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kp-eb0707-075509-7087m | DIAGORAS, surnamed the Atheist, lived in the 91st Olympiad. He was not a native of Athens, but he philosophised in that city. He delighted in making verses; and having composed a poem which a certain poet stole from him, he sued the thief; but the latter swore it was his own composition, and got credit by the work. Thi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075510-7087m | DIAGRAM, in Geometry, a scheme for explaining and demonstrating the properties of any figure, whether triangle, square, circle, or other.
Diagram, among ancient musicians, the same with the scale of the modern. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075511-7087m | DIAH, Diat, a name given by the Arabs to the punishment of retaliation. By the Mahommedan law, a brother, or the next relation of a murdered person, ought to take part against the murderer, and demand his blood in reparation for that which he has shed. Before the time of Mahommed, the Arabs had a custom of putting a fr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075512-7087m | DIAHEXAPLA, or Diahexapte, among farriers, a compound medicine, so called from its containing six ingredients, namely, birthwort and gentian roots, juniperberries, bay-berries, myrrh, and ivory shavings. It is commended for colds, consumptions, pursiness, and many other disorders in horses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075513-7087m | DIAKOVAR, a market-town of the Austrian Sclavonic province of Siebenbergen. It is the seat of a Catholic bishop and seminary. There is, besides the cathedral, a large Franciscan convent. The population is about 3000. Long. 18. 2. 14. E. Lat. 45. 31. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075514-7087m | DIAL, an instrument serving to measure time, which, if effected by the aid of the sun, is called a sun-dial. The word is from the Latin dies, day, because it indicates the hour of the day. The ancients also called it shiatherium, from its effect by the shadow. See Dialling. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075515-7087m | DIALA, a river of Kurdistan, which rises a few miles north of Sherazur, in the mountains behind Salymania. It is mentioned in ancient history under the name of Delos and Arba. Taking a southerly course, it receives the tribute of a vast number of smaller streams, and unites with another river equal in size, which has i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075516-7087m | DIALECT, an appellation given to the language of a province, in so far as it differs from that of the whole kingdom. The term, however, is more particularly used in speaking of the ancient Greek, of which there were four dialects, the Attic,’Ionic, Aeolic, and Doric, each of which was a perfect language in its kind, wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075517-7087m | DIALECTICS, in the literary history of the ancients, that branch of logic which taught the rules and modes of reasoning. See Logic.
Zeno Eleates was the first who discovered the natural [7:7:756]series of principles and conclusions observed in reasoning, and formed a system of these in form of a dialogue, which for th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075601-7100m | DIALIA, in Antiquity, sacrifices performed by the flamen dialis. See Flamen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075602-7100m | DIALITHA, in the writings of the ancients, a word used to express the elegant ornaments of the Greeks and Romans, composed of gold and gems. They also called these lithocolla, cemented stones or gems; the gold being in this case as a cement to hold the stones together. They wore bracelets and other ornamental articles ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0707-075603-7100m | DIALLING.
Dialling, sometimes called Gnomonics, is a branch of the mixed mathematics, which treats of the construction of sun-dials. Its foundation is the astronomical theory of the sun’s apparent motions; and from these its rules and operations have been deduced by the aid of geometry and trigonometry.
It may be sup... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000101-3148 | DIALOGISM, in Rhetoric, is used for the soliloquies of persons deliberating with themselves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000102-3148 | DIALOGUE, in literature and in common life, a conversation between two or more persons, and either written or oral.
As the end of speech is conversation, no kind of writing can be more natural than dialogue, which represents this. Accordingly we find it was introduced at a very early period; for there are several inst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000301-3174 | DIALTHAEA, in Pharmacy, an ungucnt formerly much used as a resolvent, and so called from Althaea, or marshmallows, which is the principal ingredient in it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000302-3174 | DIALYSIS, in Grammar, a mark or character, consisting of two points placed over two vowels of a word, in order to separate them, because otherwise they would make them a diphthong, as Mosaic, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000303-3174 | DIAMASTIGOSIS, a festival at Sparta in honour of Diana Orthia, which received that name ατo του μαΰπγονν, from whipping, because boys were whipped before the altar of the goddess. These boys, called Bomonicae, were originally free-born Spartans, but in the more delicate ages they were of mean birth, and generally of a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000304-3174 | DIAMETER, in Geometry, a right line passing through the centre of a circle, and terminated at each side by the circumference. See Geometry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000305-3174 | DIAMOND, adamas of the ancients, almas of Persia, and heera of Hindustan, is the most brilliant of gems; and although known from the remotest times, if we may judge by the casual notice made of it in Scripture, it had in the earlier periods of history obtained little more than a name. Pliny states that it bore a price ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000701-3226 | DIAMPER, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Cochin, said to be inhabited chiefly by Christians. Here a synod was held by the Portuguese'archbishop and others, in the hopes of converting the Nestorians to the faith of the Roman Catholic church, but without effect. Long. 76. 37. E. Lat. 9. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000702-3226 | DIANA, the goddess of hunting. According to Cicero, there were three of this name; a daughter of Jupiter and Proserpine, who became mother of Cupid; a daughter of Jupiter and Latona; and a daughter of Upis and Glauce. The second is the most celebrated, and to her all the ancients allude. She was born at the same birth ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000703-3226 | DIANA’S Bank, or Diana’s Shoal, a small sandy islet in the Indian Sea, scarcely visible from the masthead, its situation lying so low. Long. 151. 5. E. Lat. 15. 45. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000704-3226 | DIANAE Arbor, or Arbor Lunae, in Chemistry, the beautiful arborescent form of silver, dissolved in nitric acid, and precipitated by another metal; so called from its resembling the trunk, branches, and leaves of a tree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000705-3226 | DIANO, a city of Italy, in the Neapolitan province Principato Citeriore, containing 4146 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000706-3226 | DIAPASON, in Music, a musical interval, which most authors who have written on the theory of music use to express the octave of the Greeks.
Diapason, among the musical instrument makers, a kind of rule or scale by which they adjust the pipes of organs, and cut the holes of hautboys, flutes, and the like, in due propor... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000707-3226 | DIAPENTE, in ancient music, an interval marking the second of the concords, and with the diatessaron an octave; in modern music it is called a fifth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000708-3226 | DIAPER, a kind of cloth on which are formed various figures, and which is chiefly employed for table-linen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000709-3226 | DIAPHANOUS, an appellation given to all transparent bodies, or such as transmit the rays of light. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000710-3226 | DIAPHORETICS, among physicians, all medicines which promote perspiration. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000711-3226 | DIAPHR AG2*I (Diaphragma), in Anatomy, a part vulgarly called the midriftļ and by anatomists septum trans- [7:8:8]versum. It is a strong muscular substance, separating the breast or thorax from the abdomen or lower venter, and serving as a partition between the abdominal and the thoracic viscera. (See Anatomy, Index.')... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000801-3239 | DIAPHORESIS (∆∕αpog>id7i), in Rhetoric, is used to express the hesitation or uncertainty of the speaker. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000802-3239 | DIARBEKIR, a city of Asiatic .Turkey, and capital of thepashalic of Diarbekir, situated on a mass of basaltic rock, which rises in an eminence on the western bank of the Tigris, the stream of that river flowing by the foot of this hill from north-east to south-west, as it makes a sharp bend in that direction from the n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 37 55' N 39 52' E | DIARBEKIR |
kp-eb0708-000901-3252 | DIARTHROSIS, in Anatomy, a kind of articulation or juncture of the bones, which, being pretty lax, affords room for a manifest motion. The word comes from <5∕α, and af>^of, juncture. It is opposed to synarthrosis, in which the articulation is so close that there is no sensible motion at all. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000902-3252 | DIARY, a term sometimes used for a journal or daybook, containing an account of every day’s proceedings. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000903-3252 | DIASCHISM, among musicians, denotes the difference between the comma and enharmonic diesis, commonly called the lesser comma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000904-3252 | DIASTOLE, among physicians, signifies the dilatation of the heart, auricles, and arteries; and is opposed to the systole, or contraction of the same parts. See Anatomy. Diastole, in Grammar, a figure in prosody by which a syllable naturally short is made long. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000905-3252 | DIASYRMUS, in Rhetoric, a kind of hyperbole, being an exaggeration of some low and ridiculous thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000906-3252 | DIATESSARON, among ancient musicians, a concord or harmonic interval, composed of a greater tone, a less tone, and one greater semitone; its proportion in numbers is as 4: 3. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000907-3252 | DIATONIC, in Music, a word compounded of the Greek preposition ð/α, signifying transition, and τοwς, tension, is indifferently applied to a scale or gammut, to intervals of a certain kind, or to a species of music, whether in melody or harmony, composed of these intervals. Thus we say the diatonic series, a diatonic in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000908-3252 | DIBBLE, or Dibber, a simple but useful instrument in gardening, used for planting all sorts of young plants or slips. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000909-3252 | DICE, among gamesters, certain cubical pieces of bone or ivory, marked with dots on each of their faces, from one to six, according to the number of faces.
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kp-eb0708-000910-3252 | DICAEARCHUS, a scholar of Aristotle, who composed a great number of books, which were much esteemed. Cicero and his friend Pomponius Atticus valued him highly. He wrote a book to prove that men suffer more mischief from one another than from all evils besides; and the work which he composed concerning the republic of L... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000911-3252 | DICHOTOMY, a term used by astronomers for that phasis or appearance of the moon in which she is bisected, or shows just half her disk. In this situation the moon is said to be in a quadrate aspect, or to be in her quadrature. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000912-3252 | DICKER, in old writers, denotes the quantity of ten hides of skins of which twenty made a last; also ten pairs of gloves, ten bars of iron, and the like, are sometimes expressed by the term dicher. , | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000913-3252 | DICKINSON, Edmund, a celebrated English physician and chemist, was born in 1624. He studied and took his degrees at Merton College, Oxford; and in 1659 published his Delphi Phoenicizantes, in which he attempted to prove that the Greeks borrowed the story of the Pythian Apollo, and all that rendered the oracle at Delpho... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-000914-3252 | DICTATOR, a magistrate at Rome invested with regal authority. This officer was first chosen during the Roman wars against the Latins. The consuls being unable to raise forces for the defence of the state, because the plebeians refused to inlist if they were not discharged of all the debts which they had contracted with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001001-3265 | DICTIONARY, in its original acceptation, is the arranging of all the words of a language according to the order of the alphabet, and annexing a definition or explanation to each word. When arts and sciences began to be improved and extended, the multiplicity of technical terms rendered it necessary to compile dictionar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001401-3317 | DICTYMNIA, or Djctinnia, in HIythology, were feasts celebrated atLacedaemon and in Crete, in honour of Diana Dictymnia or Dictynnia, or of a nymph taken for her, who, having plunged herself into the sea to escape the passion of Minos, was caught in a fisherman’s net or δ∕κτuβy, and hence the name. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001402-3317 | DICTYS Cretensis, a very ancient historian, who served under Idomeneus, king of Crete, in the Trojan war, and wrote the history of that expedition in nine books. Tzetzes tells us that Homer formed his Iliad upon the plan of that history. It is, however, maintained that the Latin history of Dictys now extant is spurious... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001403-3317 | DIDACTIC, in the schools, signifies the manner of speaking or writing adapted to teach or explain the nature of things. The word is formed from the Greek διδαΰχω, doceo, I teach.
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kp-eb0708-001404-3317 | DIDEROT, Denis, a French writer and philosophen was the son of a cutler, and born at Langres in the year 1712. He received his education among the Jesuits, and being destined for the church by one of his uncles, who had a canonry to bestow upon him, he assumed the tonsure. But he discovered so little inclination for th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001601-3343 | DIDIER, St, a city of the department of the Upper Loire, in France, with 3203 inhabitants, who are employed chiefly in the silk manufacture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001602-3343 | DIDO, called also Elisa, a daughter of Belus, king of Tyre, who married Sichaeus or Sicharbas, her uncle, who was priest of Hercules. Pygmalion, who succeeded to the throne of Tyre after Belus, murdered Sichaeus in order to obtain possession of the immense riches which he had acquired; and Dido, disconsolate for the lo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001603-3343 | DIDYMUS of Alexandria, an ecclesiastical writer of the fourth century, w ho, though he is said to have lost his eyes at five years of age, when he had scarcely learned to read, yet applied so earnestly to study, that he attained all the philosophic arts in a high degree, and was thought worthy to fill the chair in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001604-3343 | DIE, an arrondissement in the department of the Drome, in France, 946 square miles in extent. It is divided into nine cantons and 117 communes, and contains 60,518 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated on the right bank of the Drome. It has some silk mills and cloth manufactures, and contains 3... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001605-3343 | DIEBURG, a city in the grand duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, once a small sovereignty of the Counts Lerchenfelds, but now mefliatised. It contains 408 houses, and 2216 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001606-3343 | DIEKIRCH, a city, the capital of the department of the same name, in the duchy of Luxemburg. The department is divided into six cantons, and contains a population of 47,074 persons. The city is situated on the river Eure, and contains 2627 inhabitants, who live by preparing gypsum, and by tanning leather. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001607-3343 | DIEMEN’S Land. See Australasia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001608-3343 | DIEMERBROEK, Isbrand, a learned professor of physic and anatomy at Utrecht, was born at Montfort, in Holland, in 1609, where he acquired great reputation by his lectures and his practice, and died at Utrecht in the year 1674. He wrote a treatise on the plague, and several works on anatomy and medicine, which were print... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001609-3343 | DIEPENDEEK, a town in the province of Limburg, in the Netherlands, on the river Demer, with 2136 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001610-3343 | DIEPHOLZ, a county, forming with Hoya one of the provinces of the kingdom of Hanover. It extends over 266 square miles, or 170,240 acres, and contains 14,200 inhabitants. One part of it, called Auburg, was transferred in 1815 from Hesse Cassel. The only industry except agriculture is applied to the spinning and weaving... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001611-3343 | DIEPPE, an arrondissement of the department of the Lower Seine, in France. It is 490 square miles in extent, [7:8:17]and contains eight cantons, divided into 222 communes, with a population of 104,207 persons. The chief place is the city of the same name on the Seine, at the mouth of the river Arques. It is fortified o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001701-3356 | DIERDORF, a town in the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine, formerly in the principality of Neuwied, and now belonging to the mediatised prince of that name, whose palace is there. It is situated on the river Holtz-bach, and contains 1150 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001702-3356 | DIES Marchiae was the day of congress or meeting of the English and Scotch, annually appointed to be held on the marches or borders, in order to adjust all differences between them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001703-3356 | DIESIS, in Music, is the division of a tone less than a semitone; or an interval consisting of a less or imperfect semitone. Diesis is the smallest and softest change or inflexion of the voice imaginable; it is called a faint, and expressed by a St Andrew’s cross or saltier. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001704-3356 | DIESPITER, in Antiquity, a name given to Jupiter, and signifying dici pater, father of the day. St Augustin derives the name from dies, day, and partus, production or bringing forth, it being Jupiter who brings forth the day; and Servius and Macrobius were of the same opinion; the former adding, that in the language of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001705-3356 | DIESSENHOFEN, a circle in the canton of Thurgau, in Switzerland, including the town of that name, in which are 1200 inhabitants, and a few villages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-001706-3356 | DIETETICS.
The necessity of aliment is explained by a knowledge of the functions of the body, and its selection depends upon the same principles. The living machine, as well as those that are inanimate, wastes in proportion as it is used, and this waste must be supplied. To learn the kind of supply required, the kind ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002601-3473 | DIEU et mon Droit, God and my Eight, the motto of the royal arms of England, first assumed by King Richard I. to intimate that he did not hold his empire in vassalage of any mortal. It was afterwards assumed by Edward III. and was continued without interruption to the time of King William, who used the motto Je maintie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002602-3473 | DIEY, an arrondissement of the department of Vosges, in France, extending over 530 square miles, divided into nine cantons, and containing a population of 83,712 persons, in 109 communes.
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kp-eb0708-002603-3473 | DIEZ, a bailiwick in the duchy of Nassau, in Germany, extending over about 35,000 English acres, and containing a population of 11,487 inhabitants, in two cities and thirty-eight villages. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Lahn, with an industrious population of 2300 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002604-3473 | DIFF is the name of an instrument of music among the Arabs, serving chiefly to beat time to the voice; it is a hoop, sometimes with pieces of brass fixed to it to make a jingling, over which a piece of parchment is distended. It is beat with the fingers, and is the true tympanum of the ancients. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002605-3473 | DIFFARREATION, among the Romans, a ceremony by which the divorce of their priests was solemnized. The word comes from the preposition dis, which is used, in composition, for division or separation, and farreatio, a ceremony with wheat, from far, wheat or corn.
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kp-eb0708-002606-3473 | DIFFERENCE, in Mathematics, is the remainder, when one number or quantity is subtracted from another.
Difference, in Logic, an essential attribute, belonging to some species, and not found in the genus; being the idea that defines the species. Thus body and spirit are the two species of substance, which in their ideas... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002607-3473 | DIFFERENTIAL, in the higher geometry, an infinitely small quantity, or a particle of quantity so small as to be less than any assignable one. It is called a differential, or differential quantity, because frequently considered as the difference of two quantities; and, as such, it is the foundation of differential calcu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002701-3486 | DIFFORM, Difformis (from dis, asunder, and forma, shape), is a word used in opposition to uniform, and signifies that there is no regularity in the form or appearance of a thing. The botanists use it as a distinction of the flowers of several species of plants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002702-3486 | DIFFUSE, an epithet applied to such writings as are written in a prolix manner. Among historians, Sallust is reckoned sententious, and Livy diffuse. Thus also, among the orators, Demosthenes is close and concise; but Cicero, on the other hand, is diffuse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002703-3486 | DIFFUSION, the dispersion of the subtile effluvia of bodies into a kind of atmosphere all round them. Thus the light diffused by the rays of the sun issues all round from that amazing body of fire. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002704-3486 | DIGBY, Sir Kenelm, an English philosopher, was born atGothurst, in Buckinghamshire, in 1603, and became very illustrious for his virtue and learning. He was descended of an ancient family. His great-grandfather, accompanied by six of his brothers, fought valiantly at Bosworth Field on the side of Henry VII. against the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002705-3486 | DIGEST (Digestum), a collection of the Roman laws, arranged and digested under proper titles, by order of the Emperor Justinian. See Civil Law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002706-3486 | DIGESTION, in the animal economy, is the dissolution of the aliments into such minute parts as are fit to enter the lacteal vessels, and to circulate with the mass of blood.
Digestion, in Chemistry, is an operation which consists in exposing bodies to a gentle heat in proper vessels, and during a certain time. This op... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002707-3486 | DIGESTIVE, in Medicine, such remedies as strengthen and increase the tone of the stomach, and assist in the digestion of foods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002708-3486 | DIGGES, Leonard, an eminent mathematician in the sixteenth century, was descended from an ancient family, and born at Digges Court, in the parish of Barham in Kent, but in what year is not known. He was educated at Oxford, where he laid a good foundation of learning; and having retired from thence, he prosecuted his st... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002709-3486 | DIGGING, among miners, is appropriated to the operation of freeing any kind of ore from the bed or stratum [7:8:28]in which it lies, where every stroke of their tools turns to account; in contradistinction to the openings made in search of ore, which are called hatches, or essay-hatches, and the operation itself, named... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002801-3499 | DIGIT, in Astronomy, the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun and moon, used to express the quantity of an eclipse. Thus an eclipse is said to be of six digits when six of these parts are hid.
Digits, or Monades, in Arithmetic, signify any integer under ten; as, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and by means of which all ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002802-3499 | DIGLIGGY NEUR, a town in the island of Ceylon, situated among thick woods and mountains ten or twelve miles to the eastward of Candy, in the direction of Batta-colo. When the king was driven out of Candy in 1803 he retreated to this place, to which the European army could not penetrate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002803-3499 | DIGLYPH, in Architecture, a kind of imperfect triglyph, console, or the like, with two channels or engravings, either circular or angular. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002804-3499 | DIGNE, an arrondissement of the department of the Mouths of the Rhone, in France, 1146 square miles in extent. It is divided into nine cantons and two hundred and sixty communes, containing 49,141 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Bleone, in a neighbourhood covered with fruit gard... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002805-3499 | DIGNITARY, in the canon law, a person who holds a dignity, that is, a benefice which gives him some pre-eminence over mere priests and canons; as a bishop, dean, archdeacon, prebendary, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002806-3499 | DIGNITY, as applied to the titles of noblemen, signifies honour and authority. Dignity may be divided into superior and inferior; as the titles of duke, earl, baron, &c. which are the highest names of dignity; and those of baronet, knight, serjeant-at-law, &c. which are the lowest. Nobility only can give so high a name... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002901-3512 | DIGNY, a market-town of the department of the Eure and Loire, in France, containing 378 houses and 2160 inhabitants, in the neighbourhood of which are some mines of iron extensively worked. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002902-3512 | DIGON, a market-town of the department of the Upper Soane and Loire, in France, with 2508 inhabitants. It is situated near the Loire, at the point where the central canal commences. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-002903-3512 | DII, the divinities of the ancient inhabitants of the earth, which were very numerous. Every object which caused terror, inspired gratitude, or bestowed affluence, received the tribute of veneration. Man saw a superior agent in the stars, the elements, or the trees; and supposed that the waters which communicated ferti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003001-3525 | DIJAMBUS, in Poetry, the foot of a Latin verse of four syllables. It is compounded of two iambics, as severitãs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003002-3525 | DIJON, an arrondissement of the department of Côte d’Or, in France, which extends over 1190 square miles. It is divided into fourteen cantons and 270 communes, and contains 124,034 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name, the seat of a bishop, and of the several boards which conduct the internal, lega... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003003-3525 | DIKE, a ditch or drain, made for the passage of waters. The word seems to have been formed from the verb to dig ; though others choose to derive it from the Dutch diih, a dam, sea-bank, or wall.
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kp-eb0708-003004-3525 | DILAPIDATION, in Law, a wasteful destroying, or letting buildings run to decay, for want of necessary reparation. If the clergy neglect to repair the houses belonging to their benefices, the bishop may sequester the profits thereof for that purpose; and in such cases a prosecution may be brought, either in the spiritua... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003005-3525 | DILATATION, in Physics, a motion of the parts of any body, by which it is so expanded as to occupy a greater space. This expansive motion depends upon the elastic power of the body; whence it appears that dilatation is different from rarefaction, which is produced by means of heat. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003006-3525 | DILEMMA, in Logic, an argument equally conclusive by contrary suppositions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003007-3525 | DILLENBURG, a bailiwick in the duchy of Nassau, in Germany, extending over 42,500 English acres, and containing a population of 13,627 persons, in two cities and eighty-two villages. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the Dille, which is surrounded with walls, and contains 2302 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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