himself or his adversary. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073310-6801m | DEPRECATORY, or Deprecative, in Theology, a term applied to the manner of performing some ceremonies in the form of prayer. The form of absolution is deprecative in the Greek church, being conceived in these terms, May God absolve you ; whereas it is in the declarative form in the Latin church, and in some of the refor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073311-6801m | DEPRESSION of the Pole. When a person sails or travels towards the equator, he is said to depress the pole, because as many degrees as l ’.e approaches nearer the equator, so many degrees will the pole be nearer the horizon. This phenomenon arises from the spherical figure of the earth.
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kp-eb0707-073312-6801m | DEPRIVATION, in the common law, is the act of bereaving, divesting, or taking away a spiritual promotion or dignity; as when a bishop, vicar, prebend, or the like, is deposed or deprived of his preferment, for some matter or fault, in fact or in law. See Deposition.
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kp-eb0707-073313-6801m | DEPTFORD, a large town, consisting of two parishes, in the hundred of Blackheath, in the county of Kent, but with a small part of one of the parishes in the county of Surrey. It is divided intoUpper and Lower Deptford by the Ravensbourn, which falls here into the Thames. There is here a royal dockyard for the construct... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073314-6801m | DEPURATION is the freeing of any fluid from heterogeneous matter or feculence. It is of three kinds: first, by decantation, which is performed by letting the liquor to be depurated stand for some time in a pretty deep vessel, till the gross sediment has fallen to the bottom, after which the clear fluid is poured off; s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073315-6801m | DEPUTATION, a mission of select persons, out of a company or body, to a prince, or other person or persons, to treat of matters in their name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073316-6801m | DEPUTY, a person employed to manage a particular business by some community or individual in authority.
Deputy is also one who exercises an office in another’s right; and hence the forfeiture or misdemeanour of such deputy causes the person whom he represents to lose his office. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073317-6801m | DEPUTATUS, among the ancients, a name applied to persons employed in making armour, and likewise to brisk active people, whose business it was to take care of the wounded in engagements, and carry them off the field. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073318-6801m | DERBEND, a town of Persia, and capital of the province of Daghestan, and also of a small principality of the same name. It is situated in the province of Schirvan, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, and contains about 650 houses, and 4000 inhabitants, who are Armenians, Mahommedans, Jews, and Russians. It is buil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073401-6814m | DERBY, a town, the capital of the county of that name. It is 126 miles from London, being situated in a beautiful and fertile valley watered by the river Derwent, which is navigable to the Trent. It consists of five parishes, with their respective churches. The houses are well built, the market-place is a fine square, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073402-6814m | DERBYSHIRE was, in the time of the Britons, a portion of the district which constituted the kingdom of the Co-ritani. During the government of the Romans, it formed a part of Britannia Prima, and under the Heptarchy it was included in the kingdom of Mercia. It is situated nearly in the centre c∙f England, and is bounde... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073701-6853m | DEREES, a town of Persia, in ι the province of Fars, which has declined from its former importance. Owing to the scarcity of timber, every house is arched. About seven miles to the north are the ruins of the ancient city of Shapour, nearly six miles in circuit, where are the remains of some singular colossal figures sc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073702-6853m | DEREHAM East, or Market Dereham, a markettown of the hundred of Midford, in Norfolk, 101 miles from London. It is a well-built town, situated in a pleasant and fruitful district. The church is ancient and beautiful, and contains many curious specimens of ancient taste. The poet Cowper, who died at Dereham, is interred ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073703-6853m | DERELICTS (from de, and relinquo, to leave), in the civil law, are such goods as are wilfully thrown away or relinquished by the owner. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073704-6853m | DERENBURG, a town of the Prussian province of Saxony, on the river Holzemme. It is surrounded with walls, and contains 400 houses, with 2066 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073705-6853m | DERHAM, Dr William, an English philosopher and divine, born at Shoughton, near Worcester, in November 1657, educated at Blockley in that county, and admitted of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1675. In 1682 he was presented to the vicarage of Wargrave in Berkshire, and in 1689 to the valuable rectory of Upminster in Essex;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073801-6866m | DERIVATION, in Medicine, is when a humour which cannot conveniently be evacuated at the part affected, is attracted from thence, and discharged elsewhere; thus a blister is applied to the neck in order to draw away the humour from the eyes.
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kp-eb0707-073802-6866m | DERIVATIVE, in Grammar, a word which takes its origin from another word, called its primitive. Such is the word derivative itself, which takes its origin from the primitive rivus, a rivulet or channel, out of which lesser streams are drawn. Thus manhood, deity, lawyer, are derived from man, deus, law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073803-6866m | DERNIER Resort. See Resort. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073804-6866m | DEROGATION, an act contrary to a preceding one, and which annuls, destroys, and revokes it, either in whole or in part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073805-6866m | DERVENTIO, in Ancient Geography, a river of the Brigantes, in Britain, now the Derwent, in the eastern part of Yorkshire, falling into the Ouse. Also a town of the Brigantes, on the same river, now called Auldby, seven miles from York, to the north-east. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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