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kp-eb0708-009808-4409 | DOMEA, a town in the kingdom of Tungquin, situated inland on the Tungquin river. It had a considerable trade in the seventeenth century, and was frequented by a number of Dutch vessels. Long. 106. E. Lat. 20.40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009809-4409 | DOMENICHINO, or Domenico, Lampieri, the celebrated painter, was born at Bologna in 1581. He was placed when young under the tuition of Denis Calvart; but having been treated with great-severity by that master, he left him, and became a pupil in the academy of the Caracci, where he remained for a long time. The genius o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-009901-4422 | DOMESDAY or Doomsday Book, a most ancient record, made in the time of William the Conqueror, and containing a survey of all the lands of England. It consists of two volumes, namely, a greater and a less. The first is a large folio, written on 382 double pages of vellum, in a small but plain character, each page having ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010001-4435 | DOMESTIC, any man who acts under another, and serves to compose part of his family. Sometimes the term domestics is applied to the wife and children, but most frequently to servants, such as footmen, lacqueys, porters, and the like.
Domestic, adj. is sometimes opposed to foreign. Thus “ domestic occurrences” signify t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010101-4448 | DOMFRONT, an arrondissement in the department of the Orne, in France. It is 510 square miles in extent, and i is divided into seven cantons, which are subdivided into a hundred communes, containing a population of 117,093 persons. The chief place, a city of the same name, is situated on the river Varenne, and contains ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 54' N 0 57' W | DOMFRONT |
kp-eb0708-010102-4448 | DOMICILE, in Scotch Law, is the dwelling-place where a person lives with an intention to remain. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010103-4448 | DOMIFYING, in Astrology, the dividing or distributing the heavens into twelve houses, in order to erect a theme, or horoscope, by means of six great circles, called circles of position.
There are various ways of domifying. That of Regiomontanus, which is the most common, makes the circles of position pass through the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010104-4448 | DOMINANT (from the Latin word dominari, to rule or govern), among musicians, is used either as an adjective or substantive; but these different acceptations are far from being indiscriminate. In both senses it is explained by Rousseau. The dominant or sensible chord is that which is practised upon the dominant of the t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010105-4448 | DOMINATION, or Dominion, in Theology, the fourth order of angels or blessed spirits in the celestial hierarchy, reckoning from the seraphim. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010201-4461 | ST DOMINGO.
St Domingo, or Hispaniola, one of the largest and most fertile of the West India islands, extending in length from east to west about 390 miles, and in breadth from 60 to 150 miles, is situated between 17. 37. and 20. 0. north latitude, and between 67. 35. and 74. 15. west longitude. It is called Hayti or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010701-4526 | DOMINIC de Guzman, founder of the Dominican order of monks, was born at Calahorra, anciently called Ca-lagora, in Old Castille, in 1170. He preached with great fury against the Albigenses when Pope Innocent III. published a crusade against that unhappy people; and he was appointed inquisitor in Languedoc, where he foun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010702-4526 | DOMINICA, one of the Caribbee Islands, in the West Indies, about twenty-nine miles long and sixteen broad, situated between 61 and 62 degrees of west longitude, and between 15 and 16 of north latitude. It was so called by Columbus, from its being discovered on a Sunday. The value of this island must not be judged of me... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010801-4539 | DOMINICAL Letter, popularly called Sunday Letter, one of the seven letters A B C D E F G, used in almanacks, ephemerides, and the like, to denote the Sundays throughout the year. Sec Chronology. The word is formed from Dominica or Dominicus dies, the Lord’s day, or Sunday. The dominical letters were introduced into the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010802-4539 | DOMINICANS, an order of religious persons, called in some places Jacobins, and in others Predicants or Preaching Friars.
The Dominicans took their name from their founder Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish gentleman of Calahorra, in Old Castille. He was first canon and archdeacon of Ossuna; and afterwards, as above stated, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010803-4539 | DOMINIS, Mark Antony de, archbishop of Spalatro, in Dalmatia, at the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, was a man whose fickleness in religion proved his ruin. His preferment, instead of attaching him to the church of Rome, rendered him disaffected to it. Having become acquainted with the En... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010804-4539 | DOMINIUM Directum, in Feudal Law, the right which a superior retains in his lands, notwithstanding the feudal grant to his vassal.
Dominium Utile, να. Feudal Law, the right which the vassal acquires in the lands by the feudal grant from his superior. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010805-4539 | DOMINUS, in ancient times, a title prefixed to a name, usually to denote that the person was either a knight ora clergyman. The title was sometimes also given to a gentleman not dubbed, especially if he were lord of a manor. In Holland the title dominus is still retained, to distinguish a minister of the reformed churc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010806-4539 | DOMO d’Ossolo, a province of the kingdom of Sardinia, the northernmost of the whole dominion. Its extent[7:8:109] is 366 square miles, or 234,240 English acres. It contains sixty-nine market towns and villages, but no city, and only 20,750 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Toccia,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010901-4552 | DOMUS, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, situated at the mouth of the Tuptee, fifteen miles south-west from Surat. Long. 72. 53. E. Lat. 21. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 5' N 72 53' E | DOMUS |
kp-eb0708-010902-4552 | DON, or Tanais, a river of Russia, which takes its rise from the small lake of St John, near Tula, in the government of Moscow, and passing through part of the province of Voronetz, a small portion of the Ukraina-Slobodskaia, and the whole province of Azof, divides itself near Tscherkask into three streams, and falls i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-010903-4552 | DONALDSON, Walter, a learned Scotish writer of the seventeenth century, was a native of Aberdeen, but the period of his birth has not been specified. His father was Alexander Donaldson, who is described as an esquire, his mother was Elizabeth the daughter of David Lamb of Dunkenny.^[1. Litera Prosapiae Alexandri Donald... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011001-4565 | DONARIA, among the ancients, in its primary signification, meant the places where the oblations offered to the gods were kept; but it was afterwards used to denote the offerings themselves, and sometimes, though improperly, the temples. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011002-4565 | DONATION {Donatw), an act or contract by which a man transfers to another either the property or the use of the whole or a part of his effects as a free gift. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011003-4565 | DONATISTS, ancient schismatics in Africa, so denominated from their leader Donatus. This sect arose in the year 311, when, in the room of Mensurius, who died in that year on his return to Rome, Caecilian was elected bishop of Carthage, and consecrated by the African bishops alone, without the concurrence of those of Nu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011004-4565 | DONATIVE {Donativum), a present made by any person, and called also gratuity.
The Romans made large donatives to their soldiers, and hence the soldiers in time became the masters of the Romans. Julia Pia, wife of the Emperor Severus, is called on certain medals mater castrorum, because of the care she took of the sold... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011005-4565 | DONATO, a town of Italy, in the grand duchy of Parma, at which is a medicinal bath. It contains 2200 inhabitants.
Donato, a town of Italy, in the province Terra di Lavoro, of the kingdom of Naples, with 2390 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011006-4565 | DONATORY, in Scotch Law, that person to whom the king bestows his right to any forfeiture which has fallen to the crown. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011007-4565 | DONATUS, a schismatic bishop of Carthage, founder of the sect of Donatists. His followers honoured him like a god. He died about the year 368.
Donatus, Aelius, a grammarian, who lived at Rome about the middle of the fourth century. He was one of St Jerome’s masters, and composed commentaries on Terence and Virgil. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011008-4565 | DONAUESCHINGEN, a city of Baden, in the circle of the Lake. The source of the Danube is here in the court of the palace of the Prince of Furstenburg, who is the chief proprietor. The city walls are destroyed. It contains 350 houses, with 2083 inhabitants employed in various handicraft trades. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011009-4565 | DONAWERTH, a bailiwick in the circle of Upper Danube, of the kingdom of Bavaria. It extends over seventy-four square miles, or 47,360 English acres, and contains one city and twenty-eight villages, with 8353 inhabitants. It is a fertile district, and yields good corn, tobacco, and fruit. The capital, of the same name, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011010-4565 | DONCASTER, a large town in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, in the county of York, 158 miles from London. It is a well-built town, and occupies a fine situation[7:8:111] on the river Don, which is thus far navigable. It is celebrated for the wealth of its corporation, the races which are annually held here, an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011101-4578 | DONDRAHEAD, a low point of land which forms the southern extremity of the island of Ceylon, adjacent to which is a populous village, where are still to be seen the remains of a Hindu temple, which bears marks of having once been a magnificent structure, and contiguous to it a smaller one dedicated to Boodha. Long. 80. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 5 50' N 80 40' E | DONDRAHEAD |
kp-eb0708-011102-4578 | DONEGAL, the most north-western county in the province of Ulster, in Ireland, is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the counties of Londonderry and Tyrone, and on the south by those of Fermanagh and Leitrim, and by the ocean. It contains 1,165,107 acres, or 1820 square miles, of which n... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011401-4617 | DONGOLA, or Dankala, a town on the Nile, and capital of the district of Nubia. It stands on the declivity of a dry, arenaceous hill, and the streets are almost choked with sand brought down from the mountains behind by the floods. The houses are low and ill built. The castle is situated in the middle of the town, and i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 19 20' N 32 0' E | DONGOLA |
kp-eb0708-011402-4617 | DONKAW, a circle in the Russian government of Riasan, bounded on the north by Skopin, on the northeast by Miahsh, on the cast by Ranenburg, on the south by Tamhow, and on the west by Tula. It is watered by the river Don, and has but little wood, but some good arable land, producing rye and other corn, and feeding black... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011501-4630 | DONNE, Dr John, a poet and divine, was born in the city of London in 1753. His parents were of the Catholic religion, and used their utmost efforts to keep him firm in the same persuasion; but an early examination of the controversy between the church of Rome and the Protestants determined him to adhere to the creed of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011502-4630 | DONNINGTON, a market-town of the hundred of Kirton, in the county of Lineoln, 106 miles from London, and situated in a fenny district, having a water communication with Boston. The market is on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 1321, in 1811 to 1528, in 1821 to 1638, and in 1831 to 1759. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011503-4630 | DONSKAIA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, situated on the brook Taschle, the first of a chain of posts established between the Sea of Azof and the Caspian. It contains about forty houses; and adjacent to it is a village of Cossacks. It is 116 miles north-north-west of Ekaterinograd. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011504-4630 | DOOMSDAY Book. See Domesday Book. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011505-4630 | DOONAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, thirty miles south from the town of Gurrah. Long. 80. 3. E. Lat. 22. 48. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011506-4630 | DOONDEAKERA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Oude, situated on the north-east side of the Ganges. The adjacent country abounds with game and wild cattle of a small breed. Long. 80. 40. E. Lat. 26. 12. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011507-4630 | DOORNICK. See Tournai. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011508-4630 | DOORYGHAUT, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, and district of Gazypoor, situated on the south side of the Goggrath, and seventy miles north-east from Benares. Long. 83. 31. E. Lat. 26 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011509-4630 | DOORYDROOG, a fortress of the south of India, in the province of Mysore, situated on a rock. Long. 77. 25. E. Lat. 13. 27. N. . I | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011510-4630 | DOOSHAK, a town of Persia, the capital of the province of Seistan, situated in an open country, about eight or nine miles from the river Heermund or Helmund. The modern city is small, but compact; and the ruins cover a vast extent of ground. It is populous, has a good bazar, and the inhabitants, dressed in the Persian ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011511-4630 | DOR, the English name of the common black beetle. Some apply the term also to the dusty beetle, which flies about hedges in the evening. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011512-4630 | DORADO, in Astronomy, a southern constellation, not visible in our latitude. It is also called xiphias. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011513-4630 | DORAK, or Fela hi, a town of Persia, in the province of Kuzistan, situated on two branches of the river Jerahi, in low and marshy ground. It is surrounded by walls about two miles in circumference, built of mud, sixteen feet in thickness, and flanked at regular distances with round towers. It contains few houses within... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011514-4630 | DORAN, a town of Arabia, in the county of Yemen, the residence of a chief or governor. It was formerly surrounded by a wall with three gates. It is twenty-eight miles south of Sana. Long. 44. 4. E. Lat. 14. 55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 14 55' N 44 4' E | DORAN |
kp-eb0708-011515-4630 | DORAT, a town of the department of the Upper Vienne, in France, on the river Sĕvre. It is in an agreeable situation, contains 349 houses, and 2264 inhabitants, who are mostly makers of hats. Long. 1. 1. E. Lat. 46. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011516-4630 | DORCHESTER, a town in Oxfordshire, in the hundred of the same name, fifty-two miles from London, on the banks of the Thame. It was formerly the see of a bishop, and the cathedral, which still remains, is used as the parish church. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 777, in 1811 to 754, in 1821 to 854, and in 1831 to 8... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011601-4643 | DORDOGNE, a department of France, formed out of the country of the ancient Perigord and a small part of Limousin. It is bounded on the north by Upper Vienne, on the east by Corrèze and Lot, on the south by Lot and Lot Garonne, on the west by the Gironde and Lower Charente, and on the north-west by the department of Cha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011602-4643 | DORHEIM, a circle in the province of Hanau, in the duchy of Hesse-Cassel, comprising two market-towns, two villages, and 3812 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, situated on the river Wetter, contains 1194 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011603-4643 | DORIA, Andrew, a gallant Genoese sea officer, born in 1466. He entered into the service of Francis I. of France, but preserved that spirit of independence which is so natural to a sailor and a republican. When the French attempted to render Savona, long the object of jealousy to Genoa, its rival in trade, Doria remonst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011604-4643 | DORIANS, a people of Greece, who derived their origin from those districts in which the Grecian nation bordered towards the north upon numerous and dissimilar races of barbarians. According to Herodotus, they were from early times one of the chief races of that nation, which, in fact, was composed of Dorians and Ionian... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011801-4669 | DORIC, in general, any thing belonging to the Dorians.
Doric, in Architecture, is the second of the five orders, being that between the Tuscan and Ionic. See Architecture. Doric Dialect, one of the five dialects, or forms of speech, which prevailed among the Greeks. It was first used by the Lacedaemonians, and particu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011802-4669 | DORING, or Daring, among sportsmen, a term used to express a method of taking larks, by means of a clapnet and a looking glass. For this sport there must be provided four sticks very straight and light, about the size of a pike; and two of these must be about four feet nine inches long, and all notched at the edges or ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011803-4669 | DORKING, a market-town of the hundred of Wooton, in the county of Surrey, twenty-four miles from London. It is in a good situation, at the junction of two valleys, on a gentle elevation. There is a fine church, formerly collegiate. The market is held on a Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 3058, in 1811 to 3... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011804-4669 | DORMANS, a city of the department of the Marne, in France, on the left bank of the river Marne, with 428 houses, and 2275 inhabitants, who carry on a great trade both in corn and in wine of Champagne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011805-4669 | DORMANT, in Heraldry, is used for the posture of a lion, or any other beast, lying along in a sleeping attitude, with the head on the fore paws; by which it is distinguished from the couchant, where, though the beastis lying, yet he holds up his head. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011806-4669 | DORMER, in Architecture, signifies a window made in the roof of a house, or above the entablature, being raised upon the rafters. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011807-4669 | DORMITORY, a gallery in convents or religious houses, divided into several cells, in which the religious sleep or lodge. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011808-4669 | DORNBERG, a circle in the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, comprising the town of that name, and twenty-seven villages, with 1093 houses, and 7732 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011809-4669 | DORNBIRN, a market-town of the circle of Bregentz, and Austrian province of Tyrol. It stands on the river Fussach, and is a flourishing place, owing to its manufactories of muslins and cotton cambrics, and its mills for spinning flax. It contains more than 4000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011810-4669 | DORNOCH, a royal burgh of Scotland, in the county of Sutherland. It is situated on the northern coast of the Frith of Dornoch, on a low sandy beach, nearly opposite the burgh of Tain, which lies on the south side of the frith.
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kp-eb0708-011901-4682 | DOR0BAT, a small town of Arabia, in the country of Yemen, the capital of a district situated on the crest of a mountain, remarkable for a prison excavated from the rock, where malefactors are secured by long chains. It is twelve miles west of Taas. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011902-4682 | DOR0NINSK, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Irkutsk, situated on the river 1ngoda, 208 miles east-south-east from Irkutsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011903-4682 | DORPAT, a circle in the Russian province of Livonia, but formerly of Esthonia. It extends over 3420 square miles, and contains a population of 137,415 souls, in two cities and twenty parishes, with 206 noble residences, and 15,331 peasants’ dwellings. The chief place, the city of the same name, is situated on the great... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011904-4682 | DOROGOBUSII, a circle in the European Russian government of Smolensko. It occupies both sides of the river Dnieper, and is tolerably fruitful and well cultivated. The chief place is the city of the same name. It is the .«eat of a bishop; is neatly built, mostly of stone; and contains 3990 inhabitants, who chiefly subsi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011905-4682 | DOROHOĽ, a circle of Moldavia, in the northernmost part of that principality, watered by the rivers Pruth, Sireth, Schiga, and Bascheu. The capital is of the same name. It is situated on the side of a lake, is a large but not compact town, and, like the other towns in Moldavia, is filthy and badly built. It contains ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-011906-4682 | DORSETSHIRE, an English county, situated on the south-western coast. In British times, and previous to the landing of Caesar, it was inhabited by the Durotriges and Morini, two appellations derived from the British language, and signifying dwellers on the coasts of the ocean. By the Romans this county constituted a por... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012101-4708 | DORSIFEROUS Plants, among botanists, such as are of the capillary kind, without stalks, and which bear their seeds on the back side of their leaves. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012102-4708 | DORT, or Dortrecht, a circle in the province of Holland, in the Netherlands, divided into the four cantons of Dort, Old Beaverland, Ridderkerk, and Stryen, and containing 51,361 inhabitants.
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... | 51 47' 52" N 4 33' 12" E | DORT |
kp-eb0708-012103-4708 | DORTMUND, a circle in the Prussian province of Westphalia, in the government of Arensberg. It extends over 180 square miles, or 51,200 acres, and comprehends five cities, one market-town, and several villages, with a population of 32,509 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012104-4708 | DORY Harbour, a harbour on the northern coast of Papua, At this harbour are neither fowls nor goats; but wild hogs, fish, greens, fruit, &c. Wood is plentiful, and the wild nutmeg grows in the vicinity. Long. 134. 35. E. Lat. 48. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 S 134 35' E | DORY |
kp-eb0708-012105-4708 | DORYPHORI (from ĉo¢u, spear, and∣piβω, I hear), an appellation given to the life-guardmen of the Roman emperors. They were held in such high estimation as frequently to have the command of armies conferred on them. It was usual also for commanders-in-chief to have their doryphori or life-guard to attend them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012106-4708 | DOSITHEANS (Dosither), an ancient sect among the Samaritans in the first century of the Christian era.
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kp-eb0708-012201-4721 | DOSSER, a sort of basket to be carried on the shoulders of men. It is used in carrying the surplus earth from one part of a fortification to another where it is wanted. There are likewise small carts and wheel-barrows for the same use. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012202-4721 | DOTIS, a market-town of Hungary, in the circle of Farther Danube. It is situated on the river Tata, near a small lake. There is an ancient castle and keep belonging to Prince Esterhazy. It contains two Catholic and one Lutheran church, a synagogue, two monasteries, 850 houses, and 8580 inhabitants. It is a place of con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012203-4721 | DOUAY, an arrondissement in the department of the North, in France, extending over 450 square miles, divided into thirteen cantons, and these subdivided into 146 communes, containing 183,560 inhabitants. The city which gives its name to the arrondissement is on the river Scarpe, which is divided into several channels i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012204-4721 | DOUBLE; two of a sort, one corresponding to the other.
Double Children, Double Cats, &c. See Monster. Double Employment, in Music, a name given by Rameau to the two different modes in which the chord of the sub-dominant may be regarded and treated, namely, as the fundamental chord of the sixth superadded, or as the ch... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012301-4734 | DOUBLET, among lapidaries, implies a counterfeit stone, composed of two pieces of crystal, and sometimes glass softened, together with proper colours between them; so that they make the same appearance to the eye as if the whole substance of the crystal had been tinged with these colours.
The impracticability of impar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012302-4734 | DOUBLETS, a game on dice within tables. The men, fifteen in number, are placed thus: Upon the six, cinque, and quatre points, there stand three men a piece; and upon the trey, deuce, and ace, only two. He who throws [7:8:124]highest has the benefit of throwing first, and what he throws he lays down, and so does the oth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012401-4747 | DOUBLING, in, the military art, is the putting of two ranks or files, of soldiers into one. Thus, when the word of command is double your ranks, the second, fourth, and sixth ranks march into the first, third, and fifth, so that the six ranks are reduced to three, and the intervals between the ranks become double what ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012402-4747 | DOUBLON, or Dubloon, a Spanish and Portuguese coin, being the double of a pistole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012403-4747 | DOUBS, a department of France, formed out of the ancient province of Franche-Comté, and the lordship of Mompelģard, to which in 1816 were added the cantons of Montbéliard and Audincourt, which were taken from the department of the Upper Rhine. It is bounded on the north by the departments of the Upper Rhine and Upper S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012404-4747 | DOUBTFUL, Island lies in the South Pacific Ocean, in long. 141. 3Ŏ. W. and lat. 17. 20. S. It was so named by Captain Cook, and was seen by the French navigator Bougainville. There is another small island of this name near the 1 south coast of New Holland, so called by Captain Vancouver, from his uncertainty whether it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 17 20' S 119 49' E | DOUBTFUL |
kp-eb0708-012405-4747 | DOUBTING, the act of withholding assent from any proposition, on suspicion that we are not thoroughly apprised of its merits, or from not being able peremptorily to decide between the reasons for and against it. Doubting is dist.iŋguished by the schoolmen into two kinds, dubi tatio sterilis, and dubitatio efficax. The ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012406-4747 | DOUDEVILLE, a market-town of the department of the Lower Seine, with 386 houses and 2984 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012407-4747 | DOUDPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, possessed by r independent Goand chiefs. It is thirty-five miles south by east from Bustar. Long. 83. 10. E. Lat. 19. 36. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012408-4747 | DOUPARRA, a town of Hindustan, in the south of India, and district of Coinmin. It is eighty-seven miles north from Cudapah'. Long. 79. 4. E. Lat. 15. 43. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-012409-4747 | DOUGLAS, Gavin, bishop of Dunkcld, was the third son of Archibald earl of Angus, and of Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Lord Boyd, who for some time filled the office of high chamberlain. He appears to have been born in 1474, or the ensuing year. With the place of his birth or education we are not acquainted, but we m... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 58 52' N 4 44' W | DOUGLAS |
kp-eb0708-013001-4825 | DOULEIA (∆ouas∕α), among the Athenians, a kind of punishment by which the criminal was reduced to the condition of a slave. It was never inflicted upon any except the aτιμο ∣ , sojourners and freed servants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013002-4825 | DOULENS, an arrondissement of the department of the Somme, in France, extending over 310 square miles, and divided into four cantons and eighty-nine communes, containing 52,626 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, situated at the junction of the two rivers the Authie and the Grouche. It contains 460 hou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013003-4825 | DOUNE, a village of Scotland, in the southern part of Perthshire, pleasantly situated on the northern bank of the Teith. It consists of three streets radiating from a centre, where stands the market-cross. Its general appearance was much improved in 1826 by the erection of a parish church in the Gothic style, with a ha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013004-4825 | DOUR, a town in the circle of Mons, and province of Hennegau, in the Netherlands. Near to it are some very extensive coal mines. The inhabitants amount to 4549. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013005-4825 | DOURDAN, a market-town of France, in the department of the Seine and Oise, situated on an elevation overlooking the river Orge, with 450 houses and 2592 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013006-4825 | DOUW, Gerhard, a celebrated painter, was born at Leyden in 1613, and received his first instruction in drawing and design from Bartholomew Dolendo, an engraver, and also from Peter Kouwhoorn, a painter on glass. At the age of fifteen he became a disciple of Rembrandt; and in that famous school he continued for three ye... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-013007-4825 | DOVE. See Ornithology. Dove Island, a small island in Torres Strait, on the north coast of New Holland, about a mile and a half in circuit. The fragrance of the trees and shrubs with which it is covered perfumes the air.
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kp-eb0708-013008-4825 | DOVER, a sea-port in the hundred of Bensborough, in the county of Kent, seventy-two miles from London. It is built at an opening between two cliffs, and the streets run in a circular form under the western hill. The old streets are narrow, but of late years many new parts have been added on the eastern shore, which are... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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