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kp-eb0708-069808-2209 | ENDIAN, a town of Persia, in the province of Kuzistan, occupying both banks or the river Tab, which is here 240 feet broad. It is surrounded by numerous walls, nowhere[7:8:699] more than three feet thick, and is nearly two miles in circuit. It contains from 4000 to 5000 inhabitants, and carries on trade with Bassora an... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069901-2222 | ENDLESS, something without an end; thus authors mention endless rolls, the endless screw, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069902-2222 | ENDOR, in Ancient Geography, a town of Galilee, four miles to the south of Mount Tabor, in the tribe of Ma-nasseh, where the Pythoness was consulted by Saul. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069903-2222 | ENDORSED, in Heraldry, an ordinary, containing the eighth part of a pale, which Leigh says is only used when a pale is between two of them.
Endorsed, in Heraldry, is said of things borne back to back, more usually called Adosse. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069904-2222 | ENDORSEMENT, in Law and Commerce. See Indorsement. ∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069905-2222 | ENDOWMENT, in Law, denotes the settling a dower on a woman; though sometimes it is used figuratively, for settling a provision upon a parson on the building of a church; or the severing of a sufficient portion of tithes for a vicar, when the benefice is appropriated. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069906-2222 | ENDRACHT’S Land, or Concord, is an extensive, low, and sterile tract on the west coast of New Holland, in which is a spacious bay, lately called by the name of the English navigator Dampier, and which was formerly denominated Shark’s Bay. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069907-2222 | ENDRIE, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the district of Eastern Caucasus. It is situated on the river Akatsch, after it has left the mountains and spread into the plain, nearly about twenty miles from the Caspian Sea. It contains several mosques, an Arminian church, and two synagogues; and is the joint property of several... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069908-2222 | ENDYMION, in fabulous history, a shepherd, son of Aethlius and Calyce. It is said that he required of Jupiter to grant to him the privilege of being always young, and sleeping as much as he chose; whence came the proverb of Endymionis somnum dormire, to express a long sleep. Diana observed him naked as he slept on Moun... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069909-2222 | ENEMY, in Law, an alien or foreigner, who publicly invades the kingdom. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069910-2222 | ENERGUMENS, in Ecclesiastical History, persons supposed to be possessed by the devil, and concerning whom there were many regulations among the primitive Christians. They were denied baptism and the eucharist; at least this was the practice of some churches: and though they were under the care of exorcists, yet it was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069911-2222 | ENERGY, a term of Greek origin, signifying the power, virtue, or efficacy of a thing. It is also used figuratively, to denote emphasis of speech. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069912-2222 | ENERVATING, the act of destroying the force, use, or office, of the nerves, either by incision, by weakening them with debauchery, or by some other violence. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069913-2222 | ENESEI, or Yenesei, a river of Siberia. It has its rise in the mountains of Central Asia, which border on Chinese Tartary, and, taking a northern direction, flows into the Frozen Ocean, after a long course through the plains of Siberia, in long. 82. 14. E. lat. 72. 20. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 72 20' N 82 14' E | ENESEI |
kp-eb0708-069914-2222 | ENESEISK, or Yeneseisk, a town of Siberia, in the government of Tobolsk, situated on the right bank of the river Yenesei. It is of considerable size, is fortified, and has a jurisdiction over an extensive tract, from which a tribute of furs is paid to government. It has several manufactories, of which the most remarkab... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 58 16' N 91 50' E | ENESEISK |
kp-eb0708-069915-2222 | ENFANS Perdus, the same with forlorn hope. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-069916-2222 | ENFIELD, William, LL.D, an elegant and justly admired writer, was born in the year 1741, at Sudbury. His original destination was for the sacred office of the ministry, and he was educated amongst the Protestant dissenters at Daventry, where the high polish which he gave to his compositions distinguished him from many ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070001-2235 | ENFIL xΙDE, in the art of war, is used in speaking of trenches, or other places, which may be scoured by the enemy’s shot along their whole length. In conducting the approaches at a siege, care must be taken that the trenches be not enfiladed from any work of the place. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070002-2235 | ENFINE ', formerly Antinoe, a city of Egypt, built by Adrian in honour of his favourite Antinous. It is situated towards the middle of the Saïd, or Upper Egypt, and still contains several stately monuments of antiquity. In ancient times this city was very magnificent. See article Egypt. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070003-2235 | ENFRANCHISEMENT, in Laxv, the incorporating of a person into any society or body politic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070004-2235 | ENGANO, or Pugniatan, an island in the Eastern Seas, lying off the south-west coast of Sumatra, being about thirty miles in circumference, and nearly eighteen miles in length. It is covered with trees, and has always a verdant appearance. The natives are taller and fairer than the Malays; the men have black hair, which... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 10 20' S 102 20' E | ENGANO |
kp-eb0708-070005-2235 | ENGASTRIMYTHI, in Pagan theology, the Pythias or priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles internally, without any action of the mouth or lips. The ancient philosphers, and others, are divided upon the subject of the engastrimythi. Hippocrates mentions this peculiar manifestation as a disease; others will have it a ki... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070006-2235 | ENGEN, a bailiwick in the circle of the Lake of the Duchy of Baden, in Germany, containing one market town, with eighteen hamlets and 9500 inhabitants, the capital of which is situated on the river Aach, is of the same name, and contains 211 houses and 1204 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070007-2235 | ENGENDERING, a term sometimes used for the act of producing or forming any thing. Thus meteors are said to be engendered in the middle region of the atmosphere, and worms in the belly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070008-2235 | ENGHIEN, a city of the circle of Mons, in the province of Hennegau, in Flanders, with 3054 inhabitants, employed in making’ lace, lace thread, and fine linen. Long. 3. 55. E. Lat. 50. 40. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 50 40' N 3 55' E | ENGHIEN |
kp-eb0708-070009-2235 | ENGINE, in Mechanics, is a compound machine, including one or more mechanical powers, as levers, pulleys, screws, and the like, made in order to raise, cast, or sustain any weight, or produce any effect which could not be easily effected otherwise. The word is formed, through the medium of the French, from the Latin in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070010-2235 | ENGINEER, taken generally, is a term applied to those who are employed in devising or forming engines or machines, and in directing their applications. In a more restricted and appropriate sense, it denotes two very important professions; the one that of the military, the other that of the civil engineer.
The Military... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0708-070101-2248 | ENGLAND, The southern division of the island of Great Britain. In treating of this grand division of the British empire, we shall divide the subject into three Parts; the first comprehending the History of England, the second the Statistics of that country, and the third some account of its Government and Laws.
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kp-eb0709-003801-5752 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE. When the Romans invaded the south of Britain, they found the country possessed by a people of Celtic origin, and speaking a dialect of the Celtic tongue. This invasion took place about fifty-five years before the birth of Christ, and the invaders retained their ascendancy till the commencement of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-004301-5817 | ENGRAFTING, in Gardening. See Horticulture. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-004302-5817 | ENGRAILED, or Ingrailed, in Heraldry, a term derived from the French gresle , hail; and signifying a thing the hail has fallen upon and broken off the edges, leaving them ragged, or with half rounds, or semicircles, struck out of their edges. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-004401-5830 | ENGRAVING.
Engraving is the art of cutting metals and precious stones, and representing thereon figures, letters, or whatever device or design the artist chuses.
Engraving being properly a branch of sculpture, is divided into several other branches, according to the matter on which it is employed, and the manner in w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005601-5986 | ENGUERA, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, with 5000 inhabitants. About 3000 weavers and spinners are employed in its manufactories of cloth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005602-5986 | ENGUICIIE ', in Heraldry, is said of the great mouth of a hunting horn, when its rim is of a different colour from that of the horn itself. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005603-5986 | ENHARMONIC, in Music. See Music. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005604-5986 | ENIGMA. See Aenigma. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005605-5986 | ENKHUYZEN, a city of North Holland, in the circle of Hoorn. It is situated on the Zuyder Zee, and is strongly fortified both on the land and on the sea side. It contains 2600 houses and 6950 inhabitants, who carry on extensive fisheries, have considerable trade in cheese and wood, and refine much salt. It has considera... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 42' 22" N 4 5' E | ENKHUYZEN |
kp-eb0709-005606-5986 | ENMANCHE ', in Heraldry, is when lines are drawn from the centre of the upper edge of the chief to the sides, to about half the breadth of the chief, signifying sleeved, or resembling a sleeve; from the French manche. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005607-5986 | ENNEAGON, in Geometry, a polygon with nine sides. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005608-5986 | ENNIUS, Q., a celebrated poet of Rhudiae, in Calabria, a province of the south of Italy, to the east of Tarentum, born 239 before Christ, in the consulship of Q. Valerius Falto and C. Mamilius Turrinus. Descended from one of the petty princes who ruled over this portion of Italy, he had inherited nothing from them exce... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005701-0067 | ENNIS, the chief town of the county of Clare, in Ireland. It is situated on the west bank of the river Fergus, and consists of two chief streets, one being parallel to the river, over which there are three bridges. There are no manufactures, and the only trade is in grain and cattle. It returns one member to parliament... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005702-0067 | ENNISKILLEN, the chief town of the county of Fermanagh, in Ireland. It is well built, and beautifully situated on an island in the narrow channel which connects the upper and lower lakes of Lough Erne. Two bridges connect the island with the suburbs of the town, which are on the north-east and south-west of the lake. T... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005703-0067 | ENORE, a village of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, eight miles north from Madras, and situated on the shore of a salt-water lake abounding with oysters and other fish. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005704-0067 | ENOS, a city of Turkey in Europe, in the district of the Sea of Marmora. It is on a river of the same name, but called by the Turks Boris Korfusi. It has a good harbour, frequented by ships of all nations, which take cargoes of wool, camels’ hair, cotton, hides, morocco-leather, silk, copper, and wax. It is said to con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005705-0067 | ENOTAEVSK, a town of Asiatic Russia, in the government of Caucasus, situated on the Volga, seventy-two miles N.N.E. of Astracan. Long. 46.19. E. Lat. 47. 15. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005706-0067 | ENOWTAWKAIA, a village and wooden fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the province of Astracan. The fortress was built in 1741, for the Kalmucs. It is twenty miles S.E. of Tchernoyar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005707-0067 | ENS, among metaphysicians, denotes entity, being, or existence. This the schoolmen call ens reale and ens positivum, to distinguish it from their ens rationis, which is only an imaginary tiling, or exists but in the imagination.
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kp-eb0709-005801-6012 | ENSEELED, in Falconry, is said of a hawk that has a thread drawn through her upper eye-lid, and made fast under her'beak, to take away the sight. ’ ’ ' | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005802-6012 | ENSHAM, a town'of the county of Oxford, in the hundred of Wootten, sixty-ohe miles from London. It is situated on the river Isis' or Thames, and on the great road from London to Worcester and Birmingham, from which it derives some traffic. It had formerly an extensive abbey, the remains of which may still be traced. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005803-6012 | ENSIGN, in the military art, a banner or 'colours under which soldiers are ranged, according to the different companies or parties to which they belong.
The Turkish ensigns are horses’ tails; those of the Europeans are pieces of taffety, with divers figures, colours, arms, and devices thereon. Xenophon tells us that t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005804-6012 | ENT, Sir George, an eminent English physician, born at Sandwich, in Kent, in 1604. He was educated at Sidney College, Cambridge, and, having afterwards travelled into foreign countries, received the degree of doctor of physic at Padua. After his return he obtained great practice, was made president of the college of ph... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005805-6012 | ENTAIL, in Law. See Tailzie. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005806-6012 | ENTHUSIASM, in a religious sense, implies a transport of the mind, by which it fancies itself inspired with some revelation, impulse, or the like, from heaven. “In all ages,” says Locke, “men in whom melancholy has mixed with devotion, or whose conceit of themselves has raised them into an opinion of a great familiarit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005807-6012 | ENTHYMEME, in Logic and Phetoric, an argument consisting only of two propositions, an antecedent, and a consequent deduced from it. The word is Greek, ι^Mμr ∖ μα, formed of the verb wbvμn<d⅛ω, to think, conceive, a compound of εv, and ‰μος, mind. *
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kp-eb0709-005808-6012 | ENTLIBUCH, a bailiwick in the canton of Lucerne, in Switzerland, extending over 110 square miles, and containing five parishes, with 12,550 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-005901-6025 | ENTOMOLOGY.
Entomology (from έντομον, insect , and λ ογος, di s cou r se), is that branch of natural science which treats of the history and habits of the insect tribes. Its subjects are the most numerous and diversified of any of those topics which engage the attention of the student of nature; and as they exemplify ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030201-9184 | ENTRE DUERO E MINHO, one of the provinces into which the kingdom of Portugal is divided. As its name denotes, it is bounded on the north by the river Minho, which divides it from Spain, and on the south by the river Duero. The Atlantic Ocean is its western boundary, and on the east a chain of elevated mountains separat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030202-9184 | ENTRERAS, in the manege, a broken pace, which is neither walk nor trot, but is somewhat of an amble. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030203-9184 | ENTRY, in Law, signifies taking possession of lands or tenements, where a person has a right so to do.
Entry of an Heir, in Scotch Law, that legal form by which an heir vests in himself a title to his predecessor’s estate. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030204-9184 | ENUMERATION, an account of several things, in which mention is made of every particular article.
Enumeration, in Rhetoric, a part of the peroration, in which the orator, collecting the scattered heads of what had been delivered throughout the discourse, makes a brief and artful relation or recapitulation of the whole. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030205-9184 | ENVELOPE, in Fortification, a work of earth, sometimes in the form of a simple parapet, and at others like a small rampart with a parapet. It is sometimes raised on the ditch, and sometimes beyond it. Envelopes are of a zigzag form, in order to enclose a weak ground, with single lines, where that is practicable, or to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030206-9184 | ENVIRONNE ', in Heraldry, signifies surrounded with other things. Thus, they say, a lion environné with so many bezants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030207-9184 | ENVOY, a person deputed to negotiate some affair, not of a very solemn or important nature, with any foreign prince or state. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030208-9184 | ENVY, pain felt, and malignity conceived, at the sight of excellence or happiness in another. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030209-9184 | ENZELLI, a town of Persia, in the province of Ghilan, built entirely of reeds, as the sandy soil will not bear a more solid edifice, and consists of two parts, New and Old, inhabited by Persians, Armenians, and Russians. It is six miles north of Reshd. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030210-9184 | EONIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, the followers of Eon, a wild fanatic of the province of Bretagne, in the tenth century.. He concluded, from the resemblance between cum, in the form of exorcising malignant spirits (per eum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos'), and his own name Eon, that he was the son of Go... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030211-9184 | EOOA, Eaoowe, or Middleburg. This island is the most eastern of the Friendly Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about thirty miles in circuit, and has an elevated and unequal surface. The north-east coast rises suddenly, but the north-west consists of valleys, meadows, and plains, abounding with groves of fruit... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030212-9184 | EORIA, in Mythology, a feast celebrated by the Athenians in honour of Erigonus, who, by way of punishment for their not avenging the death of his father Icarus, induced the gods to inflict on their daughters the curse of loving men who returned not their passion. The feast was instituted by the order of Apollo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030213-9184 | EOSTRE, in Mythology, a Saxon goddess to whom sacrifices were offered in the month of April, called the month of Eostra ; and hence the name Easter, which the Saxons retained after their conversion to Christianity, applying it to the festival celebrated in commemoration of our Saviour’s resurrection. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030214-9184 | EPACTS, in Chronology, the excess of the solar month above the lunar synodical month, and of the solar year above the lunar year of twelve synodical months; or of several solar months above as many synodical months, and several solar years above as many dozen synodical months. See Chronology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030215-9184 | EPAMINONDAS, son of Polymnis the Theban, born about 410 B. c., was one of those distinguished characters whose appearance forms an epoch in the history of their country. The position of Thebes was not such as to enable it to take a prominent part in the affairs of Greece; and, excepting during the short period when Epa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030301-9197 | EPARER, in the manege, signifies the flinging of a horse, or his yerking and striking with his hind legs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030302-9197 | EPAULEMENT, in Fortification, is a kind of breastwork, constructed to cover the troops in front, and sometimes also in flank. In a siege, an epaulement of eight or ten feet in height is generally raised near the entrance of the approaches, in order to cover the cavalry which is placed there to support the guard of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030303-9197 | EPAULETTES are a kind of military shoulder-knots, which are made of different materials, according as they are worn by officers or by common soldiers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030304-9197 | EPENTHESIS, in Grammar, the interposition or insertion of a letter or syllable in the middle of a word; as alituum for alitum, relligio for religio, induperator for imperator, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030305-9197 | EPERIES, a city of Hungary, in the circle of the Hither Theiss. It is the seat of the several boards for the government of the circle, and contains 806 houses, and 7426 [7:9:304]inhabitants, who make much linen and woollen goods, and some very excellent wine. Long. 21. 10. 25. E. Lat. 48.
; 58. 45. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030401-9210 | EPHA, or Ephah, in Jewish antiquity, a dry measure, equal to three pecks and three pints. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030402-9210 | EPHEBAEUM, in∠4n⅛ ’ wz7y, the place where the ephebi or youth exercised; or, as some think, where those who designed to exercise met and agreed on the kind of exercise which they should contend in, and what should be the victor’s reward. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030403-9210 | EPHEBI, among the Athenians, a designation given to their young men when they arrived at eighteen years of age, at which period they had their names entered in a public register. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030404-9210 | EPHEMERA, from rιμtξa, a day; a diary fever, or a fever of one day’s continuance. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030405-9210 | EPHEMERIDES, in Astronomy, tables calculated by astronomers, showing the actual state of the heavens for every day at noon; that is, the places in which all the planets are found atr that time. It is from these tables that the eclipses, conjunctions, and aspects of the planets are determined. In England, the Nautical A... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030406-9210 | EPHESUS, the chief city of Ionia, in Asia Minor, on the south side, and near the mouth of the river Cayster (now called Kutchuc Mendeι⅞, or Lesser Maeander), was 320 stadia, or forty miles, to the south of Smyrna, and 540, or three days’ journey, from Sardis, the capital of Lydia. It was situated at the extremity of a ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030501-9223 | EPHETAE, judges who in early times presided over he five criminal courts of justice at Athens, taking cog-ιizance of every description of homicide. They were if ty-one in number, and required to be of noble birth, >olon first separated the Areopagus from the other four :ourts; and from this time the jurisdiction of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030502-9223 | EPHOD, in Jewish antiquity, a part of the priestly abit, being a kind of girdle, which, being brought from chind the neck over the two shoulders, and hanging own before, was put across the stomach, then carried ound the waist, and made use of as a cincture to the unic. There were two sorts of ephods; one of plain linen... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030503-9223 | EPHORI, ancient Doric magistrates, whose power and ιfluence seem to have varied at different times. In Spar-ĭ the college consisted of five, and they entered on their n ∏ual office at the autumnal solstice, the beginning of le Lacedaemonian year. The first of these magistrates ve name to the year, in the same way as th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030504-9223 | EPHORUS, a celebrated Greek historian of Cunae in Aeolis, born about the year 362 b. c., a year memorable for the battle of Mantinea. His father’s name was Demophilus, or Antiochus; and being contemporary of Eudoxus and Theopompus, he studied along with them under the philosopher Isocrates. Of his personal history we a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030601-9236 | EPHRAIM, in Ancient Geography, one of the tribe divisions of Palestine. Ephraim and the half tribe of Manassch are blended together by the sacred writer; and it appears that Ephraim occupied the more southern, and the half tribe of Manassch the more northern parts, but both seem to have extended from the Jordan to the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030602-9236 | EPHREM Syrus, an ancient Christian writer, in the fourth century, deacon of Edessa, was born at Nisibe in Syria. He was greatly esteemed by Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and other eminent men. I4e wrote against the opinions of Sabellius, Arius, Apollonarius, and the Manichaeans, and acquired such reputation that he was sty... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030603-9236 | EPHYDOR, in Antiquity, an officer in the Athenian courts of justice, whose business it was to provide the plaintiff and defendant with equal water hour-glasses. When the glass had run out, they were not permitted to speak any longer; and therefore we find them very careful not to lose or mis-spend one drop of the water... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030604-9236 | EPIBATAE, part of the crew which manned an Athenian vessel. The triremes of this people were of two sorts, either swift-sailing vessels or transport ships. The latter were filled with land forces which it was intended to transport to some particular point, and, being heavily laden, were never employed in battle excepti... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030605-9236 | EPIBATERION, a poetical composition, in use amongst the ancient Greeks. When any person of condition and quality returned home after a long absence or journey into another country, he called together his friends and fellow-citizens, and made them a speech, or rehearsed a prepared copy of verses, in which he returned so... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030606-9236 | EPIC, or Heroic, Poem, a poem expressed in narration» formed upon a story partly real and partly feigned, and representing, in a sublime style, some signal and fortunate action, distinguished by a variety of great events, in order [7:9:307]to form the morals, and affect the mind with the love ol heroic virtue. See Poet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030701-9249 | EPICEDION (from εw∕, upon, and xrçőoç, funeral^), in Greek and Latin poetry, a poem, or poetical composition, on the death of any one. At the obsequies of persons of consequence there were three kinds of discourses usually made: that rehearsed at the bustum or funeral pile was called nenia ; that engraven on the tomb, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030702-9249 | EPICEDIUM, in ancient poetry, a poem rehearsed during the funeral ceremonies of persons of distinction. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030703-9249 | EPICHARMUS, a celebrated poet of the old comedy, the son of Helothales, a native of Cos, but who having been carried into Sicily at the age of three months, is generally known as a Sicilian, the name of his adopted country having prevailed over that of the country of his birth. He was a pupil of Pythagoras; for there s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030704-9249 | EPICOENE, in Grammar, a term applied to nouns, which, under the same gender and termination, mark indifferently the male and female species. Such in Latin are aquila, vespertilio, and the like, which signify equally a male or female eagle or bat.
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kp-eb0709-030705-9249 | EPICTETUS, a native of Hierapolis, in Phrygia, was born of humble parents, in the first century of the Christian era. In his youth he was the slave of Epaphroditus, the freedman of Nero, an individual of gross and vulgar habits. It is said that he was one day amusing himself in twisting the leg of his slave, when Epict... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030706-9249 | EPICUREAN Philosophy, the system of doctrine, canonical, physical, and ethical, taught by Epicurus, and maintained by his followers, who, from the name of their master, received that of Epicureans.
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kp-eb0709-030901-9275 | EPICURUS, one of the most celebrated philosophers of antiquity, was descended of an illustrious family, that of the Philaides, which derived its origin from Philaeus, grandson of Ajax. Neocles, his father, resided in Gargettium, a borough of Attica; but finding himself ill provided in point of fortune, he passed into t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030902-9275 | EPICYCLE, in the ancient astronomy, a little circle whose centre is in the circumference of a greater circle: or it is a small orb or sphere, which being fixed in the deferent of a planet, is carried along with it; and yet, by its own peculiar motion, carries the planet fastened to it round its proper centre.
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