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AGUDA, a river in the province of Burgos, in Spain, which discharges its water into the Ebro.
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AGUDA
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AGUE, a general name for all periodical fevers, which, according to the different times of the returns of the feverish paroxysm, are denominated tertian, quartan, and quotidian. Ague- Cake, the popular name for a hard tumour on the left side of the belly, lower than the false ribs, said to be the effect of intermitten...
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AGUE
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AGUESSEAU, Henry Francis d’, Chancellor of France, illustrious for his virtues, learning, and talents, was born at Limoges on the 27th of November 1668. His father, at that time intendant of Languedoc, and afterwards a counsellor of state, was a man of great worth and abilities. He seems to have taken the sole charge o...
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AGUESSEAU
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AGUILAR, a town in the arrondissement of Campena, and province of Cordova, in Spain. It is situated on the river Cabra, has 1600 inhabitants, and produces abundance of oil. Aguilar, a town of Spain, in the province of Navarre, about 24 miles west from Estella. AGUiLΑR del Campo, a town of Old Castile, with the title ...
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AGUILAR
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AGUILLANEUF, or Augillaneuf, a form of rejoicing used among the ancient Franks on the first day of the year. The word is compounded of the French A, to, gui, misletoe, and lan neuf, the new year. Its origin is traced from a druid ceremony: the priests used to go yearly in December, which with them was reputed a sacred ...
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AGUILLANEUF
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AGUILLON, or Aguillonius, Francis, a Jesuit, born at Brussels. He was rector of the Jesuits college at Antwerp, and eminent for his skill in mathematics. He was the first who introduced that science among the Jesuits in the Low Countries. He wrote a book of Optics, and was employed in finishing his Catoptrics and Diopt...
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AGUILLON
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AGUIRRA, Joseph Saenz de, a Benedictine, and one of the most learned men of the 17th century, was born March 24, 1630. He was censor and secretary of the supreme council of the inquisition in Spain, and interpreter of the Scriptures in the university of Salamanca. He printed three volumes in folio upon Philosophy, a co...
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AGUIRRA
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AGUR. The xxxth chapter of the Proverbs begins with this title,—“The words of Agur, the son of Jakeb which, according to the signification of the original terms, may be translated, as the Vulgate has it, Verba congre- ∣ gantis, filii vomentis; which translation Le Clerc condemns, supposing these to be proper names whic...
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AGUR
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AGURAH, in Jewish Antiquity, the name of a silver coin, otherwise called gerah and keshita.
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AGURAH
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AGUSADURA, in ancient customs, a fee due from vassals to their lord for the sharpening of their ploughing tackle. Anciently the tenants in some manors were not allowed to have their rural implements sharpened by any but whom the lord appointed, for which an acknowledgement was to be paid, called agusadura, in some plac...
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AGUSADURA
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AGYEI, in Antiquity, a kind of obelisks, sacred to Apol- ’ lo, erected in the vestibules of houses, by way of security.
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AGYEI
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AGYNIANI, in Church History, a sect who condemned all use of flesh, and marriage, as not instituted by God, but introduced at the instigation of the devil. The word is compounded of the privative α, and γυνη, woman. They are sometimes also called Agynensis, and Agymi; and are said to have appeared about the year 694. I...
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AGYNIANI
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AGYRTAE, in Antiquity, a kind of strolling impostors, running about the country to pick up money, by telling fortunes at rich men’s doors; pretending to cure diseases by charms, sacrifices, and other religious mysteries; also to expiate the crimes of their deceased ancestors, by virtue of certain odours and fumigations...
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AGYRTAE
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AHAB, son of Omri, king of Israel, succeeded his father a. m. 3086, and surpassed all his predecessors in impiety and wickedness. He married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, who introduced the idols of Baal and Astarte among the Israelites, and engaged Ahab in the worship of these false deities....
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AHAB
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AHASUERUS, or Artaxerxes, the husband of Esther, and, according to Archbishop Usher and F. Calmet, the Scripture name for Darius, the son of Hystaspes, king of Persia; though Scaliger supposed Xerxes to have been the husband of Esther, or the Ahasuerus of Scripture: and Dr Prideaux believes him to be Artaxerxes Longima...
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AHASUERUS
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AHAUS, a circle in the department of Munster, and Prussian province of Westphalia, formed out of the old lordships of Bocholt and Horstmar. It is 301 square miles, or 192,640 acres, in extent, comprehending three cities, six market towns, and 58 parishes, with 33,470 inhabitants. The soil is moderately fertile, and yie...
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AHAUS
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AHAZ, king of Judah, the son of Jotham, remarkable for his vices and impieties. One of his sons he consecrated, by making him pass through and perish by the fire, in honour of the false god Moloch; and he offered sacrifices and incense upon the high places, upon hills, and in groves. Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah, ki...
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AHAZ
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AHAZIAH, the son and successor of Ahab, king of Israel, reigned two years, part alone, and part with his father Ahab, who ordained him associate in the kingdom a year before his death. Ahaziah imitated his father’s impieties (1 Kings xxii. 52, seq. ), and paid his adoration to Baal and Astarte, the worship of whom had ...
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AHAZIAH
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AHEAD, a sea-term, signifying farther onward than the ship, or at any distance before her, lying immediately On that point of the compass to which her stem is directed. It is used in opposition to astern, which expresses the situation of any object behind the ship.
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AHEAD
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AHUAH, the prophet of Shiloh. He is thought to be the person who spoke twice to Solomon from God; once while he was building the temple (1 Kings vi. 11), at which time he promised him his protection; and at another time (id. xi. 6) after his falling into all his irregularities, when God expressed his indignation with g...
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AHUAH
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AHJOLI, a city on the bay of Borgas, in the Black Sea, surrounded with many wind-mills, and of commercial consequence from the copious springs, from which salt is made. It is in the Turkish province of Silistria, a part of ancient Bulgaria.
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AHJOLI
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AHITHOPHEL, a native of Gillo, was for some time the counsellor of King David, whom he at length deserted by joining in the rebellion of Absalom. This prince, upon his being preferred to the crown by the greater part of the Israelites, sent for Ahithophel from Gillo (2 Sam. xv. 12) to assist him with his advice in the ...
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AHITHOPHEL
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AHOLIBAH and Anolah are two feigned names made use of by Ezekiel (xxiii. 4) to denote the two kingdoms of Judah and Samaria. Aholah and Aholibah are represented as two sisters of Egyptian extraction. Aholah stands for Samaria, and Aholibah for Jerusalem. The first signifies a tent ; and the second, my tent is in her. T...
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AHOLIBAH
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AHRWEIL, a circle in the department of Coblentz, and the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine. It extends over 96 square miles, or 61,440 acres; contains 24,745 inhabitants, all Catholics except 400 Protestants, in three cities, two market towns, and 186 villages. The Rhine washes its eastern border, and receives the w...
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AHRWEIL
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AHULL, in the sea language, the situation of a ship when all her sails are furled on account of the violence of die storm, and when, having lashed her helm on the leeside, she lies nearly with her side to the wind and sea, her head being somewhat inclined to the direction of the wind.
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AHULL
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AHUN, a town of France, in the Upper Marche and generality of Moulins, in the department of Creuse. It is seated on the river Creuse, eight miles south-east of Gue-ret, 30 north-east of Lomages, and 55 south-east of Moulins. Long. 1. 52. E. Lat. 49. 5. N.
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AHUN
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AHUYS, a town of Gothland, in Sweden. It is small, but very strong by its situation, and has a good port. It is in the principality of Gothland, in the territory of Bleckingy, near the Baltic Sea, about 18 miles from Christianstadt. Long. 14. 10. E. Lat. 56. 20. N.
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AHUYS
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AI, in Ancient Geography, a town in Judea, to the north of Jericho, called An*α by Josephus, and the inhabitants Ainatae. Joshua having sent a detachment of 3000 men against Ai, God permitted them to be repulsed on account of Achan’s sin, who had violated the anathema pronounced against the city of Jericho. But after t...
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AI
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AJACCIO, or Ajazzo, an arrondissement in the island and department of Corsica, in the Mediterranean, containing 12 cantons and 72 communes, with 36,980 inhabitants. The extent is 736 square miles, or 460,000 English acres. The capital, which bears the same name, and is the best built town in the island, is situated in ...
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AJACCIO
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AJALON, in Ancient Geography, a town of the tribe of Dan, one of the Levitical. Another in the tribe of Benjamin, in whose valley Joshua commanded the moon to stand still, being then in her decrease, and consequently to be seen at the same time with the sun.
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AJALON
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AJAN, a coast and country of Africa, has the river Quilimanci on the south; the mountains from which the river springs, on the west; Abyssinia or Ethiopia, and the strait of Babelmandel, on the north; and the Eastern or Indian Ocean on the cast. The coast abounds with all the necessaries of life, and has plenty of very...
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AJAN
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AJAX, the son of Oileus, was one of the principal generals who went to the siege of Troy. He ravished Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, even in the temple of Minerva, where she thought to have found sanctuary. It is said he made a serpent of 15 feet long so familiar with him, that it ate at his table, and followed him ...
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AJAX
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AICHSTADT, a town of Germany, in Franconia, and capital of a bishopric of the same name. It is remark [7:2:364]able for a curious piece of workmanship, called the Sun of the Holy Sacrament, which is in the church. It is of massy gold, of great weight, and is enriched with 350 diamonds, 1400 pearls, 250 rubies, and othe...
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AICHSTADT
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AID, Auxilium, in ancient customs, a subsidy paid by vassals to their lords on certain occasions. AiD-de-Camp, in military affairs, an officer employed to receive and carry the orders of a general.
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AID
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AIDS, in the French customs, were certain duties paid on all goods exported or imported into that kingdom. Court of AIDS, in France, a sovereign court formerly established in several cities, which had cognizance of all causes relating to the taxes, gabelles, and aids, imposed on several sorts of commodities, especiall...
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AIDS
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AIDAN, a famous Scotish bishop of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, in the 7th century, was employed by Oswald, king of Northumberland, in the conversion of the English, in which he was very successful. He was a monk in the monastery of Iona, one of the Hebrides. He died in 651.
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AIDAN
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AIDONA, a city of Sicily, on the river Gabelle, in the Val di Notto, containing about 3700 inhabitants.
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AIDONA
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AJELLO, a town in the province of Abruzzo Ulteriore Second, in the kingdom of Naples, but belonging to the duke of Modena. It contains 2195 inhabitants.
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AJELLO
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AIGHENDALE, the name of a liquid measure used in Lancashire, containing seven quarts.
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AIGHENDALE
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AIGLE, a bailiwick in the territory of Romand in Switzerland, consists of mountains and valleys, the principal of which are the Aigle and Bex. Through these is the great road from Valais into Italy. When you pass by Villeneuve, which is at the head of the lake of Geneva, you enter into a deep valley three miles wide, b...
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AIGLE
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AIGUES-PERSES (Aquae-Sparsae), a town of France, situated in the Lyonnois, in the department of Puy-dc-Dome, about 15 miles north of Clermont. Aigues-Perses, a town of France, in the district of Ville Franche, near to Lyons, with 1540 inhabitants. It is the birth-place of the celebrated Chancellor L’Hôpital. Near to i...
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AIGUILLON, a town of the district , of Agenois, in Guienne, in France, at the conflux of the river Garonne and Lot, containing 3540 inhabitants.
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AIGUISCE, in Heraldry, denotes a cross with its four ends sharpened, but so as to terminate in obtuse angles. It differs from the cross fitchee, inasmuch as the latter tapers by degrees to a point, and the former only at the ends.
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AIGUISCE
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AIGURANDES, a town of France, in the arrondissement of La Châtre, and department of the Indre. It is on the river Bourdesoule, surrounded with walls and ditches; containing 270 houses, and 1620 inhabitants, who carry on a great trade in cattle.
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AIGURANDES
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AIKMAN, William, a painter of considerable eminence, was born in Scotland, October 24. 1682. He was the son of William Aikman, Esq. of Cairney, and was intended by his father to follow his own profession, which was that of an advocate at the Scotish bar. But the genius of the son led him to other studies. He devoted hi...
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AIKMAN
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AILANA, Ailath, or Aiieloth, anciently a town of Arabia Petraea, situated near the Sinus Elanites of the Red Sea. It is also called Eliath, and Eloth (Stephanus, Strabo, Moses). The same with Elana.
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AILANA
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AILE, in Law, a writ which lies where a person’s grandfather or great-grandfather was seised of lands, &c. in fee-simple, the day that he died, and a stranger abates and enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir of his inheritance. [7:2:365]
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AILE
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AILESBURY, or Aylesbury, a borough town in Buckinghamshire. In the middle of the market-place is z a convenient hall, where the sessions are held. It sends two members to parliament; but being convicted of corruption in 1804, the right of voting was extended to the neighbouring hundreds. Long. 0. 40. W. Lat. 51. 40. N.
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AILESBURY
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AILMER, or Aethelmare, earl of Cornwall and Devonshire in the reign of King Edgar. It is not known of what family he was. His authority and riches were great, and so also in appearance was his piety. He founded the abbey of Cernel, in Dorsetshire; and had so great a veneration for Eadwald, the brother of St Edmund the ...
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AILMER
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AILRED, or Ealred, abbot of Revesby, in Lincolnshire, in the reigns of Stephen and Henry II. He was born in 1109, of a noble family, and educated in Scotland with Henry, the son of King David. On his return to England he became a monk of the Cistercian order in the monastery of Revesby, of which he afterwards was made ...
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AILRED
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AILSA, an insulated rock on the western coast of Scotland, between the shores of Ayrshire and Cantyre. It is two miles in circumference at the base, is accessible only at one place, and rises in a pyramidi cal form to the height of 940 feet. A few goats and rabbits pick up a subsistence among the grass and furze; but i...
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AILSA
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AJMEER, or Rajpootana, a large province situated in the centre of Hindostan, between the 24th and 31st degrees of N. lat. It is bounded on the north by the provinces of Moultan, Lahore, and Delhi; on the south by Gujerat and Malwah; on the east by Delhi and Agra, and on the west by Moultan and the principality of Sinde...
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AJMEER
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AIN, one of the departments in the south-west of France, deriving its name from a river so called, a part of the ancient province of Burgundy. It is bounded on the north by the departments of Saone-Loire and Jura; on the east by Switzerland and Savoy, from which the Rhone divides it; on the south by the department of I...
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AIN
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AINSA, a town of the province of Arragon, in Spain. It is on the bank of the river Cinca, which descends from the Pyrenees, and forms the northern boundary of Arragon. It was the ancient residence of the kings of Arragon, when that province formed a distinct kingdom. 500 inhabitants.
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AINSA
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AINSWORTH, a township and chapelry in the parish of Middleton and hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster. Its population under the different censuses was as follows: in 1801, 1240; in 1811, 1427; and in 1821, 1609. Ainsworth, Dr Henry, an eminent non-conformist divine, who about the year 1590 distinguished him...
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AINSWORTH
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AIR, in Physics. See Atmosphere, Meteorology, and Pneumatics. Air, in Mythology, was adored by the heathens under the names of Jupiter and Juno; the former representing the superior and finer part of the atmosphere, and the latter the inferior and grosser part. The augurs also drew presages from the clouds, thunder, &c...
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AIR
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AIRANI, in Church History, an obscure sect of Arians in the fourth century, who denied the con substantiality of the Holy Ghost with the Father and the Son. They are otherwise called Airanists; and are said to have taken their name from one Airos, who distinguished himself at the head of this party in the reigns of Val...
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AIRANI
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AIRE, a city of France, head of a canton of the same name, in the circle of St Omer, and department of Pas de Calais. It is situated on the river Lys. The population amounts to 8627 persons, who are chiefly employed in making cotton and woollen goods, hardware, and large quantities of oil from seeds. Long. 0.12. W. Lat...
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AIRE
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AIRING, a term peculiarly used for the exercising of horses in the open air. It purifies the blood, purges the body from gross humours, and, as the jockies express it, teaches the horse how to make the wind rake equally, and keep time with the other motions of his body. It also sharpens the stomach, and keeps the creat...
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AIRING
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AIRS, in the Manege, are the artificial motions of taught horses, as the demivolt, curvet, capriole, &c.
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AIRS
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AIRY, or Aery, among Sportsmen, a term expressing the nest of a hawk or eagle. AIRY Triplicity, among Astrologers, denotes the three signs, Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
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AIRY
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AISNE, a department in the north-east division of France, on a river of the same name, formed out of divisions of the ancient provinces—Isle of France, Picardy, and Champagne. It is bounded on the north by the department of the North and the kingdom of the Netherlands, on the east by the departments of the Ardennes and...
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AISNE
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AITOCZU, a considerable river of Lesser Asia, which rises in Mount Taurus, and falls into the south part of the Euxine Sea.
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AITOCZU
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AITON, William, an eminent botanist and gardener, was born at a village near Hamilton in Scotland in 1731. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he came into England in the year 1754, and soon obtained the notice of the celebrated Philip Miller, then superintendent of the physic garden at Chels...
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AITON
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AIUS Locutius, . the name of a deity to whom the Romans erected an altar. The words are Latin, and signify “a speaking voice.” The following accident gave occasion to the Romans erecting an altar to Aius Locutius. One Μ. Seditius, a plebeian, acquainted the tribunes that, in walking the streets by night, he had heard a...
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AIUS
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AJUTAGE, or Adjutage, a kind of tube fitted to the mouth of the vessel through which the water of a fountain is to be played. To the different form and structure of ajutages is owing the great variety of fountains.
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AJUTAGE
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AIX, an ancient city of France, the chief place of the arrondissement of the same name, in the department of the Mouths of the Rhone. It was, before the revolution, fitted with richly endowed ecclesiastical establishments, which have been secularized. It stands on a plain surrounded by hills, which produce abundance of...
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AIX
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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE (or in German Aachen), a circle in the government of Coblentz, in the Prussian province of the Lower Rhine. Its extent is 1452 square miles, and it comprehends 21 cities, 14 market towns, 781 villages, and 627 hamlets. The inhabitants amount to 310,620, of whom 299,800 adhere to the Catholic religion, a...
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AIX-LA-CHAPELLE
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AIXETTE, a river in the department of Upper Vienne, in France, which empties itself into the Vienne.
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AIXETTE
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AKENSIDE, Mauk, a physician, who published in Latin a Treatise upon the Dysentery, in 1764, and a few pieces in the first volume of the Medical Transactions of the College of Physicians, printed in 1768; but far better known, and to be distinguished chiefly hereafter, as a poet. He was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nove...
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AKENSIDE
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AKERMAN, a circle in the Russian province of Bessarabia, extending along the banks of the Black Sea, where the Dneish forms an estuary. It is nearly destitute of population, except the capital, of the same name, which is built on a tongue of land projecting into the estuary. It is the ancient Roman colony of Alba Julia...
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AKERMAN
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AKHM ETSCHET, or Simferopol, one of the six circles into which the Russian government or province of Taurien is divided. It is the richest and most fruitful part of the peninsula, extending from long. 32. 31. to 33. 46. E. and from lat. 44. 30. to 45. 9. N. About two-thirds of the district is hilly, and gives rise to t...
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AKHM ETSCHET
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AKHTIAR, or Sevastopol, a city in the Russian government of Taurien, in the circle Akhmetschel. It lies in a bay, the best harbour of the Taurida, where the Russians have formed an arsenal for the construction and equipment of a navy. The bay is sufficiently extensive to admit of a large fleet, and the depth of water i...
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AKHTIAR
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AKIBA, a famous rabbin, flourished a little after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. He kept the flocks of a rich citizen of Jerusalem till the 40th year of his age, and then devoted himself to study in the academies for twenty-four years; and was afterwards one of the greatest masters in Israel. According to the J...
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AKIBA
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AKISSAR, the ancient Thyatira,, a city of Natolia, in Asia, situated in a plain 18 miles broad, which produces plenty of cotton and grain. The inhabitants, who are reckoned to be about 5000, are said to be all Mahometans. The houses are built of nothing but earth or turf dried in the sun, and are very low and ill contr...
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38 50' N 28 30' E
AKISSAR
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AKOND, an officer of justice in Persia, who takes cognizance of the causes of orphans and widows, of contracts, and other civil concerns. He is the head of the school of law, and gives lectures to all the subaltern officers. He has his deputies in all the courts of the kingdom, who, with the second sadra, make all cont...
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AKOND
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AL, ah Arabic particle prefixed to words, and signifying much the same with the English particle the. Thus they say, alkermes, alkoran, &c. í. e. the kcrmes, the koran,'&c. Al, or Ald, a Saxon term, 'frequently prefixed to the names of places, denoting their antiquity; as, Aldborough, Aldgate, &c.
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AL
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ALA, a Latin term, properly signifying a wing; from a resemblance to which several other things are called by the same name. Thus, Ala is a term used by botanists for the hollow of a stalk, which either the leaf or the pedicle of the leaf makes with it; or it is that hollow turning, or sinus, placed between the stalk o...
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ALA
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ALAE, the plural number, is used to signify those petals or leaves of papilionaceous flowers placed between those others which are called the vexillum and carina, and which make the top and bottom of the flowers. Instances of flowers of this structure are seen in those of peas and beans, in which the top leaf or petal ...
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ALAE
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ALABA, ône of the three smallest districts of Biscay, in Spain, but pretty fertile in tye, barley, and fruits. There are in it very good mines of iron, and it had formerly the title of a kingdom.
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ALABA
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ALABAMA, a state and constituent member of the North American republic. It is bounded by Florida and the Gulf of Mexicoon the south, the state of Mississippi on the west, Tennessee on the north, and Georgia on the cast. Its length is 275 miles, breadth 185, and area 50,800 square miles. The couιltry, to the extent of m...
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ALABAMA
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ALABARCHA, in Antiquity, a kind of magistrate among the Jews of Alexandria, whom the emperor allowed them to elect, for the superintendency of their policy, and to decide differences and disputes which arose among them.
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ALABARCHA
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ALABASTER, William, an English divine, was born at Hadley, in the county of Suffolk. He was one of the doctors of Trinity College in Cambridge; and he attended the earl of Essex as his chaplain in the expedition to Cadiz in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It is said that his first resolutions of changing his religion wer...
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ALABASTER
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ALABASTRUM Dendroide, a kind of laminated alabaster, beautifully variegated with the figures of shrubs, trees, &c. found in great abundance in the province of Hohenstein.
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ALABASTRUM
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ALADINISTS, a sect among the Mahometans, answering to freethinkers among us.
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ALADSCHAHISSAR, a Turkish pachalic (Sand-schah), part of the ancient Bulgaria, a mountainous district, in which the river Moravia rises in two branches, and runs into the Danube. It extends from long. 21. 45. to 22. 30. E. and from lat. 42.30. to 43.30. N. The greatroad from Belgrade passes through the northern part of...
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ALADSCHAHISSAR
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ALADULIA, a considerable province of Turkey in Asia, in that part called Natolia, between the mountains of Antitaurus, which separate it from Amasia on the north, and from Caramania on the west. It has the Mediterranean Sea on the south; and the Euphrates or Frat on the east, which divides it from Diarbekir. It compreh...
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ALADULIA
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ALAIN, Chartier, secretary to Charles VII. king of France, born in the year 1386. He was the author of several works in prose and verse; but his most famous performance was his Chronicle of King Charles VII. Bernard de Girard, in his preface to the History of France, styles him “an èxcellent historian, who has given an...
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ALAIN
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ALAJOR, a Spanish town, in the island of Minorca, and the province of Majorca, the chief town of a district containing 3950 inhabitants.
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ALAJOR
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ALAIS, an arrondissement in the department of the Gard, in France, extending over 480 square miles, or 307,200 acres. It is divided into nine cantons, and ninety-nine communes, and contains 68,223 inhabitants. Alais, a city, and chief of the arrondissement of the same name. It is situated on the river Gardon, at the f...
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ALAIS
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ALAMAGAN, one of the Ladrone or Marianne islands, in the Indian Ocean, is situated in long. 146. 47. E. lat. 18. 5. N. It is of an irregular form, and about 12 miles in circumference. The land in some places of this island is pretty high, so that it may be seen at the distance of 12 or 14 leagues. Near the north end of...
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ALAMAGAN
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ALAMANDUS, Lewis, in French Aleman, archbishop of Arles, and cardinal of St Cecilia, was one of the, greatest men of the 15th century. The cardinal presided in the council of Basil, which deposed Eugenius IV. and elected the antipope Felix V. He is much commended by Aeneas Sylvius, as a man extremely well formed for pr...
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ALAMANDUS
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ALAMANNI, Lewis, was born at Florence, of a noble family, on the 28th of October 1495. He was obliged to fly his country for a conspiracy against Julius de’ Medici, who was soon after chosen pope under the name of Clement VII. During this voluntary banishment he went into France, where Francis I., from a love to his ge...
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ALAMODALITY, in a general sense, is the accommodating of a person’s behaviour, dress, and actions, to the prevailing taste of the country or times in which he lives. Alamodality of writing is defined, the accommodation of mental productions, both as to the choice of subject and the manner of treating it, to the genius...
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ALAMODALITY
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ALAMODE, a phrase originally French, importing a thing to be in the fashion or mode. The phrase has been adopted not only into several of the living languages, as the English and High Dutch, but some have even taken it into the Latin. Hence we meet with Alamodicus and Αlamodalitas. Alamode, in Commerce, a thin, glossy,...
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ALAMODE
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ALAMOS, Balthasar, a Spanish writer, born at Medina del Campo, in Castile. After having studied the law at Salamanca, he entered into the service of Anthony Perez, secretary of state under Philip II. He was in high esteem and confidence with his master, upon which account he was imprisoned after the disgrace of this mi...
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ALAMOS
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ALAN, Cardinal William, was born at Rossal, in Lancashire, in the year 1532. He went to Oxford at the age of 15, and in 1550 was elected fellow of Oriel College. In 1556, being then only 24 years old, he was chosen principal of St Mary’s Hall, and one of the proctors of the university. In 1558 he was made canon of York...
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ALAN
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ALAND, a barony comprehending the island of that name, and the several other islands around it, at the point where the Baltic Sea divides into the Gulf of Bothnia and of Finland. The group consists of more than 80 inhabited and 200 uninhabited islands. Although the principal island is nearer to Sweden than to Finland, ...
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ALAND
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ALAR del Rey, a town of Spain, in the province of [7:2:374]Burgos, in Old Castile. It is the commencement of the canal of Castile, on the river Pisuerga, in a cold and barren district. Lat. 42. 51. N.
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ALAR
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ALARAF, in the Mahometan Theology, the partition wall that separates heaven from hell. The word is plural, and properly written al araf ; in the singular it is written al arf. It is derived from the Arabic verb arafa, to distinguish. Alaraf gives the denomination to the seventh chapter of the Alcoran, wherein mention i...
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