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kp-eb0709-039202-0354 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-039301-0367 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-039302-0367 | 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,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-039701-0419 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-039801-0432 | 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.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040001-0458 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040002-0458 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040003-0458 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040101-0471 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040102-0471 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040103-0471 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040104-0471 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040105-0471 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040106-0471 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040201-0484 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040202-0484 | 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.
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kp-eb0709-040203-0484 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040204-0484 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040205-0484 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040206-0484 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040207-0484 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040301-0497 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040302-0497 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040401-0510 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040402-0510 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-040403-0510 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042101-0731 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042102-0731 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042103-0731 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042104-0731 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042105-0731 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042106-0731 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042201-0744 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042202-0744 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042203-0744 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042301-0757 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042302-0757 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042303-0757 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042304-0757 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042305-0757 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042306-0757 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042401-0770 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042402-0770 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042403-0770 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042404-0770 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042405-0770 | 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.
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kp-eb0709-042406-0770 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-042407-0770 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043301-0887 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043302-0887 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043401-0900 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043402-0900 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043403-0900 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043404-0900 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043405-0900 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043501-0913 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043502-0913 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043503-0913 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043504-0913 | 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.
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kp-eb0709-043505-0913 | 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.
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kp-eb0709-043506-0913 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043507-0913 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043601-0926 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043602-0926 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043603-0926 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043604-0926 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043605-0926 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043606-0926 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-043607-0926 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046101-1251 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046102-1251 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046103-1251 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046104-1251 | 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.
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kp-eb0709-046201-1264 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046202-1264 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046203-1264 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046204-1264 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046205-1264 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046206-1264 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046207-1264 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046208-1264 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046209-1264 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046210-1264 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046211-1264 | 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 ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046301-1277 | EXEGESIS, a discourse, by way of explanation or comment, upon any subject. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046302-1277 | EXEGETES (formed from tξz,χeoμα∕, to explain), among the Athenians, persons learned in the laws, whom the judges used to consult in capital causes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046303-1277 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046304-1277 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046305-1277 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046306-1277 | EXERGUM, among antiquaries, a little space around or without the figures of a medal, left for the inscription, cipher, device, date, and so forth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046307-1277 | 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; ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046308-1277 | EXFOLIATION, a term used by' surgeons for the separation of the dead part of a bone from the living part. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046309-1277 | EXHALATION, a general term for all effluvia or steams raised from the surface of the earth in form of vapour. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046310-1277 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046501-1303 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046502-1303 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046503-1303 | 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. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046504-1303 | EXIGENTERS, four officers in the court of common pleas, who make exigents and proclamations in all actions where process of outlawry lies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046505-1303 | 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... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046506-1303 | EXISTENCE, that by which any thing has an actual essence, or is said to be. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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