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kp-eb0709-030903-9275 | EPICYCLOID, in Geometry, a curve generated by the revolution of the periphery of a circle, along the convex or concave side of the periphery of another circle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-030904-9275 | EPIDAMNUS, afterwards called by the Romans Dyrrhachium, a city of Illyria, on the coast of the Adriatic, founded by a colony from the island Corcyra, under the command of Phalius, a native of Corinth, 629 years B. c. according to Eusebius. The lofty and precipitous peninsula on which it was built seems to have been cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031001-9288 | EPIDAURUS, a city of Argolis, in the Peloponnesus, situated in a recess of the Saronic Gulf, open to the northeast, and backed by high mountains, was founçled probably by Carians, and afterwards joined by a colony of Ionians from Attica. It was at first subject to Argos; but on the return of the Heraclidae and Dorians ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031002-9288 | EPIDEMIA, in Grecian antiquity, festivals observed in honour of Apollo and Diana, at the stated seasons when those deities, who could not be present everywhere, were supposed to visit different places, in order to receive the vows of their worshippers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031003-9288 | EPIDEMIC, among physicians, an epithet applied to those diseases which at certain times are popular, attacking great numbers at or near the same time. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031004-9288 | EPIDERMIS, in Anatomy, the cuticle or scarf-skin. See Anatomy. The word is formed of the Greek tn ∣ ,on, over, and ‰oμa f shin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031005-9288 | EPIDICASIA, amongst the Athenians. Daughters inheriting their parents’ estate were obliged to marry their nearest relation; which gave occasion to persons of the same family to go to law with one another, each pretending to be more nearly allied to the heiress than the rest. The suit was called indm<M<iiaς ootn ; and t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031006-9288 | EPIDOTAE, certain deities who presided over the growth of children. They were worshipped by the Lacedaemonians, and chiefly invoked by those who were persecuted by the ghosts of the dead, or spectral apparitions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031007-9288 | EPIGONI, the sons and descendants of the Grecian heroes who were killed in the first Theban war. The war of the Epigoni is famous in ancient history. It was undertaken ten years after the Theban war. The sons or[7:9:311]those who had perished in that contest resolved to avenge the death of their fathers, and marched ag... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031101-9301 | EPIGRAM, in Poetry, a short poem in verse, treating only of one thing, and ending with some lively, ingenious, and natural thought or point. The word is formed of t¶nmųiM, inscription, from t<ιfιγζα<pt ∣ v, to inscribe or write upon. See Poetry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031102-9301 | EPIGRAPHE, among antiquaries, denotes the inscrip- , tion of a building, pointing out the time when, the persons by whom, and the uses for which, it was erected. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031103-9301 | EPILOGUE, in Oratory, the end or conclusion of a discourse, ordinarily containing a recapitulation of the principal matters before delivered.
Epilogue, in the Drama, a speech addressed to the audience after the play is over, by one of the principal actors, and usually containing some reflections on certain incidents i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031104-9301 | EPIMENIDES, a native of Gnossus in Crete, who seems to have flourished about 594 b. c. and of whom we have several very extraordinary accounts. Being probably a man anxious to distinguish himself, he was not long in perceiving that the readiest way to obtain the object he had in view was to work on the love of the supe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031105-9301 | EPIMETHEUS, a son of Japetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanides, w ho inconsiderately married Pandora, by whom he had Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion. He had the curiosity to open the box which Pandora had brought with her, and thence issued the train of evils which from that moment have never ceased to afflict the human ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031106-9301 | EPINAL, an arrondissement of the department of the Vosges, in France, extending over 550 square miles, and divided into five cantons, which are subdivided into 116 communes, with 68,610 inhabitants. The capital, a city of the same name, is situated on the river Moselle, which divides it into two parts. It is a well-bui... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031107-9301 | EPIPHANIUS, St, an ancient father of the church, born at Besanducan, a village in Palestine, about the year 332. He founded a monastery near the place of his birth, and presided over it. He was afterwards elected bishop of Salamis, when he took part with Paulinus against Meletius, and ordained in Palestine Paulinian, t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031108-9301 | EPIPHANY, a Christian festival, otherwise called the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, observed on the sixth of January, in honour of the appearance of our Saviour to the three magi or wise men, who came to adore him and bring him presents. The feast of epiphany was not originally a distinct festival, but formed... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031201-9314 | EPIRUS, a country to the north-west of Greece, along the coast of the Ionian Sea, bounded on the north by the Ceraunian Mountains, on the south by the Ambracian Gulf, and separated on the east and north-east from Thessaly and Macedonia by the lofty range of Pindus. This extensive country was known in the earlier ages o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031301-9327 | EPISCOPACY, that form of church government in which diocesan bishops are established, as distinct from and superior to priests or presbyters. We have already observed, that from a very early period the ministers of religion have been distinguished into different orders, and that it has been much controverted whether th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031701-9379 | EPISCOPAL, something belonging to Bishops. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031702-9379 | EPISCOPALIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, an appellation given to those who prefer the episcopal government and discipline to all others. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031703-9379 | EPISCOPIUS, Simon, one of the most learned men of the seventeenth century, and the chief supporter of the Arminian sect, was born at Amsterdam in 1583. In 1612 he was chosen divinity professor at Leyden, in the room of Gomarus, who resigned; but the functions of his office, with his private studies, were light, compare... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031704-9379 | EPISODE, in Poetry, a separate incident, story, or action, which a poet invents and connects with his principal action, so that his work may abound with a greater diversity of events. See Poetry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031705-9379 | EPISTEMONARCH, in the ancient Greek church, an officer of great dignity, who, acting in the capacity of censor, had the care of every thing relating to faith. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031706-9379 | EPISTLE, the same as letter; but it is now chiefly used in speaking of ancient writings, as the epistles of St Paul, of Cicero, of Pliny, and so on.
Ερistlεs and Gospels, in the liturgy of the Church of England, are portions of Scripture selected from the writings of the evangelists and apostles, and appointed to be r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031707-9379 | EPISTYLE, in the ancient architecture, a term used by the Greeks for what we call architrave, that is, a massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately over the capital of a column. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031708-9379 | EPITAPH (from ι~ι, upon, and raφος, sepulchre), a monumental inscription in honour or in memory of a person[7:9:318] deceased. It has been disputed whether the ancient Jews inscribed epitaphs on the monuments of the dead; but however this may be, it is certain that epitaphs of very ancient date are found among them. Th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031801-9392 | EPITHALAMIUM, in Poetry, a nuptial song or composition in praise of the bride and bridegroom, and praying for their prosperity.
Epithalamia were sung amongst the Jews at the door of the bride, by her friends and companions, the evening before the marriage. Amongst the Greeks the epithalamium was sung as soon as the ma... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031802-9392 | EPITHET, in Poetry and Rhetoric, an adjective expressing some quality of a substantive to which it is joined, or such an adjective as is annexed to substantives by way of ornament and illustration, not to make up an essential part of the description. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031803-9392 | EPITOME, in literary history, the same with Abridgment. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031804-9392 | EPITRITUS, in Prosody, a foot consisting of three long syllables and one short. Of these, grammarians reckon four kinds; the first consisting of an iambus and spondee, as sălūtāntēs ; the second, of a trocheus and spondee, as concitātĩ ; the third of a spondee and an iambus, as commumcãns ; and the fourth of a spondee ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031805-9392 | EPITROPUS, a kind of judge, or rather an arbitrator, which the Greek Christians, under the dominion of the Turks, were in use to elect in the several cities, in order to terminate the differences that arose among them, and thus avoid carrying them before the Turkish magistrates. See Arbitrator. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031806-9392 | EPOCHA, in Chronology, a term or fixed point of time whence the succeeding years are numbered or reckoned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031807-9392 | EPODE, in Lyric Poetry, the third or last part of the ode, the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode. The epode was sung by the priests, standing still before the altar, after all the turns and returns of the strophe and antistrophe, and was not confined to any precise number or kind of verses.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031808-9392 | EPOPOEIA, in Poetry, the history, action, or fable, which forms the subject of an epic poem. The word is derived from the Greek νχος, carmen, verse, and πro∕sw, facio, I make. In the common use of the word, however, epopoeia is the same with epos, or epic poem itself. See Poetry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031809-9392 | EPPING, a market-town of the county of Essex, in the hundred of Waltham, seventeen miles from London. It was remarkable for its situation in a district formerly very woody, and preserved by our ancient monarchs for the enjoyment of the sports of the held. It was then called Waltham Forest, and extended almost to the ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031810-9392 | EPPINGEN, a city, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the grand duchy of Baden in Germany. It is situated on the river Elsenz, and contains 336 houses, with 2439 inhabitants. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031811-9392 | EPSOM, a town of the county of Surrey, fifteen miles from London. It was formerly frequented on account of its saline springs, and is now so on account of the races held on the down near it. County meetings are generally held here. The neighbourhood abounds with elegant seats of the nobility and gentry. The population ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031812-9392 | EPULARES, in Antiquity, an epithet given to those who were admitted to the sacred epulce or entertainments, it being unlawful for any to be present at them who were not pure and chaste. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031813-9392 | EPULO, in Antiquity, the name of a minister of sacrifice among the Romans.
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kp-eb0709-031814-9392 | EPULUM, in Antiquity, a solemn feast prepared for the gods in times of public danger. The feast was sumptuous, and the gods being formally invited, attended by proxy; for the statues were brought on rich beds furnished with soft pillows, called pulvinaria ; and thus accommodated, their godships were placed on their cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031815-9392 | EQUABLE, an appellation given to such motions as always continue the same, without being either accelerated or retarded. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031816-9392 | EQUAL, a term of relation between two or more things of the same magnitude, quantity, or quality. Mathematicians speak of equal lines, angles, figures, circles, ratios, solids. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031817-9392 | EQUALITY is that agreement between two or more things, by which they are denominated equal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-031818-9392 | EQUANIMITY denotes that calm and even frame ° mind and temper, under good or bad fortune, by which a man appears to be neither puffed up nor overjoyed wit prosperity, nor dispirited, soured, or rendered uneasy by adversity.
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kp-eb0709-031901-9405 | EQUATIONS.
1. In all the applications of algebra, it is not the magnitudes concerned that we immediately consider, but merely their proportions. In every class of quantities of the same kind, one being adopted as the unit of comparison, all the rest are referred to this standard, and are represented by the proportions... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035101-9821 | EQUATOR, or Aequator, in Astronomy and Geography , a great circle of the sphere, equally distant from the two poles of the world, or having the same poles with those of the world. It is called the equator, because when the sun is in it the days and nights are equal ; whence also it is denominated the equinoctial, and, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035102-9821 | EQUERY, or Ecury, a grand stable or lodge for horses, furnished with all suitable conveniences, as stalls, manger, rack, &c. The word is formed from the French écurie, which signifies the same thing. Some, again, derive ecurie from the Latin scuria, which not only denotes a place for beasts to be stalled in, but also a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035103-9821 | EQUES Auratus is used to signify a knight-bachelor, called auratus, because anciently none but knights might gild or beautify their armour or other habiliments of war with gold. In law this term is not used, but instead of it miles, and sometimes chevalier. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035104-9821 | EQUESTRIA, among the Romans, a place in tjιe theatre occupied by the equites or knights. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035105-9821 | EQUESTRIAN (equestris), a term chiefly used in the [7:9:352]phrase equestrian statue, which signifies a statue representing a person mounted on horseback. The word is formed from the Latin eques, knight or horseman, from eqnus, horse.
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kp-eb0709-035201-9834 | EQUIANGULAR, in Geometry, an epithet applied to figures the angles of which are all equal; such are a square, an equilateral triangle, and the like. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035202-9834 | EQUIDISTANT, an appellation given to things placed at equal distances from some fixed point or place to which they are referred. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035203-9834 | EQUILATERAL, in general, something that has equal sides; as an equilateral triangle. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035204-9834 | EQUILIBRIUM, in Meclianics, is when the two ends of a lever or balance hang so exactly even and level that neither ascends or descends, but both remain in a position parallel to the horizon; which is occasioned by their being both charged with an equal weight. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035205-9834 | EQUIMULTIPLES, in Arithmetic and Geometry, are numbers or quantities multiplied by one and the same number or quantity. Hence equimultiples are always in the same ratio to each other as the simple quantities before multiplication; thus, if 6 and 8 are multiplied by 4, the equimultiples 24 and 32 will be to each other a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035206-9834 | EQUINOCTIAL, or Aequinoctial, in Astronomy, a great and immoveable circle of the sphere, under which the equator moves in its diurnal motion.
The equinoctial, or acquinoctial line, is ordinarily confounded with the equator; but there is a difference, the equator being moveable and the equinoctial immoveable; the equat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035207-9834 | EQUINOX, or Aequinox, in Astronomy, the time when the sun enters one of the equinoctial points.
The equinoxes happen when the sun is in the equinoctial circle, and the days are equal to the nights throughout the world, which is the case twice a year; namely, about the 20th of March and the 23d of September, the former... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035208-9834 | EQUIPOLLENCE, in Logic, is when there is an equivalence between any two or more terms or propositions; that is, when they amount to the same thing, though they express it differently. Such terms or propositions are said to be equipollent. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035209-9834 | EQUIRIA, in Antiquity, a festival instituted by Romulus, and celebrated on the 27th of February, in honour of Mars. There were horse-races at this festival. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035210-9834 | EQUITES, an order of men in the commonwealth of Rome, to which we can furnish no exact parallel in modern times. They seem, indeed, to have resembled in some degree the gentry of England; with this difference however, that they enjoyed peculiar privileges, and were more of a separate caste than any body of men which ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035301-9847 | EQUITY, in a general sense, the virtue of treating other men according to reason and justice, or as we would be treated ourselves when we understand aright what is our due.
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kp-eb0709-035302-9847 | EQUIVALENT is understood of something that is equal in value, force, or effect, to another.
Equivales τ Terms, are where several words which differ in sound have yet one and the same signification; as ererybody was there, and nobody was absent ; nihil non, and οrnne. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035303-9847 | EQUIVOCAL Terms or Words, among lògicians, are those which have a doubtful or double meaning. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035304-9847 | EQUIVOCATION, the using a term or expression which has a double signification. Equivocations are expedients to avoid telling the truth, yet without telling a direct falsehood. Some of the fathers are great patrons of equivocations and mental reservations, and hold that the use of such shifts and ambiguities is in many ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035305-9847 | EQUULEUS, or Ecculeus, in Antiquity, a kind of rack used for extorting a confession. At first it was chiefly practised on slaves, but was afterwards made use of against the Christians.
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kp-eb0709-035306-9847 | ERA, in Chronology. See Chronology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035307-9847 | ERAMNOO, an island at the entrance of the Gulf of Cutch, on the western coast of India, containing a town of the same name. Long. 68. 40. E. Lat. 22. 32. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035308-9847 | ERANARCHA, a public officer among the ancient Greeks, whose business it was to preside over and direct the alms and provisions allotted for the poor. Cornelius hepos, in his Life of Epaminondas, describes the office thus: n hen any person was reduced to poverty, taken captive, °r had a daughter to marry, which he could... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035309-9847 | ERASISTRATUS, a physician of Julis, a town of the is and of Ceos, now Zea, off Cape Sunium, in Attica, who seems to have flourished from about 300 to 258 B. c. He "as grandson of Aristotle, his mother being daughter of that philosopher. He seems to have been in high favour at the court of Seleucus Nicanor, whose son An... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035310-9847 | ERASMUS, Desiderius, was born at Roterdam on the 28th of October 1467.^[1. Bayle, Dictionaire Historique et Critique, tom. ii. p. 1091. Several biographers refer the birth of Erasmus to the year 1465; but the inscription of his statue at Roterdam assigns the date of 1467. ] His father, who bore the name of Gerard, was ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035801-9912 | ERASTIANS, a religious sect or faction which arose in England during the time of the civil wars in 1647, and were so called from their leader Thomas Erastus, whose distinguishing doctrine it was, that the church had no right to discipline, that is, no regular power to excommunicate, exclude, censure, absolve, decree, o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035802-9912 | ERATO (from tsaω, I love), in Mythology, the name of one of the nine muses, who presided over amatory poetry. To this muse some have ascribed the invention of the lyre and the lute. She is represented with a garland of myrtles and roses, holding a lyre in one hand and a bow in the other, and at her side is a Cupid with... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035803-9912 | ERATOSTHENES, the son of Aglaus, was born at Cyrene, on the northern coast of Africa, 275 b. c., and died at the advanced age of eighty, 194 b. c. We arc told by Suidas that he studied under the philosopher Aristo of the island Chios, the grammarian Lysanias of Cyrene, and the poet Callimachus, whilst Strabo mentions t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035804-9912 | ERATOSTRATUS, an Ephesian who burned the famous temple of Diana, the same night on which Alexander the Great was born. This burning, as some writers have observed, was not prevented or seen by the goddess of the place, who was then present at the labour of Olympias, and at the birth of the conqueror of Persia. Eratostr... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035805-9912 | ERBIL, a town of Persia, in the pachalic of Bagdad; the ancient Arbela, where Alexander the Great defeated Darius. It is situated on an eminence commanding an extensive plain, which abounds in grain and fruit. It is surrounded by walls, but is now a poor place, containing about 2000 or 3000 Kurds or Chaldeans. It is si... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035806-9912 | EREBUS, E£sCo; (from any, ìiiglit), in Mythology, a term denoting darkness. According to Hesiod, Erebus was the son of Chaos and Night, and the father of the day. This was also the name of part of the inferi, among the ancients; and a peculiar expiation was provided for those who were detained in Erebus.
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kp-eb0709-035807-9912 | ERDING, a bailiwick in the circle of the Isar, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending over 308 square miles. It contains three large and fifty-six small towns, 262 villages, and 6632 dwelling-houses, with 28,370 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is a walled town situated on the river Sempt, containing 275 h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035808-9912 | EREKLEE, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the province of Caramania, situated on the left bank of the river Kalys, in the centre of a fertile country. It stands in front of a hill, and, though it is of considerable size, has a mean appearance, the houses being constructed of mud, with suŋ-dried bricks. The gardens yield mu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035901-9925 | EREMIEU, a town of the department of the Isère, in France. It is surrounded with walls, and was the former residence of the dauphin or sovereign of Dauphine. It contains 590 houses, and 2184 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in making hempen cloth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035902-9925 | EREMONVILLE, a village in the department of the Oise in France, containing 470 inhabitants. It is celebrated on account of a palace built by Henry IV. for his fair favourite Gabrielle, and afterwards the residence of Rousseau. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035903-9925 | ERETRIA, a city on the western coast of the island Euboea, founded along with Chalcis by a colony of Athenians, who were afterwards joined by a band of Aeolians from Elis. Its extensive commerce raised it to considerable eminence at an early period; it founded colonies in the peninsula of Pallene, and also at Cumae in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035904-9925 | ERFURT, a city of the Prussian province of Saxony, and the capital of a circle of its own name, as well as of the provincial government. It is strongly fortified, and is defended by two forts, the Petersburg and the Cyrials-burg, both of most skilful construction. It is situated in a district of peculiar fertility, esp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035905-9925 | ERGASTULUM, amongst the Romans, was a prison, work-house, or house of correction, where slaves were by the private authority of their masters confined and kept to hard labour for their offences. The Greeks had a place of confinement of the same sort. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035906-9925 | ERIDANUS, a river celebrated in Mythology for the fall of Phaethon, and the metamorphosis of his sisters into long and slender poplars. Astronomers placed Eridanus in the heavens, and made it one of the southern constellations. It was supposed to be the ancient name of the river Po, but the difficulty of explaining the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035907-9925 | ERIE, a great lake of North America. It is about 280 miles in length from south-west to north-east, from ten to sixty-three in breadth, and about 658 in circumference. It has a depth of 120 feet; and its surface, which contains 12,000 square miles, is elevated 334 feet above that of Lake Ontario, with which it is conne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-035908-9925 | ERIGENA, Joannes Scorus, a famous scholastic divine, was born about the beginning of the ninth century; but where, is a matter of dispute among authors. Bale and Pitts affirm that he was born at St David’s in Wales; Dempster, Mackenzie, and Henry, that he was a native of Scotland. Dempster contends that he was born in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036001-9938 | ERIGONE, in fabulous history, daughter of Icarus. She died of grief on account of her father’s death, was translated into heaven, and formed the sign Virgo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036002-9938 | ERITH, a town of the county of Kent, in the hundred of Lessness and lathe of Sutton, fourteen miles from London. It stands on the right bank of the Thames. It is chiefly inhabited by fishermen and other seafaring people; but Belvedere House, on the site of an ancient monastery, is one of the most striking objects to pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036003-9938 | ERIVAN, a province of Persia, bounded on the north and west by the Mossian Hills, on the south by the Araxes, and on the east by the districts of the Karabang and Karadang. It is of considerable extent, and has a salubrious climate, though the winter is of long duration. It possesses, according to Sir R. K. Porter, by ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036004-9938 | ERIPHYLE, in fabulous history, a sister of Adrastu king of Argus, who married Amphiaraus. She was daugn ter of Talaus and Lysimache. When her husband conceal ed himself in order that he might not accompany thθ j) 1 gives in their expedition against Thebes, where it ha i been predicted he was to perish, Eriphyle suffere... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036101-9951 | ERIS, the goddess of discord among the Greeks. She is the same as the Discordia of the Latins. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036102-9951 | ERISICHTHON, in fabulous history, a Thessalian, son of Triops, who derided Ceres and cut down her groves. This impiety irritated the goddess, who afflicted him with continual hunger; in consequence of which he squandered all his possessions in order to gratify the cravings of his appetite, and at last devoured his own ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036103-9951 | ERLANGEN, a city of the circle of the Rezat, in the kingdom of Bavaria. It stands on the river Wcrnitz, is surrounded with ancient walls and towers, and though antique, is well built, and has broad streets. It contains a royal palace, three Lutheran churches, two Reformed, and one Catholic, and 815 houses, with 9800 in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 49 35' 36" N 9 1' 5" E | ERLANGEN |
kp-eb0709-036104-9951 | ERLAU, or Eger, a city of Hungary, in the circle of the Hither Theiss. It contains an Episcopal palace and cathedral, a university with ten professors, an observatory and public library, three cloisters for monks and one for the Brethren of Mercy, with 1710 houses, and 16,112 inhabitants. There are here manufactures of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 53' 36" N 20 17' 51" E | ERLAU |
kp-eb0709-036105-9951 | ERMIN, in Heraldry, denotes a white field or fur, powdered or interspersed with black spots, called powdering. Ermin, an order of knights instituted in 1450, by Francis I. duke of Bretagne, and which formerly subsisted in France. The collar of this order was of gold, composed of ears of corn in saltier, at the end of w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036106-9951 | ERMINES, in Heraldry, the reverse of ermine, that is, white spots on a black field. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036107-9951 | ERMINOIS, in Heraldry, signifies the field or, and the spots black. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-036108-9951 | ERNATIA, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia, situated on the Gulf of Satalia, sixteen miles north-west of Sa-taha. Long. 30. 24. E. Lat. 36. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 36 50' N 30 24' E | ERNATIA |
kp-eb0709-036109-9951 | ERNESTI, John Augustus, one of the most illustrious philologers and theologians of the last century. He was ornon the 4th August 1707, at Tennstadt, of which place is father, likewise a distinguished theologian, was pastor, and superintendent of the electoral dioceses of Thuringia, az, and Sangerhusen. After having rec... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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