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AB`ELARD, PETER, a theologian and scholastic philosopher of French birth, renowned for his dialectic ability, his learning, his passion for H?lo?se, and his misfortunes; made conceivability the test of credibility, and was a great teacher in his day .
ABELLI, a Dominican monk, the confessor of Catharine de Medici .
ABENCERRA`GES, a powerful Moorish tribe in Grenada, whose fate in the 15th century has been the subject of interesting romance.
ABEN-EZ`RA, a learned Spanish Jew and commentator on the Hebrew scriptures .
ABERA`VON , a town and seaport in Glamorganshire, with copper and iron works.
ABERCROMBIE, SIR RALPH, a distinguished British general of Scottish birth, who fell in Egypt after defeating the French at Aboukir Bay .
ABERDEEN , the fourth city in Scotland, on the E. coast, between the mouths of the Dee and Don; built of grey granite, with many fine public edifices, a flourishing university, a large trade, and thriving manufactures. Old Aberdeen, on the Don, now incorporated in the municipality, is the seat of a cathedral church, and of King's College, founded in 1404, united with the university in the new town.
ABERDEENSHIRE , a large county in NE. of Scotland; mountainous in SW., lowland N. and E.; famed for its granite quarries, its fisheries, and its breed of cattle.
ABERNETHY, a small burgh in S. Perthshire, with a Pictish round tower, and once the capital of the Pictish kingdom.
ABERRATION OF LIGHT, an apparent motion in a star due to the earth's motion and the progressive motion of light.
ABERYST`WITH , a town and seaport in Cardiganshire, Wales, with a university.
ABIGAIL, the widow of Nabal, espoused by David.
ABICH, W. H., a German mineralogist and traveller .
ABINGDON , a borough in Berks, 6 m. S. of Oxford.
ABIOGENESIS, the doctrine of spontaneous generation.
ABIPONES, a once powerful warlike race in La Plata, now nearly all absorbed.
ABLE MAN, man with "a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute" .
ABNER, a Hebrew general under Saul; assassinated by Joab.
ABO, the old capital of Finland and seat of the government, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
AB`OMEY, the capital of Dahomey, in W. Africa.
ABOU`KIR, village near Alexandria, in Egypt, on the bay near which Nelson destroyed the French fleet in 1799; where Napoleon beat the Turks, 1799; and where Abercrombie fell, 1801.
ABOUT, EDMOND, spirited French litt?rateur and journalist .
ABRAHAM, the Hebrew patriarch, ancestor of the Jews, the very type of an Eastern pastoral chief at once by his dignified character and simple faith.
ABRAHAM, THE PLAINS OF, a plain near Quebec.
ABRAHAM-MEN, a class of lunatics allowed out of restraint, at one time, to roam about and beg; a set of impostors who wandered about the country affecting lunacy.
ABRAN`TES, a town in Portugal, on the Tagus; taken by Marshal Junot, 1807, and giving the title of Duke to him.
ABRAXAS STONES, stones with cabalistic figures on them used as talismans.
ABRUZ`ZI, a highland district in the Apennines, with a pop. of 100,000.
ABSOLUTE, THE, the philosophical name for the uncreated Creator, or creating cause of all things, dependent on nothing external to itself.
ABSYRTUS, a brother of Medea, whom she cut in pieces as she fled with Jason, pursued by her father, throwing his bones behind her to detain her father in his pursuit of her by stopping to pick them up.
ABT, FRANZ, a German composer of song-music .
ABU, a mountain in Rajputana, with a footprint of Vishnu on the top, and two marble temples half-way up, held sacred by the Jains.
AB`U-KLEA, in the Soudan, where the Mahdi's forces were defeated by Sir H. Stewart in 1885.
A`BUL-FARAJ, a learned Armenian Jew, who became bishop of Aleppo, and wrote a history of the world from Adam onwards .
ABUL-FAZEL, the vizier of the great Mogul emperor Akbar, and who wrote an account of his reign and of the Mogul empire; he was assassinated in 1604.
ABUL-FEDA, a Moslem prince of Hamat in Syria, who in his youth took part against the Crusaders, and wrote historical works in Arabic .
ABU-THA`LEB, uncle of Mahomet, and his protector against the plots of his enemies the Koreish.
ABY`DOS, a town on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont, famous as the home of Leander, who swam the Hellespont every night to visit Hero in Sestos, and as the spot where Xerxes built his bridge of boats to cross into Europe in 480 B.C.; also a place of note in Upper Egypt.
ABYSSIN`IA, a mountainous country SE. of Nubia, with an area of 200,000 sq. m., made up of independent states, and a mixed population of some four millions, the Abyssinians proper being of the Semite stock. It is practically under the protectorate of Italy.
ACACIA, a large group of trees with astringent and gum-yielding properties, natives of tropical Africa and Australia.
ACADIA, the French name for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
ACANTHUS, a leaf-like ornament on the capitals of the columns of certain orders of architecture.
ACAPUL`CO, a Mexican port in the Pacific, harbour commodious, but climate unhealthy.
ACARNA`NIA, a province of Greece N. of Gulf of Corinth; its pop. once addicted to piracy.
ACCA`DIANS, a dark, thick-lipped, short-statured Mongol race in Central Asia, displaced by the Babylonians and Assyrians, who were Semitic.
ACCA-LAURENTIA, the wife of Faustulus, shepherd of Numitor, who saved the lives of Romulus and Remus.
ACCIAIOLI, a Florentine family of 15th century, illustrious in scholarship and war.
ACCOLADE, a gentle blow with a sword on the shoulder in conferring knighthood.
ACCOL`TI, a Tuscan family, of 15th century, famous for their learning.
ACCOR`SO, the name of a Florentine family, of 12th and 13th centuries, great in jurisprudence.
ACCRA , capital and chief port in British Gold Coast colony.
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