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kp-eb0708-043103-8738 | EDRENOS, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia, situated on a river of the same name, twenty miles south of Bursa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-043104-8738 | EDRISI, or Aldrisi, the most eminent of the geographers who have written in the Arabic language. There is no individual of equal eminence over whose life there hangs a deeper veil of mystery, the various parts of it affording rather subjects of controversy to the learned than of precise information to the biographer. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-043301-8764 | EDUCATION.
The inquiry, what education ought to be, and the description of what it is, in those communities in which it may be considered as having acquired its greatest improvement, are two subjects which in this work it has been deemed convenient to keep separate. The analytical investigation of the end to which edu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045001-8985 | EDULCORATION properly signifies the rendering substances more mild. Chemical edulcoration consists almost always in taking away acids and other saline substances; and this is effected by washing the bodies to which they adhere in a large quantity of water. The washing of diaphoretic antimony, powder of algaroth, and th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045002-8985 | EDWARD, the name of several kings of England. See England. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045003-8985 | EDWARDS, Georoe, fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, was born at Stratford, a hamlet belonging to Westham in Essex, on the 3d of April 1693. After having spent some time at school, he was put as apprentice to a tradesman in Fenchurch Street. His master, who was eminent both for his piety and skill in the lan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045501-9050 | EEKEREN, a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Antwerp, about four miles from that city. It has some distilleries and tanneries, and 4740 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045502-9050 | EECHAAK, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, 103 miles south-south-east from Patna. Long. 85. 46. E. Lat. 24. 10. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 10' N 85 46' E | EECHAAK |
kp-eb0708-045503-9050 | EEL. See Ichthyology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045504-9050 | EETCOORE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, and district of Ramgur, 92 miles south from Patna. Long. 85. 17. E. Lat. 24. 18. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045505-9050 | EFBE, an island in the Eastern Seas, about five or six miles in length, near the south coast of Mysol, with which it forms a harbour. Captain Forrest found two villages on the island, where vessels may procure supplies. Long. 127. E. Lat. 2. 12. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045506-9050 | EFFEMINATE, womanish, unmanly, voluptuous.
Effeminate {effeminati), according to the vulgate, are mentioned in several places of Scripture. The word is there used to signify such as were consecrated to some profane god, and prostituted themselves in honour of him. The Hebrew word hadesh, translated effeminatus, proper... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045507-9050 | EFFENDI, in the Turkish language, signifies master, and accordingly is a title very extensively applied, as to the mufti and emirs, to the priests of mosques, to men of learning, and of the law. The grand chancellor of the empire is called rets effendi. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045508-9050 | EFFERVESCENCE, an intestine motion excited among the parts of two bodies of different natures, when they reciprocally dissolve each other. Effervescences are commonly attended with bubbles, vapours, small jets of the liquid, and a hissing noise; which phenomena again are occasioned by the air disengaging itself. Someti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045509-9050 | EFFIGY, the portrait, figure, or exact representation of a person.
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Effigy, is also used for the print or impression of a coin, representing the prince’s head who struck it.
Eerier, to execute or degrade in, denotes the execution or degradation of a condemned contumacious criminal, who cannot be personally s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045601-9063 | EFFLORESCENCE, in Chemistry, denotes the formation of a kind of mealy powder on the surface of certain bodies. Efflorescence is occasioned either by decomposition or by drying. The efflorescence which happens to cobalt and martial pyrites is of the former; and that observed on the crystals of soda, Glauber’s salt, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045602-9063 | EFFLORESCENTIA, in Botany (from effloresco, to bloom), the precise time of the year and month in which every plant shows its first flowers. Some plants flower twice a year, as is common between the tropics; others oftener, as the monthly rose. The former are called by botanists biseroe, the latter multifera. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045603-9063 | EFFLUVIUM, in Physiology, a term much used by philosophers and physicians to express the minute particles which exhale from most, if not all, terrestrial bodies, in form of sensible vapours. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045604-9063 | EFFRONTES, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics, in 1534, who scraped the forehead with a knife till it bled, and then poured oil into the wound. This ceremony served them instead of baptism. They are likewise said to have denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045605-9063 | EFFUSION, the pouring out of any liquid. In the ancient heathen sacrifices there were divers effusions of wine and other liquors, called libations. Effusion, or Fusion, in Astronomy, denotes that part of the sign Aquarius represented on celestial globes and planispheres by the water issuing out of the urn of the water-... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045606-9063 | EGENOTISO, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty miles in circumference, and fifty miles from the north-east coast of Sumatra. Long. 104 1 45. E. Lat. 0. 27. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045607-9063 | EGER, a circle of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, extending over 110 square miles, and containing 23,000 inhabitants. The chief place is the city of the same name. It contains 800 houses, and 8500 inhabitants, who are employed in various manufactures. It is celebrated as the place where Wallenstein was put to death, a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 5' N 12 18' E | EGER |
kp-eb0708-045608-9063 | EGERIA, a nymph who assisted Numa in framing a code of laws for the people of Rome. The king and the nymph used to meet at night in a wood at the gates of Rome, then called Lucus Camaenarum, which is now, according to popular opinion, La Caffarella. When Numa died, Ëgeria was so violently affected with grief, that she ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045609-9063 | EGG, in Physiology, a body formed in certain females, in which is contained an embryo or foetus of the same species, under a cortical surface or shell. The exterior part of an egg is a shell, which in a hen, for instance, is a white, thin, and friable cortex, including all the other parts. The shell becomes more brittl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045610-9063 | EGGENFELDEN, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Danube, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 220 square miles. It contains five market-towns, 133 villages, and 867 hamlets, with 22,566 inhabitants. The [7:8:457] capital is the town of the same name. It is situated on the river Roth, and contains 226 houses, wi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045701-9076 | EGHAM, a village of the hundred of Godley and Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, 18 miles from London. It is situated on the banks of the Thames, which is the boundary towards Middlesex, and over which is a bridge connecting it with Staines. The great western road passing through it gives some animation. The country ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045702-9076 | EGINHARD, or Eginhart, a celebrated historian of the ninth century, was a native of one of the eastern provinces of France. His family is not known, and those who have pretended that he was of noble descent have given no other proof of their assertion than the reception which he met with at the court of Charlemagne. He... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045703-9076 | EGMONT ISLAND, or New Guernsey, the principal island in the group called Queen Charlotte’s Isiands, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about 54 miles in length, and from 20 to 32 in breadth. The country in general is mountainous, covered with woods, and intersected with numerous valleys and small rivers. The inhabitants... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045704-9076 | EGNATIA, or Gnatia, a city of Peucetia, a province of Apulia, situated on the coast, the inhabitants of which are ridiculed by Horace for exciting the wonder of the ignorant multitude by burning incense on an altar without the process of ignition. Pliny, with the utmost gravity, makes the prodigy still more surprising,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045705-9076 | EGREMONT, a market-town of the ward of Allerdale, in Cumberland, two miles from "the sea, and 304 from London. It consists chiefly of one spacious street, many of the houses having a piazza in front, and bearing marks of considerable antiquity. At the west end of the town are the ruins of a castle. The market is held o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-045801-9089 | EGYPT.
Egypt, a country not less remarkable for its physical character than its historical records, and forming as it were the connecting link between Africa and the civilized world, consists, first, of a long and narrow valley, which follows the course of the Nile from Assouan to Cairo; and secondly, of the extensive... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056101-0428 | EGYPTIANS, or Gypsies. See Gypsies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056102-0428 | EHINGEN, a bailiwick of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, in the circle of the Danube. It extends over 143 square miles, comprehending two cities, two towns, and sixty-two smaller places, with 23,124 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the Danube. It contains 500 houses, and 2670 inhabitants, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 29' 36" N 9 51' 34" E | EHINGEN |
kp-eb0708-056103-0428 | EHNINGEN, a city of the kingdom of Wirtemberg, in the circle of the Black Forest, where the greatest markets are held of any in the kingdom. It contains 4500 inhabitants, who make ribbons, lace, handkerchiefs, and other goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056104-0428 | EHUD, the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a left-handed man, who delivered Israel from the oppression of Eglon, king of Moab, under whom they served for eighteen years. This will be found recorded in the third chapter of Judges.
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kp-eb0708-056105-0428 | EIBENSTOCK, a city of the kingdom of Saxony, in the circle of Erzgeberg, and bailiwick of Krottendorf. It stands on the river Mulde, in a mining district, 1896 feet above the level of the sea, and contains 4397 inhabitants, employed chiefly in mining and preparing the metals; but the females make a large quantity of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056106-0428 | EICHSTEDT, a bailiwick of the circle of the Regen, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It was formerly under the dominion of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, but has been mediatised. It extends over 470 square miles, and comprehends four cities, nine market-towns, a hundred and eleven villages, and seventy hamlets, with 45,256 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 48 53' 30" N 11 6' 5" E | EICHSTEDT |
kp-eb0708-056107-0428 | EIDER Duck. See Ornithology. Eider Zλ>uvι, the down of the eider duck. The eider duck plucks off the down from its breast for the purpose of making its nest, which it continues to renew as often as deprived of it, until its breast becomes quite bare.
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kp-eb0708-056108-0428 | EILENBURG, a city of the Prussian province of Saxony, in the circle of De)etzsch. It is situated on an island formed by the Mulda, is surrounded with walls, and contains 638 houses, and, with the military, 5100 inhabitants. There are establishments for the printing of calico, and for other manufactures. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056109-0428 | EIMBECK, or Einbeck, a city of the province of Grubenhagen, in the kingdom of Hanover, at the foot of the Hartz Mountains. It is walled, and contains 773 houses, with 4907 inhabitants employed in various trades. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056110-0428 | EINDHOVEN, a city of the province osNorth Brabant, in the Netherlands. It stands at the junction of the rivers Gender and Dommel, and contains 390 houses, and 2975 inhabitants. Long. 5. 23. 20. E. Lat. 51. 25.26. N. It is the capital of a circle of the same name, divided into seven cantons, which contain 86,560 inhabit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056111-0428 | EINSHEIM, a bailiwick in the circle of the Neckar, in the duchy of Baden, in Germany, comprehending one city, sixteen villages, and five hamlets, with 15,450 inhabitants; the capital of which, of the same name, stand* on the river Elsenz, and has 186 houses, with 2400 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056112-0428 | EISENACH, a principality, forming a considerable part of the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar, in Germany. It extends over 456 square miles, comprehending seven cities, six market towns, 228 villages, 12,920 houses, and 75,706 inhabitants. It is a scattered principality, many portions of which are surrounded by the territory... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056113-0428 | EISENBURG, a city of the principality of Altenburg, in the grand duchy of Saxe-Gotha, in Germany. It is situated on a remarkable elevation, is surrounded with walls, and contains a ducal palace, three churches, 575 houses, and 4550 inhabitants, who make cotton goods, ribbons, furniture, porcelain, leather, and other ar... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056114-0428 | EISLEBEN, a city of the province of Prussian Saxony, the capital of the circle of Mansfeld. It is divided into the old and the new city, is surrounded with walls, and has several establishments for education, four churches, 957 houses, and 7100 inhabitants. It is celebrated as the birth-place of Martin Luther, the hous... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056201-0441 | EJECTMENT, in English Law, a writ or action which lies in favour of the lessee for years, on his being ejected or put out of his land before the expiration of his term, either by the lessor or a stranger. It may also be brought by the lessor against the lessee, for rent in arrears, or holding over his term, and the lik... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056202-0441 | EKATERINOGRAD, a town and fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Caucasus, on the river Mulka or Balk, which a little lower falls into the Terek. It is the strongest place on the Caucasian line of posts, having been founded in the year 1776; and it remained the capital of the province of Caucasus, until it wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056203-0441 | EKRON, a city and government of the. Philistines. It fell by lot to the tribe of Judah, in the first division made by Joshua, but it was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan. It was situated very near the Mediterranean, between Ashdod and Jamnia. Ekron was a powerful city, and it does not appear from history that the J... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056204-0441 | ELAEOTHESIUM, in Antiquity, the anointing room, or place where those who were to wrestle or had bathed anointed themselves. See Gymnasium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056205-0441 | ELAM, in Ancient Geography, a country frequently mentioned in Scripture, and situated to the south-east of Shinar. In the time of Daniel (viii. 2) Susiana seems to have been part of that country; and before the captivity it does not appear that the Jews recognised Persia by any other name. Elymae and Elymais are freque... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056206-0441 | ELAPHEBOLIA, in Grecian antiquity, a festival observed in honour of Diana the huntress. In the celebration of this mystery a cake was made in the form of a deer (iλαpoς), and offered to the goddess. It owed its institution to a notable circumstance. When the Phocians had been severely beaten by the Thessalians, they re... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056207-0441 | ELAPHEBOLIUM, in Grecian antiquity, the ninth month of the Athenian year, answering to the latter part of February and the beginning of March. It consisted of thirty days, and took its name from the festival Elaphebolia, observed in this month in honour of Diana the huntress, as mentioned above. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056208-0441 | ELASTIC, in Natural Philosophy, an appellation given to all bodies endowed with the property of elasticity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056209-0441 | ELASTICITY, or Elastic Force, that property which bodies possess of restoring themselves to their former figure, after any force which has disturbed it is withdrawn. Elasticity is generally accounted for by the great law of attraction. Thus, when a hard body is struck or bent, so that the component parts are moved a li... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056210-0441 | ELATEA, the largest and most important city of Phocis, situated on the declivity of a hill above the fertile plains of the river Cephissus. Behind it to the north rose a mountain ridge, which, issuing from Doris, stretched away to the south-east, and at its extremity was called by the name of Cnemis. Here dwelt the Loc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056211-0441 | ELATERIUM, Eλarripov, in Pharmacy, a violently purgative medicine, prepared from the wild cucumber. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056212-0441 | ELATH, or Eloth, a port of Idumaea, situated upon the Red Sea, which David in his conquest of Edom took, and established there an extensive trade. His son, we are informed, built ships in Elath, whence they were dispatched to Ophir for gold. It continued in the possession of the Israelites till the time of Joram, when ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056213-0441 | ELBA, an island of the Mediterranean, separated by a narrow channel from the western coast of Italy. It is situated in long. 10. 9. 24. E. and lat. 42. 49. 6. N. In length it is about eighteen miles, and its greatest breadth is about ten miles. The area may be stated at about 154 square miles.
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... | 42 49' 6" N 10 9' 24" E | ELBA |
kp-eb0708-056301-0454 | ELBE (the Albis of the ancients), a large river of Europe, in Germany, which rises in the Riesen Gebirge, or Giant’s Mountains, between Silesia and Bohemia, and is known at its source by the Sclavonic name of the Labbe. Its principal sources are the White Fountain, at the base of the Schnee-Kuppe, and the eleven founta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056302-0454 | ELBERFELD, a city of the Prussian province Clewe-Juliers, of the government of Dusseldorf, and the capital of a circle of the same name. It stands on the river Wipper, which falls into the Rhine a few miles from the city. It is a place the most celebrated for its activity and progress of any in the Prussian dominions. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056303-0454 | ELBEUF, a city of the department of the Lower Seine, in France, on the left bank of that river, containing 925 houses, and 6550 inhabitants, among whom are many manufacturers of the finest cloth, and of flannels, carpets, and hosiery. Long. 0. 53. E. Lat. 49. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 20' N 0 53' E | ELBEUF |
kp-eb0708-056304-0454 | ELBING, a city in the province of West Prussia, and government of Dantzic, and the capital of a circle of the same name. It is situated on the river Elbing, which divides the suburb of Grubenhagen, and the part where the corn magazines are built, from the town. About five miles below the city that river joins the Nogat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 54 7' 54" N 19 16' 5" E | ELBING |
kp-eb0708-056401-0467 | ELBOW, the outer angle made by the flexure or bend of the arm. That eminence whereon the arm rests, called by us elbow, is by the Latins called cubitus, and by the Greeks oeyx¢uv, and by others oacxgaw.
Elbow is also used by architects, masons, and others, for an obtuse angle of a wall, building, or road, which divert... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056402-0467 | ELCESAITES, in Ecclesiastical History, were ancient heretics, who made their appearance in the reign of the Emperor Trajan, and took their name from their leader Elcesai. The Elcesaites observed a mean between the Jews, Christians, and Pagans. They worshipped but one God, observed the Jewish sabbath, and practised circ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056403-0467 | ELCHE, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia. It is situated on a small river that runs into the Guadarma. It is celebrated for the beauty of its palm woods, and for the exquisite marbles raised in the quarries in its vicinity. It is situated in latitude 38. ⅛9. and contains 2600 houses and 17,406 inhabitants, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056404-0467 | ELDERS, or Seniors, in Jewish history, were persons the most considerable for age, experience, and wisdom. Of this sort were the seventy men whom Moses associated to himself in the government of his people; such as were those who afterwards held the first rank in the synagogue as presidents.
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kp-eb0708-056405-0467 | ELEA, or Elis, in Ancient Geography, a district of Peloponnesus, situated between Achaia and Messenia, and stretching from Arcadia to the west or Ionian Sea. It is so called from Elis, a cognominal town. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056406-0467 | ELEATIC Philosophy, amongst the ancients, a name given to that of the Stoics, because it was taught at Eλια, in Latin Velia, a town of the Lucani.
The founder of this philosophy, or of the Eleatic sect, is supposed to have been Xenophanes, who lived about the fifty-sixth Olympiad, or between five and six hundred years... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056407-0467 | ELECT or Chosen (from eligo, I choose), in the Scriptures, is applied to the primitive Christians; in which sense the elect are those chosen and admitted to the favour and blessing of Christianity.
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kp-eb0708-056408-0467 | ELECTION, the choice that is made of any person or thing by which he or it is preferred to any other. There seems this difference, however, between choice and election, that election has usually a regard to a company or community which makes the choice; whereas choice is seldom used but when a single person makes it.
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kp-eb0708-056409-0467 | ELECTIVE, something that is done, or passes, by election.
Elective Attraction. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056410-0467 | ELECTOR, a person who has a right to elect or choose another to an office, honour, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-056411-0467 | ELECTORATE, a term used indiscriminately to signify the dignity of, or the territories belonging to, any of the electors of Germany; such as Baden, Saxony, &c. See Germany.
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kp-eb0708-056501-0480 | ELECTRICITY.
Electricity, from the Greek word ηλιxrjo>,^[1. According to Salmasius, the word karabe, the Arabian word for amber, signifies the power of attracting straws. May not >∣λι∙- rμ, (ιλur[≡><∣ Ju6,) come from ιλa∙,, to draw or attract, and t{ i-e( χn, a hair or filament, or ∕j<w, a leaf? ] electron, amber, is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066301-1754 | ELECTRIDES, anciently islands in the Adriatic Sea, which received their name from the quantity of amber (electrum) which they produced. They were at the mouth of the Po, according to Apollonius of Rhodes; but some historians doubt their existence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066302-1754 | ELECTRO-MAGNETISM. See Galvanism, Magneto-Electricity, and Thermo-Electricity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066303-1754 | ELECTROMETER. See Electricity. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066304-1754 | ELECTUARY, in Pharmacy, a form of medicine composed of powders and other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey, or syrup, and divided into doses, like boluses.
Vossius observes, that all the remedies prescribed for the sick, as well as the confections taken by way of regale, were called by the Greeks εκλ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066305-1754 | ELEEMOSYNA Carucarum, or pro Aratris, in our ancient customs, a penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plough in England, towards the support of the poor. Sometimes it is also called eleemosyna regis, because first appointed by the king | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066306-1754 | ELEEMOSYNARIUS, in our old writers, means the almoner or peculiar officer who received the eleemosynary rents and gifts, and distributed them for pious and charitable purposes. There was an officer of this description in all religious houses. Formerly the bishops also had their almoners, as the king has at present. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066307-1754 | ELEGANCE (from eligo, I choose), denotes a manner of doing or saying any thing politely, agreeably, and choicely; politely, so as to please people of delicate taste; agreeably, so as to diffuse a relish which gratifies every body; and choicely, so as to rise above the common way or mode. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066308-1754 | ELEGIT, in Law, a writ of execution, which lies for a person who has recovered debt or damages; or upon a recognizance in any court against a defendant who is not able to satisfy the same in his goods. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066309-1754 | ELEGY, a plaintive poem, written in a kind of stanza or verse the cadence of which is suited to the expression of mournful feelings and sentiments. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066310-1754 | ELEMENT, in a figurative sense, is used for the principles and foundations of any art or science; as Euclid s Elements.
Elements, in Physics, the first principles of which all bodies are composed. These, it has been supposed, are few in number, unchangeable in their nature, and, by their multiform combinations, produc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066311-1754 | ELENCHUS, in Antiquity, a kind of ear-ring set with large pearls.
Elenchus, in Logic, by the Latins called argumentum and inquisitio, is a vicious or fallacious argument, which deceives under the appearance of a truth, and is the same with what is otherwise called sophism. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066312-1754 | ELEPHANT. See Mammalia. Knights of the Elephant, an order of knighthood in Denmark, conferred upon none but persons of the first rank and merit It is also called the order of St Mary. Its institution is said to have arisen from a gentleman belonging to the Danish crusaders having killed an elephant in an expedition aga... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066313-1754 | ELEPHANT ISLE, called by the natives Gharipoor, a small island situated between Bombay and the main land, about five miles and a half from Bombay. It is nearly five miles in circumference, and contains about a hundred inhabitants, who are employed in the cultivation of rice, and in rearing sheep and poultry for the Bom... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066401-1767 | ELEPHANTIASIS, called also the leprosy of the Arabians, in Medicine, a chronical disease, one of the two species of leprosy which affects the whole body, where even the bones as well as the skin arc covered with spots and tumours, which are at first red, but ultimately become black. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066402-1767 | ELEPHANTINE, a small island of the river Nile, now Geziret-el-Zahir, or the Flowery Island, distant half a stadium from Syene in Upper Egypt. The beauty of nature in this confined spot formed a strange contrast to the arid appearance of the country along the banks of the Nile. The inhabitants protected it against the i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066403-1767 | ELEUSINIA, in Grecian antiquity, a festival observed in honour of Ceres, by some states every fourth, hut by others every fifth year. The Athenians celebrated it at Eleusis, a town of Attica; and hence arose the name.
Ceres, saysIsoerates, wandering in quest ofher daughter Proserpine, arrived in Attica, where some goo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066601-1793 | ELEUSIS, a city of Attica, four leagues from Athens, and close to the shore opposite the island of Salamis. Like most of the other cities of Greece, its origin is ascribed to various fabulous characters, and, among these, to Ogyges; a circumstance which at least proves it to be of the highest antiquity. In the earlier ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066602-1793 | ELEUTHERIA, a festival celebrated at Plataea, in honour of Jupiter Eleutherizzs, or “the assertor of liberty,” by delegates from almost all the cities of Greece. Its institution originated thus: After the victory which the Grecians under Pausanias obtained over Mardonius the Persian general, in the country of Plataea, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066603-1793 | ELEVATION, the same with altitude or height.
Elevation of the Host, in the church of Rome, that part of the mass where the priest raises the host above his head for the people to worship it. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066604-1793 | ELEVATOR, in Anatomy, the name of several muscles, [7:8:667]so called from their serving to raise the parts or the body to which they belong. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066701-1806 | ELEVATORY, in Surgery, an instrument for raising depressed or fractured parts of the skull, to be applied after the integuments and periosteum have been removed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066702-1806 | ELEVE, a term purely French, though used also in our language. It signifies literally a disciple or scholar bred up under any master, being formed from an Italian word signifying an apprentice or novice. It was first used by the French writers in speaking of painters; such a painter was said to be an élève of Da Vinci,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066703-1806 | ELF, a term now almost obsolete, formerly used to denote a fairy or hobgoblin; an imaginary being, the creature of ignorance and superstition.
ELF-Arrows, in Natural History, a name given to the flints anciently fashioned into arrow-heads, and still found in Scotland, America, and several other parts of the world. It ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066704-1806 | ELFSBORG, a province in the southern part of Sweden. It is bounded on the north by Carlstadt, on the north-cast by Wenar, on the east by Skaraborg, on the south-east by Jonkoping, on the south-west by Helmstadt, and on the west by Gottcborg. It extends over 3106 square miles, is divided into six bailiwicks, comprehends... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066705-1806 | ELGANDEL, a town of Hindustan, in the Nizam’s dominions, in the province of Hyderabad, ninety-five miles north-cast from Hyderabad. Long. 79. 20. Ľ. Lat. 18. 29. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-066706-1806 | ELGIN is the capital of Moray or Elginshire. It is a royal burgh, and returns a member to parliament along with Banff, Cullen, Peterhead, Inverury, and Kintore, Elgin being the returning burgh. It is a very thriving and improving town, containing about 5600 inhabitants. In approaching from Fochabers on the east, the tr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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