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kp-eb0708-038901-8192 | DYNASTY, among ancient historians, signifies a race or succession of kings of the same family or line. Such were the dynastics of Egypt. The word is formed from the Greek δυναΰτίΐα., of δυνατιω, to he powerful. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038902-8192 | DYSAE, in Mythology, inferior goddesses among the Saxons, being the messengers of the great Odin, whose province it was to convey the souls of such as died in battle to his abode, called Valhalla or the hall of slaughter, where they were to drink, with him and their other gods, cerevisia, a kind of malt liquor, in the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038903-8192 | DYSART, a royal burgh of Scotland, in the county of Fife, is situated on the coast of the Frith of Forth, about a mile to the eastward of Kirkaldy. It consists of three narrow streets, with a species of square in the centre. In the principal street there are a number of antique houses, the fronts of which are generally... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038904-8192 | DYSCRASY, among physicians, denotes an ill habit or state of the humours, as in the scurvy, jaundice, and other diseases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038905-8192 | DYSENTERY, in Medicine, a diarrhoea or flux, wherein the stools are mixed with blood, and the bowels miserably tormented with gripes. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038906-8192 | DYSOREXY, among physicians, denotes a want of appetite, proceeding from a weakly stomach. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038907-8192 | DYSPEPSY, a difficulty of digestion. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038908-8192 | DYSPNOEA, a difficulty of breathing, usually called asthma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038909-8192 | DYVOUR, in Scotch Law, otherwise Eαre-man, a person who, being involved in debt, and unable to pay the same, makes cession of his effects in favour of his creditors. The word is used in the same sense as Bankrupt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038910-8192 | E, the second vowel, and fifth letter of the alphabet. This letter is most probably derived from the old character in the ancient Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets, reversed by the Greeks to this position, E, not from the Hebrew rr, as some have supposed. From the same origin is also derived the Saxon e, which is the fir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038911-8192 | EACHARD, John, an English divine of great learning and wit in the seventeenth century, was bred at Cambridge, and was the author of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion inquired into, 1670. In 1675 he was chosen master of Catharine Hall upon the decease of Dr John Lightfoot; and the year... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-038912-8192 | EADMERUS, Eadmer, or Edmer, an esteemed historian, was an Englishman by birth, but his parents, and the particular time and place of his nativity, are not known. He received a learned education, and early discovered a taste for history, by recording every remarkable event which came to his knowledge. Being a monk in th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039001-8205 | EAGLE. See Ornithology. Eagle, in Heraldry, is accounted one of the most noble bearings in armory, and, according to the learned in this science, ought to be given to none but such as greatly excel in the virtues of generosity and courage, or have rendered singular service to their sovereigns; in which case they may be... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039002-8205 | EAGLET, a diminutive of eagle, properly signifying a young eagle. In heraldry, when there are several eagles on the same escutcheon, they are termed eaglets.
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kp-eb0708-039101-8218 | EALDERMAN, or Ealdorman, among the Saxons, was of the same import with earl among the Danes. The word was also used for an elder, senator, or statesman; and hence, at this day, we call those functionaries aidermen who are associates to the chief officer in the common council of a city or corporate town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039102-8218 | EALING, a town of the county of Middlesex, five miles and a half from London, divided into two parts, distinguished by the names of East and West Ealing. It is in the hundred of Ossulston, and the parish includes the town of Old Brentford. It contains a handsome modern church, and several chapels for separatists, with ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039103-8218 | EAR. (See Anatomy.) The ear has its beauties, which a good painter ought by no means to disregard; and where it is well formed it would be an injury to the head were it hidden. Suetonius insists particularly on the beauty of Augustus’s ears; and Aelian, describing the beauties of Aspasia, observes that she had short ea... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039104-8218 | EARING, in nautical language, is that part of the bolt rope which at the four corners of the sail is. left open, in the shape of a ring. The two uppermost parts are put over the ends of the yard-arms, and so the sail is made fast to the yard; and into the lowermost carings the sheets and tacks are seized or bent at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039105-8218 | EARL, a British title of nobility, next below a marquis, and above a viscount. The title is so ancient, that its origin cannot now be clearly traced out. It seems tolerably certain, however, that amongst the Saxons they were called caldormen, elder men, a word of the same signification with senior or senator among the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039106-8218 | EARNEST (Arrhae), money advanced in order to bind the parties to the performance of a verbal bargain. By the civil law, he who recedes from his bargain loses his earnest, and if the person who received the earnest give back, he must return the earnest double. But with us, the person who gives it is in strictness oblige... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039107-8218 | EARTH, amongst ancient philosophers, owe of the four elements of which the whole system of nature was believed to be composed.
Earth, in Astronomy and Geography, one of the primary planets, bci□g the terraqueous globe which we inhabit. (See the articles Figure of the Earth, and Geology.) | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039108-8218 | EARTHS, in Chemistry. These bodies will be found described in the article Chemistry, under the heads Alkaline Bases and Earthy Bases. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039109-8218 | EASEL Pieces, among painters, such small pieces, whether portraits or landscapes, as are painted on the easel, or frame whereon the canvass is laid. They are thus denominated in order to distinguish them from larger pictures drawn on walls, ceilings, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039110-8218 | EASING, in the sea language, signifies the slackening of a rope or the like. Thus, to ease the bow line, or sheet, is to let them go slacker; to ease the helm, is to let the ship go more large, more before the wind, or more larboard.
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kp-eb0708-039111-8218 | EAST, one of the four cardinal points of the world, being that point of the horizon where the sun is seen to rise when in the equinoctial. The word east is Saxon. In Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean, the east wind is called the levante; in Greek, αvαroan and aπr l - λιωτη;, because it comes from the side of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039112-8218 | EASTBOURNE, a town on the coast of Sussex, in the hundred of that name, within the rape of Pavensey. It is 63 miles from London, and is one of those places which, from the prevalence of sea-bathing, has within the last fifty years been raised from a fishing village to be a large and populous town. It is situated in a c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039113-8218 | EAST Island, a small island in the Eastern Seas, near the coast of Palawan. Long. 118. 36. Ľ. Lat. 8. 40. N. Also a small island on the east coast of Borneo. Long. 109. 38. E. Lat. 2. 40. N. Likewise an island in the South Pacific Ocean, on the coast of New Zealand, near Cape East. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039114-8218 | EASTER, a festival of the Christian church, observed in memory of our Saviour’s resurrection. The Greeks call it pasgn, the Latins pascha, from a Hebrew word signifying passage, applied to the Jewish feast of the passover. It is called Easter in English, from the goddess Eoβtre, who was worshipped by the Saxons with pe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039201-8231 | EASTON, a post-town and burgh of Pennsylvania, and capital of the county of Northampton, United States. It is situated on the Delaware, at the junction of the Lehigh River and Canal, and also near the western end of the Morris Canal, which connects it with New York. It is regularly laid out, handsomely built, and posse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039202-8231 | EASTPORT, a post-town and sea-port of Maine, in the county of Washington, situated at the most eastern limit of the United States, on Morse Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay. It is a flourishing commercial place, and is very well situated for trade, having ample facilities for communication with the interior, by means of tw... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039203-8231 | EAUZE, an ancient city of the department of Gers, in France, said to have been taken by the Saracens in 722. It is situated on the river Selise, was formerly called Elusa, and is the chief place in Aquitain. It now contains 3220 inhabitants. Long. 0. 3. W. Lat. 43. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039204-8231 | EAVES, in Architecture, the margin or edge of the roof of a house, being the lowest tiles, slates, or the like, which hang over the walls, in order to throw off water to a distance from the foundations.
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kp-eb0708-039205-8231 | EBDOMARIUS, or Hebdomarius, in ecclesiastical writings, an officer formerly appointed weekly to superintend the performance of divine service in cathedrals, and prescribe the duties of each person attending in the choir, as to reading, singing, praying, and the like. For this purpose the hebdomary, at the beginning of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039206-8231 | EBDOME, E∕3io, u,η, in Antiquity, a festival kept on the seventh of every lunar month, in honour of Apollo, to whom all seventh days were sacred, because one of them was his birth-day; and hence he was sometimes called Ebdomagenes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039207-8231 | EBERBACH, a bailiwick in the circle of the Neckar, in the duchy of Baden, in Germany, comprehending one city and nineteen villages, with 7b90 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the Neckar, and has 2843 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039208-8231 | EBERHARD, John Augustus, an eminent German theologian and philosopher, was born at Halberstadt, in Lower Saxony, on the 31st of August 1739. His father was the singing-master at the church of St Martin’s in that town, and also teacher of the school of the same name; a man, it is said, of a lively disposition, and consi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039301-8244 | EBERN, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over seventy-one square miles. It contains one city, one market-town, and 11,400 inhabitants. It is watered by the river Baunach, has excellent pasture, and moderate c< .. land. The capital, of the same name, contains 207 houses, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039302-8244 | EBERSBACH, a town of the circle of Lausatia, in the kingdom of Saxony. It contains 700 houses and 5400 inhabitants, who have more than 1500 looms at work making linen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039303-8244 | EBERSBERG, a bailiwick in the circle of the Isar, of the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 240 square miles. It contains three market-towns, 148 villages, and 3436 houses, with 16,187 inhabitants. The chief town is of the same name, and contains 176 houses and 940 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039304-8244 | EBERSDORF, a market-town of the principality of Reuss of the Branch. It contains the prince’s castle, and 1270 inhabitants, of whom about 400 are industrious Hern-butters or Moravians. It is the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, which comprehends one other town and fourteen villages. There is a town of the same ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039305-8244 | EBINGEN, a city of the kingdom of Bavaria, in the province of the Black Forest and circle of Bahlingen. It stands on the river Schmeica, and contains 4350 inhabitants, the most industrious manufacturers of woollen goods, hosiery, hats, and leather of any in that kingdom. Most of the goods made by them are disposed of a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039306-8244 | EBION, the author of the heresy of the Ebionites, was a disciple of Cerinthus, and successor to that person. He improved upon the errors of his master, and added to them new absurdities of his own. He began his preaching [7:8:394]in Judea; and he taught in Asia, and even at Rome. IJis tenets infected the isle of Cyprus.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039401-8257 | EBIONITES, ancient heretics, who appeared in the church in the first ages, and formed themselves into a sect in the second century, denying the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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kp-eb0708-039402-8257 | EBONY, a species of wood, exceedingly hard and heavy, susceptible of a very fine polish, and on that account used in mosaic and inlaid works, toys, and the like. There are different kinds of ebony, but the most usual amongst us are black, red, and green, and almost all of them the product of the island of Madagascar, w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039403-8257 | EBRO, a river of Spain. It has its source in the province of Toro, about ten miles west of Reynosa, from out of the two springs of Fontibre, whence it runs south-east, divides Burgos and Soria from Alava and Navarre, passes through Aragon, becomes navigable near Logrono, and, after a course of 362 miles near Amposta, e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039404-8257 | EBUDAE, or Hebudes, in Ancient Geography, islands off the west coast of Scotland, now called the Western Isles, also Hebrides.
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kp-eb0708-039501-8270 | ECALESIA, ExaλjjΛα, in Antiquity, a festival held in honour of Jupiter, surnamed Hecalus, or Hecalesius, from Hecale, one of the boroughs in Attica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039502-8270 | ECASTOR, in Antiquity, an oath in which Castor was invoked. It was a custom for the men never to swear by Castor, nor the women by Pollux. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039503-8270 | ECATAEA, Exarα∕α, in Antiquity, statues erected to the goddess Hecate, for whom the Athenians had a great veneration, believing that she was the overseer of their families, and that she protected their children. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039504-8270 | ECATESIA, Exarem, in Antiquity, an anniversary solemnity, observed by the Stratonicensians, in honour of Hecate. The Athenians likewise had a public entertainment or supper every new moon, in honour of the same goddess. The supper was provided at the charge of the more affluent; and it was no sooner brought to the accu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039505-8270 | ECATOMBAEON, Exaroµĉa/w, in Chronology, the first month of the Athenian year. It consisted of thirty days, and began on the first new moon after the summer solstice, and consequently answered to the latter part of our June and beginning of July. The Boeotians called it Hippodromus, and the Macedonians Lous. The word is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039506-8270 | ECAVESSADE, in the manege, is a term used for a jerk of the cavesson. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039507-8270 | ECBATANA, more properly written Agbatana, the chief city of Media, and the summer residence of its princes. Its foundation is ascribed by Herodotus to Dejoces, first king of Media, who reigned about 733 b. c.; but as this period of history is involved in much obscurity, we have some reason to doubt the correctness of h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039508-8270 | ECCHELLENSIS, Abraham, a learned Maronite, whom the president Le Jai employed in the edition of his Polyglott Bible. Gabriel Sionita, his countryman, brought him to Paris in order to make him his fellow-labourer in publishing that Bible. But they quarrelled, upon which Gabriel complained to the parliament, and cruelly ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039509-8270 | ECCLES, one of those large manufacturing towns which within a few years have risen from villages. It is 185 miles frotn London and four from Manchester, in the hundred of Salford, and county of Lancaster. The inhabitants are chiefly occupied in the several branches of the cotton manufacture; and amounted in 1801 to 619... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039510-8270 | ECCLESFIELD, a large manufacturing parish of the [7:8:396] west riding of Yorkshire, in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, 167 miles from London and five from Sheffield, with the trade of which place it is very much connected. The population amounted in 1801 to 5114, in 1811 to 5805, in 1821 to 7163, and in 1831... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039601-8283 | ECCLESHALL, a market-town of the county of Stafford, 148 miles from London. It is in the hundred of Pirehill, on the banks of the river Sow; is a well-built town, in a pleasant district; and was formerly the residence of the bishops of Lichfield. The chief part of the inhabitants are employed in manufactures. The marke... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039602-8283 | ECCLESIASTES, a canonical book of the Old Testament, the design of which is to show the vanity of all sublunary things. It was composed by Solomon, who enumerates the several objects on which men place their happiness, and then shows the insufficiency of all worldly enjoyments. The Talmudists made King Hezekiah the aut... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039603-8283 | ECCLESIASTICAL, an appellation given to whatever belongs to the church. Thus we say ecclesiastical polity, jurisdiction, history, and so forth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039604-8283 | ECCLESIASTICUS, an apocryphal book, generally bound up with the Scriptures, and so called from its being read in the church, ecclesia, as a book of piety and instruction, but not of infallible authority. The author of this book was a Jew, called Jesus the son of Sirach. The Greeks call it the Wisdom of the Son of Sirac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039605-8283 | ECCLOO, a city in the province of West Flanders, which contains 6269 inhabitants. It is the capital of the circle of the same name, comprehending three cantons, with a population of 42,484 persons. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039606-8283 | ECCOPROTICS, in Medicine, laxative or loosening remedies, which purge gently, by softening the humours and excrements, and fitting them for expulsion. The word is composed of the Greek particle sx, and x<wrgo⅛, faces. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039607-8283 | ECDALA, or Akdala, an ancient town and fortress of Bengal, in the district of Dacca, which is frequently mentioned in the histories of Bengal, but of which there are now scarcely any remains. In the year 1353 Ilyas Hajy, the second independent king of Bengal, took refuge here, and defended the place until the setting i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039608-8283 | ECDICI, Exò/xci, amongst the ancients, patrons of cities, who defended their rights, and took care of the public money. Their office resembled that of the modern syndics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039609-8283 | ECHALLANS, a bailiwick in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland, containing 6954 inhabitants, whose capital is of the same name, and situated on the river Talent, containing 850 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039610-8283 | ECHAPE, in the manege, a horse begotten between a stallion and a mare of different breeds and countries. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039611-8283 | ECHAPER, in the manege, a gallicism used in the academies, implying to give a horse head, or to put him to full speed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039612-8283 | ECHINADES, a group of islands off the coast of Acarnania, at the mouth of the river Achelous. They are mentioned by Homer as having sent a detachment of troops to Troy under Meges. The chief island seems to have been Dulichium, which some of the ancients considered as only another name for Cephallenia; but Strabo stren... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039613-8283 | ECHINATE, or Echinated, an appellation given to whatever is prickly, or resembling the hedgehog. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039614-8283 | ECHINITES, the name by which authors call the fossil centronia, frequently found in chalk pits. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039615-8283 | ECHINODERMATA, the first class of the fourth great division of the animal kingdom (see vol. iii. p. 179 of this work), commonly called Zoophytes, or radiated animals; it includes, among numerous other species, the star-fish, sea urchins, &c. We shall describe the animals of this class under the term Zoophytes, to which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039616-8283 | ECHINUS. See Zoophytes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039617-8283 | ECHO, a sound reflected or reverberated from a solid concave body, and so repeated to the ear. The word is formed from the Greek ηχoς, sound, which comes from the verb ηχsω, sono.
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kp-eb0708-039701-8296 | ECHOME - l’ER, among musicians, a kind of scale or rule, with several lines on it, serving to measure the duration and length of sounds, and to determine their intervals and ratios. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039702-8296 | ECIJA, a city of Spain, in that division of Andalusia denominated the i 'kingdom of Seville. It is situated on the right bank of the river Xenil, which is here crossed by a neat bridge of modern erection. The surrounding country suffers much from a scarcity of water; but when the summer happens to be rainy, it is abund... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039703-8296 | ECKIUS, or Echius, John, an eminent and learned controversialist, professor in the university at Ingolstadt, and remarkable for the opposition he gave to Luther, Melancthon, Carlostadius, and other leading Protestants in Germany, was born in Suabia in 1486. He wrote many polemical tracts; and amongst the rest a Manual ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039704-8296 | ECLECTICS leclectici'), a name given to some ancient philosophers, who, without attaching themselves to any particular sect, took whatever they judged good and solid from each; and hence their denomination. Laertius observes that they were also, for the same reason, denominated analogetici ; but that they call themselv... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039801-8309 | ECLIPSE, in Astronomy, the deprivation of the light of the sun, or of some heavenly body, by the interposition of another heavenly body between us and that body. See Astronomy. Eclipse Islands, a cluster of small rocky barren islands in the South Pacific Ocean, near the south-west coast of New Holland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039802-8309 | ECLIPTIC, in Astronomy, a great circle of the sphere, supposed to be drawn through the middle of the zodiac, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23° 30 ’, which is the sun’s greatest declination; or, more strictly speaking, it is that path or way among the fixed stars, which the earth appears to describe to a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039803-8309 | ECLODE, a town of Hindustan, in the province ofMal-wah, belonging to the predatory chieftain Meer Khan. Long. 77. 55. E. Lat. 24. 5. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-039804-8309 | ECLOGUE, in Poetry, a kind of pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing together. The word is formed from the Greek ιxaoyn choice ; so that, according to the etymology, eclogue should be a select or choice piece; but custom has assigned to it a further signification, namely, a little elegant co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041001-8465 | ECONOMY, Political. See Political Economy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041002-8465 | ECSTACY. See Extasy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041003-8465 | ECSTATICI, Exmcnxoz, from tζιβτrtμ,ι, I am entranced, in Antiquity, a kind of diviners who were cast into trances or ecstacies, in which they lay like dead men, or persons asleep, deprived of all sense and motion, but who, after some time, recovering their senses, gave strange relations of what they had seen or heard. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041004-8465 | ECTHESIS, in Ecclesiastical History, a confession of faith, in the form of an edict, published in the year 639 by the Emperor Heraclius, with a view to allay the troubles occasioned by the Eutychian heresy in the eastern church. However, the same prince revoked it, on being informed that Pope Severinus had condemned it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041005-8465 | ECTHLIPSIS, among Latin grammarians, a figure of prosody, by which· the m at the end of a word, when the following word begins with a vowel, is elided, or cut off, together with the vowel preceding it, for the sake of the measure of the verse. Thus they read mult' ille, for multum ille. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041006-8465 | EDAM, a small and woody island on the coast of Java, about two miles in circuit, whither criminals are banished. It is nine miles north-north-east from Batavia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041007-8465 | EDAMBAVANUM, a town in the north of India, province of the Carnatic, situated on the western shore of the bay of Bengal. Long. 75. 55. E. Lat. 10. 27. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041008-8465 | EDDA, a system of the ancient Icelandic or Runic mythology, containing many curious particulars of the theology, philosophy, and manners of the northern nations of Europe; or of the Scandinavians who had migrated from Asia, and from whom our Saxon ancestors were descended. Mr Mallet apprehends that it was originally co... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041101-8478 | EDDYSTONE, a lighthouse in the British Channel, built on rocks of the same name, which are supposed to have got this appellation from the great variety of contrary sets of the current among them, both upon the tide of flood and the tide of ebb. See Light-Houses. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041102-8478 | EDEN, the name of a country, with a garden, in which the progenitors of mankind were settled by God himself. The term denotes pleasure or delight. It would be endless to recount the several opinions which have been entertained concerning its situation, some of them very wild and extravagant. The garden was also called ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041103-8478 | EDER, a town of Hindustan, possessed by independent chiefs, in the province of Gujerat, fifty-three miles northnorth-east from Ahmedabad. Long. 73. 3. E. Lat. 23. 35. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041104-8478 | EDESSA, also called Aegae, a city of Macedonia, in the district of Emathia, twenty-eight miles west of Pella, which is celebrated in the ancient history of this kingdom as being the point from which the powerful family of the Temenidae commenced their career of conquest, and from which they did not desist till they had... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041105-8478 | EDGWARE, a town of the county of Middlesex, partly in the parish of that name, and partly in the parish of Whitchurch or Little Stanmore, nine miles from London. Its chief importance is derived from being on the great road to St Albans and to Buckingham, a road constructed by the Romans, called the Watling Street. It f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041106-8478 | EDHILING, Edhilingus, an ancient appellation of the nobility among the Anglo-Saxons. Instead of edhiling,ΑG sometimes meet with atheling, or tethelitig ; which appellation was likewise given to the king’s son, and the presumptive heir of the crown. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041107-8478 | EDICT, in matters of polity, an order or instrument, signed and sealed by a prince, to serve as a law to his subjects. We find frequent mention of the edicts of the praetor, or the ordinances of that officer, expounding the principles on which he was to administer the law. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-041108-8478 | EDINBURGH.
Edinburgh, a city, the capital of Scotland, and chief town of Mid-Lothian, or Edinburghshire, is situated within two miles of the south shore of the Frith of Forth, at the distance of about 392 miles north from London, in 55. 57. 20. north latitude, and 3. 10. 30. west longitude· The situation of this ancie... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-042901-8712 | EDINBURGHSHIRE, or, as it is frequently called, Mid Lothian, is the seat of the metropolis of North Britain. It is situated between 55° 39 ’ and 55° 59 ’ north latitude, and between 2° 36' and 3° 33’ longitude west from Greenwich. Its boundaries are the Frith of Forth on the north; Linlithgowshire or West Lothian on th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-043101-8738 | EDMONTON, a parish in the county of Middlesex, seven miles from London, on the great north-east road. It is situated in the hundred of the same name, and contains many of the residences of the more wealthy citizens of London. The new river is conducted through it. The population amounted in 1801 to 5993, in 1811 to 782... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-043102-8738 | EDOM, or Idumaea, in √4ncren∕ Geography, a district of Arabia Petraea. A great part also of the south of Judaea was called Idumaea, because it was occupied by the ldu-means, upon the Jewish captivity, as far as Hebron. But the proper Edom or Idumaea appears not to have been very extensive, from the march of the Israeli... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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