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a city and countyseat of Pickaway co., O.; on the Scioto river, the Ohio and Erie canal, and the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley and the Norfolk and Western railroads, 28 miles S. of Columbus. It derives its name from a circular earth work built works, canneries, and flour mills, numerous churches, a high school, graded public schools, several daily and weekly newspapers, 3 National banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,744; (1920) 7,049. court in the
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In a pendulum clock the difference of time caused by the pendulum following a circular instead of a cycloidal path.
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numbers whose powers end on the same figure as they do themselves: such are numbers ending in 0, 1, 5, 6. See CIRCULATING LIBRARY. LIBRARY.
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an operation consisting in removing circularly the prepuce of infants. God commanded Abraham to use circumcision as a sign of his covenant; and in obedience to this order, the patriarch at 99 years of age was circumcised, as also his son Ishmael, and all the males of his household (Gen. xvii: 10-12). God repeated the precept to Moses, and ordered that all who intended to partake of the Paschal sacrifice should receive circumcision, and that this rite should be performed on children on the eighth day after their birth (Ex. xii: 44). The Jews and all the other nations sprung from Abraham, as the Ishmaelites, the Arabians, etc., have always been very exact in observing this ceremony. At the present day it is an essential rite of the Mohammedan religion, and though not enjoined in the Koran, prevails wherever this religion is found. A similar operation is performed among the Egyptians, Arabians, and Persians, on the females. The Jews esteemed uncircumcision as a very great impurity; and the greatest offense they could receive was to be called uncircumcised. Paul frequently mentions the Gentiles under this term, not opprobriously (Rom. ii: 26), but in opposition to the Jews, whom he names "the circumcised." The feast of circumcision is a festival observed in the Roman Catholic Church and in some other denominations, in commemoration of the circumcision of Jesus Christ. It is held on Jan. 1.
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an operation consisting in removing circularly the prepuce of infants. God commanded Abraham to use circumcision as a sign of his covenant; and in obedience to this order, the patriarch at 99 years of age was circumcised, as also his son Ishmael, and all the males of his household (Gen. (Gen. xvii: 10-12). God repeated the precept to Moses, and ordered that all who intended to partake of the Paschal sacrifice should receive circumcision, and that this rite should be performed on children on the eighth day after their birth (Ex. xii: 44). The Jews and all the other nations sprung from Abraham, as the Ishmaelites, the Arabians, etc., have always been very exact in observing this ceremony. At the present day it is an essential rite of the Mohammedan religion, and though not enjoined in the Koran, prevails wherever this religion is found. A similar operation is performed among the Egyptians, Arabians, and Persians, on the females. The Jews esteemed uncircumcision as a very great impurity; and the greatest offense they could receive was to be called uncircumcised. Paul frequently mentions the Gentiles under this term, not opprobriously (Rom. ii: this 26), but in opposition to the Jews, whom he names "the circumcised." The feast of circumcision is a festival observed in the Roman Catholic Church and in some other denominations, in commemoration of the circumcision of Jesus Christ. It is held on Jan. 1.
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or PERIPHERY the curve which incloses a circle, ellipse, oval, cardioid, or other plane figure. In figures bounded by straight lines, as the triangle, square, and polygon, the term perimeter is employed to designate the sum of all the bounding lines taken together. The length of the circumference depends partly on the nature of the curve. See CIRCLE, etc. throw of Lord Palmerston's government. Though he only once held office -as president of the Board of Trade in 1868 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster-he is credited with having exercised a greater influence upon the conduct of public affairs in England and other man. abroad than, perhaps, any He was the greatest English orator of modern times. He died in London, March 27, 1889.
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one who sails round the globe. The first European known to have circumnavigated the globe was Magellan or Magalhaens, a Portuguese, who accomplished the feat in A. D. 1519. From him the Strait of Magellan derives its name.
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among the Romans, a nearly oblong building without a roof, in which public chariot-races and exhibitions of pugilism and wrestling, etc., took place. It was rectangular, except that one short side formed a half-circle; and on both sides, and on the semicircular end, were the seats of the spectators, rising gradually one above another, like steps. On the outside the circus was surrounded with colonnades, galleries, shops, and public places. The largest of these buildings in Rome was the Circus Maximus, capable, according to Pliny, of containing 260,000, and according to Aurelius Victor 385,000 spectators. At present, however, but few vestiges of it remain, and the circus of Caracalla is in the best preservation. The games celebrated in these structures were known collectively by the name of ludi circenses, circensian games, or games of the circus, which under the emperors attained the greatest magnificence. The modern circus is a place where horses and other animals are trained to perform tricks, and where exhibitons of acrobats and various pageantries, including a large large amount of buffoonery, are presented.
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A method of producing statuary, etc., by modelling a wax figure on a prepared core, inclosing the wax with suitable composition, drying the mould and melting out the wax, and finally filling the space with metal. See STATUARY-FOUNDING.
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a chronic nonsuppurative inflammation affecting the interstitial connection or supporting tissues of an organ. The process begins after a more rocess or less hyperæmia of the parts in a growth of new connective tissue which is fibrous in character. This subsequently contracts, and in so doing interferes with the nutrition of the proper physiological tissue of the organ, causes it to atrophy or degenerate, and finally takes its place. The term was originally applied to the LIVER (q. v.).
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