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kp-eb0707-073806-6866m | DERVIS, or Dervish, a name given to a sort of monks among the Turks, who lead a very austere life, and profess extreme poverty, though they are allowed to marry. The word is originally Persian, and signifies a beggar, or one who has nothing; and because religious persons, particularly the followers of Mevelava, pretend... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073807-6866m | DESAGUILIERS, John Theophilus, who introduced the practice of reading public lectures in experimental philosophy in the metropolis, and who made several improvements in mechanics, was the son of the Reverend John Desaguilicrs, a French Protestant refugee, and was born at Rochelle on the 12th of March 1683. His father b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073808-6866m | DESAIGNE, a market-town of the department of the Upper Loire, in France, situated on the river Doux. It contains 683 houses, and 3440 inhabitants. Near to it is the enormous mass of ruins called Diana’s temple, founded in remote ages by the Romans. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073809-6866m | DESAULT, Pierre Joseph, a distinguished French surgeon, was born at Magny-Vernais, a village of Franche-Comté, in the year 1744. He was descended of parents of a humble rank in life, received the early part of his education in a school of the Jesuits, and was destined for the church; but his own inclination tended to t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073901-6879m | DESBARA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, twenty-three miles west-by-north from Broach. Long. 72. 44. E. Lat. 21. 44. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073902-6879m | DESCANT, in Music, the art of composing in several parts. Descant is threefold; plain, figurative, and double. Plain descant is the groundwork and foundation of all musical compositions, consisting altogether in the orderly placing of many concords, answering to simple counterpoint. Figurative or florid descant is that... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073903-6879m | DESCARTES. See Cartes. Descartes, a town of the department of the Indre and Loire, in France, with 183 houses and 965 inhabitants, remarkable as the birthplace of the celebrated philosopher Renatus Descartes in 1650. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073904-6879m | DESCENDANT. The issue of a common parent, in infinitum, are called his descendants. See Descent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-073905-6879m | DESCENSION, in Astronomy, is either right or oblique. Right Descension is an arch of the equinoctial, intercepted between the next equinoctial point and the intersection of the meridian, passing through the centre of the object, at its setting, in a right sphere.
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kp-eb0707-073906-6879m | DESCENT, in general, is the tendency of a body from a higher to a lower place. Thus all bodies, unless otherwise determined by a force superior to their gravity, descend towards the centre of the earth.
Descent, or Hereditary Succession, in Law, is the title by which a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074001-6892m | DESCRIPTION, in literary composition, is such a strong and beautiful representation of any object or thing as gives the reader a distinct view and satisfactory notion of it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074002-6892m | DESENZANO, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Brescia, on the Lake of Garda. It contains three churches, and 3550 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074003-6892m | DESERT, a large extent of country entirely barren, and producing nothing. In this sense some are sandy deserts; as those of Lop, Xamo, Arabia, and several others in Asia; and in Africa those of Libya and Sahara; whilst others are stony, as the desert of Pharan in Arabia Petraea.
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kp-eb0707-074004-6892m | DESHACHE, in Heraldry, is where a beast has its limbs separated from its body, so that they still remain on the escutcheon, with only a small separation from their natural places. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074005-6892m | DESIDERATUM is used to signify the desirable perfections in any art or science: thus, it is a desideratum with the blacksmjth to render iron fusible by a gentle heat, and yet preserve it hard enough for ordinary uses; with the glassman and looking-glass maker to render glass malleable; and with the clockmaker to bring ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074006-6892m | DESIGN, in a general sense, is the plan, order, representation, or construction of a building, book, painting, or the like.
Design, in the manufactories, expresses the figures with which the workman enriches his stuff or silk, and which he copies after some painter or eminent draughtsman, as in diaper, damask, and oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074007-6892m | DESIGNATION, the act of marking or indicating and making a thing known. The designation of an estate is made by the tenants, hutments, and boundings. Amongst the Romans there w ere designations of the consuls and other magistrates, some time before their election. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074008-6892m | DESIGNATOR, a Roman officer, who assigned and marked out to each person his place and rank in public ceremonies, shows, processions, and the like. The word is formed from the verb designare, to point out or designate.
The designator was a kind of marshal or master of the ceremonies, who regulated the seats, march, ord... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074009-6892m | DESIGNING, the art of delineating or drawing the appearance of natural objects by lines on a plane. To design, [7:7:741]according to the rules of mathematics, forms the object of perspective. See Perspective. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074101-6905m | DESPOT, a term sometimes used for an absolute prince or sovereign. The word originally signified the same thing with the Latin herus, and the English master ; but in time it underwent the fate upon medals, which, among the Latins, Caesar did with regard to Augustus; BACIΛETC answering to Augustus, and ΔECΠOTHC, despote... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074102-6905m | DESPOTICAL, in general, denotes any thing that is uncontrolled and absolute; but it is particularly used for an arbitrary government, where the power of the prince is unlimited, and his will a law to his subjects; such as those of Turkey, Persia, and most of the eastern governments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074103-6905m | DESPOUILLE, in Heraldry, the whole case, skin, or slough of a beast, with the head, feet, tail, and all appurtenances, so that being filled and stuffed, it looks like the entire creature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074104-6905m | DESPREAUX. See Boileau. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074105-6905m | DESSAU, a city of Germany, the capital of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau. It stands on the river Mulda, over which is a bridge. It is the residence of the sovereign, and contains 9800 inhabitants, who carry on a variety of manufactures, but all upon a small scale. Its being the seat of a government, though a minute ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074106-6905m | DESSERT, or Desert, a service of fruits and sweetmeats, usually served up last at table. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074107-6905m | DESSICCATIVE, or Desiccative, in Pharmacy, an epithet applied to such topical medicines as dry up the humours flowing to a wound or ulcer. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074108-6905m | DESTELBERGE, a town in the province of East Flanders and circle of Ghent, in the Netherlands, containing 2527 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074109-6905m | DESTINY, among philosophers and divines. See Fate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074110-6905m | DESTRUCTION, in general, an alteration of any thing from its natural state to one contrary to nature; in which sense it is deemed the same with Corruption.
A chemical destruction, or corruption, is nothing but a resolution of the whole naturally mixed body into its parts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074111-6905m | DESUDATION, in Medicine, a profuse and inordinate sweat, succeeded by an eruption of pustules, called suda-mina or heat pimples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074112-6905m | DESULTOR, in Antiquity, a vaulter or leaper, who, leading one horse by the bridle and riding another, jumped from the back of one to the other, as the custom then was, after they had run several courses or heats. This practice required great dexterity, being performed before the use of either saddles or stirrups. The c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074113-6905m | DESURENNES, or Desvres, a town in the department of the Pas de Calais, in France, containing 2362 inhabitants, who carry on some cloth manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074114-6905m | DETACHMENT, in military affairs, a certain number of soldiers draughted from several regiments or companies, to be employed as the general thinks proper, whether on an attack, at a siege, in parties to scour the country, or on any other duty. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074115-6905m | DETERGENTS, in Pharmacy, such medicines as are not only softening and adhesive, but also, by a peculiar activity, conjoined with suitable configuration of parts, are apt to abrade and carry along with them such particles as they lay hold of in their passage. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074116-6905m | DETERIORATION, the impairing or rendering any thing worse. It is just the reverse of melioration. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074117-6905m | DETERMINATE Problem is that which has but one solution, or a certain limited number of solutions; in contradistinction to an indeterminate problem, which admits of infinite solutions.
Determinate Section, the name of a tract or general problem, written by the ancient geometrician Apollonius-None of this work has come ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074118-6905m | DETERMINATION, in Mechanics, signifies much the same with the tendency or direction of a body in motion. See Mechanics. Determination, amo*ng school divines, is an act of divine power, limiting the agency of second causes, in every instance, to that which the Deity had predestinated concerning them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074119-6905m | DETERSIVES, the same with Detergents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074120-6905m | DETINUE, in Law, a writ or action that lies against one who has got goods or other things delivered to him to keep, and afterwards refuses to restore them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074121-6905m | DETMOLD, a small city, the capital of the dominions of the prince of Lippe-Detmold. It is situated on the river Werra, is surrounded with walls, and divided into the old and new town. From being the seat of the government, it supports, with little or no commerce, a population of about 2300 persons. As there is a court ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074122-6905m | DETONATION, in Chemistry, signifies an explosion with noise made by the sudden inflammation of some combustible body; such are the explosions of gunpowder, fulminating gold, and fulminating powder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074123-6905m | DETRANCHE, in Heraldry, a line bend-wise, proceeding always from the dexter side, but not from the very angle, diagonally athwart the shield. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074124-6905m | DETTELBACH, a bailiwick in the circle of the Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It extends over 72 square miles, or 46,080 acres. It contains two cities and [7:7:742]42 villages, with 7050 inhabitants. It is of moderate fertility. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the river Maine, and consists of 340 h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074201-6918m | DEUCALEDONIUS Oceanus, supposed to be derived from the Gaelic words Duah Gael, the Northern Highlanders ; the sea on the north-west of Scotland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074202-6918m | DEUCALION, king of Thessaly. The flood said to have happened in his time (b. c. 1500) is supposed to have been only an inundation of that country, occasioned by heavy rains, and an earthquake which stopped the course of the river Pencus at the place where it previously •discharged itself into the sea. On these circumst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074203-6918m | DEUCAR, a small town of Northern Hindustan, the capital of a small district of the same name, and tributary to the Ghoorkali rajah of Nepaul. Long. 82. 10. E. Lat. 28. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074204-6918m | DEUNX, in Roman antiquity, 11 ounces, or -∣-∣ of the Libra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074205-6918m | DEUTEROCANONICAL, in the school theology, an appellation given to certain books of Scripture, which were added to the canon after the rest, either by reason of their not being written till after the compilation of the canon, or of some dispute as to their canonicity. The word is Greek, being compounded of δεur⅛∙ς, seco... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074301-6931m | DEUTERONOMY, one of the sacred books of the Old Testament, being the last of those written by Moses (see Pentateuch). The word is Greek, being compounded of 0iυτtζος, second, and vομος, law.
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kp-eb0707-074302-6931m | DEUTEROPOTMI, in Grecian antiquity, a designation given to such of the Athenians as had been thought dead, and, after the celebration of the funeral rites, unexpectedly recovered. It was unlawful for the deuteropotmi to enter into the temple of the Eumenides, or to be admitted to the holy rites, till after they were pu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074303-6931m | DEUTEROSIS, the Greek name which the Jews applied to their Mischnah or second law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074304-6931m | DEUTSCHKRONE, a circle in the Prussian government of Dantzic. It extends over 785 square miles, or 602,400 English acres, comprising five towns and 27,046 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated between the two lakes Arnis and Radunsee. It has a Catholic and Lutheran church, with 2015 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074305-6931m | DEVAPRAYAGA, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur, situated at the junction of the Bhagarathi and Alcanando rivers, the union of which forms that part of the Ganges held most sacred by the Hindus, the bathing in which is supposed to purify them from all their sins. This is one of the five principa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 30 3' N 78 31' E | DEVAPRAYAGA |
kp-eb0707-074306-6931m | DEVA, or Dierarich, a market-town of the Austrian province of Siebenbergen. It is built on the river Maros, and is defended by an ancient castle, which overlooks it. It contains a Catholic, a Greek, and a Protestant church, with about 2500 inhabitants, chiefly of Wallachian origin, who are employed in cultivating the v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 52' 8" N 22 51' 25" E | DEVA |
kp-eb0707-074307-6931m | DEVENTER, a circle in the province of Overyssel, in the Netherlands, containing four cantons, viz. Deventer, Hardenburg, Ommen, and Raelte, with 41,570 inhabitants. The capital is the city of that name, at the junction of the Schipbeek with the Yssel. Its fortifications are now in a neglected state. It is a well-built ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074308-6931m | DEVEREUX, Robert, Earl of Essex, the son of Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, was born at Netherwood, in Herefordshire, in the year 1567. He succeeded to the title of Earl of Essex at the age of ten; and about two years afterwards was sent by his guardian, Lord Burghley, to Trinity College, Cambridge. He took the deg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074401-6944m | DEVICOTTA, a fort and sea-port town in the south of India, and district of Tanjore, situated at the mouth of the Coleroon River. It was taken in 1749 from the rajah of Tanjore, and became one of the Company’s principal factories on the Coromandel coast. The approach to the port is very dangerous, owing to an extensive ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 20' N 79 55' E | DEVICOTTA |
kp-eb0707-074402-6944m | DEVIL (Diabolus), an evil angel, one of those celestial spirits cast down from heaven for pretending to be equal with God. The Ethiopians paint the devil white, and are thus quits with the Europeans, who paint him black. There is no mention of the Devil in the Old Testament, but only of Satan and Belial ; nor do we mee... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074403-6944m | DEVINCTION (Devinctio), in Antiquity, was used to signify a love charm or incantation used to gain the affection of a person beloved. It was formed by tying knots, and is thus described by Virgil in his eighth Eclogue:
Necte tribus nodis ternos, Amarylli, colores:
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kp-eb0707-074404-6944m | DEVISE, or Device, in Heraldry, Painting, and Sculpture, any emblem used to represent a certain family, person, action, or quality, with a suitable motto applied in a figurative sense.
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kp-eb0707-074405-6944m | DEVIZES, a market-town of the hundred of Pottern and Canning, in Wiltshire, ninety miles from London, containing two parishes. It is situated at the foot of the chalk hills, in a healthy and fertile district, and is an ancient town. It was formerly fortified, and, from its situation, must have been very strong. The mar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074406-6944m | DEVOLUTION, in Law, a right acquired by transmission from one to another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074407-6944m | DEVONSHERING, a term used by the farmers to express the burning of land by way of manure. The method employed is to cut off the turf about four inches thick, to [7:7:745]burn it in heaps, and then to spread the ashes upon the - land. The name is probably derived from its having been j first practised in Devonshire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074501-6957m | DEVONSHIRE, the British name of which was Dyvnaint, while the inhabitants were called Dyvnonwyn, or inhabitants of low lands, formed a part of the district included in the appellation of Danmonium. During the dominion of the Romans it was included in the district called Britannia Prima; but under the Saxons it was cons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074701-6983m | DEVOTION (JDevotio), a sincere and ardent worship of the Deity.
Devotion, as defined by Jurieu, is a softening and yielding of the heart, with an internal consolation, which the souls of believers feel in the practice or exercise of piety. By devotion is also understood certain religious practices which a person makes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-074801-6996m | DEW is the humidity which the air, under certain circumstances, deposits, in the form of minute globules, on r the surfaces of the bodies in contact with it. The Greek term δgo<roς was evidently derived from i ∣ δωg, aqua, implying simply watering or humifaction. The Latin name ros is of the same descent. Our English w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075301-7061m | DEWAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories, in the province of Malwah, fifty-five miles south-east from Kotah. Long. 76. 20. E. Lat. 24. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 36' N 76 20' E | DEWAGUR |
kp-eb0707-075302-7061m | DEWAN, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, fifteen miles east-south-east from Cambay. Long. 73. E. Lat. 22. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075303-7061m | DEWANNY, the revenue department of a province. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075304-7061m | DEWARCOTE, a town of Northern Hindustan, and capital of a district of the same name, which is situated about the 31st degree of north latitude, between the Jumna and the Ganges. Long. 78. 2. E. Lat. 30. 59. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075305-7061m | DEWARCUNDAH, a large district of Hindustan, in the province of Hyderabad, situated principally between the 18th and !9th degrees of north latitude. It extends along the south side of the Godavery, and is in a very desolate state. It contains the ruins of numerous forts and villages, which show that it was formerly flou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075306-7061m | DEWARGUNGE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, and district of Mymunsingh, situated on the west side of the Brahmapootra, 110 miles north-bywest from Dacca. Long. 89. 40. E. Lat. 25. 7. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075307-7061m | DE WIT, John, the famous pensionary, was born in 1625, at Dort, where he prosecuted his studies so diligently, that, at the age of twenty-three, he published Elementa Curvarum Linearum, one of the profoundest books in mathematics at that time. After taking his degrees, and travelling, he in 1650 became pensionary of Do... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075401-7074m | DEWSBURY, a town in the wapentake of Morley, in the county of York, 187 miles from London. It is situated on the river Calder, and was formerly more extensive than it is at present. Large quantities of coarse woollen goods are manufactured here. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 4566, in 1811 to 13,740, in 1821 to 16... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075402-7074m | DEXTANS, in Roman antiquity, ten ounces, or of the libra. See Libra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075403-7074m | DEXTER, in Heraldry, an appellation given to whatever belongs to the right side of a shield or coat of arms: thus we say, bend-dexter, dexter-point, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075404-7074m | DEXTROCHERE, or Destrociiere, in Heraldry, is applied to the right arm painted fin a shield, sometimes naked, sometimes clothed, or adorned with a bracelet; and sometimes armed, or holding a moveable member used in the arms. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075405-7074m | DEY, the title of the sovereign of Algiers, under the protection of the grand signior. The sovereignty and the title have now ceased to exist, Algiers having become a colony of France. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075406-7074m | DEYNSE, a city on the left bank of the Lys, in the province of East Flanders, in the Netherlands. It contains 582 houses, with 2980 inhabitants, who conduct very numerous breweries and distilleries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075407-7074m | DEYRAH, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur. It is populous and well built, and formerly paid tribute to the Sikks, but is now subject to the government of Nepaul. Long. 77. 45. E. Lat. 30. 19. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075408-7074m | DEZPHOUL, a town of Persia, in the province of Kusistan, situated on the eastern bank of the Abzal, in a beautiful and spacious plain. Its only ornament is an elegant bridge, erected by the command of Sapor, a prince celebrated both as the destroyer and the founder of cities. This bridge is 450 paces in length, twenty ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075409-7074m | DHENJEE, a town of Hindustan, situated at the extremity of the Gujerat peninsula, and so difficult of access, owing to an almost impenetrable jungle, and rough rocky ground, that the ruler has nearly withdrawn from his allegiance. This place furnishes men to the piratical vessels which prey upon the trade of the Indian... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075410-7074m | DHOOLPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra. It is situated on the northern bank of the river Chumbul, and is a considerable and flourishing town, though it has been often exposed to the calamities of war. In 1501 it was the capital of a Hindu chief, but was taken by the Afghan sultan Sekunder Lody; it is n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 26 43' N 77 55' E | DHOOLPOOR |
kp-eb0707-075411-7074m | DHROLE, a large and populous walled town, in the Gujerat peninsula, situated near the Gulf of Cutch. The adjacent ground is covered with gardens, and the town completely concealed by trees, with a clear stream of water running under it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075412-7074m | DHYRSA, a small village of Hindustan, in the Gujerat peninsula, situated near the Runn, in the district of Moor-nee, at the junction of two rivers, which fall into the Gulf of Cutch. Long. 70. 55. E. Lat. 23. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 23 20' N 70 55' E | DHYRSA |
kp-eb0707-075413-7074m | DIABETES, in Physic, a preternatural discharge of urine, which having changed its properties, exceeds the quantity of liquids drank. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075414-7074m | DIABOLUS. See Devil. Diabolus Metallorum, a title given by chemists to jupiter or tin, because, when incorporated with other metals, it renders them incapable of reduction, or at least very difficult to undergo that operation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075415-7074m | DIACAUSTIC Curve, a species of the caustic curves formed by refraction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075416-7074m | DIACHYLON, in Pharmacy, an emollient digestive plaster, composed of mucilages or viscid juices drawn from certain plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075417-7074m | DIACODIUM, in Pharmacy, a syrup prepared from poppy heads. It is also called the syrupus de meconio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075418-7074m | DIACOUSTICS, called also Diaphonics, the consideration of the properties of refracted sound, as it passes through different media. The word is formed from the Greek bια, through, which intimates a passage, and axouω, I hear ; the consideration of the passage of the sounds which we hear. See Acoustics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075419-7074m | DIACRH, in Antiquity, was the name of a party or faction at Athens. That city was divided into two parties; the one of which favoured an oligarchy, and the other consisted of such as were for a democratical or popular [7:7:755]government, in which the whole people should have a share. The first were called diacrii, and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075501-7087m | DIADEM, in Antiquity, a head-band or fillet, worn by kings as a badge of their royalty. It was made of silk, thread, or wool, and fastened round the temples and forehead, the ends being tied behind, and let fall on the neck. It was usually white and quite plain, though sometimes embroidered with gold, and set with pear... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075502-7087m | DIADIN, or Diadem, a town of Turkish Armenia, situated on an eastern branch of the Euphrates, which is here not above twenty feet broad, and very shallow. The houses are built of wood and stones, and, with the exception of one apartment, afford shelter to cattle as well as men. It has a citadel fortified with towers, i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075503-7087m | DIAERESIS, in Grammar, the division of one syllable into two, which is usually noted by two points over a letter, as aulaí, instead of aul<e, dissoluenda for dissolvenda. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075504-7087m | DIAETETAE, in Grecian antiquity, a kind of judges, of which there were two sorts; the cleroti and diallacterii. The former were public arbitrators, chosen by lot to determine all causes exceeding ten drachms within their own tribe; and from their sentence an appeal lay to the superior courts. But the latter, on the con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075505-7087m | DIAGLYPHICE, the art of cutting or engraving figures on metals, such as seals, intaglios, matrices of letters, and the like, or coins for medals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075506-7087m | DIAGNOSIS (from δ∕αyι>α∣ffκω, to discern or distinguish), the diagnostics or the signs of a disease. They are of two kinds, namely, the adjunct and the pathognomonic; the former being common to several diseases, serve only to point out the difference between diseases of the same species; but the latter being those whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075507-7087m | DIAGNOSTIC, in Medicine, a term given to those signs which indicate the present state of a disease, with its nature and cause. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075508-7087m | DIAGONAL, in Geometry, a right line drawn across a quadrilateral figure, from one angle to another; by some called the diameter, by others the diametral, of the figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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