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kp-eb0708-003008-3525 | DILLENIUS, John James, a distinguished botanist of the eighteenth century, who may be called the father of cryptogamie botany, was born at Darmstadt in 1687. He was educated as a physician in the university of Giessen; but his attention was very early diverted from ' medical studies to the observation and discriminatio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003101-3538 | DILLINGEN, a bailiwick in the circle of Upper Danube, of the kingdom of Bavaria. It extends over seventy square miles, or 44,800 acres, and contains one city, one town, and twenty-two villages, with 10,804 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, situated on the Danube, contains 550 houses, and 3118 inhabitants, who... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003102-3538 | DILUTE. To dilute a body is to render it liquid, or if liquid before, to render it more so by the addition of a thinner fluid. The fluids thus added are called diluents. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003103-3538 | DIMACHE (from δις, double, and μαγω, I fight), in Antiquity, a kind of horsemen first instituted by Alexander. Their armour was lighter than that of the infantry, and at the same time heavier than that used by cavalry, so that they could act as horse or foot as occasion required. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003104-3538 | DIMENSION, in Geometry, is either length, breadth, or thickness. Hence a line has one dimension, or length; a superficies two, or length and breadth; and a body or solid has three, or length, breadth, and thickness. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003105-3538 | DIMINUTION, in Architecture, a contraction of the upper part of a column, by which its diameter is made less than that of the lower part.
Diminution, in Music, is the abating something of the full value or quantity of any note. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003106-3538 | DIMINUTIVE, in Grammar, a word formed from some other, to soften or diminish the force of it, or to signify that a thing is little in its kind. Thus, cellule is a diminutive of cell, globule of globe, hillock of hill. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003107-3538 | DIMISSORY Letters (Literoe Dimissoriae), in the canon law, a letter given by a bishop to a candidate for holy orders, having a title in his diocese, directed to some other bishop, and giving permission for the ordination of the bearer thereof.
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kp-eb0708-003108-3538 | DIMOERITAE, a name given to the Apollinarists, who at first held that the Word only assumed a human body, without taking a reasonable soul; but being at length convinced by formal texts of Scripture, they allowed that he did assume a soul, though without understanding, the Word supplying the want of that faculty. From ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003109-3538 | DIMOTIKA, a city in the Turkish province of Gallipoli, where the rivers Moritza and Kisilnehr join. It contains about 8000 inhabitants, partly Greeks. The chief employment consists in making silk and cotton goods. The citadel served as a residence for the grand signior before the conquest of Constantinople. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003110-3538 | DIMSDALE, Thomas, Baron, greatly distinguished by his practice of inoculation for the small-pox, was the son of a surgeon and apothecary at Theydon-Gernon, in Essex, and was born in the year 1712. His family belonged to the society of Quakers; and his grandfather accompanied William Penn to America, but soon afterwards... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003201-3551 | DINAGEPORE, a district of Bengal, situated chiefly between the 25th and 26th degrees of N. lat. On the north it is bounded by Rungpoor and Purneah; on the south by Raujeshy; and on the east by Rungpoor, Purneah, and Rajemal. This district possesses a soil much diversified; and the face of the country has a waving appea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003202-3551 | DINAN, an arrondissement in the department of the Coté du Nord, in France. It extends over 576 square miles, is divided into eight cantons and ninety-two communes, and contains 100,690 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, strongly fortified, is situated on a hill, at the foot of which the river Rance ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003203-3551 | DINANT, a city, the capital of a circle of the same name, in the province of Namur, in the Netherlands. The circle is divided into six cantons, and contains 92,756 inhabitants. The city is situated on the right bank of the Maas, enclosed by steep hills. It contains 3631 inhabitants, who are occupied with coppersmiths’ ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003204-3551 | DINAPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, on the southern bank of the Ganges, two miles west from Patna. Here is a military cantonment belonging to the British, consisting of two handsome squares, built of brick, and capable of containing 1200 European soldiers, and the European officers of the native co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003205-3551 | DINAZZANO, a town of Italy, in the province of Reggio, in the duchy of Modena, situated on the Tessone. It contains 1800 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003206-3551 | DINDIGUL, a district in the south of India, situated between the 10th and 11th degrees of N. lat. To the north it has Coimbetoor and Kistnagherry; to the south Travancore and Madura; on the east the Polygar territory and Madura; and on the west Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar. The principal rivers are the Noil and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003207-3551 | DINDING, a small island in the Straits of Malacca, at the entrance of the river Pera, about twenty miles in circumference. Long. 100. 36. E. Lat. 4. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003208-3551 | DINGWALL, a royal burgh of Scotland, and capital of the county of Ross. It lies in a low situation at the mouth of a glen opening into the north side of the Cromarty Frith, near the western extremity of that estuary. The town is rather neatly built, and consists of one main street, from which several smaller ones branc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003301-3564 | DINKELSBUHL, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the circle of Rezat, the chief place of a bailiwick. It is situated on the river Wernitz, is fortified, and contains 900 houses, and 6450 inhabitants, who carry on manufactures of woollen cloth, hats, stockings, and leather. The bailiwick, of the same name, extends over... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003302-3564 | DINNER, the principal meal of the day. The word is derived from the Frcnch disner, which Du Cange derives from the barbarous Latin disnare; but Henry Stephens derives it from the Greek os∕ffvε∕v, and contends that it should be written dipner. Menage deduces it from the Italian desinare, to dine; and that from the Latin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003303-3564 | DINOCRATES, a celebrated architect of Macedonia, who rebuilt the temple of Ephesus, when burnt by Ero-stratus, with much more magnificence than before. Vitruvius informs us that Dinocrates proposed to Alexander the Great to convert Mount Athos into the figure of a man, whose left hand should contain a walled city, whil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003304-3564 | DINSLAKEN, a circle in the Prussian province of Westphalia, a part of the ancient duchy of Cleves. It extends over 201 square miles, or 128,640 English acres, and comprehends five cities, one town, and thirty-one villages, with 26,876 inhabitants. The chief place is a town of the same name, situated on the Misine, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003305-3564 | DIO Chrysostom, that is, Golden Mouth, a celebrated orator and philosopher of Greece, in the first century, was born at Prusa in Bithynia. He attempted to persuade Vespasian to renounce the empire; and he was hated by Domitian, but acquired the esteem of Trajan. This last prince took pleasure in conversing with him, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003306-3564 | DIOCESE, or Diocess, the circuit or extent of the jurisdiction of a bishop. The word is formed from the Greek διοoi7]ffις, government, administration, derived from δ∕o∕xsω, which the ancient glossaries render administro, moderor, ordino ; and hence διοoor i δις rr ∣ ζ πολiως, the administration or government of a city.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003307-3564 | DIOCLEIA (∆∕wcauα), in Antiquity, a solemnity observed during spring at Megara, in memory of the Athenian hero, who died in defence of the youth he loved. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003308-3564 | DIOCLETIANUS, Caius Valerius Jovjus, a celebrated Roman emperor, born of an obseure family in Dalmatia in the year 245. Although originally a common soldier, yet by merit and success he gradually rose to the rank of general; and at the death of Numerian in 284 he was invested with the imperial purple. In this high stat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003309-3564 | DIODATI, John, a famous minister, and professor of theology at Geneva, was born at Lueea in 1579, and died [7:8:34]at Geneva in 1652. He is distinguished by translations,
1. Of the Bible into Italian, with notes, Geneva, 1607, 4to. The best edition is that of Geneva in 1641, folio. This is said to be more a paraphrase... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003401-3577 | DIODORUS, an historian, surnamed Siculus., because he was born at Argyra, in Sicily. He wrote a history of Egypt, Persia, Syria, Media, Greece, Rome, and Carthage; and it is said that he visited all the places of which he has made mention in his history, which occupied the labour of thirty years. He is, however, too cr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003402-3577 | DIOGENES of Apollonia, in the island of Crete, held a considerable rank among the philosophers who taught in Ionia before Socrates appeared at Athens. He was the scholar and successor of Anaximenes, and in some measure rectified his master’s opinion concerning air being the cause of all things. It is said that he was t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003501-3590 | DIOMEDES, son of Tydeus and Ðiephyle, was king of Aetolia, and one of the bravest of the Grecian chiefs in the Trojan war. He often engaged Hector and Aeneas, and obtained much military glory. He went with Ulysses to steal the Palladium from the temple of Minerva in Troy; and assisted in murdering Rhesus, king of Thrac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003502-3590 | DION, a Syracusan, son of Hipparinus, famous for his power and abilities. He was related to Dionysius, and often, along with the philosopher Plato, who had come to reside at the tyrant’s court, advised him to lay aside the supreme power. But his great popularity rendered him odious in the cy r es of the tyrant, who ban... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003503-3590 | DIONIS, Peter, born at Paris, was one of the greatest surgeons of the eighteenth century. In the time of Louis XIV. he was appointed anatomical and chirurgical demonstrator in the Garden of Plants, and he was the first who held that place. He was surgeon in ordinary to Maria Theresa of Austria, queen of France, and to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003504-3590 | DIONYSIA, in Grecian antiquity, solemnities in honour of Bacchus, sometimes called by the general name of Orgia, and by the Romans Bacchanalia and Liberalia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003505-3590 | DIONYSIACA, in Antiquity, was a designation given to plays and all manner of sports acted on the stage; because playhouses were dedicated to Dionysius or Bacchus, and Venus, as being the deities of sports and pleasure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003506-3590 | DIONYSIUS I. from a private secretary became general and tyrant of Syracuse and all Sicily. He was likewise a poet; and having, by bribes, gained the tragic prize at Athens, he indulged himself so immoderately 7 at table from excess of joy, that he died of the debauch, 368 B. c.; but some authors assert that he was poi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003601-3603 | DIOPHANTINE Problems, in Mathematics, certain questions relating to square and cube numbers, and right-angled triangles, the nature of which was determined by Diophantus, a mathematician of Alexandria, who is believed to have lived about the third century. The works of Diophantus were published with notes at Paris in 1... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003602-3603 | DIOPHANTUS, a celebrated mathematician of Alexandria, reputed to be the inventor of algebra. It is not certain when Diophantus lived; some have placed him before Christ, and some after, in the reigns of Nero and the Antonines, but all with equal uncertainty. It seems he is the same Diophantus who wrote the Canon Astron... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003603-3603 | DIOPTASE of Haily ; the rhombohedral emerald malachite of Mohs. This is a very rare mineral; it occurs in crystals of small dimcnsions, of a brilliant emerald green colour, disposed in limestone, and is only found in the Kirghese steppes, Siberia. See Mineralogy, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003604-3603 | DIOPTER, or Dioptra, the same with the index or alhidade of an astrolabe, or other such instrument.
Dioptra was an instrument invented by Hipparchus, which served several purposes, as to level water courses, to take the height of towers or places at a distance, to determine the places, magnitudes, and distances of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003605-3603 | DIOPTRICS, that part of optics which treats of the laws of refraction, and the effects which the refraction of light has in vision. See Optics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003606-3603 | DIOSCORIDES, a physician of Cilicia, who lived, as some suppose, in the age of Nero. He was originally a soldier, but afterwards applied himself to study, and wrote a book upon medicinal herbs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003607-3603 | DIOSCURIA (δ∕oπκou^∕α, from ∆∕of, Jupiter, and xougo∕, infants), in Antiquity, a festival in honour of the ∆∕oo ’ κo∙^o∕, or Castor and Pollux, who were reputed to be the sons of Jupiter. It was observed by the Cyreneans, but cspccially by the Spartans, whose country was believed to have been honoured by the birth of t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003608-3603 | DIOSZEG, a market-town of Hungary, in the province of Farther Theis, in the circle Grosswardein. It contains a reformed and a Greek church, and 3500 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the cultivation of vines and of tobacco. Long. 21. 54. 5. E. Lat. 47. 31. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003609-3603 | DIPHTHONG, in Grammar, a double vowel, or the mixture of two vowels pronounced together so as to make one syllable.
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kp-eb0708-003610-3603 | DIPLOMA, in a peculiar sense, is used for an instrument or license given by colleges, societies, and such like bodies, to a clergyman to exercise the ministerial function, or to a physician to practise the profession, after passing examination, or admitting him to a degree. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003611-3603 | DIPLOMATICS, the science of diplomas, or of ancient literary monuments, public documents, and the like. It does not, however, nor can it, absolutely extend its researches to antiquity, but is chiefly confined to the middle age and the first centuries of modern times. For although the ancients were accustomed to reduce ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003801-3629 | DIPONDIUS, in the language of Scripture, is used by St Luke to signify a certain coin which was of very little value. Our translation of the passage is, “Are not two sparrows sold for two farthings ?” In St Matthew, who relates the same thing, we read “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ?” The Greek reads assario... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003802-3629 | DIPPING, among miners, signifies the interruption or breaking off the veins of ore; an accident which gives them a great deal of trouble before they can discover the ore again. See Mining. Dipping Needle, an instrument used for observing the quantity of inclination towards the earth, assumed by any needle or other body... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003803-3629 | DIPPOLDISWALDE, a bailiwick in the kingdom of Saxony, in the circle of Meissen, extending over fifty-five square miles, or 35,200 acres, and containing 9800 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Weisseritz, and contains 246 houses and 1400 inhabitants, occupied in distilleries, in wea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003804-3629 | DIPSAS, a sort of serpent, the bite of which produces such a thirst as proves mortal; and hence its name dipsas, which signifies thirsty. In Latin it is called situla, a pail. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003805-3629 | DIPTERA (from luς, and ¢m£ov, wing), in Zoology, an order of insects which have only two wings, and under each wing a style, or oblong body, terminated by a protuberance or head, and called a balancer. See Entomology, Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003806-3629 | DIPTOTES, in Grammar, are such nouns as have only two cases, as suppetiae, suppetias, and so on. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003807-3629 | DIPTYCHA, in Antiquity, a public register, wherein were written the names of the consuls and other magistrates, among the heathens; and of bishops, and defunct as well as surviving brethren, among the Christians.
The word is formed from the Greek o∕σrυ^ωt∣, or bιπ- l rυχμ, and that from ⅛m∣ξ, a masculine noun derived ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003901-3642 | DIRAE, the general name of the three furies in the Pagan system of mythology. They were so called, as being quasi deorum iroe, the ministers of divine vengeance in punishing guilty souls after death. They were accounted the daughters of Night and Acheron. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003902-3642 | DIRECT, in Arithmetic, is when the proportion of any terms or quantities is in the natural or direct order in which they stand, being the opposite inverse, which considers the proportion in the inverted order of the terms. So, 3: 4 :: 6: 8 directly; or 3: 4 :: 8: 6 inversely. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003903-3642 | DIRECTION, in Mechanics, signifies the line or path of a body’s motion, along which it endeavours to proceed according to the force impressed upon it.
Direction, in Astronomy, the motion and other phenomena of a planet when direct.
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kp-eb0708-003904-3642 | DIRECTOR, in commercial policy, a person who has the management of the affairs of a trading company. Thus we say, the directors of the India Company. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003905-3642 | DIRIBITORES, among the Romans, officers appointed to distribute tablets to the people at the comitia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003906-3642 | DIRIGENT, or Directrix, a term in geometry, signifying the line of motion along which the describing line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003907-3642 | DIS, an inseparable article prefixed to various words, the effect of which is either to give them a signification contrary to what the simple words have, as disoblige, disobey ; or to signify a separation or detachment, as disposing, distributing.
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kp-eb0708-003908-3642 | DISABILITY, in Law, is when a man is disabled, or made incapable to inherit any lands, or take that benefit which otherwise he might have done; and this may happen four ways; by the act of an ancestor, or of the party himself, by the act of God, or by that of the law. 1. Disability by the act of the ancestor is where t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003909-3642 | DISAPPOINTMENT, Islands of, a cluster of islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, so named by Commodore Byron, who discovered them in 1765. The island seen by Lord Byron had a beautiful appearance. The middle of this cluster of islands lies in long. 145.4, W. lat. 14. 5. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003910-3642 | DISC, in Antiquity, a quoit made of stone, iron, or copper, five or six fingers broad, and more than a foot long, inclining to an oval figure, which they hurled in form of a bowl to a vast distance, by the help of a leathern thong tied round the person’s hand who threw it, and put through a hole in the middle. Homer ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003911-3642 | DISCIPLE, one who learns any thing from another; and hence the followers of. any teacher, philosopher, &c. are called disciples. In the Christian sense, they were followers of Jesus Christ in general; but in a more restrained sense, the disciples denote those alone who were the immediate followers and attendants on his... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-003912-3642 | DISCIPLINE, in a general sense, denotes instruction and government, as military discipline, ecclesiastical discipline, and the like.
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kp-eb0708-004001-3655 | DISCORD, in general, signifies disagreement or opposition between different persons or things.
Discord, in Music, is every sound which, joined with another, forms an assemblage disagreeable to the ear; or rather, every interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Now, as there are no other concords or consonances, excepti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004002-3655 | DISCOUNT, in commerce, a term among traders, merchants, and bankers. It is used by the two former on occasion of their buying commodities on the usual term of credit, with a condition that the seller shall allow the buyer a certain discount at the rate of so much per cent, per annum for the time for which the credit is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004101-3668 | DISCRETE or Disjunct Proportion is when the ratio of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities is the ’same, but when there is not the same proportion between all the four numbers. Thus, if the numbers 3 ∙. 6 :: 8: 16 be considered, the ratio between 3: 6 is the same as that between 8: 16, and therefore the numbers ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004102-3668 | DISCRETION, the prudence or knowledge necessary to govern one’s self properly.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion. It is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the adva... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004103-3668 | DISCUSSION, in matters of literature, signifies the clear treating or handling of any particular point or problem, so as to shake off the difficulties with which it is embarrassed. Thus we say, such a point was well discussed, when it was properly treated and cleared up. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004104-3668 | DISCUTIENTS, in Medicine, are such remedies as, by their subtilty, dissolve a stagnating or coagulate fluid, and dissipate the same without an external solution of continuity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004105-3668 | DISDIACLASTIC Crystal, in Natural History, a name given by Bartholine and some others to a mineral substance, more usually called, from the place whence it was first brought, Iceland crystal. See Mineralogy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004106-3668 | DISDIAPASON, or Bisdiapason, in Music, a compound concord, described by Parran, in the quadruple ratio of 4: 1, or 8: 2.
Disdiapason Diapente, a concord in a sextuple ratio of 1:6.
Disdiapson Semi-Diapente, a compound concord in the proportion of 16: 3.
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kp-eb0708-004107-3668 | DISEASE has been variously defined by physicians, almost every founder of a new system having given a definition of it, differing in some respects from his predecessors. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004108-3668 | DISEMBOGUE. When a ship passes out of the mouth of some great gulf or bay, this is called disemboguing. It is usual also to say of a river, that at such a place, or after it has run so many leagues, it disembogues itself into the sea. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004109-3668 | DISFRANCHIZING, among civilians, signifies the depriving a person of the rights and privileges of a free citizen or subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004110-3668 | DISGUISE, a counterfeit habit. Persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are by our statutes sometimes subjected to severe penalties, and even declared felons. Thus, by an act commonly called the black act, persons appearing disguised and armed in a forest or grounds enclosed, or hunting deer, or robbing a warren or a fi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004111-3668 | DISH, in mining, is a trough made of wood, about twenty-eight inches long, four inches deep, and six inches wide, by which all miners measure their ore. If any be taken selling their ore, not having first measured it by the bar-master’s dish, and paid the king’s duty, the seller forfeits his ore, and the buyer forfeits... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004112-3668 | DISJUNCTIVE, something which separates or disjoins. Thus, or, neither, &c. which, in connecting a discourse, yet separate the parts of it, are called disjunctive conjunctions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004113-3668 | DISLOCATION, the putting a bone out of joint by some violence, usually called by the physicians luxation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004114-3668 | DISNA, a circle of the Russian government of Minsk. The river Diina affords the means of conveying wood, which is its chief produce, to Riga. It grows corn for its consumption, and some flax, which is aíso sent to Riga. The chief town, of the same name, stands at the junction of the river Dina with the Düna. Long. 27. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004115-3668 | DISPART, in Gunnery, is the setting a mark upon the muzzle ring, or thereabouts, of a piece of ordnance, so that a sight-line taken upon the top of the base ring against the touch-hole, by the mark set on or near the muzzle, may be parallel to the axis of the concave cylinder. The common way of doing this is to take th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004201-3681 | DISPATCH, a letter on some affair of state or other business of importance, sent with care and expedition, by a courier express. The business of dispatches is conducted by the secretaries of state and their clerks. The king gives directions to his ministers abroad by dispatches. The word is also used for the packet or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004202-3681 | DISPAUPER. A person suing in forma pauperis is said to be dispaupered, if, before the suit be ended, he have any lands or other estate fallen to him, or if he have done any thing to make him lose his privilege. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004203-3681 | DISPENSARY, or Dispensatory, denotes a book containing the method of preparing the various kinds of medicines used in pharmacy. Such are those of Bauderon, Quercctan, Zweiter, Charas, Bate, Mcsue, Salmon, Lemery, Quincy, and others; but the latest and most esteemed, besides the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias, is t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004204-3681 | DISPERSION, in general, signifies the scattering or dissipating something. Hence Dγspersion, in Optics, is the same with the divergency of the rays of light.
Point of Dispehsion is the point from which refracted rays begin to diverge, where their refraction renders them divergent.
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kp-eb0708-004301-3694 | DISPLAYED, in Heraldry, is understood of the position of an eagle, or any other bird, when it is erect, with its wings expanded or spread forth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004302-3694 | DISPONDEE, in the Greek and Latin poetry, a double spondee or foot, consisting of four long syllables; as concludentes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004303-3694 | DISQUISITION (from dis, and quarro, I inquire), an inquiry into the nature, kinds, and circumstances of any problem, question, or topic; in order to gain a right notion of it, and to discourse clearly concerning it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004304-3694 | DISS, a market-town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Norfolk, ninety miles from London. It is built on one of the upper branches of the river Wavency. There is a good market, which is held on Friday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 2246, in 1811 to 2590, in 1821 to 2764, and in 1831 to 2934. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004305-3694 | DISSECTION, in Anatomy, the cutting up a body with a view of examining the structure and use of the parts. Legendre observes that the dissection of a human body, even dead, was held as a sacrilege until the time of Francis 1. And the same author assures us he has seen a consultation held by the divines of Salamanca, at... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004306-3694 | DISSEISIN, in Law, an unlawful dispossessing a person of his lands or tenements. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004307-3694 | DISSENTERS, separatists from the service and worship of any established church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004308-3694 | DISSIDENTS, a denomination applied in Poland to those of the Lutheran, Calvinistic, and Greek professions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004309-3694 | DISSIMULATION, the act of dissembling, by means of false appearances or pretensions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004310-3694 | DISSIPATION, in Physics, an insensible loss or consumption of the minute parts of the body, or that flux by which they escape and are lost.
Circle of Dissipation, in Optics, is used for that circular space upon the retina, which is taken up by one of the extreme pencils of rays issuing from an object. ∙∖ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004311-3694 | DISSOLVENT, in general, whatever dissolves or reduces a solid body into such minute parts as to be sustained in a fluid. i ∙ ∙ . .' f ' < | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004312-3694 | DISSOLUTION, in Physics, a discontinuation or analysis of the structure of a mixed body, by which what was one and contiguous is divided into parts, either homogeneous or heterogeneous. ' z “t
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kp-eb0708-004313-3694 | DISSONANCE, in Music. See Discord. . U | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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