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kp-eb0702-024004-2929 | AFTERMATH, in Husbandry, signifies the grass which springs or grows up after mowing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024005-2929 | AFTERNOON, the latter half of the artificial day, or that .space between noon and night. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024006-2929 | AFWESTAD, a large copper-work belonging to the crown of Sweden, which lies on the Dala, in the province of Dalecarlia, in Sweden. It looks like a town, and has its own church. Here they make copper-plates; and have a mint for small silver coin, as well as a royal posthouse. Long. 14. 10. E. Lat. 58. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024007-2929 | AGA, in the Turkish language, signifies a great lord or commander. Hence the aga of the janizaries is the commander-in-chief of that corps; as the general of horse is denominated spachiclar aga. The aga of the janizaries is an officer of great importance. He is the only person who is allowed to appear before the grand ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024008-2929 | AGADES, a kingdom and city of Negroland, in Africa. It lies nearly under the tropic of Cancer, between Gubur and Cano. The town stands on a river that falls into the Niger; it is walled, and the king’s palace is in the midst of it. The king has a retinue, who serve as a guard. The inhabitants are not so black as other ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024009-2929 | AGALMATA, in Antiquity, a term originally used to signify any kind of ornaments in a temple, but afterwards for the statues only, which were most conspicuous. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024010-2929 | AGAMEMNON, the son of Atreus by Aerope, was captain-general of the Trojan expedition. It was foretold to him by Cassandra, that his wife Clytemnestra would be his death: yet he returned to her; and accordingly was slain by Aegisthus, who had gained upon his wife in his absence,, and by her means got the government into... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024011-2929 | AGAN, one of the Ladrone Islands. The circumnavigator Magellan was assassinated here in the year 1525. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024012-2929 | AGANIPPE, in Antiquity, a fountain of Boeotia, at Mount Helicon, on the borders between Phocis and Boeotia, sacred to the Muses, and running into the river Permessus. Ovid seems to make Aganippe and Hippocrene the same. Serenus more truly distinguishes them, and ascribes the blending of them to poetical licence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024013-2929 | AGANIPPIDES, in ancient poetry, a designation given to the Muses, from a fountain of Mount Helicon called Aganippe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024014-2929 | AGAPE, in Ecclesiastical History, the love-feast, or feast of charity, in use among the primitive Christians, when a liberal contribution was made by the rich to feed the poor. The word is Greek, and signifies love. St Chrysostom gives the following account of this feast, which he derives from the apostolical practice.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024101-2942 | AGAPETAE, in Ecclesiastical History, a name given to certain virgins and widows, who, in the ancient church, associated themselves with and attended on ecclesiastics, out of a motive of piety and charity.
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kp-eb0702-024102-2942 | AGARD, Arthur, a learned English antiquary, born at Foston, in Derbyshire, in the year 1540. His fondness for English antiquities induced him to make many large collections; and his office as deputy chamberlain of the exchequer, which he held 45 years, gave him great opportunities of acquiring skill in that study. Simi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024103-2942 | AGARIC Mineral, a marly earth, resembling the vegetable of that name in colour and texture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024104-2942 | AGARO, an island of Sweden, in the province of Westmanland, on the same estuary on which Stockholm is situated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024105-2942 | AGATE, or Achat (among the Greeks and Latins Aχαrjjς and Achates, from a river in Sicily, on the banks of which it was first found), a very extensive genus of the semipellucid gems.
These stones are variegated with veins and clouds, but have no zones like those of the onyx. They are composed of crystal debased by a la... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024201-2955 | AGATHA, St, a market town on the Austrian principality of the Siebenbirgen, situated on the river Hartbache, with one Greek and one Lutheran church. The people arc employed as coopers, shoemakers, and hosiers.
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kp-eb0702-024202-2955 | AGATHIAS, or, as he calls himself in his epigrams, Agathius, distinguished by the title of Scholasticus, a Greek historian in the sixth century, in the reign of Justinian. He was born at Myrina, a colony of the ancient Aeolians, in Asia the Less, at the mouth of the river Phythicus. He was an advocate at Smyrna. Though... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024203-2955 | AGATHO, the Athenian, a tragic and comic poet, was the disciple of Prodicus and Socrates, and applauded by Plato, in his Dialogues, for his virtue and beauty. His first tragedy obtained the prize; and he was crowned, in the presence of upwards of 30,000 persons, in the fourth year of the 90th Olympiad. There is nothing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024204-2955 | AGATHOCLES, the famous tyrant of Sicily, was the son of a potter at Reggio. He was a thief, a common soldier, a centurion, a general, and a pirate, all in regular succession. He defeated the Carthaginians several times in Sicily, and was once defeated himself. He first made himself tyrant of Syracuse, and then of all S... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024205-2955 | AGATHYRNA or Agathyrnum, Agathyrsa or Agathyrsum, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, now St Marco, as old as the war of Troy, having been built by Agathyrnus, son of Aeolus, on an eminence. The gentilitious name is Agathyrnoeus ; or, according to the Roman idiom, Agathyrnensis. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024206-2955 | AGDE, a city of France, in the department of Hérault. It is seated on the river Hérault, a mile and a quarter from its mouth, where it falls into the Gulf of Lyons, and where there is a fort built to guard its entrance. The greater part of the inhabitants are merchants or seamen. 'The city is extended along the river, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024207-2955 | AGE, in the most general sense of the word, signifies the duration of any being, from its first coming into existence to the time of speaking of it, if it still continues; or to its destruction, if it has ceased to exist some time before we happen to mention it.
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kp-eb0702-024301-2968 | AGELNOTH, Egelnoth, or Aethelnoth, in Latin Achelnotus, archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Canute the Great, succeeded Livingus in that see in the year 1020. This prelate, surnamed the Good, was son of Earl Agilmer, and at the time of his election, dean of Canterbury. After his promotion he went to Rome, and rece... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024302-2968 | AGEMA, in Macedonian Antiquity, was a body of soldiers, not unlike the Roman legion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024303-2968 | AGEMOGL ANS, Agiamoglans, or Azamoglans, in the Turkish Polity, are children purchased from the Tartars, or raised every third year, by way of tribute, from the Christians tolerated in the Turkish empire. These, after being circumcised and instructed in the religion and language of their tyrannical masters, are taught ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024304-2968 | AG EN, an arrondissement in the department of the Lot and Garonne, in the south-west of France, extending over 406 square miles, or 259,840 acres, containing 9 cantons and 93 communes, with 79,312 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, is situated on the left bank of the Garonne, and contains 10,800 inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024305-2968 | AGENDA, among philosophers and divines, signifies the duties which a man lies under an obligation to perform. Thus, we meet with the agenda of a Christian, or the duties he ought to perform; in opposition to the credenda, or things he is to believe.
Agenda, among merchants, a term sometimes used for a memorandum-book,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024306-2968 | AGENHINE, in our old writers, signifies a guest that has lodged at an inn for three nights, after which time he was accounted one of the family; and if he offended the king’s peace, his host was answerable for him. It is also written Hogenhine and Hogenhyne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024307-2968 | AGENOIS, a country of France, in the department of [7:2:244] the Garonne, formerly the province of Guienne. It contains about one hundred and twenty square leagues, is fertile and healthful, and, according to Caesar, was inhabited by the Nitiobriges. It constituted part of the kingdom of Aquitania; was held by the coun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024401-2981 | AGENORIA, in Mythology, the goddess of courage and industry, as Vacuna 'nqs, of indolence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024402-2981 | AGENT, in a general sense, denotes any active power or cause. Agents are either natural or moral. Natural agents are such inanimate bodies as have a power to act upon other bodies in a certain and determinate manner; as gravity, fire, &c. Moral agents, on the contrary, are rational creatures, capable of regulating thei... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024403-2981 | AGER, in Roman Antiquity, a certain portion of land allowed to each citizen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024404-2981 | AGER Picenus, or Picenum, in Ancient Geography, a territory of Italy, to the south-east of Umbria, reaching from the Appennines to the Adriatic. The people are called Picentes (Cicero, Livy), distinct from the Picentini on the Tuscan Sea, though called by Greek writers ∏∕κimvo∕. This name is said to be derived from the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024405-2981 | AGESILAUS, king of the Lacedemonians, the son of Archidamus, was raised to the throne in opposition to the superior claim of his nephew Leotychides. As soon as he came to the throne, he advised the Lacedemonians to anticipate the king of Persia, who was making great preparations for war, and to attack him in his own do... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024406-2981 | AGGA, or Aggonna, a British settlement on the Gold Coast of Guinea. It is situated under the meridian of London, in lat. G. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024407-2981 | AGGER, in the ancient military art, a work of fortification, used both for the defence and the attack of towns, camps, &c.; in which sense it is the same with what was otherwise called vallum, and in later times aggestum; and, among the moderns, lines, sometimes cavaliers, terrasses, &c. The agger was usually a bank or... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024408-2981 | AGGERHUUS, one of the four provinces or sees into which the kingdom of Norway is divided. It extends over 32,790 square miles, with a population of no more than 394,G05 inhabitants. It is a very mountainous but most romantic district, abounding in woods, rivers, cascades, and lakes, with some moderately fruitful spots ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024409-2981 | AGGERS-HERRED, a district of Christiansand and a diocese of Norway. It consists of three juridical places; namely, Ascher, West Barm, and Agger. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024410-2981 | AGGLUTINANTS, in Pharmacy, a general name for all medicines of a glutinous or viscid nature; which, by [7:2:245] adhering to the solids, were supposed to contribute to repair their loss. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024501-2994 | AGGREGATION, in Physics, a species of union, '∣ whereby several things which have no natural dependence or connection with one another are collected together, so as in some sense to constitute one. Thus, a heap of sand, or a mass of ruins, is a body by aggregation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024502-2994 | AGHER, a town of Ireland, situated in the southern part of Ulster, not far from Clogher. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024503-2994 | AGHRIM, a town of Ireland, in the county of Wicklow and province of Leinster, situated about 31 miles southwest of Wicklow.
Aghrim, in Galway, a small village, distant about 32 miles from Dublin, and rendered memorable by a decisive battle fought there and at Kilcommodon-hill on the 12th of July 1691, between General ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024504-2994 | AGILITY, an aptitude of the several parts of the body to motion. The improving of agility was one of the chief objects of the institution of games and exercises. The athletae made particular profession of the science of cultivating and improving agility. Agility of body is often supposed peculiar to some people; yet it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024505-2994 | AGINCOURT, a village of the French Netherlands, situated in N. lat. 50. 35. E. long. 2. 10. famous on account of the victory obtained by Henry V. of England over the French.
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kp-eb0702-024506-2994 | AGIO, in Commerce, is a term chiefly used in Holland, and at Venice, to signify the difference between the value of bank stock and the current coin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024507-2994 | AGIOSYMANDRUM, a wooden instrument used by the Greek and other churches, under the dominion of the Turks, to call together assemblies of the people. The agiosymandrum was introduced in the place of bells, which the Turks prohibited their Christian subjects the use of, lest they should make them subservient to sedition. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024508-2994 | AGIS, king of Lacedemon, was descended from Agesilaus II. in a right line. He projected the reformation of his kingdom, by the restoring of the laws of Lycurgus; [7:2:246]but he fell under the weight of an enterprise that could not but be disagreeable to all those who had great possessions, and had been long accustomed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024601-3007 | AGISTMENT, Agistage, or Agistation, in Law, the taking· in of other people’s cattle to graze at so much per week. The term is peculiarly used for the taking of cattle to feed in the king’s forests, as well as for die profits arising from that practice. It is also used, in a metaphorical sense, for any tax, burden, or c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024602-3007 | AGISTOR or Agistator, an officer belonging to forests, who has the care of cattle taken in to be grazed, and levies the moneys due on that account. They are generally called quest-takers or gift-takers, and are created by letters patent. Each royal forest has four agistors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024603-3007 | AGITATION, the act of shaking a body, or tossing it backwards and forwards.
Agitation, in Physic, is often used for an intestine 'commotion of the parts of a natural body. Fermentation and effervescence are attended with a brisk agitation of the particles.
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kp-eb0702-024604-3007 | AGITATOR, in Antiquity, a term sometimes used for a charioteer, especially those who drove in the circus at the curule games.
Agitators, in English History, certain officers set up in the army in 1647, to take care of its interests. Cromwell joined the agitators, only with a view to serve his own ends; which being onc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024605-3007 | AGLAIA, the name of the youngest of the three Graces, espoused to Vulcan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024606-3007 | AGLAR or Aquileja, a city of Austria, in the government of Laybach and Trieste, in the district of Quino. It was in ancient times of great extent and celebrity, but now contains only 1420 inhabitants. It is situated in a swampy spot on the banks of the river Anfora, and is very unhealthful. Long. 13. 28. 32. E. Lat. 45... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024701-3020 | AGLIONBY, John, an English divine, chaplain in ordinary to King James I., was born in Cumberland, and admitted a student at Oxford in 1583. He was a man of universal learning, and had a very considerable hand in the translation of the New Testament appointed by King James I. in 1604. He died in 1609. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024702-3020 | AGMEN, in Antiquity, properly denotes a Roman army in march; in which sense it stands contradistinguished from acies, which denoted the army in battle array; though, on some occasions, we find the two words used indifferently for each other. The Roman armies, in their marches, were divided into primum agmen, answering ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024703-3020 | AGNATE, in Law, any male relation by the father’s side. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024704-3020 | AGNEL, an ancient French gold coin, first struck under the reign of St Louis, worth about twelve sols six deniers. The agnel is also called sometimes mouton d’or, and agnel d’or. The denomination is supposed to have arisen from the figure of a lamb (agnus) or sheep, struck on one side. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024705-3020 | AGNES, St, a large mining village in the county of Cornwall, 168 miles from London, and five from Truro. It is on a small rocky harbour, only accessible to fishing boats, on the Bristol Channel. It contained, in 1801, 4161 inhabitants; in 1811, 4960; and in 1821, 5762. It is also the name of one of the Scilly Islands, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024706-3020 | AGNESI, Maria Gaetana, an Italian lady, who may be justly pronounced one of the greatest wonders and ornaments of her sex, was born at Milan, on the 16th of May 1718. Our materials for an account of this celebrated female arc by no means so complete, nor in some interesting particulars so distinct, as we could have wis... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024801-3033 | AGNO, a river of Naples, which, taking its rise in the mountains of Terra di Lavora, falls into the Mediterranean, about seven miles north of Puzzuoli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024802-3033 | AGNOETAE (from αy≡w, to be ignorant of), in church history, a sect of ancient heretics, who maintained that Christ, considered as to his human nature, was ignorant of certain things, and particularly of the time of the day of judgment. Eulogius, patriarch of Alexandria, ascribes this heresy to certain solitaries in the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024803-3033 | AGNOMEN, in Roman Antiquity, a kind of fourth or honorary name, given to a person on account of some extraordinary action, virtue, or other accomplishments. Thus the agnomen Africanus was bestowed upon Publius Cornelius Scipio on account of his great achievements in Africa.—The agnomen was the third in order of the thr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024804-3033 | AGNONE, a city at the foot of Monte Capraro, in the province Abruzzo Citeriore, in the kingdom of Naples, with 6000 inhabitants, who prepare many copper wares. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024805-3033 | AGNUS Dei, in the church of Rome, a cake of wax stamped with the figure of a lamb supporting the banner of the cross. These being consecrated by the pope with great solemnity, and distributed among the people, are supposed to have great virtues; as, to preserve those who carry them worthily, and with faith, from all ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024806-3033 | AGOGE, among ancient musicians, a species of modulation, wherein the notes proceed by continuous degrees. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024807-3033 | AGON, a town of Sweden, in die province of Gefleborgs-land, with a good harbour in the Gulf of Finland.
Agon, among the ancients, implied any dispute or contest, whether it had regard to bodily exercises or the accomplishments of the mind; and therefore poets, musicians, painters, &c. had their agones, as well as the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024901-3046 | AGONALES, an epithet given to the Salii. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024902-3046 | AGONALIA, in Homan Antiquity, festivals celebrated in honour of Janus or the god Agonius, whom the Romans invoked before undertaking any affair of importance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024903-3046 | AGONALIS Circus, now La Piazza Novona, a long, large, beautiful street in the heart of Rome, adorned with fountains, and the obelisk of Caracalla, still retaining the form of that circus. The reason of the name Agonalis is either unknown or doubtful. Ovid seems to derive it from the agones, or solemn games, there celeb... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024904-3046 | AGONISMA, in Antiquity, denotes the prize given to the victor in any combat or dispute. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024905-3046 | AGONISTARCHA, from aywy, combat, and a^γy>ς, chief, in Antiquity, seems to have been much the same with agonotheta ; though some suggest a difference, making it the office of the former to preside at and direct the private exercises of the athletae, which they went through by way of practice, before they made their app... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024906-3046 | AGONISTICI, in Church History, a name given by Donatus to such of his disciples as he sent to fairs, markets, and other public places, to propagate his doctrine; for which reason they were also called Circutores, Circelliones, Catropirae, Coropitae, and at Rome Monteuses. They were called Agonistici, from the Greek ayw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024907-3046 | AGONIUM, in Roman Antiquity, was used for the day on which the rex sacrorum sacrificed a victim, as well as for the place where the games were celebrated, otherwise called agon. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024908-3046 | AGONOTHETA, or Agonothetes, in Grecian Antiquity, was the president or supèriñtendent of the sacred games; who not only defrayed the expense attending them, but inspected the manners and discipline of the athletae, and adjudged the prizes to the victors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024909-3046 | AGONYCLITAE, or Agonyclites, in Church History, a sect of Christians, in the 7th century, who prayed always standing, as thinking it unlawful to l<neel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024910-3046 | AGORAEUS, in Heathen Antiquity, an appellation given to such deities as had statues in the market-places; particularly Mercury, whose statue was to be seen in almost every public place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024911-3046 | AGORANOMUS, in Grecian Antiquity, a magistrate of Athens, who had the regulation of weights and measures, the prices of provisions, &c.—The agoranomi, at Athens, were ten in number, five belonging to the city, and as many to the Piraeus; though others make them 15 in all, of whom they assign 10 to the city. To these a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024912-3046 | AGORDO, a market town in the Austrian dominions, in Italy, with 1825 inhabitants. It is in the government of Venice, and in the delegation of Belluno, on the river Condevolo. In its vicinity are mines of copper, lead, sulphur, ( and vitriol, the preparation of which is the chief occupation of the people. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-024913-3046 | AGRA, a province of Hindostan, chiefly situated between the 25th and 28th degrees of N. lat. On the north it is bounded by the province of Delhi, on the south by that of Malwah, on the east by the provinces of Oude and Allahabad, and on the west by that of Ajmeer. It is estimated to be 250 miles in length, and in avera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025001-3059 | AGRAM, or Zagrab, a palatinate in the Austrian province of Croatia. Its extent is 768 square miles, or 491,520 English acres. The inhabitants in 1816 were 71,357, all of the Catholic religion. It is subdivided into two circles, that of Agram and of St John; the latter of which comprehends no town. In the whole palatina... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025002-3059 | AGRAMONT, a Spanish town in the province of Catalonia, with 3000 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025003-3059 | AGRARIAN Laws, among the Romans, those relating to the division and distribution of lands; of which there were a great number; but that called the Agrarian Law, by way of eminence, was published by Spurius Cassius, about the year of Rome 268, for dividing the conquered lands equally among all the citizens, and limiting... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025004-3059 | AGREDA, a Spanish town in the province of Soria, containing six parish churches, four monasteries, 3200 inhabitants, 11 tanneries, and 26 potteries. Not far from this place rises the mountain of Moncayo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025005-3059 | AGRIA, called by the Germans Eger, is a strong town in Upper Hungary, situated on a river of the same name, and has a citadel called Eriaw. It was besieged by the Turks in 1552, with 70,000 men; but they lost 8000 in one day, and were obliged to raise the siege, though the garrison consisted only of 2000 Hungarians, as... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025006-3059 | AGRICOLA, Cnaeus Julius, born at Frejus, in Provence, was in Vespasian’s time made lieutenant to Vettius Bolanus in Britain; and upon his return was ranked by that emperor among the patricians, and made governor of Aquitania. This post he held for three years; and upon his return was chosen consul, and afterwards appoi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-025101-3072 | AGRICULTURE.
IT is our principal object in this article to lay before our readers a view of the present state of British agriculture, particularly as the art is practised in our best cultivated counties. Much of what we shall state is derived from our own experience and observation; but we shall nevertheless be carefu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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IT | |
kp-eb0702-035601-4437 | AGRIGAN, or Island of St Francis Xavier, one of the Ladrone or Marianne Islands. It is 50 miles in circumference, is very mountainous, and has a volcano in it; situated in long. 146. E. lat. 19. 4. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035602-4437 | AGRIGENTUM, in Ancient Geography , a city of Sicily, part of the site of which is now occupied by a town called Girgenti, from the old name. Sec Girgenti. According to ancient authors, Daedalus, the most famous mechanician of fabulous antiquity, fled to this spot for protection against Minos, and built many wonderful e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035701-4450 | AGRIONTA, in Grecian Antiquity, festivals annually celebrated by the Boeotians in honour of Bacchus. At these festivals the women pretended to search after Bacchus as a fugitive, and, after some time, gave over their inquiry, saying that he had fled to the Muses, and was concealed among them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035702-4450 | AGRIOPHAGI, in Antiquity, a name given to those who fed on wild beasts. The word is Greek, being compounded of ayg/o¢, wild, savage, and φαχω, I eat. The name is given, by ancient writers, to certain people, real or fabulous, said to have fed altogether on lions or panthers. Pliny and Solinus speak of Agriophagi in Eth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035703-4450 | AGRIPPA, Cornelius, born at Cologne in 1486, a man of considerable learning, and by common report a great magician; for the monks at that time suspected every thing of heresy or sorcery which they did not understand. He composed his treatise of the Excellence of Women to insinuate himself into the favour of Margaret of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035801-4463 | AGRIPPINA, daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, and mother of Nero; a woman of wit, but excessively lewd. She was thrice married, the last time to Claudius, her own uncle, whom she poisoned to make way for Nero, her son. Nero afterwards caused her to be murdered in her chamber, when she bid the executioner stab ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035802-4463 | AGRIPPINIANS, in Church History, the followers of Agrippinus, bishop of Carthage in the third century, who first introduced and defended the practice of re-baptisa-tion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035803-4463 | AGROM, a disease frequent in the East Indies, in which the tongue is parched, chaps, and is sometimes covered with white spots. The Indians attribute this disease to extreme heat of the stomach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035804-4463 | AGROSTOGRAPHIA signifies the history or description of grasses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035805-4463 | AGROUND, the situation of a ship whose bottom, or any part of it, hangs or rests upon the ground, so as to render her immovable till a greater quantity of water floats her off, or till she is drawn out into the stream by the application of mechanical powers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035806-4463 | AGRYPNIA, among Physicians, implies an inaptitude to sleep; a troublesome symptom of feverish and other disorders.
Agrypnia, in the Greek Church, implies the vigil of any of the greater festivals. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035807-4463 | AGUADA, a Spanish river in Salamanca. It rises in the Sierra de Xalama, and empties itself, near San Martino, into the Duero. It is 83 miles in length. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-035808-4463 | AGUAS-BELLAS, a town of Portugal, where a free mart is held, in the district of Thomar, and province of Estremadura. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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