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kp-eb0702-004206-0355 | ABRAVANÑUS, in Ancient Geography, the name of a promontory and river of Galloway in Scotland, so called from the Celtic term Aber, signifying either the mouth of a river or the confluence of two rivers, and Avon, a river. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004207-0355 | ABRAUM, in Natural History, a name given by some writers to a species of red clay, used in England by the cabinet-makers, &c. to give a red colour to new mahogany wood. We have it from the Isle of Wight; but it is also found in Germany and Italy. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004208-0355 | ABRAXAS, an antique stone with the word abraxas engraven on it. They arc of various sizes, and most of them as old as the third century. They are frequent in the cabinets of the curious; and a collection of them, as complete as possible, has been desired by several. There is a fine one m the abbey of St Genevieve, whic... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004209-0355 | ABREAST (a sea term), side by side, or opposite to; a situation in which two or more ships lie, with their sides parallel to each other, and their heads equally advanced. This term more particularly regards the line of battle at sea, where on the different occasions of attack, retreat, or pursuit, the several squadrons... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004210-0355 | ABRIDGEMENT, in Literature, a term signifying the reduction of a book into a smaller compass.
“The mode of reducing,” says the author of the Curiosities of Literature, “what the ancients had written in bulky volumes, practised in preceding centuries, came into general use about the fifth. As the number of students and... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004301-0368 | ABRIES, a town in France, in the department of the Upper Alps, and arrondissement of Briançon. It was formerly a portion of Savoy. Inhabitants 2030. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004302-0368 | ABROGATION, the act of abolishing a law, by authority of the maker; in which sense the word is synonymous with abolition, repealing, and revocation.
Abrogation stands opposed to rogation; it is distinguished from derogation, which implies the taking away only some part of a law; from subrogation, which denotes the add... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004303-0368 | ABROKANI, or Mallemolli, a kind of muslin, or clear, white, fine cotton cloth, brought from the East Indies, particularly from Bengal. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004304-0368 | ABROTONUM, in Ancient Geography, a town and harbour on the Mediterranean, one of the three cities that formed Tripoli. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004305-0368 | ABRUCENA, a town on the district of Guadix, in the province of Granada, in Spain, between the Sierra Nevada and Jaen. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004306-0368 | ABRUD-BANYA, a town of Hungary, in the province of Magyoren, in the circle of Weissenburg. It is situated on the river Ampoy, has one Reformed and one Greek church, is the seat of a board of mining, and in its vicinity mines of gold and of silver are wrought. It is in Lat. 46. 14. 9. N. and Long. 23. 49. 3. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004307-0368 | ABRUS, in Botany, the trivial name of the Glycine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004308-0368 | ABRUZZO, one of the four provinces into which the continental part of the kingdom of Naples, or of the two Sicilies, was formerly divided, but now the name given to three out of the 17 provinces of the later division of that country. It is, with altered boundaries, now distinguished as Abruzzo Ulteriore First, Abruzzo ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004401-0381 | ABSALOM, in Scripture History, the son of David by Maacah, was brother to Tamar, David’s daughter, who was ravished by Amnon, their eldest brother by another mother. Absalom waited two years for an opportunity of revenging the injury done to his sister; and at last procured the assassination of Amnon at a feast which h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004402-0381 | ABSCESS, in Surgery ; from abscedo, to separate; a cavity containing pus, or a collection of puriform matter in a part: So called, because the parts which were joined are now separated; one part recedes from another, to make way for the collected matter. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004403-0381 | ABSCISSE, in Conics, a part of the diameter or transverse axis of a conic section, intercepted between the vertex or some other fixed point and a semiordinate. See Conic Sections. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004404-0381 | ABSCONSA, a dark lantern used by the monks at the ceremony of burying their dead. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004405-0381 | ABSENTEE. See Ireland. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004406-0381 | ABSIMARUS, in History, having dethroned Leontius, cut off his nose and ears, and shut him up in a monastery, was proclaimed by the soldiers emperor of the East, a. d. 698. Leontius himself was also an usurper. He had dethroned Justinian II. who afterwards, with the assistance of the Bulgarians, surprised and took Const... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004407-0381 | ABSINTHIATED, any thing tinged or impregnated with absinthium or wormwood. Bartholin mentions a woman whose milk was become absinthiated, and rendered, as bitter as gall, by the too liberal use of wormwood.
Vinum absinthites, or poculum absinthiatum, “wormwood wine,” is much spoken of among the ancients as a wholesome... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004408-0381 | ABSINTHIUM, in Botany, the trivial name of the common wormwood. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004409-0381 | ABSOLUTE, in a general sense, something that stands free or independent.
Absolute is more particularly understood of a being or thing which does not proceed from any cause, or does not subsist by virtue of any other being, considered as its cause; in which sense God alone is absolute. Absolute, in this sense, is synon... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004410-0381 | ABSOLUTION, in Civil Law, is a sentence whereby the party accused is declared innocent of the crime laid to his charge.
Absolution, in the Canon Law, is a juridical act, whereby the priest declares the sins of such as are penitent remitted.—The Romanists hold absolution a part of the sacrament of penance; the council ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004501-0394 | ABSORBENT, in general, any thing possessing the faculty of absorbing, or swallowing up another.
Absorbent Medicines, testaceous powders, or substances into which calcareous earth enters, as chalk, crabs eyes, &c. which are taken inwardly, for drying up or absorbing any acid or redundant humours in the stomach or intes... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004502-0394 | ABSORPTION, in the animal economy, is the function of the absorbent vessels, or that power by which they take up and propel substances. This power has been ascribed to the operation of different causes, according to the theories which physiologists have proposed. Some attribute it to capillary attraction, others to the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004503-0394 | ABSORUS, Apsorus, Absyrtis, Absyrtides, (Strabo, Mela, Ptolemy); islands in the Adriatic, in the gulf of Carnero; said to be so called from Absyrtus, Medea’s brother, there slain. They are now called Cherso and Osero. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004504-0394 | ABSTEMII, in church history, a name given to such persons as could not partake of the cup of the eucharist on account of their natural aversion to wine. Calvinists allow these to communicate in the species or bread only, touching the cup with their lip; which, on the other hand, is by the Lutherans deemed a profanation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004505-0394 | ABSTERGENT Medicines, those employed for resolving obstructions, concretions, &c. such as soap, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004506-0394 | ABSTINENCE, in a general sense, the act or habit of refraining from something to which there is a strong propensity. Among the Jews, various kinds of abstinence were ordained by their law. The Pythagoreans, when initiated, were enjoined to abstain from animal food, except the remains of sacrifices; and to drink nothing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004601-0407 | ABSTINENTS, or Abstinentes, a set of heretics that appeared in France and Spain about the end of the third century. They are supposed to have borrowed part of their opinions from the Gnostics and Manicheans, because they opposed marriage, condemned the use of flesh' meat, and placed the Holy Ghost in the class of creat... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004602-0407 | ABSTRACT, in a general sense, any thing separated from something else.
ABSTRACT Ideas, in Metaphysies. See Abstraction. ABSTRACT Mathematics, Otherwise called Pure Mathematics, is that which treats of magnitude or quantity, absolutely and generally considered, without restriction to any species of particular magnitude... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004603-0407 | ABSTRACTION, in Metaphysics, is a term used to denote the mind’s power of considering certain qualities or attributes of an object apart from the rest; or the power which the understanding has of separating the combinations which are presented to it.
Abstraction is chiefly employed in these three ways. First, When the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004604-0407 | ABSURDUM, reductio ad absurdum, is a mode of demonstration employed by mathematicians when they prove the truth of a proposition by demonstrating that the contrary is impossible, or leads to an absurdity. It is in this manner that Euclid demonstrates the fourth proposition of the first book of the Elements, by showing ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004605-0407 | ABSYRTUS, in heathen mythology, the son of Aeetes and Hypsea, and the brother of Medea. The latter running away with Jason, after her having assisted him in carrying off the golden fleece, was pursued by her father; when, to stop his progress, she tore Absyrtus in pieces, and scattered his limbs in his way. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004606-0407 | ABTERODE, a town in the bailiwick of Bilstein, in Hesse-Cassel, in Germany, with 972 inhabitants, who find employment chiefly in making woollen cloth. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004607-0407 | ABTHANES, in History, a title of honour used by the ancient inhabitants of Scotland, who called their nobles thanes, which in the old Saxon signifies kings ministers ; and of these the higher rank were styled abthanes, and those of the lower underthanes.
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kp-eb0702-004701-0420 | ABU and CANDU, a group of twelve islands in the southern division of the Indian Ocean, to the south of the Maldives, in Lat. 5. 6. S. and Long. 74. 23. E. They are rocky, but have good anchorage, under the shelter of a reef., There are no inhabitants, nor has any good water been found. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004702-0420 | ABU-ARISCH, the capital of the territory of the same name, on the Red Sea, in a fruitful plain, with rock-salt mines near it. It is in Lat. 16.45. N. and Long. 42.33. E. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004703-0420 | ABUBEKER, or Abu-Becr, the first caliph, the immediate successor of Mahomet, and one of his first converts. His original name was Abdulcaaba, signifying servant of the caaba or temple, which, after his conversion to Mahometanism, was changed to Abdallah, servant of God ; and on the marriage of the prophet with his daug... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004704-0420 | ABUCCO, Abocco, or Abochi, a weight used in the kingdom of Pegu. One abucco contains 12½ teccalis; two abuccos make a giro or agire ; two giri, half a hiza ; and a hiza weighs an hundred teccalis; that is, two pounds five ounces the heavy weight, or three pounds nine ounces the light weight of Venice. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004705-0420 | ABUCHO W, a village in Russia, in the circle of Bo-goradsk, and government of Moscow, where are mills belonging to the emperor, from whence 10,000 poods of gunpowder are annually delivered. It stands on the river Kliasma, whose stream turns seven mills. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004706-0420 | ABUKESO, in commerce, the same with Aslan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004707-0420 | ABUKOR, a town near Lepanto, in the province of Aimabochte, in Turkey in Europe. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004708-0420 | ABULAHOR, a town of Turkey in Europe, on the river Aspre, in the Sandschac or Standard of Joanina, and province of Romelia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004709-0420 | ABULAWO, a town of Russia, in the circle of Kra-piwna, and government of Tula. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004710-0420 | ABULFARAGIUS, Gregory, son of Aaron, a physician, born in 1226, in the city of Malatia, near the source of the Euphrates in Armenia. He followed the profession of his father, and practised with great success; but he acquired a higher reputation by the study of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic languages, as well as by his ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004711-0420 | ABULFAZEL, who is called by Sir William Jones, “a learned and elegant,” and by others, “the most elegant” writer that the East has produced, was vizier and historiographer to the Great Mogul, Akber. We have not been able to discover the year of his birth, but his death took place in 1604, when he was assassinated on hi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004712-0420 | ABUNA, the title given to the archbishop or metropolitan of Abyssinia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004713-0420 | ABUNDANT Number, in Arithmetic, is a number, the [7:2:48]sum of whose aliquot parts is greater than the number itself. Thus, the aliquot parts of 12 being 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, they make, when added together, 16. An abundant number is opposed to a deficient number, or that which is greater than all its aliquot parts taken... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004801-0433 | ABUNDANTIA, a heathen divinity, represented in ancient monuments under the figure of a woman with a pleasing aspect, crowned with garlands of flowers, pouring all sorts of fruits out of a horn which she holds in her right hand, and scattering grain with her left, taken promiscuously from a sheaf of corn. On a medal of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004802-0433 | ABUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Britain, now the Humber. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004803-0433 | ABUSAID, Ebn Aljaptu, sultan of the Moguls, succeeded his father anno 717 of the Hegira. He was the last monarch of the race of Jenghis Khan, who held the undivided empire of the Moguls; for after his death, which happened the same year that Tamerlane was born, it became a scene of blood and desolation, and was broken ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004804-0433 | ABÛSIR, a town of Egypt, twelve hours to the west of Alexandria. It is in a ruinous condition, with remains of an ancient temple, and many scattered vestiges of former extent and population. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004805-0433 | ABUSUMBOL, or Ebsambul, or Ipsambul, a town on the Nile, in Nubia, to the south of the island of Kogos, in Lat. 22. 20. 11. N. and Long. 31. 40. 57. E. About twenty feet above the river is a temple hewn out of the perpendicular face of the rock. At the entrance are six colossal figures of young persons, in bas-relief, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004806-0433 | ABU-TEMAN, an Arabian poet, of whom, though but little can be said, it would be improper altogether to omit, because he was held to be the prince of Arabian poets, during the best periods of Arabian literature. He was born about the year 787; and, happily for him, under sovereigns whose love and patronage of literature... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004807-0433 | ABUTILON, in Botany, the trivial name of several species of the sida. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004808-0433 | ABUZOW, a town of Russia, in the circle of Sergatsch, and government of Rishegorod. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004809-0433 | ABYDOS, in Ancient Geography, anciently a town built by the Milesians, in Asia, on the Hellespont, where it is scarce a mile broad, opposite to Sestos, on the European side. It was famous for Xerxes’s bridge, and for the loves of Leander and Hero (Musaeus, Ovid); celebrated also for its oysters (Ennius, VirgiD. The old... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004810-0433 | ABYDUS, in Ancient Geography, an inland town of Egypt, between Ptolemais and Diospolis Parva, famous for the palace of Memnon and the temple of Osiris. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004811-0433 | ABYLA (Ptolemy, Mela), one of Hercules’s pillars, on the African side, called by the Spaniards Sierra de las Monas, opposite to Calpe in Spain, the other pillar; supposed to have been formerly joined, but separated by Hercules, and thus to have given entrance to the sea now called the Mediterranean ; the limits of the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004812-0433 | ABYSS, in a general sense, denotes something profound, and, as it were, bottomless. The word is originally Greek, αζυσσος; compounded of the privative α, and βυσσος, q. d. without a bottom.
Abyss, in a more particular sense, denotes a deep mass or fund of waters. In this sense, the word is particularly used in the Sep... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-004901-0446 | ABYSSINIA, a large country on the eastern coast of Africa, and the chief of the native kingdoms of that continent, is bounded on the east by the Red Sea, on the north and west by the barren sands of Nubia, on the south by unknown ranges of desert, and barbarous kingdoms. The country itself is diversified by many chains... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006401-0641 | ABYSSINIAN, in Ecclesiastical History, is the name of a sect in the Christian church, established in the empire of Abyssinia. The Abyssinians are a branch of the Copts or Jacobites, with whom they agree in admitting but one nature in Jesus Christ, and rejecting the council of Chalcedon: whence they are called Eutychian... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006402-0641 | ACA, Ace, or Acon, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phoenicia, on the Mediterranean; afterwards called Ptolemais ; now Acre. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006403-0641 | ACACALOTI, the Brazilian name of a bird called by some corvus aquaticus, or the water raven: properly, the pelicanus carbo, or corvorant. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006404-0641 | ACACIA, Egyptian Thorn, or Binding Bean-tree, in Botany, a species of mimosa, according to Linnaeus; though other botanists make it a distinct genus.
The flowers of a species of the acacia are used by the Chinese in making that yellow which we see bears washing in their silks and stuffs, and appears with so much elega... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006501-0654 | ACACIANS, in ecclesiastical history, the name of several sects of heretics; some of which maintained, that the Son was only a similar, not the same, substance with the Father; and others, that he was not only a distinct but a dissimilar substance. Two of these sects had their denominations from Acacius, bishop of Caesa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006502-0654 | ACACIUS, surnamed Luscus, because he was blind of one eye, was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, and succeeded the famous Eusebius: he had a great share in the banishment of Pope Liberius, and bringing Felix to the see of Rome. He gave name to a sect, and died about the year 365. He wrote the life of Eusebius, which is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006503-0654 | ACAD, or Achad, in Ancient Geography, the town in which Nimrod reigned, called Archad by the Seventy; situated in Babylonia, to the eastward of the Tigris. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006504-0654 | ACADEMICS, or Academists, a denomination given to the cultivators of a species of philosophy originally derived from Socrates, and afterwards illustrated and enforced by Plato, who taught in a grove near Athens, consecrated to the memory of Academus, an Athenian hero; from which circumstance this philosophy received th... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-006505-0654 | ACADEMY, ακαδημι α, ακαδημεια , or εκαδημεια, (the first two forms being probably derived from ακος, medela, and δημος, populus, and the last from εκας, procul or scorsim, and δημος, populus'), a garden, villa, or grove, situated in the Ceramicus, one of the suburbs of Athens, about six stadia, or nearly a Roman mile t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008001-0849 | ACADIE, or AĆAny, in Geography, a name formerly given to Nova Scotia, or New Scotland, in America. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008002-0849 | ACAENA, in antiquity, a Grecian measure of length, being a ten feet rod, us⅛d’in measuring their lands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008003-0849 | ACAMANTIS, the ancient name of the island of Cyprus, taken from one of its promontories situated to the west, and called Acamas. Teos in Ionia was also called thus from Acamas the founder. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008004-0849 | ACAMAS, son of Theseus, followed the rest of the Grecian princes to the siege of Troy; and was deputed, with Diomedes, to the Trojans, in order to get Helen restored. Laodice, Priam’s daughter, fell in love with, and had a son by him, called Munitus. He was one of the heroes who concealed themselves in the wooden horse... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008005-0849 | ACANGIS, that is, Ravti/jers or Adventurers ; a name which the Turks give their hussars or light troops, who are generally sent out in ‘detachments to procure intelligence, harass the enemy 1 ,‘ or ravage the country. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008006-0849 | ACANTHA, in Rotany, the prickle of any plant: in Zoology, a term for the spine or prickly fins of fishes. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008007-0849 | ACANTHABOLUS, ¾ι Surgery, an instrument for pulling thorns, or the like, out of the skin. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008008-0849 | ACANTHINE, any thing resembling or belonging to the herb acanthus. Ac⅛Jithme garments, among the ancients, are said to be made^0f the down of thistles; others think they were garments embroidered in imitation of the acanthus. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008009-0849 | ACANTHROPTE ĭtYGIOUS Fishes, a term used by Linnaeus and others for those fishes whose back fins are hard, osseous, and prickly. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008010-0849 | ACANTHUS, in Architecture, an ornament representing the leaves of the Acanthus, used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008011-0849 | ACAPALA, or Acapula, a town in the province of Chiapa, in New Spain, which is situated on Tabasco river, about five leagues north-west from Chiapa. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008012-0849 | ACAPAM, a town of Asia, on the Euxine Sca. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008013-0849 | ACAPULCO, a considerable town and port in Mexico on a bay of the South Sea, distant from the city of Mexico south-east 210 miles. It has a remarkably fine harbour, from whence a ship annually sails to Manilla in the Philippine islands in Asia; and another returns annually from thence with all the treasures of the East ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008014-0849 | ACARAI, a town of Paraguay in South America, built by the Jesuits in 1624.
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kp-eb0702-008101-0862 | ACARAUNA, a small American fish, called by our sailors the old wife. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008102-0862 | ACARNANIA, a country of Free Greece, or Greece Proper, bounded on the north by the Sinus Ambracius, and separated from Aetolia by the river Achelous on the east, and on the west by the Ionian Sea. This country was famous for an excellent breed of horses; so that Azasνανικjος 'ι<κπος is a proverbial saying for any thing... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008103-0862 | ACARON, or Accaron, a town of Palestine, called Ekron in Scripture. It was the boundary of the Philistines to the north; stood at some distance from the sea, near Bethshemesh; and was famous for the idol of Baal-zebub. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008104-0862 | ACASTUS, in classic history, the son of Pelias, king of Thessaly, and one of the most famous hunters of the time, married Hippolita, who falling desperately in love with Peleus her son-in-law, and he refusing to gratify her wishes, she accused him to her husband of a rape; on which he slew them both. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008105-0862 | ACATALECTIC, a term in ancient poetry for such verses as have all their feet or syllables, in contradistinction to those that have a syllable too few. The first verse of the two following from Horace is acatalectic or complete, the last catalectic or deficient.
Solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favonî,
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kp-eb0702-008106-0862 | ACATALEPSY signifies the impossibility of comprehending something. The distinguishing tenet of the Pyrrhonists was their asserting an absolute acatalepsy in regard to every thing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008107-0862 | ACATERY, or AcCatry, anciently an officer of the king’s household, designed for a check betwixt the clerks of the kitchen and the purveyors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008108-0862 | ACATHARSIA, m’Medicine, an impurity of the blood or humours. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008109-0862 | ACATHISTUS, the name of a solemn hymn or vigil, anciently sung in the Greek church on the Saturday of the fifth week of Lent, in honour of the Virgin, for having thrice delivered Constantinople from the invasions of the barbarous nations. It was denominated ακα∂ιστος, i. e. without sitting, because, in the celebration ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008110-0862 | ACATIUM, in Ancient Navigation, a kind of boat or pinnace used for military purposes. The acatium was a species of those vessels called naves actuariae, i. e. such as were wrought with oars. It was sometimes made use of in battle. Strabo describes it as a privateer or pirate sloop, and Suidas as a fishing vessel. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008111-0862 | ACAULIS, in Potany, a term applied to certain plants, the flowers of which have no pedicle or stalk to support them, but rest immediately on the ground, such as the carline thistle, &c. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008112-0862 | ACCA, Saint, bishop of Hagustaldt, or Hexham, in Northumberland, succeeded Wilfrid in that see in 709. He ornamented his cathedral in a most magnificent manner; furnished it with plate and holy vestments; and erected a noble library, consisting chiefly of ecclesiastical learning, and a large collection of the lives of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008113-0862 | ACCALIA, in Roman antiquity, solemn festivals held in honour of Acca Laurentia, Romulus’s nurse: they were otherwise called Lauf ent alia. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008114-0862 | ACCAPITARE, in Law, the act of becoming vassal of a lord, or of yielding him homage and obedience. Hence, | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0702-008115-0862 | ACCAPITUM signifies the money paid by a vassal upon his admission to a feu.
Accapitum, in our Ancient Law, was used also to express the relief or fee payable on the entry of an heir to the chief lord. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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