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kp-eb0708-066801-1819
ELGINSHIRE, or Morayshire. See Morayshire.
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ELGINSHIRE
kp-eb0708-066802-1819
ELGIN MARBLES is the name applied to that noble collection of sculptured figures which was acquired by the British Museum from Lord Elgin. They are mostly basso relievos and fragments of statuary which had adorned the Parthenon at Athens. The history of this collection may be thus shortly stated. It was in 1799 that th...
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ELGIN MARBLES
kp-eb0708-066901-1832
ELI, a high priest of the Israelites, and judge over them for forty years, was descended from Ithamar, a junior branch of the house of Aaron, and seems to have blended the priestly with the judicial character. He flourished in the year 1156 before the commencement of the Christian era. It appears that the Jews were in ...
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ELI
kp-eb0708-066902-1832
ELIJAH, who is sometimes denominated Elias, was one of the most distinguished of the Jewish prophets, and surnamed the Tishbite, probably from the district in which he was born. He entered upon his prophetic office about 920 years before Christ, in the reign of wicked Ahab, by whom the Sidonian idolatry was introduced ...
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ELIJAH
kp-eb0708-066903-1832
ELIS, or Elea, a province in the north-west of the Peloponnesus, which was comprehended in its greatest extent between the promontory Araxus, where it touched on Achaia, and the river Neda, which separated it from Messenia. In the interior it was separated from Arcadia by the ridges of Mount Phołoë, and farther south b...
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ELIS
kp-eb0708-067001-1845
ELISHA the prophet, famous for the miracles which he performed, died about 830 years before Christ.
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ELISHA
kp-eb0708-067002-1845
ELISION, in Grammar, the cutting off or suppressing a vowel at the end of a word, for the sake of sound or measure, the next word beginning with a vowel. Elisions are pretty frequently met with in English poetry, but oftener in the Latin, French, Italian, and other languages. They consist chiefly in the suppression of ...
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ELISION
kp-eb0708-067003-1845
ELIXATION, in Pharmacy, the extracting of the virtues of ingredients by boiling or stewing.
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ELIXATION
kp-eb0708-067004-1845
ELIXIR, in Aledicine, a compound tincture extracted from many efficacious ingredients. Hence the difference between a tincture and an elixir seems to be this, that a tincture is drawn from one ingredient, sometimes with an addition of another to open it and to dispose it to yield to the menstruum; whereas an elixir is ...
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ELIXIR
kp-eb0708-067005-1845
ELIZABETH, queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, was born at Greenwich, on the 7th of September 1533. According to the custom of the times, she was early instructed in the learned languages, first by Grindal, who died when she was about seventeen, and afterwards by the celebrated Roger Aschara. She...
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ELIZABETH
kp-eb0708-067101-1858
ELIZONDO, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre. It is the capital of the district of the Valley of Bastan, near Roncesvalles, which enjoys some peculiar privileges; and is situated in a cold country, near the Pyrenees, which produces wheat, maize, hemp, and flax. Many turnips are grown in this district; and it h...
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ELIZONDO
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ELK, in Zoology. See Mammalia.
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ELK
kp-eb0708-067103-1858
ELL {ulna), a measure which obtains, under different denominations, in most countries, and by which cloths, stuffs, linens, silks, and the like, are usually measured, answering nearly to the yard of England, the canna of Italy, the vara of Spain, and the palm of Sicily. See Weights and Measures.
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ELL
kp-eb0708-067104-1858
ELLBOGEN, a circle in the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, extending over 1343 square miles, and comprehending forty-three cities and towns and 609 villages, with 32,829 houses and 193,537 inhabitants. The chief town, of the same name, stands on a steep rock, at the foot or which runs the river Eger, which makes a bend tha...
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ELLBOGEN
kp-eb0708-067105-1858
ELLESMERE, a market-town of Shropshire, in the hundred of Pimhill, 242 miles from London. The name is derived from a beautiful lake or meer, near to which it is situated. From Ellesmere castle there is a fine prospect extending over the surrounding counties, none of which, it is said, can be seen from it. A navigable c...
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ELLESMERE
kp-eb0708-067106-1858
ELLICHPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Berar. It was first acquired by the Mahommedans in 1294, and is the proper capital of Berar, Nagpoor being of recent date. The travelling distance from Nagpoor is 122 miles, from Delhi 604, from Madras 671, and from Calcutta 844 miles.
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ELLICHPOOR
kp-eb0708-067107-1858
ELLIOT, the Right Honourable George Augustus, Lord Heathfield, was the youngest son of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Baronet, of Stobbs, in Roxburghshire, and was born about the year 1718. He received the rudiments of his education under a private tutor, and at an early period of life was sent to the university of Leyden, where ...
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ELLIOT
kp-eb0708-067201-1871
ELLIPSIS, in Grammar, a figure of syntax, in which one or more words are not expressed; and from this deficiency it has got the name of ellipsis.
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ELLIPSIS
kp-eb0708-067202-1871
ELLIPTIC, or Elliptical, something belonging to an ellipsis. Elliptic Turning. Wood and other substances are turned into an elliptic form by means of a chuck, which is applied on the common turning lathe. This chuck is on the principle of the trammel, Plate CCXVIII. fig. 1. The grooves in the chuck are much wider than...
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ELLIPTIC
kp-eb0708-067301-1884
ELLIPTOGRAPH, an instrument for drawing ellipses. The trammel is an instrument which has long been known and used for describing ellipses. On the principle of the trammel Mr Farey constructed his elliptograph in a form much more commodious for drawing. Mr Farey’s elliptograph is represented at Plate CCXVIII. fig. 5. Th...
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ELLIPTOGRAPH
kp-eb0708-067302-1884
ELLMORE, a town of Hindustan, in the northern circars, and district of Cicacole, twenty miles N.N.E. from the town of Cicacole. Long. 84. 10. Ľ. Lat. 18. 24. N.
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ELLMORE
kp-eb0708-067303-1884
ELLORE, a town of Hindustan, capital of the northern circar of the same name. Long. 81. 10. E. Lat∙ 16. 45. N. The circar is situated principally between the sixteenth and seventeenth degrees of north latitude. The principal towns are Ellore, Colaircotta, and Gundgoli∙
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ELLORE
kp-eb0708-067304-1884
ELLRICH, a city of Prussia, in the government of Erfurt and circle of Hohenstein. It stands on the river Zorge, and contains 470 houses, with 2820 inhabitants, who find employment in woollen manufactories, tanneries, and paper and oil mills. About two miles from it is the celebrated cavern called Hartzhole. It is 290 f...
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ELLRICH
kp-eb0708-067305-1884
ELLWANGEN, a bailiwick of the circle of the Jaxt, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, comprehending two cities, one town, and two hundred and thirty-four villages, with 25,337 inhabitants. It is better adapted for pasture than for corn. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the Jaxt, in which is a gymnasium and...
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48 58' N 9 57' E
ELLWANGEN
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ELLYS, Dr Anthony, who was born in 1693, and educated at Clarchall, Cambridge, after rising through many inferior degrees of dignity in the church of England, was in 1752 promoted to the see of St David’s. He died at Gloucester in 1761, and is mentioned here only on account of his works, which are but little known. The...
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ELLYS
kp-eb0708-067401-1897
ELMACINUS, Elmacin, or Elmakyn, George, author of a History of the Saracens, and known in the East by the name of Ibn-Amid, was a Christian of Egypt, where he was born in the year of the hegira 620, and of our era 1225. He occupied the place of ketib or secretary at the court of the sultans of Egypt; an office which wa...
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ELMACINUS
kp-eb0708-067402-1897
ELOGY, a praise or panegyric bestowed on any person or thing, in consideration of its merit. The beauty of elogy consists in an expressive brevity. Eulogiums should not have so much as one epithet, properly so called, nor two words synonymous; they should strictly adhere to truth, as extravagant and improbable elogics ...
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ELOGY
kp-eb0708-067403-1897
ELOHI, Eloi, or Elohim, in Scripture, one of the names of God. But it is to be observed that angels, princes, great men, judges, and even false gods, are sometimes called by this name. The sequel of the discourse is what assists as in judging rightly concerning the true meaning of this word. It is the same as Eloha, on...
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ELOHI
kp-eb0708-067404-1897
ELOINED, in Law, signifies restrained or hindered from doing something. Thus it is said, that if those within age be cloined, so that they cannot sue personally, their next friend shall sue for them.
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ELOINED
kp-eb0708-067405-1897
ELONGATION, in Astronomy, the digression or recess of a planet from the sun, with respect to an eye placed on our earth. The term is chiefly used in speaking of Venus or Mercury, the arch of a great circle intercepted between either of these planets and the sun being called the elongation of that planet from the sun.
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ELONGATION
kp-eb0708-067406-1897
ELORA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, near the city of Dowletabad. In a mountain near this town there are some remarkable excavations, containing mythological symbols of the Hindu worship, and temples ornamented with representations and statues of many of the deities worshipped by the Hindus. The p...
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19 56' N 76 E
ELORA
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ELPHINSTONE, William, a Scotish prelate and statesman of considerable eminence, was born at Glasgow in the year 1431. At the university of this city he received his education, and in the learning which distinguished the period he made extraordinary proficiency. He afterwards went to France, to make himself master of th...
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ELPHINSTONE
kp-eb0708-067501-1910
ELPISAN, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the province of Diarbckir, situated on the river Euphrates, two miles north-west of Kcrkisich.
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ELPISAN
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ELSFLETH, a town in the duchy of Oldenburg, in Germany, at the conflux of the Hunte and the Weser. It contains 192 houses, and 1562 inhabitants. The vessels which frequent this port anchor lower in the river, near Brake. Long. 8. 21. 5. E. Lat. 53. 14. 50. N. It is the capital of a bailiwick, with six parishes, 1135 ho...
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53 14' 50" N 8 21' 5" E
ELSFLETH
kp-eb0708-067503-1910
ELSINEUR, a city of Denmark, in the island Zealand. It was formerly a Hanse town, and is now the second city in Denmark proper. It is strongly fortified, and has a castle, Cronburg, designed to command the entrance of the Baltic Sea by the Sound; but in the English attacks on Copenhagen it was found of no avail. The pa...
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56 1' 40" N 12 35' 19" E
ELSINEUR
kp-eb0708-067504-1910
ELSNAPPEN, a small seaport of Sweden, in Westmanland. It is on the side of the Baltic, and is capable of admitting ships of war. Thirty-two miles cast-northeast of Nykioping.
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ELSNAPPEN
kp-eb0708-067505-1910
ELTHAM, a market-town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Blackheath, eight miles from London. The market is held on Monday. It is remarkable for the manor-house called King John’s Palace, formerly a royal residence; and for a modern building on Shooter’s Hill, erected by Commodore James, to celebrate his capture ...
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ELTHAM
kp-eb0708-067506-1910
ELTMANN, a bailiwick of the circle of the Lower Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over forty-four square miles. It contains, besides the capital, thirteen villages and 3039 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the river Zeil, and contains 1010 inhabitants.
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ELTMANN
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ELVAS, a town of Portugal, in the province of Alemtejo. It is well fortified, and may be considered as one of the keys of the kingdom to the south, on the side of Spain; and it is one of the fortresses opposed to the city of Badajos.
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ELVAS
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ELY, a city of Cambridgeshire, the chief place of a division of that county distinguished as the Isle of Ely, having a distinct jurisdiction, the chief justice and other magistrates of which are nominated by the bishop. The city, though elevated somewhat above the surrounding country, is considered as unhealthy, from t...
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ELY
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ELYSIUM, the place which, according to the ancient pocts, the souls of the blessed inhabited. By Homer it was placed in the vicinity of Oceanus, and on the extreme confines of the earth. Here Nature produced her most delicious fruits without assistance from the hand of man. No winter storm ever obscured the brilliancy ...
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ELZEVIRS, celebrated printers at Amsterdam and Leyden, who greatly adorned the republic of letters with many beautiful editions of the best authors of antiquity. They were five in number, namely, Louis, Bonaventure, Abraham, Lewis, and Daniel. Louis began to be famous at Leyden in 1595, and was remarkable for being the...
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EMANATION, the act of flowing or proceeding from some source or origin. Such is the emanation of light from the sun; that of effluvia from odorous or fragrant bodies; of wisdom from God, and so on. The word is formed of the Latin e, out of, and manare, to flow or stream. Emanation is also used to signify that which pro...
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EMANCIPATION, in the Roman law, the setting free of a son from the subjection of a father; so that whatever moveables he acquires belong in property to him, and not to his father, as before emancipation. By emancipation the son was put in a capacity of managing his own affairs, and of marrying without his father’s con...
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EMANCIPATION
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EMATHIA, the ancient name of Macedonia, which was afterwards restricted to the country in the immediate vicinity of Edessa. This district was originally a part of Paeonia, and contained the extensive and fertile plains on the banks of the rivers Axius and Erigonus. (Polyb. Erag. xxiv. 8; Liv. X. 4, 11.) In the time of ...
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EMATHIA
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EMBALMING is the opening of a dead body, taking out the intestines, and filling the space with odoriferous and desiccative drugs and spices, in order to prevent putrefaction and decomposition.- The Egyptians excelled all other nations in the art of preserving bodies from corruption; for some that were embalmed several ...
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EMBALMING
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EMBANKMENT a mound or wall of earth, or other materials, used as a defence against the inundations of rivers, or the extraordinary flux of the sea. The great value of alluvial soil to the agriculturist no doubt gave rise to the invention of banks or other barriers, to protect such soils from the overflowing of their a...
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EMBANKMENT
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EMBARCADERO, in Commerce, a Spanish term, much used along the coasts of America. It signifies a place which serves some other considerable city farther inland for a port or place of shipping, that is, of embarking and disembarking commodities.
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EMBARGO, in Commerce, an arrest on ships or merchandise by public authority, or a prohibition of state, commonly on foreign ships, in time of war, to prevent their going out of port, or coming in, and sometimes both, for a limited time.
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EMBARGO
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EMBER Wecks are those in which A ∖ e ember ox embrvng days fall. In the laws of King Alfred and those of Canute, these days are called yrnbren, that is, circular days, from which the word was probably corrupted into ember days. By the canonists they are called quatuor anni tempora, the four cardinal seasons on which t...
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EMBER
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EMBLEM, a kind of painted enigma, which represents some obvious history, with reflections underneath, and instructs us in some moral truth or other matter of knowledge. Such is that very significant image of Scaevola holding his hand in the fire; with the words, Agere et pati fortiter liomanum est, to do and to suffer ...
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EMBLEM
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EMBOLISMUS, Έ.μβο\ιδμος, in Chronology, signifies intercalation. The word is formed from i∕z,6αλλf∕v, to insert. As the Greeks made use of the lunar year, which is only 354 days, in order to bring it to the solar, which is 365 days, they had every two or three years an embolism, that is, they added a thirteenth lunar m...
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EMBOSSING, or Imbossing, in Architecture and Sculpture, the forming or fashioning of works in relief, whether cut with a chisel or otherwise. Embossing is a kind of sculpture in which the figure stands out from the plane on which it is cut; and according as the figures are more or less prominent, they are said to be in...
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EMBRASURE, in Architecture, an enlargement made of the aperture of a door or window on the inside of the wall, the use of which is to give greater play for the opening of the door or casement, or to admit more light.
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EMBRASURE
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EMBROIDERY, a work in gold, or silver, or silk thread, wrought by the needle upon cloth, stuffs, or muslin, into various figures. In embroidering stuffs, the work is performed in a kind of loom, because the more the piece is stretched the easier it is worked. As to muslin, it is spread upon a pattern ready designed, an...
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EMBROIDERY
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EMBRUN, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Alps, in France, extending over 583 square miles. It is divided into five cantons and thirty-six communes, and contains 28,628 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the top of a steep rock, at the foot of which flows the river Durance. It has...
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EMBRUN
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EMBRYO, in Physiology, the rudiments of an animal in the uterus, before the several members are distinctly formed, after which period it is denominated a foetus.
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EMBRYO
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EMDEN, a bailiwick of the province of West Friesland, in the kingdom of Hanover, extending over eighty-one square miles, and containing a city, a market-town, and thirty parishes, with 18,925 inhabitants. It is mostly marsh land, and is only preserved from inundation by powerful dikes or embankments, which are maintain...
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EMDEN
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EMERALD, Smaragdus, Schmaragd, Emeraude verte. In mineralogy this includes two subspecies; the emerald properly so called, or the precious emerald, comprehending the transparent and beautiful green-coloured varieties, and the beryl, which has already been described under its appropriate head. The emerald always occurs...
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EMERALD
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EMERSION, in Physics, the rising of any solid above the surface of a fluid specifically heavier than itself, into which it had been violently immerged or thrust down. It is one of the known laws of hydrostatics, that a lighter solid being forced down into a heavier fluid, immediately endeavours to emerge, and that wit...
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EMERSION
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EMERSON, William, an eminent mathematician, was born on the 14th May 1701, at Hurworth, a village about three miles south of Darlington; at least it is certain that he resided here from his childhood. His father Dudley Emerson taught a school, and was a tolerable proficient in mathematics; and without his books and ins...
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EMERSON
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EMERY, a rich iron ore, found in large masses of no determinate shape or size, but extremely hard and very heavy. It is usually of a dusky-brownish red on the surface[7:8:683]; but when broken it is of a fine bright iron grey, though not without some tinge of redness, and is spangled all over with shining specks, which...
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EMERY
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EMIGRATION. The natural propensity of mankind is to settlement and rest, and this principle is still further strengthened by the influence of local associations over the mind. Every one is strongly attached to the place of his birth, or to the place where he has passed his earlier years; and it may be generally remark...
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EMINENCE, in Geography, a little hillock or ascent above the level of the adjoining champaign country. Eminence is also a title of honour given to cardinals. The decree of the pope, by which it was appointed that the cardinals should be addressed under the quality of eminence, bears date the 10th of January 1630. They...
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EMINENCE
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EMIR, a title of dignity amongst the Turks, signifying a prince. This title was first given to the caliphs; but when they assumed the title of sultans, that of emir remained to their children, as that of Caesar among the Romans. At length the title came to be attributed to all who were judged to be descended from Mahom...
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EMISSARY, in a political sense, a person employed by another to sound the opinions of people, spread certain reports, or act as a spy over other people’s actions.
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EMISSARY
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EMMANUEL, or Immanuel, a Hebrew word, which signifies “God with us.” Isaiah (vii. 14), in that celebrated prophecy in which he declares to Ahaz the birth of the Messiah, who was to be born of a virgin, says, this child shall be called, and really be, Emmanuel, that is, God with us. The same prophet (viii. 8) repeats th...
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EMMANUEL
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EMMERICH, a city of the Prussian Rhenish province of Julich-Cleeves, in the circle of Rees. It stands on the river Rhine, and contains two Catholic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, and a Mennonite church, with 980 houses and 4450 inhabitants. It has linen and woollen manufactories, and enjoys considerable trade by the Rhine, ...
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EMMERICH
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EMMIUS, Ubbo, born at Gretha in East Friesland in 1547, was a very learned professor, and chosen rector of the college of Norden in 1579. This seminary flourished exceedingly under his care; but it declined as visibly after he was ejected, in 1587, for refusing to subscribe the confession of Augsburg. The year afterwar...
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EMMIUS
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EMMENAGOGUES, Έμμηναγωγα, in Medicine, such remedies as promote the menstrual discharge. They are thus called from tv, in, μηv, month, αγοt, duco, 1 lead, because the natural period of flowing is once a month.
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EMOLLIENTS, in Medicine and Pharmacy, are such remedies as soften the asperity of the humours, and at the same time relax the rigidity of the solids.
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EMOLUMENT is properly applied to the profits arising daily from an office or employment. The word is formed from the Latin emolumentum, which, according to some, primarily signifies the profits redounding to the miller from his mill. The patent, or other instrument, by which a person is preferred to an office, gives hi...
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EMOTION and Passion are thus distinguished by Lord Kames, in his Elements of Criticism. “An internal motion or agitation of the mind, when it passeth away without desire, is denominated an emotion ; when desire follows, the motion or agitation is denominated a passion. A fine face, for example, raiseth in me a pleasant...
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EMOTION
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EMOUY, Amoy, or Hiamen, an island of China, near the south-east coast, belonging to the province of Fokien. It was formerly resorted to by Europeans before their commerce was restricted to Canton. It is about fifteen miles in circuit, and has a fort constructed between the island and the main. Here are several temples,...
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EMOUY
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EMPALEMENT, an ancient punishment, which consisted in thrusting a stake through the fundament. The word comes from the French empaler, or the Italian im-palare; or rather, both are derived from the Latin palus, a stake, and the preposition in, in or into. We find mention made of empaling in Juvenal. It was frequently p...
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EMPEDOCLES, a celebrated philosopher and poet, was born at Agrigentum, a city in Sicily. He followed the Pythagorean philosophy, and admitted the doctrine of the metempsychosis. He constantly appeared with a crown of gold on his head, in order to maintain, by this outward pomp, the reputation which he had acquired of b...
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EMPEDOCLES
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EMPEROR (imperator), among the ancient Romans, signified a general of an army, who, for some extraordinary success, had been complimented with this appellation. Thus Augustus, having obtained no less than twenty famous victories, was as often saluted with the title emperor ; and Titus was denominated emperor by his arm...
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EMPEROR
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EMPHASIS, in Rhetoric, a particular stress of the voice and action, laid on such parts or words of the oration as the orator wants to enforce upon his audience.
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EMPHASIS
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EMPHYSEMA, in Surgery, a windy tumour, generally occasioned by a fracture of the ribs, and formed by the air insinuating itself, by a small wound, between the skin and muscles, into the substance of the cellular or adipose membrane, and then spreading itself up to the neck, head, belly, and other parts, much in the sam...
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EMPHYSEMA
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EMPIRE (imperium), in political geography, a large extent of land, under the jurisdiction or government of an emperor. In ancient history we read of four great monarchies or empires, namely, that of the Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians; that of the Mcdes and Persians; that of the Greeks; and that of the Romans. Th...
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EMPIRIC, an appellation given to those physicians who conduct themselves wholly by their own experience, or by arbitrary modes, without studying physic in a regular way. Some even use the term in a still worse sense, for a quack who prescribes at random, without being at all acquainted with the principles of the healin...
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EMPRESS, the spouse of an emperor, or a woman who governs an empire.
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EMPROSTHOTONOS, a species of convulsion, in which the head bends forward.
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EMPROSTHOTONOS
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EMPYREUM, a term used by divines for the highest heaven, where the blessed enjoy the beatific vision. The word is formed of w, in, and <κ ∖ )ζ,fire, because of its splendour. L’MPYREUMA, in Chemistry, signifies a very disagreeable smell produced from burnt oils. It is often perceived in the distillation of animal as w...
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EMPYREUM
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EMS, a market-town of the duchy of Nassau, in Germany. It stands on the river Lahn, which runs to the Rhine. It is a celebrated place, on account of the warm springs, which are much frequented at the proper season, as well for cure as for relaxation and pleasure. There arc no fewer than thirty-three warm baths. The wat...
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EMULATION, a generous ardour kindled by the praiseworthy example of others, which impels us to imitate, to rival, and, if possible, to excel them. This passion involves in it esteem of the person whose attainments or conduct we emulate, and of the qualities or actions in which we emulate him, and a desire of resemblanc...
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EMULATION
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EMULGENT or Renal Arteries, those which supply the kidneys with blood; being sometimes single, sometimes double, on each side.
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EMULGENT
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EMUNCTORY, in Anatomy, a general term for all those parts which serve to carry off the excrementitious parts of the blood and other humours of the body. Such are the kidneys, bladder, and most of the glands.
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ENALLAGE, in Grammar, is when one word is substituted for another of the same part of speech: a substantive for an adjective; as exercitus victor, for victoriosus ; scelus, for scelestus ; a primitive for a derivative; as Dardana arma, for Dardania : an active for a passive; as nox humida coelo précipitât, for prcecipi...
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ENALLAGE
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ENAMEL, in general, is a vitrified matter, betwixt the parts of which is dispersed some unvitrified matter; and hence enamel ought to have all the properties of glass except transparency. Enamels have for their basis a pure crystal glass or frit, ground up with a fine calx of lead and tin prepared for the purpose, wit...
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ENAMEL
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ENAMELLING, the art of laying enamel upon metals, as gold, silver, or copper, and of melting it on the fire, or of making divers curious works in it by means of a lamp. It signifies also to paint in enamel. The method of painting in Εnαmεl. This is performed on plates of gold or silver, and most commonly of copper, [7...
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ENCAENIA, the name of three several festivals celebrated by the Jews in memory of the dedication, or rather purification, of the temple of Judas Maccabaeus, Solomon, and Zorobbabel. This term is likewise used in church history for the dedication of Christian churches.
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ENCAENIA
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ENCAUSTIC and Encaustum, the same with enamelling and enamel. Encaustic Painting, a method of painting made use of by the ancients, in which wax was employed to give a gloss to their colours, and to preserve them from injury by air or moisture. This ancient art, after having been long lost, was restored by Count Cayl...
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ENCEINTE, in Fortification, is the interior wall or rampart which surrounds a place, sometimes composed of bastions or curtains, either faced or lined with brick or stone, or onl} made of earth. The enceinte is sometimes only flanked by round or square towers, which is called a Roman wall.
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ENCEINTE
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ENCEPHALI, in Medicine, worms generated in the head, where they cause so great pain as sometimes to occasion distraction.
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ENCHASING, Inchasing, or Chasing, the art of enriching and beautifying gold, silver, and other metal work, by some design or figures represented thereon in bas-relief. It is performed by punching or driving out the metal, in order to form a figure, from withinside, so as to stand out prominent from the plane or surface...
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ENCLITICA, in Grammar, particles which are so closely united with other words as to seem part of them as the que in virumque, &c. There are three enclitic particles in Latin, viz. que, nc, ve.
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ENCLITICA
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ENCRATITES, in Ecclesiastical History, heretics who appeared towards the end of the second century. They were called Encratites. or Continentes, because they gloried in abstaining from marriage, and the use of wine and animal food.
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ENCRATITES
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA, a term nearly synonymous with Cyclopaedia, but adopted in preference to it in denominating the present work, as being more definite and of better authority. According to the observation of that learned printer Mr Bowyer, the preposition en makes the meaning of the word more precise. For Cyclopaedia ma; d...
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA
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ENDEMIC or Endemicae Diseases are those t( wnich the inhabitants of particular countries are subject more than others, on account of the air, water, situation, and manner of living.
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