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DENTATUS (Sicinius), a hero of ancient Rome, of the plebeian order, who flourished about A.U C. 300. When disputes ran high between the patricians and plebeians, concerning the Agrarian law, Dentatus addressed the people, and expatiated upon his achievements and his hardships. He had served his country in the wars forty years; he had been an officer thirty; first. a centurion and then a tribune; he had fought in 120 battles, and by the force of his single arm had saved the lives of a multitude of his fellow citizens. He had gained fourteen civic, five mural, and eight golden crowns; besides eightythree chains, sixty bracelets, eighteen gilt spears, and twenty-three horse-trappings, of which nine were for killing the enemy in single combat: and he had received forty-five wounds, all before, Done behind. These were his honors; yet not withstanding all this, he had never received any share of those lands which were won from the enemy, but continued to drag on a life of poverty and contempt, whilst others possessed those very territories which his valor had won, without any merit to deserve them, or ever having contributed to the conquest. The people unanimously demanded that the law might be passed, and that such high merit should not pass unrewarded. Some of the senators attempted to speak, but were overpowered by the cries of the people. At last a number of resolute young patricians rushing furiously, amongst the crowd, broke the balloting urns, and dispersed the multitude. For this riot they were fined by the tribunes, but they gained their object for the time, by getting the Agrarian law postponed. Such was the justice of the Roman patricians, at one of the most virtuous periods of that celebrated republic. DENTELLA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandria class of plants : CAL. a five-parted perianth, with small subulated leaves; STAM. five short subulated filaments; ANTH. small; PERICARP. globular; CAPS. bilocular; SEED, egg shaped, and very numerous. Species one only, a native of New Caledonia.

DENTEʼLLI, n. s. Ital. Modillons.

The modillions, or dentelli, make a noble show by graceful projections. Spectator, No. 415.

DENTILES, or DENTILS, in architecture, an ornament in cornices bearing some resemblance to teeth, particularly used in the Ionic and Corinthian orders.

DENTISCALPRA, in surgery, an instrument for scouring yellow, livid, or black teeth; to which being applied, near the gums, it scrapes off the foul morbid crust.

DENTITION. See ODONTOLOGY.

DENUDE, v. a.

DENU'DATE, v. a.

Lat. denudo, from de and nudo (ne and duo DENUDA'TION, n. £.. the root of induo to clothe). To strip; to make naked.

Till he has denudated himself of all incumbrances, he is unqualified. Decay of Piety. Not a treaty can be obtained, unless we would demade ourselves of all force to defend us. Clarendon. If in summer-time you denude a vine-branch of its leaves, the grapes will never come to maturity. Ray on the Creation.

VOL. VII.

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Ward. Midst of these denunciations, and notwithstanding the warning before me, I commit myself to lasting Congreve. judgment as the accuser does. The denunciator does not make himself a party in Ayliffe's Parerg. Fr. nier; Span. denegar; Ital. and Lat. negare; from contradict; and hence to disLat. ne and ago, to refuse to

DENY', . 4.
DENIAL, n 3.
DENI'ER,
do. To refuse;
regard; denounce.

If we denyen he schal denye us; if, we bileeuen not he dwellith feithful he mai not denye himsilff. Wielif, 2 Tymo. 2.

It shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God. Joshua xxiv. 27.

And therfor, though he had thus made a realme, holy Scripture denyid to cal hym a kyng. Fortesque. The denial of landing, and hasty warning us away, troubled us much.

I

My young boy

Hath an aspect of intercession, which
Great nature cries--deny not.

Bacon.

Shakspeare.

Id.

must and will have Catherine to my wife.
Here comes your father; never make denial:

myself to discharge my duty to God as a priest, though

It may be I am esteemed by my denier sufficient of

not to men as a prince.

King Charles.

How unworthy is he of life, who with the same
breath that he receives, denies the Giver of it.
Bishop Hall. Contemplations.
The negative authority is also deniable by reason.
Browne.

Ah, charming fair, said I,
How long can you my bliss and yours deny?

Dryden.

We may deny God in all those acts that are capable of being morally good or evil: those are the proper scenes in which we act our confessions or denials of him. South.

The best sign and fruit of denying ourselves, is mercy to others. Spratt.

Our Saviour assures us, that if a tender mother cannot deny the son of her love any reasonable request, much less will God deny his Holy Spirit to

them that ask him.

Clarke's Sermons.

No man more impudent to deny, where proofs were not manifest; no man more ready to confess, with a repenting manner of aggravating his own evil, where denial would but make the fault fouler.

Sidney.

By the word Virtue the affirmer intends our whole duty to God and man, and the denier by the word Virtue means only courage, or, at most, our duty towards our neighbour, without including the idea of the duty which we owe to God. Watts.

If you had been contented to assist him indirectly, without a notorious denial of justice, or openly insulting the sense of the nation, you might have satisfied every duty of political friendship. Junius.

It has been asserted, that, if you alter her symbols, you alter the being of the church of England. This, for the sake of the liberty of that church, I must absolutely deny. Burke.

M

I have gnashed

My teeth in darkness till returning morn,
Then cursed myself till sun-set ;-I have prayed
For madness as a blessing-'tis denied me.

Byron. DENYS (St.) a town of France, in the department of Paris, famous for a magnificent church, built by king Dagobert, in 632; in which were the tombs of many of the French kings, of the constable Guesclin, and of marshal Turenne. In the treasury, among other curiosities, were the swords of St. Lewis, and the Maid of Orleans, and the sceptre of Charlemagne. The abbey of the Benedictines, a magnificent piece of modern architecture, has more the appearance of a palace than a convent. In 1793 the republican populace broke into the royal tombs, and greatly dilapidated the buildings. In 1806 Bonaparte caused them to be repaired, selected the church as the burying-place for his own family, and founded a chapter here of ten canons, which the Bourbons have retained with some modifications. The late prince of Condé has been interred here since the return of Louis XVIII. St. Denys is seated on the river Crould, near the Seine, five miles north of Paris, and contains 6000 inhabitants.

DEOBSTRUCT, v. a. From de privative, DEOBSTRU'ENT, adj. and OBSTRUCT, which see. To clear away obstacles; deobstruent is, having the power to remove obstructions.

It is a singular good wound-herb, useful for deobstructing the pores of the body.

Morc's Antidote against Atheism. Such as carry off the fæces and mucus, deobstruct the mouth of the lacteals, so as the chyle may have a free passage into the blood,

Arbuthnot on Diet.

In 1771 doubts were entertained concerning his sex, and bets were laid to a great amount that D'Eon was a woman. In one instance this produced an action at law, that ended in a nonsuit. The chevalier in the mean time returned to France, where he assumed (compulsorily it is said) the female dress, but for what reason exactly has never been ascertained; his conduct in this respect was certainly sanctioned by his court, which continued his pension, and suffered him to retain the cross of his order.

In 1785 D'Eon came to England, where, still appearing as a woman, he gave lessons in fencing; but when the Revolution deprived him of his pensions, he presented in June 1792 a petition to the National Assembly, in which he complained of being obliged to wear a cap and petticoats, and asked permission to resume his military uniform. His petition remained unnoticed. He now again sought an asylum in London, where he passed the latter part of his life in poor circumstances; and died in New Millmanstreet, May 21st, 1810. His confessor, father Elysée, discovering that the chevalier was of the male sex, after his decease invited some medical and other gentlemen to examine the corpse. He was interred in St. Pancras church-yard, where he is registered, 'Charles Genevieve Louise Auguste Andre Timothee D'Eon de Beaumont.' He is said to have been the author of L'Espion Chinois, 6 vols. 12mo.; Loisirs, 13 vols. 8vo.; Lettres, Mémoires, et Negociations particulières.

DEO'PPILATE, v. a. Lat. de and oppilo. To clear a passage; to free from obstructions.

Though the grosser parts be excluded again, yet are the dissolubie parts extracted, whereby it becomes All sopes are attenuating and deobstruent, resolving effectual in deoppilations. Browne's Vulgar Errours. viscid substances. A physician prescribed him a deoppilative and purDE'ODAND, n. s. Lat. Deo dandum. A thing gative apozem. given or forfeited to God.

Id. on Aliments.

Deodands are forfeitures which the ignorance and superstition of ancient times introduced and called by the name of deodands, from the application of them to pious uses. Burn's Justice.

D'EON (the Chevalier), born in 1728, at Tonnere, in Burgundy, of a respectable family, is principally distinguished for consenting to appear half his life as a woman. He received a liberal education; and, becoming an orphan, the Prince de Conti procured him a commission as a cornet of dragoons. He was employed in 1755 on a mission to Petersburg, after which he joined his regiment, and served with considerable credit in the campaigne of 1762, as aid-de-camp to Marshal Broglio. The year following he was invested with the order of St. Louis, and accompanied the duke de Nivernois to England as secretary. On the duke's leaving England, D'Eon remained in the character of minister plenipotentiary, until he was superseded by the count de Guerchy, to whom he was appointed secretary. At this arrangement he was very indignant, and published in revenge an account of the negociations in which he had been engaged; wherein he stigmatized the conduct of the count. He was prosecuted by de Guerchy for a libel in the Court of King's Bench, in July, 1764, and being found guilty absconded, and was outlawed.

DEOSCULATION, n. s. osculum (os, oris, the mouth).

Harvey. Lat. from de and Kissing.

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is principally a continental division of territory, hat has also a general application.

And alle folkis schulen be gederid bifore him; and he schal departe hem atwynne, as a scheparde departith scheep fro kid.s. Wiclif. Matt. 25.

I N. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to love and to cherish, till death us depart.

Old Family Prayer Book, (1661). As her soul was in departing; for she died. Gen. xxxv. 18.

the sepulchre, with
bring his disciples

They departed quickly from fear and great joy, and did run to

word.

Matt. xxviii.
Lord, now lettest thou the servant depart in peace,
according to thy word.
Luke xxix.

departed or sailed from; or it is the difference of longitude, either east or west, between the present meridian the ship is under, and that where the last reckoning or observation was made. This departure, any where but under the equator, must be counted according to the number of miles in a degree proper to the parallel the ship is under. The departure, in plane and Mercator's sailing, is always represented by the base of a right-angled plane triangle, where the course is the angle opposite to it, and the distance sailed is the hypothenuse; the perpendicular or other leg being the difference of latitude. And then the theorem for finding it is always this as radius to the sine of the course; so is

The chymists have a liquor called water of de part, the distance sailed, to the departure sought.

Bacon.

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Of sorrow, and dejection, and despair,

Our frailty can sustain, thy tidings bring;

Departure from this happy place.

Milton.

DEPASTURE, v. a. Lat. depascor; de and pasco, from Gr. #aw. To feed; to eat up.

They keep their cattle, and live themselves, in bodies pasturing upon the mountains, and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former. Spenser.

DEPAU'PERATE, v. a. Lat. depaupero; de and pouper. To make poor; to impoverish;

to consume.

To represent God in a carved stone, or a painted table, does depauperate our understanding of God, and dishonours him below the painter's art. Bp. Taylor.

Great evacuations, which carry off the nutritious Arbuthnot. humours, depauperate the blood.

DEPE'CTIBLE, adj. Lat. depecto. Tough;

His majesty prevailed not with any of them to de- clammy; tenacious; capable of being extended. part from the most unreasonable of all their demands. Clarendon

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The Roman fleets, during their command at sea, had their several stations and departments; the most considerable was the Alexandrian fleet, and the second was the African. Arbuthnot.

The gentlemen, his particular friends, in various departments of ministry, &c.

Burke. Character of Lord Chatham.

For a departing being's soul

The death-hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll.
Byron.

DEPARTMENT. This word was adopted by the national assembly of France instead of province, when the ancient provinces of that kingdom were divided into departments, of which, including Corsica, there were eighty-three. These departments were much more equal in point of extent than the provinces; some of the old extensive provinces being divided into four or five departments, whilst some of the smaller ones constitute exactly one, and in some instances two provinces are included in one department. Each department has been subdivided into districts, and each district again into cantons.

DEPARTURE, in navigation, is the easting or Westing of a ship in respect of the meridian t

It may be also, that some bodies have a kind of lentor, and are of a more depectible nature than oil, as we see it evident in coloration; for a small quantity of saffron will tinct more than a very great quantity of brazil or wine. Bacon.

DEPEND', v. a.
DEPEND'ANCE, N. S.
DEPEND'ANT, adj. & n. s.
DEPENDENCE,
DEPENDENCY,

Fr. dependre, dependance; Span. and Port. depender; of Lat. dependere; de and pendeo. To hang from;

or

DEPENDENT, adj. & n. s.) down, hence, to be connected with, so as to be subject to the will of, or be supported by, another; and to be in suspense, whether of interest or attention. Dependance and dependence, the one from the older French and the other from the Latin verb, are both used in the literal as well as figurative sense.

On God, as the most high, all inferior causes in the world are dependent. Hooker. Never be without money, nor depend upon the courtesy of others, which may fail at a pinch. Bacon.

Never was there a prince bereaved of his dependancies by his council, except where there hath been either an over-greatness in one counsellor, or an overstrict combination in divers. Id.

By no means be you persuaded to interpose yourself in any cause depending, or like to be depending, in any court of justice.

Id.

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It may be unjust to place all efficacy of gold in the non-omission of weights, or deperdition of any ponderous particles.

Browne.

DEPHILE'GM, or Low Lat. deDEPHLEGMATE, v. a. phlegmo. To clear DEPHLEGMEDNESS, n. s. from phlegm, or aqueous insipid matter.

We have sometimes taken spirit of salt, and careBoyle. fully dephlegmed it.

In divers cases it is not enough to separate the aqueous parts by dephlegmation; for some liquors contain also an unsuspected quantity of small corpuscles, of somewhat an earthy nature, which, being associated with the saline ones, do clog and blunt them, and thereby weaken their activity.

Id.

The proportion betwixt the coralline solution and

the spirit of wine, depends much upon the strength of the former liquor, and the dephlegmedness of the latter.

Id.

DEPHLOGISTICATED AIR. See OXY

GEN.

DEPICT; Lat. depingo, depictus, from de and pingo, pictus; to paint; describe.

The cowards of Lacedemon depicted upon their shields the most terrible beasts they could imagine. Taylor.

When the distractions of a tumult are sensibly depicted, every object and every occurence are so presented to your view, that, while you read, you seem Felton. indeed to see them.

In a cottage by night may I pass the soft time,
In the field and the meadows all day;

With the wife of my heart, whose charms, in their

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DEPLORE', v. a. DEPLORABLE, adj. DEPLORABLENESS,n.8. DEPLORABLY, adv. DEPLORATE,

DEPLORATION.

Fr. deplorer; Spand Port.deplorar ; It. and Lat. deplorare, from de and ploro, to weep. To lament; mourn; bemoan; deplorable,

and deplorate, lamentable; that which is to be bemoaned.

This was the deplorable condition to which the king was reduced. Clarendon. The bill of all weapons gives the most ghastly and Temple. deplorable wounds.

But chaste Diana who his death deplored, With Esculapian herbs his life restored. Dryden. The case is then most deplorate when reward goes L'Estrange. over to the side. wrong Notwithstanding all their talk of reason and philosophy, God knows, they are deplorably strangers to South. them.

It will be considered in how deplorable a state learnSwift. ing lies in that kingdom.

A third's all pallid aspect offered more
The traits of sleeping sorrow, and betrayed,
Through the heaved breast, the dream of some far

shore Beloved and deplored.

Byron.

DEPLUME', v. a. Lat. deplumatio. To DEPLUMA'TION, n. s. pluck; offend. A pluming, or plucking off the feathers: in surgery, a swelling of the eyelids, accompanied with the fall of the hairs from the eye-brows.

DEPONE', v. a. Į Lat. depono, de and pono, DEPO'NENT, n. s. S to lay down. To state on oath, in law. To pledge or adventure any thing on some scheme of success. A particular kind of verb. See the extract.

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Depopulates the nations.

Philips.

Remote thou hearest the dire effect of war,

Depopulation.

Id.

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If you will examine the veracity of the fathers by those circumstances usually considered in depositions, you will find them strong on their side.

Sir K. Digby. A witness is obliged to swear, otherwise his deposition is not valid. Ayliffe. His [James II.] conduct and the passage of Charles the Second's reign, might rankle still at the hearts of some men, but could not be set to account among the causes of his deposition.

DEPO'SITE, v. a. & n. s.)
DEPOSITARY,

DEPOSITORY.

Bolingbroke.

For

etymon,

see DEPOSE. To

place of deposit is a depository; and a person in trust is a depositary.

lay up. The

I gave you all.

-Made you my guardians, my depositaries, But kept a reservation to be followed

With such a number.

Shakspeare. The Jews themselves are the depositories of all the

This is not the place to enter into an enquiry prophecies which tend to their own confusion. whether the country be depopulating.

Goldsmith.

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portare.

An abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a foreign land, was anciently with us a civil-death. Ayliffe. DEPOSE, v. a. Fr. deposer; Ital. deporre; DEPOSING, n. s. Span. deponer; Lat. depoDEPOSITION. Snere, depositus, from de and pano, to place. Hence, to swear, because by so doing a man deposits or pledges his faith to the truth of his declaration. To lay down, lodge; to degrade, deprive of; and generally, to lay aside, lay up.

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The difficulty will be to persuade the depositing of those lusts, which have, by I know not what fascinaDecay of Piety. tion, so endeared themselves.

DEPOSITION. The proof in the high court of chancery is by the depositions of witnesses; and the copies of such regularly taken and published, are read as evidence at the hearing. For the purpose of taking deposition in or near London, there is an examiner's office appointed; but for such as live in the country, a commission to examine witnesses is usually granted to four commissioners, two named on each side, or any three or two of them to take the depositions there. And if the witnesses reside beyond sea, a commission may be had to examine them there upon their own oaths; and if foreigners, upon the oaths of two skilful interpreters. The commissioners are sworn to take the examinations truly, and without partiality, and not to divulge them till published in the court of chancery; and

their clerks are also sworn to secrecy. The witnesses may be compelled, by a process of subpœna, as in courts of common law, to appear and submit to examination; and when their depositions are taken, they are transmitted to the

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