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EROS (from iξως, love), in Mythology, one of two chiefs' of the cupids, being the cause of love.
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EROS
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EROSION, among physicians, denotes nearly the same thing with corrosion, only in a stronger degree.
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EROSION
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EROTIA, a festival instituted in honour of Eros, the god of love. It was celebrated by the Thespians every fifth year, with sports and games, when musicians and others contended. If any quarrels or seditions had arisen amongst the people, it was. then usual to offer sacrifices and prayers to the god that he would total...
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EROTIA
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EROTIC (derived from fgως, love, whence igwnκoς) is applied to any thing which has a relation to the passion of love.
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EROTIC
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EROUAD, or Erroad, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Coimbetoor. It contained during the reign of Hyder about 3000 houses, but was reduced to one third in the reign of Tippoo; and during the invasion of Gênerai Meadows the town was destroyed. It is now fast recovering, and contains about 400 houses. It was taken ...
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EROUAD
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ERPENIUS or d’Erpe, Thomas, a celebrated orientalist, born at Gorcum in Holland, on the 7th September 1584. Observing his aptitude for learning, his father sent him to Leyden at the early age of ten; and it was in that city that he commenced his studies. At the end of several months, however, he went to Middelburg, whe...
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ERPENIUS
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ERPETOLOGY. See Reptilia.
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ERPETOLOGY
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ERRATIC, in general, something that wanders, oris not regular. Hence the planets are called erratic stars.
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ERRATIC
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ERROMANGO, an island in the South Pacific Ocean one of the New Hebrides, about ninety miles in circumference. The inhabitants are black. Long. 169. 20. E Lat. 13. 50. S.
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13 50' S 169 20' E
ERROMANGO
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ERROOR, a fortified town of the south of India, in the province of Mysore. The Hoggree river runs close past the fortifications, to which there is a flight of steps from the water’s edge, built by some pious Mahommedan. It was plundered by the Mahrattas in 1790. Long. 76. 39. E. Lat. 13. 48. N.
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ERROOR
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ERROR, in Philosophy, a mistake of the judgment, or giving assent to that which is not true. Mr Locke reduces the causes of error into these four: first, want of proofs; secondly, want of ability to use them; thirdly, want of will to use them; and, fourthly, wrong measures of probability.
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ERROR
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ERSKINE, Thomas, Lord Erskine, a distinguished lawyer and statesman, was the third and youngest son of David Henry Erskine, tenth earl of Buchan, in Scotland. He was born in Scotland, and received his education partly at the high school of Edinburgh, and partly at the university of St Andrews. From the contracted resou...
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ERSKINE
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ERYMANTHUS, a mountain, river, and town of Arcadia, where Hercules killed a prodigious boar, the carcass of which he carried on his shoulders to Eurystheus, who was so terrified at the sight that he hid himself in a brazen vessel.
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ERYMANTHUS
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ERYSIPELAS, in Medicine, an eruption of a red or fiery kind, from which no part of the body is exempted, though it chiefly attacks the face. [7:9:366]
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ERYSIPELAS
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ERYTHRAE, in Ancient Geography, a port of Aetolia, on the Bay of Corinth. The Erythraeans considered the Sibyl Herophile as their countrywoman, and she was thence surnamed Erythraea. Erythrae was famous for an ancient temple of Hercules.
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ERYTHRAE
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ERYTHRAEUM Mare was used, at the time when the Greeks possessed little accurate information respecting India, to designate the whole ocean to the south of Asia, which washed the coasts of Arabia, Persia, and Western India. The boundary of the Erythraean Sea was determined by a line drawn from the outlet of the Red Sea ...
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ERYTHRAEUM
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ERYX, a son of Butes and Venus, who, relying upon his strength, challenged all strangers to fight him with the cestus. After many had yielded to his superior dexterity, Hercules accepted his challenge, and Eryx was killed in the combat, and buried on the mountain, where he had built a temple to Venus (Virg. Aen. v. 402...
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ERYX
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ERZERUM, the capital of one of the most considerable pashaliks in Armenia, of the same name, which is ruled by a pasha of three tails. It is surrounded on all sides by mountains, the highest peaks of which are covered with snow; and it lies in a valley beneath. The streets are in general paved, and the houses are built...
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ERZERUM
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ESARHADDON, the son of Sennacherib, and his successor in the kingdom of Assyria. He is said to have reigned twenty-nine years at Nineveh, from the year 3294 to 3322; besides which he reigned thirteen years at Babylon, making in all forty-two years. He died in the year of the world 3336, and was succeeded by Saosduchinu...
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ESARHADDON
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ESCALADE, or Scalade, an attack of a place without proceeding in form, or carrying forward regular approaches. It is usually made by means of ladders, which are employed for enabling the assailants to descend into the ditch, where such exists, and then to scale the rampart.
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ESCALADE
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ESCHEAT, in Law, signifies any land or tenement that casually falls to a lord within the manor.
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ESCHEAT
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ESCHENBACH, a bailiwick of the circle of the Upper Maine, in the kingdom of Bavaria, extending 264 square miles. It contains two cities, three towns, 166 villages, and 2480 houses, with 15,316 inhabitants. The chief town, of the same name, once fortified, containing 180 houses, and 1056 inhabitants, employed in making ...
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ESCHENBACH
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ESCHERSHAUSEN, a town in the Weser district of the duchy of Brunswick, on the river Lenne, containing, with Wickersen, 146 houses, and 1046 inhabitants. It is the capital of a bailiwick, which has 2030 houses, and 15,890 inhabitants.
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ESCHERSHAUSEN
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ESCHEVIN, or Echevin {Scabinus), in the French and Dutch polity, a magistrate elected by the inhabitants of a city, to manage their common concerns, and promote the good order, convenience, and decoration of the city.
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ESCHEVIN
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ESCHRAKITES, or Esrakites, a sect of philosophers amongst the Mahommedans, who adhere to the doctrines and opinions of Plato. The word is derived from the Arabic schraha, which in the fourth conjugation signifies to shine or glitter like the sun, so that Eschrakite seems to signify illuminated. The Eschrahites, or Mah...
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ESCHRAKITES
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ESCHWEGE, a city of the province of Lower Hesse, in the principality of Hesse Casel. It is situated on the river Werra, and contains four churches, 782 houses, and 4845 inhabitants, employed in making cloth and tanning leather. It has some navigation on the Werra. In the vicinity a considerable quantity of tobacco is c...
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ESCHWEGE
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ESCOBAR, a town of Andalusia, in Spain, in the prθ' vince of Jaen. It is situated on the declivity of the mountains of the Sierra Morena, near the descent of the river Jandula, which runs into the Guadalquiver.
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ESCOBAR
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ESCUAGE, in our old customs, a kind of knight-service, called service of the shield, by which the tenant was bound to follow his lord to the wars on his own charge.
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ESCUAGE
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ESCULENT, an appellation given to plants or rooW which may be eaten; as beets, carrots, artichokes, lee > onions, parsnips, potatoes, radishes, and the like. [7:9:367]
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ESCULENT
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ESCURIAL, a monastery and royal palace in Spain. ' It is situated to the north of Madrid, in a country the surface of which is covered with rocks, and where there is little shelter from the winds, which makes this elevated place very cold in the winter months. It is dedicated to St Lawrence, on account of Philip the Se...
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ESCURIAL
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ESCUTCHEON, or Scutcheon, in Heraldry, is derived from the French escusson, which is a corruption of the Latin scutum, and signifies the shield on which coats of arms are represented or emblazoned. Most nations, even from the remotest antiquity, were wont to have their shields distinguished by certain marks painted on ...
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ESCUTCHEON
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ESDRAS, a Jewish priest, and doctor of the law. Artaxerxes Longimanus sent him with rich presents for the adornment of the temple at Jerusalem, which was rebuilt under Zerubbabel; and the king also ordered the neighbouring governors to provide him with whatever might conduce to the pomp of the Jewish religion, as well ...
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ESDRAS
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ESHER, a town of Surrey, in the hundred of Elmbridge, on the road to Portsmouth, seventeen miles from London. An ancient palace of the bishops of Winchester, but which has been celebrated as the residence of Wolsey, continues in a modernized form to be an object of attention, but especially its park, through which mean...
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ESHER
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ESK, the name of several rivers both in England and Scotland, particularly of one which forms part of the boundary between the two kingdoms. It runs from northeast to south-west, and gives name to the district of Eskdale.
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ESK
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ESKI-HISSAR, a small town of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia. It is supposed to stand on the site of the ancient Stratonica, which was founded by a colony of Macedonians. The neighbouring plain is fertile in tobacco, which is collected by the inhabitants, who hang it up in their cottages to dry. It is situated sixteen miles...
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ESKI-HISSAR
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ESNE, or Esnch, a considerable town of Upper Egypt. “Esnch,” says Denon (Travels, ii. 103), “is the ancient Latopolis. Some remains are still visible of its port or quay on the bank of the Nile, which has often been repaired, but, notwithstanding all that has been done for it, still remains in a very miserable conditio...
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ESNE
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ESPALIERS, in Gardening. See Horticulture.
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ESPALIERS
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ESPALION, an arrondissement of the department of the Aveiron, in France, extending over 639 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons and 101 communes, and contains 63,376 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated on the river Lot, on which are some mills for spinning cotton, and establishments ...
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ESPALION
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ESPLANADE, in Fortification, is the sloping of the parapet of the covered-way towards the field, and the same as the glacis of the counterscarp; but it has become in a great measure antiquated in this sense, and is now only applied to the empty space between the glacis of a citadel and the first houses of the town.
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ESPLANADE
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ESPOUSALS, in Law, signify a contract or promise made between a man and a woman to marry each other; and in cases where marriages may be consummated, espousals take place previously. Marriage is termed an espousal de prũedenti. The espousals amongst the Jews were either by writing, or by a piece of silver given and re...
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ESPOUSALS
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ESQUIMAUX, a people of North America, inhabiting the vast tract of land known by the name of Labrador. They differ very considerably, both in aspect and manners, from the other American nations, and agree in most respects with the inhabitants of West Greenland.
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ESQUIMAUX
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ESQUIRE (from the French escu, and the Latin scutum, in Greek <; ’ zυτoς, which signifies a hide, of which shields were anciently made, and with which they were afterwards covered) was originally he who, attending a knight in time of war, carried his shield; from which circumstance he was called escuier in French, and ...
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ESSAY, a trial or experiment for proving the quality of any thing; or an attempt to ascertain whether or not any invention will succeed. Essay, in Literature, a peculiar kind of composition the character of which is freedom, ease, and natural simpli’ city, without being confined to strict order and method i or worked ...
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ESSAY
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ESSAYING, or Assaying. Sec Assaying.
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ESSAYING
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ESSEDARII, a sort of gladiators, mentioned by Seneca, Suetonius, and Cicero, who on some occasions engaged one another from chariots called esseda. The esseehim was a sort of heavy chariot from which the Gauls and Britons engaged the Romans. See Gladiator.
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ESSEN, a city of the Prussian province of Cleeve-Juliers, the capital of a circle of the same name. If is situated on the river Berne, is surrounded with walls, and contains two Catholic, a Lutheran, and a Reformed church with 799 houses, and 5100 inhabitants, employed in making ironmongery articles, especially coffee-...
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ESSEN
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ESSENCE, in Metaphysics, that which constitutes the particular nature of each genus or kind, and distinguishes it from all others.
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ESSENCE
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ESSENES, or Essenians, in Jewish antiquity, one of the three ancient sects amongst that people. They believed in a future state, but denied a resurrection from the dead. Their way of life was singular, inasmuch as they did not marry, but adopted the children of others, whom they bred up in the .institutions of their se...
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ESSENES
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ESSENTIAL, something necessarily belonging to a thing, and from which it cannot be conceived as distinct. Thus the primary qualities of bodies, such as extension, figure, number, and so on, are essential or inseparable from them in all their changes and alterations. Essential Oils are such as are. really contained in ...
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ESSENTIAL
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ESSEQUIBO, a river of English Guiana, in South America, which discharges its waters into the Atlantic. Long. 58. 30. W. Lat. 7. N. At its mouth it is twenty miles broad, but of difficult navigation, even for small vessels, on account of the numerous sand-banks whjch run in different directions across its entrance. Ther...
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ESSEX, a county of England, is bounded on the south by the river Thames, on the east by the German Ocean, on the north by the counties of Suffolk and Cambridge, and on the west by Hertfordshire and Middlesex. Its surface contains 1473 square miles, according to the last measurement of the Board of Ordnance. The populat...
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ESSEX
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ESSLINGEN, a city of the circle of the Neckar, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg, capital of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on the river Neckar, in a fertile district, and contains five churches, 980 houses, and 5591 inhabitants, who carry on woollen and cotton manufactures by machinery. Long. 9. 13. 25. E. La...
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ESSLINGEN
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ESTAIRES, a city of France, in the department of the North, on the navigable river Lys. It is an ill-built manufacturing town, producing table-linen, lace, and other goods, with 557 houses, and 5913 inhabitants.
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ESTAIRES
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ESTACHAR, Estaker, or Istakhar, a town of Persia, in the province of Kuzistan. near to which are the ruins of the celebrated city of Persepolis. It is thirty miles north-north-east of Schiraz, and 160 south-south-east of Ispahan. Long. 53. 40. E. Lat. 30. 5. N.
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ESTACHAR
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ESTAMBOLIC, or Istambel, a town of Arabia, in the jurisdiction of the schereef of Mecca, near the coast of the Red Sea. It is 180 miles north-north-west of Medina.
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ESTATE, in Law, signifies the title or interest which a person has in lands, tenements, or other effects. A feesimple is the amplest estate the law admits of. Estates, in a political sense, is a term used to denote either the dominions of some prince, or the general classes into which the people are divided. In Brita...
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ESTATE
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ESTE, a city of Italy, in the Austrian government of Venice, situated on the canal of Monselice. It is fortified, and contains a cathedral, several palaces, and 7534 inhabitants, who carry on a brisk trade in spinning silk and making silk goods. It is rich in antiquities, and is the place whence originated the family w...
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ESTE
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ETAWEH, a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, and capital of a district of the same name. It is situated on the eastern bank of the Jumna, many parts of which, during the dry season, are sixty feet in height. The town is built on the heights, and, as it approaches the river, is divided into separat...
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ESTELLA, a city of Spain, upon the Ega, in the province of Navarre, containing 4600 inhabitants. It possesses an old castle and a college. Many distilleries of brandy and wine are carried on here, as well as a manufactory of cloth, which supplies the army.
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ESTEPONA, a small town on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in the province of Granada, in Spain. It contained nearly 5000 inhabitants before the ravages of the epidemic fever in 1804, which almost desolated the coast on which it stands. On this occasion it lost one third of its inhabitants. The principal occupation...
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ESTHER, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the history of a Jewish virgin, dwelling with her uncle Mordecai at Shushan, during the reign of Ahasuerus, one of the kings of Persia. The great beauty of this Jewish maiden raised her to the throne of Persia, by which means she had an opportunity of saving her...
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ESTHONIA, or Esthland, a province of the Russian empire, on the Baltic Sea, extending over 7106 square miles. It is divided into four circles, viz. Revel, Hapsal, Weisenstein (formerly Jenven), and Wesenburg (formerly Wierland). It contains five cities, one market-town, forty-seven parishes, and 630 estates of nobles, ...
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ESTHONIA
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ESTOILEE, or Cross Estoillee, in Heraldry, a star with only four long rays in the form of a cross, and, accordingly, broad in the centre, but terminating in sharp points.
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ESTOILEE
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ESTOPPEL (from the French estouper, oppilare, obstipare, to stop or block up), in Law, an impediment or bar of action, arising from a man’s own act or deed.
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ESTREMADURA, a province of Spain. It is bounded on the north and east by New Castille, on the south by Andalusia, and on the west by Portugal; the southern part being divided from that kingdom by the river Guadiana. It is the most thinly peopled of any part of the kingdom except Cuença, and the density of its populatio...
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ESTREMADURA
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ESTREMADURA, a province of Portugal, the only one in that kingdom which does not in some of its borders join to Spain. Though Lisbon and its great population forms part of this province, it is not so thickly peopled as either Entre-Douro-e-Minho or La Beyra. Its extent is ' 823 square leagues, and its inhabitants amoun...
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ESTREMADURA
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ESZEK, a city of the Austrian kingdom of Hungary, in the province of the Farther Theiss, and the capital of a circle of its own name. It is situated on the river Drave, is strongly fortified, and defended by a citadel. It is a place of considerable trade in corn, cattle, and hides, and contains three Catholic and one G...
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ESZEK
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ETAMPES, an arrondissement of the department of the Seine and Oise, in France, extending over 380 square leagues, divided into four cantons and’101 communes, and containing 37,922 inhabitants. The capital, of the same name, is situated on the river Juine, in a most delightfully fruitful neighbourhood. It contains 982 h...
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ETAMPES
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ETCHING, a method of engraving on copper, in which the lines or strokes, instead of being cut with a tool or graver, are eaten in with aquafortis. See Engraving. Etching, though not very modern, is of later invention than engraving with the tool, of which it was at first only an imitation, practised by painters and ot...
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ETCHING
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ETELENT, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the river Tigris, 66 miles north-north-west of Bassora.
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ETELENT
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ETEOCLES, in fabulous history, a son of Oedipus and Jocasta. After his father’s death, it was agreed between him and his brother Polynices that they should both share the royalty, and reign a year each alternately. Eteocles by right of seniority first ascended the throne; but after the first year of his reign had expir...
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ETERNITY, an attribute of God, expressing his innnite or endless duration. Eternity, in Mythology, a divinity among the Romans, who had neither temples nor altars, but who was reptε-sented under the figure of a woman holding the sun in one hand ancļ the moon in the other. The symbols of this i 1 ' vinity were a phoeni...
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ETERNITY
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ETESIAE, or Etesian Winds, are such as blow at stated times of the year, from what point soever of the compass •theycome. They are so called from the Greek word tτoς, year, being yearly or anniversary winds, such as are now called monsoons and trade-winds, which in some parts of the world continue constantly blowing in...
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ETESIAE
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ETFU, or Edfou, a town of Upper Egypt, cclcbrated on account of the sublime temple of Apollonopolis, which, Denon observes (Trnv. ii. 277), is “the most beautiful of all Egypt, and, next to those of Thebes, the largest. Being built,” he adds, “at a period when the arts and sciences had acquired all their splendour, the...
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ETFU
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ETHER, an extremely volatile fluid, produced by the distillation of alcohol with an acid. See Chemistry.
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ETHER
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ETHERIDGE, or Etherege, Sir George, a wit and comic genius in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. was descended from an ancient family in Oxfordshire, and born in 1636. He travelled in his youth; and, not being able to confine himself to the study of the law, devoted himself to the acquisition of lighter and gayer ...
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ETHERIDGE
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ETHICS, the doctrine of manners, or the science of moral philosophy. The word is formed from Tjdo¢, nios, ĩjÛĩi, mores, manners; because it is the object of ethics to investigate the manners or conduct of man. See Moral Philosophy.
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ETHICS
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ETHIOPIA, a name which, as vaguely applied by the ancients, comprehended all Africa south of Egypt, and of the mountain range of Atlas, including Nubia and Abyssinia, but which is, in its more restricted and proper signification, applied to the country which was bounded on the north by Egypt, on the west by Libya Inter...
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ETHIOPIA
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ETHIOPIAN NATIONS. A great many nations, different and distant from one another, were formerly comprehended under the denomination of Ethiopian. In ancient times the natural history of man was but little cultivated. Nations were distinguished according to the most obvious difference in their appearance, namely, their c...
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ETHNARCHA, Ethnarch (formed of dsος, nation, and aξχr l , command), a governor or ruler of a nation. There are some medals of Herod surnamed the Great on one side of which is found 'Hşŭŵu, and on the other or Herod the Ethnarch. After the battle of Philippi, Antony passed into Syria, constituted Herod and Phasael his ...
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ETHNARCHA
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ETHNOPHRONES, in Antiquity, a sect of heretics in the seventh century, who made a profession of Christianity, but joined thereto all the ceremonies and follies of Paganism, such as judicial astrology, sortileges, auguries, and other divinations.
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ETHNOPHRONES
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ETIENNE, St, an arrondissement of the department of the Loire, in France, extending over 450 square miles, lt is divided into nine cantons and seventy-six communes, and contains 107,506 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Furand. It is a large manufacturing place for silk ribbon...
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ETIENNE
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ETIQUETTE, a French term, primarily denoting a ticket or title affixed to a bag or bundle of papers, and expressing its contents. It is also used, when applied to the Spanish and some other courts, to signify a particular account of what takes place daily in the king’s househol, and of the chief ceremonies which are th...
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ETIQUETTE
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ETOILE, a town of the department of the Drome, ι∏ [7:9:383] France, where good wine is produced. It contains 2314 inhabitants.
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ETOILE
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ETNA, or Aetna, a volcano in Sicily. See Aetna.
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ETNA
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ETOLIA, a country of ancient Greece. On the east it was separated by the river Evenus, now the Fidari, from the Locrenses Ozolae, and on the west from Acarnania by the Achelous; on the north it bordered on the country of the Dorians and part of Epirus, and on the south it extended to the Bay of Corinth. The Etolians w...
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ETOLIA
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ETON, or Eaton, a town situated on the left bank of the Thames, and connected with Windsor by a bridge. It is situated in the hundred of Stoke, in the county of Buckingham. The chief object of attraction is the well-endowed college, the most celebrated for the classical scholars it has produced of any institution in th...
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ETON
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ETRURIA, an ancient province or country of Italy, bounded on the north by Liguria, from which it was separated by the river Macra, now Magra; on the side of Cisalpine Gaul, by the lofty ridges of the Apennines; on the east by Umbria, from which it was separated by the river Tiber; and on the west by the Tuscan Sea. The...
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ETRURIA
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ETRUSCANS, or Tuscans, called by the Greeks Tyrrhenians or Tyrsenians, and by themselves Pasena, were the people who inhabited ancient Etruria, and who, at a period when the rest of Europe was immerged in ignorance and barbarism, had attained to a high degree of civil and social refinement. [7:9:384] The origin of thi...
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ETRUSCANS
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ETSCH, a circle in the Austrian province of Tyrol, which extends over 1400 square miles, comprehending three cities, three market-towns, 310 villages, 12,094 houses, and 99,782 inhabitants. The chief place is Botzen.
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ETSCH
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ETTLINGEN, a city, the capital of a bailiwick of the same name, in the duchy of Baden, in Germany. It contains 398 houses, and 3429 inhabitants, employed in cotton manufactures, and in making paper, oil, and gunpowder.
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ETTLINGEN
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ETTMULLER, Michel, an eminent physician, was born at Leipsic, on the 26th of May 1644. After having studied the learned languages, the mathematics, and philosophy, first in his native town, and afterwards at Wittenberg, he returned to Leipsic, and, having devoted himself wholly to medicine, obtained the degree of bache...
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ETTMULLER
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ETYMOLOGY, that branch of grammar which explains the origin and derivation of words, and which has for its object to arrive at their primary signification; for which reason Quintilian calls it originatio. The word is formed from the Greek, ιτυμος, verus, true, and λ>yω, dico I speak; and hence Cicero calls etymology no...
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ETYMOLOGY
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EUBAGES, an order of priests or philosophers among the ancient Celtae or Gauls. According to some, the Eubages were the same with the Druids and Saronidae of Diodorus; but others maintain that they were the same with what Strabo calls Evates.
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EUBAGES
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EUBOEA, a long narrow island, now called Negropont, which stretched along the east coast of Greece from the Sinus Maliacus, to nearly the most southern point of Attica. Its length was 1200 stadia according to Strabo, 150 miles according to Pliny, but its greatest breadth is nowhere more than 150 stadia, or eighteen mil...
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EUBOEA
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EUCHARIST, the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. The word in the original Greek, Eo^ag/d’na, literally imports thanksgiving ; being formed from íu, bene, well, and %αg∕,, gratia, thanks. This sacrament was instituted by Christ himself; and the participation of it is called communion. As to the manner of celebrating the ...
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EUCHARIST
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EUCHITES or Euchitae, a sect of ancient heretics, who were first formed into a religious body towards the end of the fourth century, though their doctrine and discipline existed in Syria, Egypt, and other eastern countries, before the birth of Christ. They were so called because they prayed without ceasing, imagining t...
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EUCHITES
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EUCHOLOGIUM, Euχτλoχ∕ov, a Greek term, signifying literally α discourse on prayer. The word is formed form sυχ ι η, prayer, and aoyoς, discourse. The euchologium is properly the Greek ritual, in which are prescribed the [7:9:391]order and manner of every thing relating to the order and administration of their ceremonie...
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EUCHOLOGIUM
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EUCLID of Megara, a distinguished philosopher and logician, who flourished about 400 years before Christ. The Athenians having prohibited the Megareans from entering their city on pain of death, this philosopher disguised himself in women’s clothes, in order to attend the lectures of Socrates. After the death of Socrat...
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EUCLID
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EUDIOMETER, an instrument for ascertaining the purity of the atmospherical air, or the quantity of oxygen contained in it, chiefly by means of its diminution, or the absorption produced by exposing certain substances to its action.
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