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EUDOSIA, called Athen t ia before her conversion to Christianity, a celebrated lady, the daughter of Leontius, a philosopher of Athens, who gave her such a learned education that at his death he left her only a small legacy, saying she was capable of making her own fortune. Having pleaded at Athens without success agai...
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EUDOXIANS, a party or sect of heretics in the fourth century, so denominated from their leader, Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople, who was a great defender of the Arian doctrine. The Eudoxians adhered to the errors of the Arians and Eunomians, maintaining that the Son was created out of nothing, and tha...
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EUGENE, François, commonly called Prince Eugene of Savoy, one of the greatest generals of his time (since he preceded Frederic IL, and Turenne had fallen before lie became known as a commander), was born at Paris on the 18th October 1663. His father, Eugene Maurice, count of Soissons, was grandson of the Duke of Savoy,...
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EUGUBIAN, or Eugubine Tables, Tabulce Eugu-binoe, inscribed tablets in bronze, found in 1444 at La Schieggia, near Gubbio {Eugubiurn), in the duchy of Urbino. These tablets are seven in number, five of them containing inscriptions in Umbric, mixed with Etruscan, and the remaining two inscriptions in Latin characters. T...
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EUGUBIAN
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EULER, Leonard, professor of mathematics, member of the Imperial Academy of Petersburg, ancient director of the Royal Academy of Berlin, and fellow of the Royal Society of London, as also a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, was born at Basil on the 15th of April 1707, of reputable parents....
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EULER
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EULOGY, Eulogia, in Ecclesiastical History. When the Greeks cut a loaf or piece of bread to consecrate it, they broke the rest into little bits, and distributed it among the persons who had not yet communicated, or sent it to persons who were absent; and these pieces of bread were what they called eulogies. The word is...
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EUMARIDES, from wμaξy ∖ ς, easy or convenient, among the ancients, a kind of shoes common to men and women. The eumarides were used for pomp and delicacy, being neat, and painted with various colours.
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EUMARIDES
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EUMENES, a native of Cardia, a city in the Thracian Chersonesus, was born 360 and died 315 b. c. At a very early age he was employed as private secretary by Philip king of Macedonia, on account of his friendship for his father. On the death of that prince he was confirmed in the same office by Alexander; and it was in ...
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EUMENES
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EUMENIDES, a name given to the Furies by the ancients. They are fabled to have sprung from the blood of the wound which Coelus received from his son Saturn; but according to others they were daughters of Earth, and conceived from the blood of Saturn; whilst others again make them daughters of Acheron and Night, or of P...
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EUMENIDES
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EUMOLPIDES, the priests of Ceres at the celebration of her festivals at Eleusis. They were descended from Eumolpus, a king of Thrace, who was appointed priest of Ceres by Erechtheus, king of Athens. After his appointment to the priesthood, however, Eumolpus became so powerful that he maintained a war against Erechtheus...
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EUNAPIUS, a native of Sardis, in Lydia, a celebrated sophist, physician, and historian, who flourished in the fourth century, under the emperors Valentinian, Valens, and Gratian. He wrote the lives of the philosophers and sophists, in which he frequently shows himself a bitter enemy to the Christians; and also a histor...
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EUNAPIUS
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EUNOMIANS, in Ecclesiastical History, Christian heretics in the fourth century. They were a branch of the Arians, and took their name from Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus, who died at a very advanced age, about the year 374, after experiencing a variety of sufferings. The greater part of his works are lost. Besides two or ...
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EUNUCH, a castrated or emasculated person. Though the practice of castration is detestable in every point of view, yet there appears no real foundation for the injurious opinion generally entertained of eunuchs, that they are all cowards, and devoid of genius for literature or any solid study. It is certain, indeed, th...
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EUPATRIDAE, in Antiquity, a name given by Theseus to the nobility of Athens, as distinguished from the Geomori and Demiurgi. By the establishment of Theseus, the Eupatridae had the right of choosing magistrates, teaching and dispensing the laws, and interpreting religious mysteries. In all other matters the whole city ...
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EUPEN, a city of the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine, the capital of a circle of the same name. It is a ’ large scattered place, containing 1500 houses, and between 10,000 and 11,000 inhabitants, who carry on the manufacture of fine woollen cloths and cassimeres to an extent which is unknown in any other part of t...
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EUPHONY, in Grammar, an easiness, smoothness, and elegance of pronunciation. The word is formed from tu, bene, well; and <pωv ι η, vox, voice. Quintilian calls euphonia, vocalitas; ScaViger, facilis pronunciatiο. Euphonia is properly a kind of figure by which we suppress a letter that is too harsh, or convert it into ...
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EUPHORBUS, a famous Trojan, son of Panthöus. He was the first who wounded Patroclus, whom Hector killed; but he perished by the hand of Menelaus, who hung his shield in the temple of Juno at Argos. Pythagoras, the founder of the doctrine of the metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls, affirmed that he had once been ...
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EUPHORBUS
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EUPHORION, a son of Polymnestus of Chalcis, a town of Euboea, born 274 b. c. at the time when the Romans conquered Pyrrhus. He studied under the philosophers Lacydes and Prytanis, and composed many works both in prose and verse. He was appointed by Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, to superintend the library he was c...
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EUPHORION
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EUPHRATES, a large river of Asia, taking its origin from several sources in the great range of Mount Taurus. There are two branches in particular which dispute the honour of being the principal. One to the east, called Mured, rising not far from the town of Bayazid, traverses the southern part of Armenia Proper; the ot...
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EUPHRATES
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EUPOLIS, a poet of Athens, born about 446 b. c. , was one of the writers of the old comedy. He began to exhibit his plays at the early age of seventeen, and contended with Aristophanes for the prize 425 b. c. It is said that seven of his pieces were crowned with victory. In those days when the law of libel had not yet ...
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EURE, a department of the north-east of. France, formed out of the ancient Norman Bexin, the district o Saint André, Neuburg, a part of Perche, and of Ouche, Auge, Lienvin, and Roumois, all parts of the former country of Normandy. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Lower Seine, on the east by those o O...
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EURE AND LOIRE, a department of the north-west of France, formed out of parts of the ancient Orlcannois, and a portion of the duchy of Maine. It is bounded on the north by the department of the Eure, on the cast by that of Seine-Oise, on the south by those of Loiret and Loirc-Cher, and on the west by those of Sarthe an...
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EURIPIDES, the son of Mnesarchus, a celebrated tragic poet, was born 480 b. c. in the island of Salamis, to which place his parents had been obliged to fly from Athens at the time it was threatened by the invasion of Xerxes. His birth took place on the very day that the battle was fought near the strait Euripus, the pr...
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EURIPIDES
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EUROCLYDON, (from Eugoç, the east wind, and κλoδωv, a wave), is a species of wind, of which we have an account only in the Acts of the Apostles (xxvii. 14), and concerning the nature of which critics have been much divided. Bochart, Grotius, Bentley, and others, substitute another reading, supported by the Alexandrian ...
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EUROCLYDON
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EUROPA, in fabulous history, a daughter of Agenor, king of Phoenicia and Telephassa. She was so beautiful that Jupiter became enamoured of her; and, in order to seduce her, he assumed the shape of a bull, and mingled with the herds of Agenor, whilst Europa, with her female attendants, were gathering flowers in the mead...
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EUROPA
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EUROPE, One of the great divisions of the globe. On a first view Europe appears to be less favoured by nature than the other quarters of the globe over which it has obtained so great an ascendancy. It is much smaller in extent; its rocky and mountainous surface does not admit of those noble rivers, like inland seas, wh...
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EURYALE, in Mythology, one of the Gorgons, daughters of Phorcys, and a sister of Medusa, who was subject neither to old age nor to death.
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EURYALE
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EURYDICE, in fabulous hi⅛ory, the wife of Orpheus, who flying from the attempted ravishment of Aristaeus, was slain by a serpent. Her husband went down to the shades, and by the force of his music persuaded Pluto and Proserpine to allow him to carry back his wife to earth, a favour which they granted, provided he did n...
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EURYDICE
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EURYMEDON, in Ancient Geography, a noblc river running through the middle of Pamphylia, and celebrated for a sea and land fight which took place on the same day, and in which the Athenians, under Cimon the son of Miltiades, defeated the Persians.
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EURYMEDON
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EURYSTHEUS, a king of Argos and Mycenae, son of Sthenclus, and Nicippe the daughter of Pelops. Juno hastened his birth by two months, that he might come into the world before Hercules the son of Alemena, as the younger of the two was doomed by order of Jupiter to be subservient to the will of the other. This natural ri...
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EURYSTHEUS
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EUSEBIANS, a denomination given to the sect of Arians, on account of the favour and countenance which Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, showed for them at their first rise.
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EUSEBIANS
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EUSEBIUS, surnamed Pamphilus, a celebrated bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine, and one of the most illustrious men of the Christian church, was born in Palestine, towards the close of the reign of Gallienus, about the year 267 of our era. He was the intimate friend of Pamphilus, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian in...
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EUSEBIUS
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EUSTATHIANS, a name given to the Catholics of Antioch in the fourth century, on occasion of their refusal to acknowledge any other bishop except Eustathius, who had been deposed by the Arians. This denomination was given them during the episcopate of Paulinus, whom the Arians substituted instead of Eustathius, about th...
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EUSTATHIANS
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EUSTATHIUS, archbishop of Thessalonica, and commentator on Homer, flourished at Constantinople in the twelfth century. Before his promotion to the see of Thessalonica, he was master of requests and master of orators, two ecclesiastical offices, the latter of which (namely, that of the orators or rhetores) had for its o...
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EUSTATHIUS
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EUSTATIA, St, one of the Leeward Islands, in the West Indies. It is a high rock, rising from the waves in the form of a pyramid, gradually tapering to the top. It 13 twenty-nine miles in circumference at the base, and, notwithstanding the singular conformation of the island, the climate is healthy, and the soil, which ...
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EUSTATIA
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EUSTYLE, in Architecture, a sort of building in which the pillars are placed at the most convenient distance from one another, the intercolumniations being two diameters and a quarter of the column, excepting those in the middle of the face, before and behind, which are three diameters apart.
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EUSTYLE
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EUTERPE, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, who presided over music, and was also regarded as the inventress of the flute. She is represented as crowned with flowers, and holding a flute in her hands. Some mythologists attribute to her the invention of tragedy, which is more commonly supposed to be th...
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EUTERPE
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EUTHYMIA, among the Greeks, signified such a disposition or state of the mind as could not be ruffled either by good or bad fortune, by health or sickness, pleasure or pain, good or evil.
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EUTIN, a city in that part of the duchy of Oldenburg which lies on the Baltic Sea, called the duchy of Lubec. It is situated on a beautiful lake, and is surrounded by the Danish province of Holstein. It contains, besides the ducal palace, 260 houses and 2540 inhabitants. Long. 10. 51. E. Lat. 54. 8. N.
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EUTROPIUS, Flavius, a Latin historian, of whose life we know but little. Even the praenomen Flavius is uncertain, as well as the race from which he sprung. Some consider him as a native of Italy, others of Gaul, and others again of Constantinople, without our possessing any certain grounds to enable us to decide on the...
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EUTYCHIANS, ancient heretics, who denied the dou- 1 ble nature in Christ, and were so denominated from Eu-ι tyches, the archimandrite, or abbot of a monastery at ConI stantinople, who began to propagate his opinion in the year 448. This man, however, did not seem quite steady and i consistent in his sentiments, for he ...
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EUTYCHIUS, patriarch of Alexandria, lived about the ninth century; and wrote annals in the Arabic language, printed at Oxford in 1658, with a Latin version by Pococke. Selden had printed something of his before.
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EUXINUS PONTUS, Black Sea, lying between Europe and Asia, into which several of the largest rivers in the world flow; on the west the Danube, Dniester, and Dnieper, on the east the Phasis, and on the south the Helys and Thermodon. A large peninsula stretches into the centre, and divides it into two great gulfs; the cap...
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EVAGRIUS Scholasticus, an historian, bornât Epiphania about the year 536. He practised the profession of advocate, from which he was called Scholasticus, a name which was then given to the pleaders at the bar; and he was also tribune and keeper of the prefect’s dispatches. He wrote an ecclesiastical history, which begi...
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EVANDER, a king of Arcadia, said to be son, sometimes of Mercury and sometimes of Echemus, king of Arcadia, had as his mother the nymph Nicotrate or Carmenta, according to the Latins. Various reasons are given to account for his emigration to Italy. According to Servius (Virg. Aem. viii. 51, 130), he had killed his fat...
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EVANGELISTS, the inspired authors of the Gospels. The word is derived from the Greek ίυαγγιλιον, formed of i εu, bene, well, and ayytaoς, angel or messenger. The denomination of evangelists was likewise given in the ancient church to those who preached the gospel in different parts, without being attached to any parti...
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EVANTES, in Antiquity, the priestesses of Bacchus, who were so called because in celebrating the orgia they ran about as if distracted, crying, Evan, evan, ohe evan.
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EVAPORATION is that process by which liquids and solids gradually assume the gaseous form, or by which, in certain circumstances, an invisible vapour or gas is continually detached from the surface of water, and perhaps of every other liquid, as also from the surfaces of many, if I not every solid. From this process be...
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EVATES, a branch or division of the Druids, or ancient Celtic philosophers. Strabo divides the British and Gaelic philosophers into three sects; Bards, Evates, and Druids. He adds that the Bards were the poets and musicians, the Evates the priests and naturalists, and the Druids were moralists as well as naturalists. B...
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EVE, the mother of all mankind, who, being deluded by the serpent, occasioned the fall, with all its consequences. John, a distinguished naturalist and writer on various subjects, was born at Wotton in Surrey, on the 31st of October 1620. In the fifth year of his age he waa sent to Lewes in Sussex, where he was placed...
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EVERGETES, or Euergetes, a surname signifying benefactor, given to Philip of Macedonia, to Antigonus Doson, and to Ptolemy of Egypt. It was also commonly applied to the kings of Syria and Pontus; and we often find among the former an Alexander Evergetes, among the latter a Mithridates Evergetes. Some of the Roman emper...
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EVESHAM, a market and borough town of Worcestershire, in the hundred of Blakenhurst, 96 miles from London. It is finely situated in the midst of the rich vale of the same name, on both sides of the river Avon. A great number of market gardeners in the vicinity raise large quantities of the rarer vegetables, but especia...
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EVIDENCE, in Philosophy, that perception of truth which arises either from the testimony of the senses or from an induction of reason. Evidence, in Law, signifies some proof by testimony of men upon oath, or by writings or records. See England, Part III. Government and Laws. Evil, in Philosophy, is either moral or nat...
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EVORA, a city of Portugal, in the province of Alemtejo. It is the seat of an archbishop, and is well fortified, though the fortifications are now of no possible use as means of defence. There is a most superb aqueduct, which conveys fresh water to the city from the distance of four or five miles. A college, or rather u...
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EVREMOND, Charles de St Denis, a polite scholar and soldier, was born at St Denis le Guast in Lower Normandy in 1613. He was intended for the profession of the law, and commenced study with this view; but he soon quitted it, and became an ensign before he was sixteen. A military life, however, did not prevent him from ...
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EVREUX, an arrondissement of the department of the Eure, in France, extending over 1936 square miles. It comprehends eleven cantons and one hundred and twenty-two communes, inhabited by 122,401 inhabitants. The capital is a city of the same name, situated in a valley on the river Iton, some branches of which run throug...
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EWANPILLY, a Mahrattatown and small port of Hindustan, in the province of Berar, 110 miles S.S.E. from Nagpoor. Long. 80. 55. E. Lat. 18. 50. N. ĖWELL, a market-town of Surrey, in the hundred of Copthorne, thirteen miles from London. Near this town is the modernised ancient palace of Nonsuch, built by Henry VIII. and ...
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EX, or Exe, a river of England, which rises in a barren tract of land called Exmoor, in the county of Somerset, and after being enlarged by several accessions, passes Tiverton, Exeter, and Topsham. It next receives the waters of the Kew, and falls into the sea at Exmouth. This river is navigable by vessels of considera...
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EXAGGERATION, in Rhetoric, a kind of hyperbole, by which things are augmented or amplified by saying more than the truth, either as to good or bad. Exaggeration, in Painting, a method by which the artist, in representing things, changes them too much, or makes them too strong, either in respect of the design or the co...
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EXALTATION, or Elevation, is chiefly used in a figurative sense, for the raising or advancing a person to 8ome ecclesiastical dignity, particularly to the papacy. Exaltation of the Cross is a feast of the Roman Catholic church, held on the 14th of September, in memory, as is generally supposed, of the emperor Heracliu...
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EXAMINATION, an exact and careful search or inquiry, in order to discover the truth or falsehood of a thing. Self-EχAMiNATi0N is a point much insisted on by divines, and particularly the ancient fathers, by way of preparation for repentance. St Ignatius reduces it to five points, a returning thanks to God for his bene...
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EXARCH, in Antiquity, an appellation given by the emperors of the East to certain officers sent into Italy, in quality of vicars, or rather prefects, to defend that part of Italy which yet remained under their obedience, particularly the city of Ravenna, against the Lombards, who had made themselves masters of nearly a...
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EXAUCTORATIO, in the Roman military discipline, differed from the missio, which was a full discharge, and took place after a soldier had served in the army twenty years; whereas the exauctoratio was only a partial discharge. The exauctorati lost their pay indeed, but still remained under their colours or vexilla, thoug...
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EXCALCEATION, amongst the Hebrews, was a particular law, by which a widow, whom her husband’s brother refused to marry, had a right to summon him to a court of justice, and, upon his refusal, to excalceate him, that is, to pull off one of his shoes and spit in his face, both of which actions inferred great ignominy.
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EXCELLENCY, a title anciently given to kings and emperors, but now to ambassadors, generals, and other persons, who are not entitled to that of highness, but yet are elevated above the other inferior dignities.
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EXCENTRIC, in Geometry, a term applied to circles and spheres which have not the same centre, and consequently are not parallel; in opposition to concentric, where they are parallel, having one common centre.
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EXCENTRICITY, in Astronomy, is the distance of the centre of the orbit of a planet from the centre of the sun; that is, the distance between the centre and the focus of the ellipse.
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EXCESS, in Arithmetic and Geometry, is the difference between any two unequal numbers or quantities, or that which remains after the lesser is taken from the greater.
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EXCHANGE. In political economy the term exchange is commonly employed to designate that species of mercantile transactions by which the debts of individuals residing at a distance from each other are either partially or wholly liquidated, without the intervention of money. The object of this article is to explain the ...
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EXCHEQUER, in British jurisprudence, an ancient court of record, in which all causes concerning the revenues and rights of the crown are heard and determined, and where the crown revenues are received. It derived this name from the cloth that covered the table of the court, which was party-coloured, or chequered. See E...
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EXCISE (from the Belgic acciisse, tribute), an inland duty or impost paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, or frequently upon the sale, which is the last stage before the consumption. This is doubtless, impartially speaking, the most economical way of taxing the subject; the charges of levying, collecti...
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EXCLUSION, or Bill of Exclusion, a bill proposed towards the close of the reign of King Charles II. for the purpose of excluding the Duke of York, the king’s brother, from the throne, on account of his being a Catholic.
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EXCOMMUNICATION, an ecclesiastical penalty or censure, by which persons guilty of any notorious crime or offence are separated from the communion of the church, and deprived of all spiritual advantages. Excommunication is founded on the natural right which all societies have, of excluding from their body such as viola...
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EXCREMENT, whatever is discharged out of the body of animals after digestion; or the fibrous part of the aliment, mixed with the bile, saliva, and other fluids. Urine and the faeces are the gross excrements discharged out of the bladder and stomach. The other excrements are the various humours secreted through the diff...
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EXCREMENT
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EXCRESCENCE, in Surgery, denotes every preternatural tumour which arises upon the skin, either in the form of a wart or a tubercle. If such tumours are born with a person, as is frequently the case, they are called naevi materni, or marks from the mother; but if they are large, so as to depend from the skin, like a fle...
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EXCRETORY, in Anatomy, a term applied to certain little ducts or vessels, destined for the reception of a fluid, secreted in certain glandules and other viscera, for the excretion of it in the appropriated places.
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EXCUBIAE, in Antiquity, the watches and guards kept in the daytime by the Roman soldiers. They are contradistinguished from the vigilice, which were kept in the night. The excubiae were placed either at the gates and entrenchments, or in the camp; for the latter there was allowed a whole manipulus to attend before the ...
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EXCUSATI, in Ecclesiastical History, a term used to denote slaves, who, having fled to any church for sanctuary, were excused and pardoned by their masters; but the latter were obliged to take an oath to this effect before they could recover the fugitives; and, if they broke it, they were punished and fined as persons ...
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EXEAT, in church discipline, a Latin term used for a permission which a bishop grants a priest to go out of his diocese, or an abbot to a religious person to go out of his monastery.
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EXECRATION, in Antiquity, a kind of punishment, consisting of direful curses and marks of infamy, such as was used against Philip, king of Macedonia, by the Athenians. A general assembly of the people being called, they made a decree that the statues and images of that king, and of all his ancestors, should be demolish...
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EXECRATION
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EXECUTIVE Poaver. The supreme executive power of these kingdoms is vested by our laws in a single person, the king or queen for the time being. The executive power in Britain has a right to a negative or veto in parliament; that is, to refuse assent to any acts presented for that -purpose, otherwise the two other bran...
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EXECUTIVE
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EXECUTOR, a person nominated by a testator, to see his will and testament executed or performed, and his effects disposed of according to the tenor of such will and testament.' Sec Law. Executor, in Scotch Law, signifies either the person entitled to succeed to the moveable estate of one deceased, or who by law or spec...
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EXECUTOR
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EXECUTRY, in Scotch Law, is the moveable estate falling to the executor. Under executry or moveables is comprehended every thing that moves itself, or that can be moved.
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EXECUTRY
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EXEDRAE, in Antiquity, denoted halls with many seats, where the philosophers, rhetoricians, and men of learning met for discourse and disputation. The word occurs m [7:9:463]ecclesiastical writers as a general name for such buildings as were distinct from the main body of the churches, and yet within the limits of the ...
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EXEDRAE
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EXEGESIS, a discourse, by way of explanation or comment, upon any subject.
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EXEGESIS
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EXEGETES (formed from tξz,χeoμα∕, to explain), among the Athenians, persons learned in the laws, whom the judges used to consult in capital causes.
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EXEGETICA, in Algebra, the art of finding, either in numbers or lines, the roots of the equation of a problem, according as the problem is either numerical or geometrical.
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EXEMPLAR, a model or original to be imitated or copied. Exemplar also denotes the idea or image conceived or formed in the mind of the artist, and according to which he conducts his work.
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EXERCISE, amongst physicians, such movement and agitation of the body as produce salutary effects in the animal economy. Exercise may be said to be either active or passive. Active exercise consists in walking, hunting, dancing, playing at bowls, and the like; as also in speaking and other labours of the body and mind...
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EXERCISE
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EXERGUM, among antiquaries, a little space around or without the figures of a medal, left for the inscription, cipher, device, date, and so forth.
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EXETER, a large city, the capital of the county of Devon, 170 miles from London. It rises gradually from the banks of the river Ex; and the whole city being on a declivity, it i s remarkably clean, notwithstanding the narrowness of all but the principal street. The best parts are without the line of the ancient walls; ...
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EXETER
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EXFOLIATION, a term used by' surgeons for the separation of the dead part of a bone from the living part.
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EXFOLIATION
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EXHALATION, a general term for all effluvia or steams raised from the surface of the earth in form of vapour.
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EXHAUSTIONS, in Mathematics. The method of exhaustions is a way of comparing or estimating fixed magnitudes by means of variable magnitudes, which may be brought to approach or exhaust them more nearly than any assigned interval or remainder. Thus, a regular poly r gon may be inscribed in a circle, and by repeatedly d...
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EXHEREDATION, in the civil law, is the father’s excluding his sons from inheriting his estate. There are fourteen causes of exheredation, expressed in Justinian’s Novellae, without some one of which he declares the exheredation null, and the testament inofficious, as the civilians express it. Indeed, by the ancient Ro...
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EXHIBITION, in Law, a producing or showing of titles, authorities, and other proofs, in a matter contested. Exhibition, in our old writers, is used to signify an allowance of meat and drink, such as was customary amongst the religious appropriators of churches, who usually made it to the vicar incumbent. The benefacti...
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EXHIBITION
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EXHORTATION, in Rhetoric, differs only from persuasion in that the latter principally endeavours to convince the understanding, and the former to work on the affections.
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EXIGENTERS, four officers in the court of common pleas, who make exigents and proclamations in all actions where process of outlawry lies.
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EXILE. Among the Romans, the word exilium properly signified an interdiction or exclusion from water and fire; the necessary consequence of which was, that the interdicted person had to betake himself to some other country, as there was no living without fire and water in his own. Thus Cicero observes, that the form of...
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EXISTENCE, that by which any thing has an actual essence, or is said to be. See Metaphysics.
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