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kp-eb0708-004314-3694 | DISSYLABLE, among grammarians, a word consisting of only two syllables; such as nature, sciences. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004315-3694 | DISTAFF, an instrument about which flax is tied in order to be spun. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004316-3694 | DISTANCE, in general, an interval between two things, with regard either to time or place.
Accessible Distances, in Geometry, are such as may be measured by the chain. ι Inaccessible Distances are such as cannot be measured by the chain, by reason of some river, or the like, which obstructs the passage from one object... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004317-3694 | DISTASTE properly signifies an aversion or dislike to certain kinds of food, and may be either constitutional, or owing to some disorder of the stomach. ,« | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004318-3694 | DISTEMPER, among Physicians, the same with Disease. Distemper, in Painting, a term used for the working up of colours with something besides water or oil. If the colours are prepared with water, that kind of painting is called limning ; and if with oil, it is called painting in ail, and simply painting. If the colours ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004319-3694 | DISTENSION, in general, signifies the stretching or extending a thing to its full length or breadth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004320-3694 | DISTICH, a couplet of verses making complete sense. Thus hexameter and pentameter verses are disposed in distichs. There are excellent morals in Cato’s distichs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004321-3694 | DISTICHIASIS, in Surgery, a disease of the eyelids, when under the ordinary eye-lashes there grows another extraordinary row of hairs, which frequently eradicates the former, and, pricking the membrane of the eye, excites pain, and brings on a defluxion. It is cured by pulling out the second row of hairs with nippers, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-004401-3707 | DISTILLATION.
The preparation of ardent spirits constitutes a manufactory which is carried on in this country to a considerable extent, and deserves a particular investigation, as connected with one of the most curious and intricate departments of chemistry. We shall treat the subject as briefly as is compatible with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005301-3824 | DISTINCTION, in Logic·, is an assemblage of two or more words, by means of which disparate things or their conceptions arc denoted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005302-3824 | DISTORTION, in Medicine, is when any part of the human body remarkably deviates from its natural shape or position. Distortions of different parts may arise either from a convulsion or a palsy; though sometimes distortion in the shape of the whole body has arisen merely from carelessness and ill habits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005303-3824 | DISTRESS, in its ordinary acceptation, denotes calamity, misery, or suffering.
The Contemplation of Distress a source of pleasure. On this subject there is a very pleasing and ingenious essay by Dr Barnes, in the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. It is introduced with the following motto... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005601-3863 | DISTRIBUTION, in a general sense, the act of dividing a thing into several parts, in order to the disposing each in its proper place.
Distribution, in Architecture, the dividing and disposing of the several parts and pieces which compose a building, as the plan directs.
Distribution, in Rhetoric, a kind of descriptio... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005602-3863 | DISTRICT, in Geograplry, a part of a province, distinguished by peculiar magistrates, or certain privileges; in which sense it is synonymous with hundred. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005603-3863 | DISTRINGAS, in Law, a writ commanding the sheriff or other officer to distrain a person for debt to the king, &c. or for his appearance at a certain day.
Distringas Juratores, a writ directed to the sheriff, by which he is commanded to distrain upon a jury to appear and to return issues on their lands, &c. for non-app... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005604-3863 | DITCH, a common fence or inclosure in marshes, or other wet land where there are no hedges.
Ditch, in Fortification, called also fosse and moat, a trench dug round the rampart or wall of a fortified plaec between the searp and counterscarp. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005605-3863 | DITHYRAMBUS, in ancient poetry, a hymn in honour of Baechus, full of transport and poetical rage.
This poetry owes its birth to Greece, and to the transports of wine; and yet art is not quite exploded, but delicately applied to guide and restrain the dithyrambie impetuosity, which is indulged only in pleasing flights.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005606-3863 | DITONE, in Mzisic, an interval comprehending two tones. The proportion of the sounds which form the ditone is 4: 5, and that of the semitone is 5: 6. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005607-3863 | DITRIHEDRIA, in Mineralogy, an old term expressive of crystals with twice three sides, or six planes, being formed of two trigonal pyramids joined base to base without any intermediate prism. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005608-3863 | DITTFURT, a market-town of the Prussian province of Saxony, situated on the river Bode, with 1797 inhabitants, who cultivate much flax, and conduct some tanneries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005609-3863 | DITTEAH, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Bundeleund. It is populous and well built, about a mile and a half long, and nearly as much in breadth. The houses are chiefly constructed of stone covered with tiles. It is surrounded by a stone wall, and furnished with gates. Without the tow n is the rajah... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005610-3863 | DITTO, in books of accounts, usually written D o , signifies the afore mentioned. The word is corrupted from the Italian detto, the said; as in our law phrase, “the said premises,” meaning the same as were afore mentioned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005611-3863 | DITTON, Humphry, an eminent mathematician, was born at Salisbury on the 29th May 1675. Being an only son, his father, observing in him an extraordinary capacity, determined to cultivate it by means of a good education. For this purpose he placed him in a reputable private academy, upon quitting which he at the desire o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005701-3876 | DIU, a celebrated island and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat. It is six and a half miles long by one and a half broad, is nearly barren, and contains no good water, excepting what is collected in ponds during the rainy weather. It owes its fame to a noted Hindu temple, which rose to great celebrity, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005702-3876 | DIVAL, in Heraldry, the herb nightshade, used by such as blazon by flowers and herbs, instead of colours and metals, for sable or black. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005703-3876 | DIVALIA, in Antiquity, a feast held among the ancient Romans, on the 21st day of December, in honour of the goddess Angerona; whence it is called Angeronalia. On the day of this feast, the pontifices performed sacrifice in the temple of Voluptia, or the goddess of joy and pleasure, who, some say, was the same with Ange... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005704-3876 | DIVAN, a council chamber or court of justice amongst the eastern nations, particularly the Turks. The word is Arabic, and signifies the same with sofa in the Turkish dialect.
The word is also used for a hall in the private houses of the orientals. The custom of China does not allow the receiving of visits in the inner... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005705-3876 | DIVANDUROW, the name of seven islands which lie about a league north of the Maldives, and twenty-four from the coast of Malabar, almost opposite to Cananor. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005706-3876 | DIVERGENT, or Diverging Lines, in Geometry, are those which constantly recede from each other.
Divergent Rays, in Optics, are those which, going from a point of tl⅜ visible object, are dispersed, and continually depart one from another in proportion as they are removed from the object; in which sense it is opposed to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005707-3876 | DIVERSIFYING, in Rhetoric, is of infinite service to the orator; it is an accomplishment essential to his character, and may fitly be called the subject of all his tropes and figures. Vossius lays down six ways of diversifying a subject: 1. By enlarging on what was briefly mentioned before; 2. by a concise enumeration ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005708-3876 | DIVERSION, in military affairs, is when an enemy is attacked in one place where they are w cak and unprovided, in order to draw off their forces from another place where they have made, or intend to make, an irruption. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005709-3876 | DIVESTING properly signifies undressing or stripping off one’s garment, in contradistinction to investing. In law it is used for the act of surrendering or relinquishing one’s effects. By a contract of donation or sale, the donor or seller is said to be disseised and divested of his property in such a commodity, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005710-3876 | DIVINATION, the knowledge of things obscure or future, which cannot be attained by any natural means.
It was a received opinion amongst the heathens that the gods were wont to converse familiarly with some men, whom they endowed with extraordinary powers, and admitted to the knowledge of their councils and designs. Pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-005801-3889 | DIVINE, something relating to God. The word is also used figuratively for any thing that is excellent, extraordinary, and that seems to go beyond the power of nature and the capacity of mankind.
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kp-eb0708-005901-3902 | DIVING.
Diving is the art of descending under water to considerable depths, and of remaining there some time, so as to be able to collect valuable articles, such as pearls (see Pearl Fishing), sponges, coral, and other submarine productions, from the bottom of the sea or rivers, or property from the sunken wrecks of v... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007001-4045 | DIVINITY properly signifies the nature, quality, and essence of God.
Divinity is also used in the same sense with theology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007002-4045 | DIVISIBILITY, that property by which the particles of matter in all bodies are capable of separation or disunion from one another.
As it is evident that body is extended, so it is no less so that it is divisible; for since no two particles of matter can exist in the same place, it follows that they are really distinct... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007101-4058 | DIVISION, in general, is the separating a thing into two or more parts.
Mechanical Division signifies that separation which is occasioned in the parts of a body by help of mechanical instruments. The mechanical division of bodies does indeed separate them into smaller, homogeneous, and similar parts; but this separati... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007102-4058 | DIVORCE, a breach or dissolution of the bond of marriage.
Divorce was allowed of in great latitude both amongst the Pagans and Jews. In Rome, barrenness, age, disease, madness, and banishment, were the ordinary causes of divorce. Under the consulship of Μ. Attilius and P. Valerius, Spurius Carvilius was the first who ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007301-4084 | DIVUS, Diva, in Antiquity, appellations given to men and women who had been deified, or placed in the number of the gods.
Hence it is that upon medals struck on the consecration of an emperor or empress, they have the title of divus or dirai thus, DIVUS JULIUS, DIVO ANTONINO PIO, DI VO PIO, DIVO CLAUDIO, DIVA FAUSTINA... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007302-4084 | DIXMUYDEN, a city, having been formerly fortified, in the province of West Flanders, and circle of Fumes. It is situated on a rich soil on the river Yser, and the butter is considered the best in Flanders. It has 2563 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007303-4084 | DIZIER, St, a city of the department of the Upper Marne, in France, on the river Marne. It is a fortified place, well built, situated in a pleasing district, and contains 816 houses, and 5640 inhabitants, some of whom find employment in building vessels from wood, which is abundant near to the city. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007304-4084 | DJEBAIL, a town of Syria, situated on an eminence near the sea, two miles north of the river Ibrahim, which is crossed by a bridge of a single arch, fifty paces wide, and of light architecture. The Arabs established themselves here under the caliphate of Omar, and it is conjectured that the bridge was built by them. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007305-4084 | DJEZIZA OMELMELECK, a sandy islet of the Red Sea, two miles from the Arabian shore. Here a singular bank is seen, in which all stages of petrifaction are observed in the course of a few feet from the sand. It is calcareous, and exceedingly white. The island is covered with plants. Lat. 25. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007306-4084 | DJIDEIDA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Heds-jaz, situated in a valley. The houses are very low, and constructed of stone without cement. It is twenty-eight leagues east-south-east from Yeuboa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007307-4084 | DMITRIEW, a circle in the Russian government of Kursk, bounded on the north and west by Orel, on the east by Fatesch, and on the south by Lgow. It is watered by the rivers Swapa, Usoscha, and numerous small streamlets, and is very productive of corn, potatoes, and hops. The inhabitants are about 96,000, in two cities a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007308-4084 | DMITROW, a circle in the Russian government of Moscow, bounded on the north by Twer, on the east by Wladimir, on the south-east by Bogorodsk, on the southwest by Swenigorod, and on the west by Klin. It extends over 980 square miles, or 619,520 English acres, of which nearly one half is covered with wood. It contains 58... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007309-4084 | DMITROWSK, a circle in the Russian government of Orel, south-east from that city. It is watered by the river Narusa, and consists chiefly of good arable land, which is celebrated for its production of hemp. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the Osche-riza, which contains 600 houses and 3400 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007310-4084 | DO, in Music, a note of the Italian scale, corresponding to ut of the common gamut. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007311-4084 | DOAB. This term in Hindustan means any tract of country included between two rivers. It should properly include all the territory between the Jumna and the Ganges; but it is usually restricted to the southern portion of it, for the most part comprehended in the province of Agra. This country is of a fertile soil, and y... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007312-4084 | DOABEH Barry is a district of Hindustan, in the [7:8:74]province of Lahore, situated between the Beyah and Ravey rivers, and between the thirtieth and thirty-first degrees of north latitude. Doabeh Jallinder is a large district in the Darne province, between the Sutlege and Beyah rivers, and for the most part between t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007401-4097 | DOBBERAN, a town in the duehy of Mecklenburg Sehwerin, the capital of a district of the same name, which comprises two towns, three parishes, and several hamlets, with 8800 inhabitants. The town is a mile from the Baltic, and is much frequented by visitors, on account of its sulphureous natural baths, and for the advan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007402-4097 | DOBRUSHKA, or Dobruska, a town in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, in the circle of Kò’nigingratz, the residence of the princes Colloredo. It has much trade in corn, flax, and yarn, which are largely sold at its weekly market. It contained, in 1819, about 400 houses and 1893 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007403-4097 | DOBSCHAU, a town of Hungary, in the province of Hither Theis. It is situated on the banks of the Dobsina. It is the chief place of the mining district Rosneau, in which are extracted iron, copper, cobalt, and mereury. In the neighbourhood asbestos and granite are found. It contains one Catholic and one Lutheran church,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007404-4097 | DOBSON, William, an English portrait and historical painter, born at London in 1610. He served an apprenticeship to one Peck, a stationer and picture dealer; and owed his improvement to the copying of some pictures of Titian and Vandyek, whose manner he always retained. He had further obligations to the latter of these... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007405-4097 | DOBUNI, or Boduni, an ancient people of Britain, who possessed the territory which now forms the counties of Oxford and Gloucester. Both the names of this British nation seem to have been derived from the low situation of a great part of the country which they inhabited; for both Duvn and Ι3odun signify deep or low in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007406-4097 | DOCETAE (from tiω%t∕v, to appear), in Ecclesiastical History, the followers of Julius Cassianus, one of the Valentinian sect, towards the close of the second century, who revived a notion which had been adopted by a branch of the Gnostics, against whom St John, Ignatius, and Polycarp, had asserted the truth of the inea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007407-4097 | DOCIMASIA, or Dokimasia, in Greek antiquity, a probation of the magistrates and persons employed in public business at Athens. It was performed pubicll in the forum, where they were obliged to give an account of themselves and of their past lives before certain judges. Amongst the questions proposed to them was, whethe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007408-4097 | DOCIMASTIC, or Dokimastic, Art, a name given to the art of trying, by operations in small, the nature and quantity of metallic or other matters which may be obtained from mineral or other compound bodies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007409-4097 | DOCIMENUM Marmor, a name given by the ancients to a species of marble, of a bright and clear white, which was much used in large and sumptuous buildings, such as temples and the like. It derived its name from Do-cimenos, a city of Phrygia, afterwards called Synaia, near which it was quarried, and whence it was conveyed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007410-4097 | DOCK, in the manège, is used for a large case of leather, as long as the dock of a horse’s tail, which serves it for a cover. The French call the dock trousse-queue. It is made fast by straps to the crupper, and has leathern thongs which pass between the thighs, and along the flanks of the animal, to the saddle straps,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-007501-4110 | DOCK, An inclosed space for the reception of ships, either for their security or for the convenience of building or giving them repairs. This word has been derived by some, absurdly enough, from the Greek beγj>μaι, to receive. That we had it, along with almost the whole of our seaterms, from the northern continental na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008801-4279 | DOCTOR, a person who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to teach or practise the same. Thus we say, doctor in divinity, doctor in physic, doctor of laws.
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kp-eb0708-008901-4292 | DOCUMENT, in Law·, some written monument produced in proof or support of any thing asserted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008902-4292 | DODD, Dr William, an unfortunate English divine, eldest son of the Rev. William Dodd, many years vicar of Bourne, in Lincolnshire, was born in May 1729. He was sent, at the age of sixteen, to the university of Cambridge, where he was admitted a sizar of Clare-Hall in the year 1745. In 1750 he took the degree of B. A. w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008903-4292 | DODDRIDGE, Philip, D.D. an eminent Presbyterian minister, was the son of Daniel Doddridge, an oilman in London, where he was born on the 26th of June 1702. Having completed the study of the classics in several schools, he was in 1719 placed under the tuition of the Reverend John Jennings, who kept an academy at Kilwort... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008904-4292 | DODECAGON, in Geometry, a regular polygon, consisting of twelve equal sides and angles. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008905-4292 | DODECAHEDRON, in Geometry, one of the platonic bodies, or regular solids, contained under twelve equal and regular pentagons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-008906-4292 | DODONA, a town of Thesprotia, in Epirus, or, according to others, in Thessaly, in the neighbourhood of which there was a celebrated oracle of Jupiter. The town and temple of the god were first built by Deucalion, after the universal deluge. It was supposed to be the most ancient oracle of all Greece; and, according to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009001-4305 | DODONIAN (JDodonaeus), in Antiquity, an epithet given to Jupiter, because he was worshipped in a temple built in the forest of Dodona, where there was the most famous, and, it is said, the most ancient, oracle of all Greece. See Dodona. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009002-4305 | DODONIDES, the priestesses who gave oracles in the temple of Jupiter in Dodona. According to some traditions, the temple was originally inhabited by seven daughters of Atlas, who nursed Bacchus, and whose names were Ambrosia, Eudora, Pasithoe, Pytho, Plexaure, Coronis, and Tythe or Tyche. In the latter ages the oracles... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009003-4305 | DODRANS, in Antiquity, three fourths of the as. See the article As. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009004-4305 | DODSLEY, Robert, an eminent bookseller and ingenious writer, born at Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, in the year 1703. He was not much indebted to education for his literary reputation, being originally a livery servant; but his natural genius and early passion for reading soon elevated him to a superior station. He wro... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009005-4305 | DODWELL, Henry, a very learned controversial writer, of English extraction, born at Dublin in 1641. He wrote an incredible number of tracts, but his services were so little acknowledged, that Bishop Burnet and others accuse him of doing more harm than good to the cause of Christianity, by his indiscreet love of paradox... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009006-4305 | DOFAR, or Dafar, a seaport of Arabia, in the province of Hadratnaut, on the west coast of a bay of the same name in the Arabian Sea. The chief export of this town consists of olibanum. It is governed by a scheik, who is a sovereign prince. The inhabitants behave with civility to Europeans. It is 120 miles north from Ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009007-4305 | DOFARY, a town of Arabia, which is now of small size, but was formerly of greater importance, and was destroyed by the Portuguese in 1526. Long. 54. 33. E. Lat. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009008-4305 | DOG. For an account of the natural history, acquired habits, and general uses, of the various races of this sagacious animal, see Canis, in the index to the article Mammalia of this work.
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kp-eb0708-009009-4305 | DOGE, the title of the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa. The word properly signifies duke, being formed from the Latin dux ; as dogate and dogado are formed from ducatus, a duchy.
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kp-eb0708-009101-4318 | DOGGER, a Dutch fishing vessel navigated in the German Ocean. It is generally employed in the herring fishery, being equipped with two masts, namely, a mainmast and mizen-mast, and somewhat resembling a ketch. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009102-4318 | DOGGERS, in the English alum works, a name given by the workmen to a sort of stone found in the same mines with the true alum rock, and containing some alum, though not nearly so much as the right kind. The county of York, which abounds greatly with the true alum rock, affords also a considerable quantity of these dogg... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009103-4318 | DOGMA, a principal maxim, tenet, or settled opinion, particularly with regard to matters of faith and philosophy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009104-4318 | DOGMATICAL, something belonging to a doctrine or opinion. A dogmatical philosopher is one who asserts things positively, in opposition to a sceptic, who doubts of every thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009105-4318 | DOGMATISTS, a sect of ancient physicians, of which Hippocrates was the first author. They are also called logici, or logicians, from their using the rules of logic in subjects of their profession. They laid down definitions and divisions; reduced diseases to certain genera, and these genera to species, furnishing remed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009106-4318 | DOGMELL, St, a town in the county of Pembroke, in South Wales, 238 miles from London, on a promontory on the northern shore of the county. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1379, in 1811 to 1620, in 1821 to 2107, and in 1831 to 2109. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009107-4318 | DOHO, a small town of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, tributary to the Mahrattas, and twenty-one miles south-west from Gwalior. Long. 79. 50. E. Lat. 26. 9. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009108-4318 | DOIG, David, the most learned of Scotish schoolmasters in modern times, was born in the year 1719. His father, who was a small fanner in the county of Forfar, died when he was yet in his infancy; and his mother contracted a second marriage with a worthy man, who, though by no means in affluent circumstances, and soon b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009301-4344 | DOLAH, a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, ceded to the British in 1803. Long. 72. 25. E. Lat. 22. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009302-4344 | DOLCI, Carlo, or Carlino, a painter of considerable celebrity, was born at Florence in 1616. He was a disciple of Jacopo Vignali, and when only eleven years of age he attempted a whole figure of St John, which received extraordinary approbation. He afterwards painted a portrait of his mother, and displayed a new and de... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009401-4357 | DOLE, in the Saxon and British tongue, signified a part or portion most commonly of a meadow where several persons had shares. It also still signifies a distribution or dealing of alms, or a liberal gift made by a great man to the people.
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kp-eb0708-009402-4357 | DOLIAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, thirty-three miles north-east from Cambay, possessed by independent chiefs. Long. 72. 26. E. Lat. 22. 47. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009403-4357 | DOLLAR, or Thaller, a silver coin nearly of the value of the Spanish piece of eight, or French crown. Dollars are coined in different parts of Germany and Holland, and have their diminutions, as semi-dollars, quarter-dollars, and the like. See Money. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009404-4357 | DOLLOND, John, a practical and theoretical optician of the highest celebrity, the discoverer of the laws of the dispersion of light, and inventor of the achromatic telescope, descended from a family of French refugees, was born in London on the 10th June 1706.
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kp-eb0708-009501-4370 | DOLOMIEU, Deodatus Guy Silvanus Tancred de Gratet de, a distinguished mineralogist and geologist, son of Francis de Gratet de Dolomieu, and Frances de Berenger, was born on the 24th of June 1750, in the province of Dauphine.
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kp-eb0708-009801-4409 | DOLORSKOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Kolhyvane, situated on the river Irkutsk, sixteen miles west from Semipolatnoi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009802-4409 | DOLPHIN Islands, three small islands in the Mergui Archipelago, near the north-east coast of Sullivan’s Island. Lat. 11.14. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009803-4409 | DOLPHIN of the Mast, a peculiar kind of wreath, formed of plaited cordage, to be fastened occasionally round the masts, and the use of which is to sustain the weight of the fore and main yards, in case the rigging or chains by which these yards are suspended should be shot away in the time of battle, a circumstance whi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009804-4409 | DOLSCHY, a circle in West or Little Wallachia. It is watered by the river Schui, which is divided into two branches, and forms a large island. It contains one city, Krajowa, one market-town, and sixty-four villages. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009805-4409 | DOM, or Don, a title of honour, invented and chiefly used, the former by the Portuguese, the latter by the Spaniards. It is an abbreviation of dominus, and signifies sir or lord.
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kp-eb0708-009806-4409 | DOMAT, or Daumat, John, a celebrated French jurisconsult, born in 1625. Having observed the confused state of the laws, he digested them in four volumes 4to, under the title of Lois Civiles dans leur Ordre Naturel; an undertaking for which Louis XIV. settled on him a pension of two thousand livres. Domat was intimate w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009807-4409 | DOME, in Architecture, a spherical roof, or a roof of a spherical form, raised over the middle of a building, as a church, hall, pavilion, vestibule, staircase, or the like. See the article Arch. Dome, or Doom, signifies judgment, sentence, or decree. The homagers’ oath in the black book of Hereford ends thus: “So help... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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