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kp-eb0709-046507-1303 | EXIT properly expresses the departure of a player born the stage, when he has performed his part. The ' y ord is also used in a figurative sense, to express any kind 0 departure, even death. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046508-1303 | EXITERIA, in Antiquity, oblations or prayers to any of the gods for a prosperous expedition or journey. There were also feasts under this denomination, which were celebrated by the Greeks with sacrifices and prayers, when their generals undertook expeditions against an enemy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046509-1303 | EXMOUTH, a town in Devonshire, 166 miles from London, part of the parish of Littleham, and part of Withycombe Rawleigh, in the hundred of East Budleigh. It is situated on the north side of the Ex, at its entrance into the sea. It has risen within a few years, from having become the resort of company for sea-bathing in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046510-1303 | EXODIARY, in the ancient Roman tragedy, was the person who, after the drama or play was ended, sun°∙ the Exodium. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046511-1303 | EXODIUM, in the ancient Greek drama, one of the four parts or divisions of a tragedy, being as much of the piece as included the unravelling and catastrophe of the plot, and answering nearly to our fourth and fifth acts.
Exodium, amongst the Romans, consisted of certain humorous verses rehearsed by the exodiary at the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046512-1303 | EXODUS, a canonical book of the Old Testament, being the second of the Pentateuch or five books of Moses; so called from the Greek word fξoδoς, the going out or departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt; the history of which is delivered in this book, together with that of many miracles wrought on the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046513-1303 | EXORCISM, the expelling of devils from persons possessed, by means of conjurations and prayers. The Jews made great pretences to this power; and Josephus tells several wonderful tales of the success of several performers in this line. According to him, a pretender named Eleazer cured many daemoniacs by means of a root ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046514-1303 | EXORCISTS, in Ecclesiastical History, an order of men in the ancient church, whose employment it was to exorcise or cast out devils. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046515-1303 | EXORDIUM, in Oratory, is the preamble or beginning, which serves to prepare the audience for the rest of the discourse. Exordiums are of two kinds, either just and formal, or vehement and abrupt. The latter are more [7:9:466]suitable on occasions of extraordinary joy, indignation, or excitement. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046601-1316 | EXOTERIC and Esoteric are terms denoting external and internal, and applied to the double doctrine of the ancient philosophers, particularly those of the Peripatetic school. The one was public or exoteric ; the other secret or esoteric. The first was that which they openly professed and taught to the world; the latter ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046602-1316 | EXOTIC, a term properly signifying foreign or extraneous, that is, brought from a remote or strange country. In this sense we sometimes say exotic or barbarous terms, and the like. The word is derived from the Greek iξω, or ίξωάεν, extra, without, or on the outside.
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kp-eb0709-046603-1316 | EXPANSION, in Physics, denotes the enlargement or increase of bulk in bodies, chiefly by means of heat. This is one of the most general effects of that subtile principle, and common to all bodies whatever, whether solid or fluid. In some few cases, indeed, bodies seem to expand as they grow cold, as water in the act of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046604-1316 | EXPECTATION, in the doctrine of chances, is applied to any contingent event, and is capable of being reduced to the rules of computation. Thus a sum of money in expectation when a particular event happens, has a determinate value before that event arrives; so that if a person is to receive any sum, say L.10, when an ev... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046605-1316 | EXPERIENCE, a kind of knowledge acquired bylongi use, without any teacher or particular course of inquiry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046606-1316 | EXPERIMENTAL Philosophy is that which has its foundation in experience, wherein nothing is assumed as a truth but that which is founded upon ocular demonstration, or which cannot be denied without violating the common sense and perceptions of mankind. See Philosophy and Physics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046607-1316 | EXPERIMENTUM Crucis, a capital, leading, or decisive experiment, which is so termed, either on account of its being like a cross, or direction-post placed in the meeting of several roads, guiding men to the true knowledge of the nature of that thing they are inquiring after; or on account of its being a kind of torture... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046608-1316 | EXPIATION, a religious act, by which satisfaction or atonement is made for the commission of some crime, the guilt done away, and the obligation to punishment cancelled.
Expiations amongst the heathens were of several kinds, as sacrifices and religious washings. They were used for effacing a crime, or averting any cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046609-1316 | EXPLOSION, a sudden and violent expansion of an aerial or other elastic fluid, by which it instantly throws off any obstacle that happens to be in the way, sometimes with great force, and in such a manner as to produce astonishing effects upon adjacent objects.
Explosion differs from expansion, which is a gradual and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046801-1342 | EXPONENT, in Algebra, the same with index.
Exponent is also used in arithmetic, in the same sense as index or logarithm.
Exponential Calculus, the method of differencing, or finding the fluxions of exponential quantities, and of summing up those differences, or finding their fluents.
Exponential Curve is that the na... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046802-1342 | EXPOSING, the act of putting out a thing to public view. In the Roman Catholic church the sacrament is said to be exposed, when it is shown in public uncovered, on festival days and during the time of plenary indulgences.
EXPOSING of Children, a barbarous custom practised by most of the ancient nations, excepting the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046803-1342 | EXPOSITION, in general, denotes the setting a thing open to public view.
Exposition, in a literary sense, is the explaining an author, passage, writing, or the like, and setting the meaning in an obvious and clear light. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046804-1342 | EXPOSITOR, or Expository, a title which some writers have given to a lesser kind of dictionary or vocabulary, serving to expound or explain the meaning of the obscure or difficult words of a language. It is also used in the same sense with commentary and paraphrase. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046805-1342 | EX-POST-FACTO, in Law, denotes something done after another thing that was done before. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046806-1342 | EXPOSTULATION, in Rhetoric, an address to a person who has done another some injury, representing the wrong in the strongest terms, and demanding redress. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046807-1342 | EXPRESSED Oils, such oils as are obtained from bodies by pressure. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046808-1342 | EXPRESSION, in Rhetoric, the elocution, diction, or choice of words in a discourse.
Expression, in Painting, a natural and lively representation of the subject, or of the several objects intended to be shown. The expression consists chiefly in representing the human body and all its parts in the action suitable to it;... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046809-1342 | EXSICCATION (formed from ex, and siccus, dry), in Chemistry, the act of drying up or evaporating the moisture of a thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046810-1342 | EXSPIRATION, in Physiology, that part of respiration by which the air is expelled or driven out of the lungs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046811-1342 | EXTASY, a transport which suspends the functions of the senses, by the intense contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object.
Extasy, in Medicine, a species of catalepsy, when a person perfectly remembers, after the paroxysm is over, the ideas which he conceived during the time it lasted. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046812-1342 | EXTENSION, in Philosophy, one of the common and essential properties of body; or that by which it possesses or occupies some part of universal space, which is called the place of that body. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046813-1342 | EXTENSOR, an appellation given to several muscles, from their extending or stretching the parts to which they belong. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046814-1342 | EXTENT, in Law, is used in a double sense. Sometimes it signifies a writ or command to the sheriff for the valuing of lands or tenements; and sometimes the act of the sheriff, or other commissioner, upon this writ. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046815-1342 | EXTERNAL, a term of relation applied to the surface or outside of a body, or that part which appears or presents itself to the eye or touch, in contradistinction to internal. t .
External is also used to signify any thing that is without a man, or that is not within himself, particularly ι∏ his mind; in which sense we... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046816-1342 | EXTIRPATION, formed from ex, and stirps, a root, the act of pulling up or destroying a thing to ⅛ e ; el T roots. Amongst the prayers of the Roman Catholic jubι ee, there is one for the extirpation of heresy.
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kp-eb0709-046901-1355 | EXTISPEX, in Antiquity, the person who drew presages from viewing the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046902-1355 | EXTORTION is an illegal wresting of any thing from a person, either by force, menace, or authority. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046903-1355 | EXTRACTION, in Chemistry and Pharmacy, the operation by which essences, tinctures, and the like, are drawn from natural bodies.
Extraction, in genealogy, implies the stock or family from which a person is descended.
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kp-eb0709-046904-1355 | EXTRAORDINARII, amongst the Romans, was a body of men consisting of the third part of the foreign horse and a fifth of the foot, which was separated from the rest of the forces borrowed from the confederate states with great policy and caution, in order to prevent any design which they might possibly entertain against ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046905-1355 | EXTRAORDINARY, something out of the common course.
Extraordinary Couriers are those sent expressly on some urgent occasion.
Extraordinary Ambassador, or envoy, is one who is sent to treat or negotiate some special and important affair, as a marriage, a treaty, confederacy, or even on occasion of some ceremony, as con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046906-1355 | EXTRAVAGANTES, a name given to those decretal epistles which were published from the Clementines. They were so called, because at first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be as it were detached from the canon law. They continued to be called by the same name when they w... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046907-1355 | EXTRAVASATION, in contusions, fissures, depressions, fractures, and other accidents of the cranium, is when one or more of the blood-vessels, which are distributed in the dura mater, is broken or divided, by which means there is such a discharge of blood as greatly oppresses the brain, and disturbs its office, frequent... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046908-1355 | EXTREME is applied to the last and outermost part of any thing, or that which finishes and terminates it on one side.
Extremes, in Logic, denote two terms of a syllogism, the predicate and subject. They are called extremes, from their relation to another term, which is a medium or mean between them. The predicate, as ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046909-1355 | EXTRINSIC, among metaphysicians, is taken in various senses. Sometimes it signifies that which does not belong to the essence of another; in which sense the efficient cause and end of a thing are said to be extrinsic. Sometimes it signifies that which is not contained within another; in which sense those causes are cal... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046910-1355 | EXUVIAE, among naturalists, denote the cast off parts or coverings of animals, as the skins of serpents, caterpillars, and other insects. It is also applied to shells and other marine bodies, frequently found in the bowels of the earth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046911-1355 | EY, in our old writers, the same with insula, an island; from which comes eyet, a small island or islet, vulgarly called eyght. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046912-1355 | EYE, in Anatomy. See Anatomy and Optics. Eye, a borough town of the county of Suffolk, ninety miles from London, in the hundred of Hartismere. It is situated in a level country, and nearly surrounded with a small stream. There is a good market place, but the streets are neither wide nor well built. The greater portion ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046913-1355 | EYEMOUTH, a town of Berwickshire, in Scotland, situated at the embouchure of the river Eye, from which circumstance it takes its name. Eyemouth lies seven miles from Berwick. It is a place of considerable antiquity, and enjoys the distinction of being a burgh of barony. It was at an early period of some importance; fir... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046914-1355 | EYNAPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor, belonging to the Mahrattas, twelve miles southeast from Merritch. It is of considerable size, and contains some Mahommedans, who subsist on grants of charitable lands. Long. 75. 10. E. Lat. 16. 50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046915-1355 | EYRIE, in Falconry, a brood or nest; also a place where hawks build and hatch their young. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-046916-1355 | EZEKIEL, a canonical book of the Old Testament, referring chiefly to the degenerate manners and corruptions of the Jews at the time when it was written. It abounds with fine sentences and rich comparisons, and discovers much learning in regard to profane matters.
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kp-eb0709-047001-1368 | EZETOVA, a river of Asiatic Russia, which runs into the estuary of the Oby, in long. 74. 14. E. andlat. 67.50. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047002-1368 | EZRA, a canonical book of the Old Testament, comprehending the history of the Jews from the time of Cyrus’s edict for their return, till the twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus. It specifies the number of Jews who returned, and Cyrus’s proclamation for the rebuilding of the temple, together with the laying of its f... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047003-1368 | F, THE fourth consonant and sixth letter of the alphabet. The letter F is borrowed from the digamma or double gamma, F, of the Aeolians, as is evident from the inscription on the pedestal of the Colossus at Delos; and though this letter is not found in the modern Greek alphabet, yet it was in the ancient one, whence th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047004-1368 | FABIAN, or Fabyan, Robert, an aiderman of the city of London, and sheriff in the year 1493, was a person of some learning, a tolerable poet, and author of a Chronicle of England and France, entitled The Concordance of Histories, in two volumes folio, and containing several curious particulars, not elsewhere to be found... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047005-1368 | FABII, a noble family at Rome, of Sabine origin, said to have derived its name irornfabα, a bean, because some of its ancestors had cultivated that pulse. It is a curious circumstance, to which the annals of the Roman republic afford no parallel, that for seventeen consecutive years, from 495 to 479 b. c., one of the s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047006-1368 | FABIUS Pictor, the father of Roman history, respecting whom we know but little. In the interval between the first and second Punic wars we find him taking an active part in the subjugation of the Gauls in the north of Italy (225 b. c.) ; and after the battle of Cannae (216 b. c. ), he was employed by the Romans to proc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047101-1381 | FABLE, a tale' or feigned narrative, disguised under allegory, and designed both to amuse and instruct.
Fable is also used for the plot of an epic or dramatic poem; being, according to Aristotle, the principal part, and, as it were, the soul of the poem. See Poetry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047102-1381 | FABRIANO, Gentile da, an historical painter, was born at Verona in 1332, and became a disciple of Giovanni da Fiesole. In that early age of painting he rendered himself famous, and was employed to adorn a great number of churches and palaces at Florence, Urbino, Siena, Perugia, and Rome, but particularly in the Vatican... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047103-1381 | FABRIANO, a city of the papal delegation of Macerata, in Italy, on the river Giano. It is the seat of a bishop, has nine monasteries, nine nunneries, and 7224 inhabitants, who are occupied in making paper and preparing parchment. The paper made here is celebrated throughout Italy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047104-1381 | FABRICIUS, George, a Latin poet and historian, was born at Kemnitz, in Germany, on the 24th April 1516. He began his studies in his native place, and completed them at Freyberg and at Leipsic, where he was preceptor to Wolfgang, and also to Philip and Antony Werter. He travelled into Italy with the elder of his pupils,... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047401-1420 | FABROT, Charles-Annibal, one of the most celebrated jurisconsults of his time, was born in 1580, at Aix in I ιovence, whither his father, originally of Nismes, had gone to establish himself during the civil wars. His earlv studies were successfully prosecuted, and he made great progress in the ancient languages and in ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047501-1433 | FABULOUS, something consisting of or connected with fable. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047502-1433 | FACATA, or Fucata, a seaport of Japan, in the island of Ximo, where the Jesuits formerly had a considerable establishment and a church. It is twenty-seven miles west-north-west of Taisero. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047503-1433 | FACE, the surface or first side which a body presents to the eye. Thus, we say, the face of the earth, of the waters, and the like; polyhedrons have several faces ; a die or cube has six faces. Face is particularly used for the visage of an animal, especially of man, and comprehends, in the latter, all that part of the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047504-1433 | FACIES Hippocratica, in Medicine, is when the nostrils are sharp, the eyes hollow, the temples low, the tips of the ears contracted and cold, the forehead dry and wrinkled, and the complexion pale or livid. The Hippocratic face is chiefly observed towards the close of phthisis pulmonalis, and other consumptions, and is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047505-1433 | FACTION, a cabal or party formed in a state, city, or company.
Faction, in Antiquity, a name given to the different companies of combatants in the circus. They were four in all; the white, the red, the green, and the blue, to which Domitian added another of purple colour. They were so denominated from the colour of th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047506-1433 | FACTITIOUS, any thing made by art, in opposition to that which is the production of nature. Thus, factitious cinnabar is opposed to native cinnabar. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047507-1433 | FACTOR, in Commerce, is an agent employed by merchants residing at other places, to buy or sell goods, negotiate bills, or transact any kind of business on their account, and entitled to a certain allowance for his trouble.
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kp-eb0709-047508-1433 | FACTORAGE, called also commission, is the allowance given to factors by the merchant who employs them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047509-1433 | FACTORY is a place where a considerable number of factors reside, in order to negotiate for their masters or employers. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047510-1433 | FACULAE, in Astronomy, certain bright and shining parts, which the modern astronomers have, by means of telescopes, observed on the surface or disc of the sun. The word is Latin, being a diminutive c>{fax, a torch, and supposed, in this case, to be applied from these spots appearing and disappearing by turns. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047511-1433 | FACULTY, in Law, a privilege granted to a person, by favour and indlugence, of doing that which by law he ought not to do.
Faculty, in the schools, a term applied to the different members of an university, divided according to the arts and sciences taught there. Thus, in most universities there are four faculties; tha... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047512-1433 | FAENZA, a city of Italy, in the delegation of Ravenna, in the papal dominions. It is situated on a plain watered by the river Lamona, from which a canal is formed to join the Po Primero. It contains, besides a cathedral, twenty-eight churches, eight monasteries, and eight nunneries, with 14,000 inhabitants, who are emp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047513-1433 | FAERNUS, Gabriel, a celebrated modern Latin poet, was a native of Cremona, and flourished during the sixteenth century. He was so eminently skilled in all parts of polite literature, that the Cardinal de’ Medicis, afterwards Pope Pius IV. held him in high estimation. He was the author of some Latin elegies, of a hundre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047601-1446 | FAGGOT, in the times of persecution, was a badge worn on the sleeve of the upper garment, by such persons as had recanted or abjured what was then termed heresy. It was put on after the person had carried a faggot, by way of penance, to some appointed place of solemnity. Leaving off wearing this badge was sometimes int... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047602-1446 | FAID, or Feid, a town of Arabia, in the province of Nedsjed, 140 miles north-east of Hagiar. Long. 40. 36. E. Lat. 26. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047603-1446 | FAIFO, or ITaifo, a town of Cochin-China, situated about ten miles from the sea, on a navigable river, which flows into the bay of Huron. It was at one time a place of some importance, the streets being regular, and the houses built of brick. But it was destroyed in the course of the revolutions which befel the country... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047604-1446 | FAILSWORTH, a township of the county of Lancaster, within the parish of Manchester, inhabited chiefly by manufacturers of cotton goods, whose numbers amounted in 1801 to 2622, in 1811 to 2875, in 1821 to 3358, and in 1831 to 3667. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047605-1446 | FAINT Action, in Zαw, a feigned action, or such as, although the words of the writ are true, yet, for certain causes, the plaintiff has no title to recover thereby. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047606-1446 | FAIRS AND MARKETS. The intimate alliance which subsists between these institutions renders it as necessary as it is convenient to treat of them together. As the term is now generally understood, a fair is just a greater species of market, but the periodical recurrence is less frequent. Both are appropriated to the sale... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047701-1459 | FAIR Isle, an island belonging to Zetland, lying between that group of islands and the Orkneys, extending fully three miles in length by about two in breadth, and of an oblong form. It is quite mountainous, with a precipitous and dangerous coast, which is only accessible upon the south-eastern side. It is inhabited; bu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-047702-1459 | FAIRFAX, Edward, a poet of considerable note, who flourished in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James I. . e was the second son of Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton, in the county of Tork. The precise date of his birth is uncertain; and it has even been supposed that he was illegitimate; but there does not seem to be any ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048001-1498 | FAIRFORD, a market-town of Gloucestershire, in the hundred of Brightwalls Barrow, 80 miles from London. It is situated on the small river Coin, at its junction with the Thames, over which are two bridges. The church is a remarkably fine Gothic structure, erected about the year 1470 by an individual; and the painted win... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048002-1498 | FAIRY, in ancient traditions and romances, signifies a sort of sprite, or imaginary genius, of this lower sphere, and distinguished by a variety of fantastical actions either good or bad.
Fairies were commonly imagined to be women of an order superior to human nature, yet subject to wants, passions, accidents, and eve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048003-1498 | FAITH, in Theology, that assent which we give to a proposition advanced by another, the truth of which we do not immediately perceive from our own reason or experience; or it is a judgment or assent of the mind, the motive of which is not so much any intrinsic evidence, as the authority or testimony of some other who r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048101-1511 | FAITHORN, William, an ingenious English artist, a native of London, was the disciple of Peak the painter, with whom he worked three or four years. At the breaking out of the civil war, Peak espoused the cause of his sovereign; and Faithorn, who accompanied his master, was taken prisoner by the rebels at Baringhouse, wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048102-1511 | FAKENHAM, a market-town of Norfolk, in the hundred of Gallon, 109 miles from London. It is situated in an open district, but fertile, especially in wheat and barley, with a large corn market on Thursday, but little other trade, since the spinning of worsted has been performed by machinery. The river Var runs near it to... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048103-1511 | FAKIRS, or Fakeers, Indian monks or friars, some of whom exceed in severities and mortifications the ancιent anchorites or solitaries, though the greater part are rogues, who assume this character in order to pass an idle and vagabond life. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048104-1511 | FALAISE, an arrondissement of the department of ’Calvados, in France, extending over 336 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these again into 142 communes, containing 71,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Ante. It is well built, and contains 13,960 inhabitant... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048105-1511 | FALASHA, a people of Abyssinia, described by Bruce, and supposed to be of Hebrew origin. According to the received accounts, the Falasha are the descendants of those Jews who went from Palestine into Ethiopia, as attendants of Menilek, the son of the queen of Sheba or Saba by Solomon. But the language of this people is... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048106-1511 | FALCADE, in the manege, the motion of a horse when he throws himself upon his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets, which is done in forming a stop and half stop. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048107-1511 | FALCATED, something in the form of a sickle. Thus, the moon is said to be falcated when she appears horned. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048108-1511 | FALCO, the eagle and hawk. See Ornithology. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048109-1511 | FALCON, a name bestowed on various birds of prey, but chiefly on such as are serviceable to man for the pursuit of game. See Ornithology Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048110-1511 | FALCONER, William, a poet of considerable emin ence, born at Edinburgh about the year 1730, was the son of a poor but industrious barber, all of whose children, except the subject of the present notice, were either deaf or dumb. William appears to have passed but a short period at school, where he received the scanty e... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048201-1524 | FALCONRY, a field sport considered as of high importance in former ages, though greatly fallen into disuse in recent times. See Falcon in Ornithology Index. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048202-1524 | FALKIRK, a town of Scotland, in the county of Stirling. It is beautifully situated on the face of an eminence which overlooks the wide expanse of country called the Carse of Falkirk, and consists of one broad street, with a number of narrow streets and lanes branching off from it, or running parallel to it. The houses ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048301-1537 | FALKLAND, a small town of Scotland, in the county of Fife, and the chief place of a parish of the same name. It is situated in rather a secluded part of the district, some miles west from the great thoroughfare through the county. It consists of a single street, broad and spacious at the east end, but insignificant at ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048302-1537 | FALL, the descent of a heavy body towards the centre of the earth. It is also the name of a measure of length used in Scotland, containing six ells.
Fall of Man, in sacred history, that memorable event by which sin and death were introduced into the world. The account which Moses has given of this transaction is extre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0709-048303-1537 | FALLING Sickness, or Epilepsy. See Medicine. Falling-Stars. See Star. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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