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company or body, tOa prince or afTcrultlr, to treal

01'

m,tttc:rl' in Ihcir

n:tllle.

DEI'UTY. • pe.fon fent upon fOllle uufioefs, by fome

cumnmnilY·

DErUTY is alfo ooe that exereifrs:lo oflice io aoother's

risht; aod the fa.feiture or

mifd~me. o.,,·

uf fueh de–

puty

0,, 11

e.lUfe the p.:rfon wholll he «prefcnts

lof~

his office.

DEPUTATUS, amoog the ancients, a name applied to

I,erfoos cmplo)'ed in Olaking

01'

armour: . nd likewife

to urifk ,aive people, whufe buGnrfs was to take care

01'

the wounded in eogagemeots, aod carry them ofT the

ficld.

DERBENT, a city

01'

Daginao, on the \Venero coa(l

o( the Cafpiao fe.l: E. loog. 5t

and 4t

' 5' N.1.1.

DEREHAM, a nmkct·towo

01'

Nur(olk. :lbout r,(teeo

miles wdl of Norwich : E. loog.

,0,

aod N. lat.

:'0'.

Dl::RI \'.<\T IVE, in gramOlar, a word which is deri–

ved from aoolher ealled its primitive. See l' RIMI–

Tl VE.

Tl,us,

11/anhood

is derireJ from

I/Ial1, d(if)

from

D' UI,

and

la,")"

from

la"".

•

DERMESTES, io zooloS)', a geous of iofeéls beloog–

iog to the orda o( colcoptefd. The .oteona: are cid–

vated, with three of the joiots thicker than the rdl ;

the breall is convcx; aod the head is inOeélerl udow

the breah. There are thiny fpecies, dillioguiOled uy

their colour,

&c.

DERNIER RESSORT. See RF.SSO RT .

DEROG.-\TORY, a claufe iOlporting derogation. A

derogatory claufe in a tell.meot, is a eenain feoteoee,

eipher, or fecret eh",/ler, whieh the telldlor .nf«ts

io his will, aod of whieh h. referves the koowledge

to himfelf alooe, adding • eoodition. that

will he

mal' make hereafter is to be reekoned I'alid, if this de–

rogatory claufe is not inferted exprefsly, and word

(or word.

is a prceautÍon inveoted by lawyer! a·

Saion latter·wills extoned by violenee, or ob¡ained by

fuggenion.

DERPT, a town of Livonia, fituated onthe river Eim·

. bee: E. long. 28

' o', and N. lat. 5S"

10'.

DERVIS, a name gi"en to all !ll.hommedao monks,

thoughof various order!. Titemofl ooted.mong them

are the llekt.Oli, the Mevelevi, the Kadri, and

th~

Seyah. The Bdaafhi, who are .1I0wed tOmarry and

live in cities and IIJwns, are oLligcd, by tite rules of

their order, to vifit remote l,lOds, ,od to r., lute every

one they meet

I~itlt

gau l,

,¡¡

lo"e.foog~,

aod with

ma,

or the iovueatiun of dI< names "[(;,,d, and hllm–

bly to wifh him profperity, wllleh they du hy rePI'ar–

ing the word

eival/nh,

a fokmn exclamatioo of the

wremers, by whieh the eon'lllcreJ yields d.e pallll

the eonqueror. The Mevclcvi,

eallcd (romMel'c,

lava thei r fnuneler, are "fed to ,,<ro rO"I1I1 for twO I'r

thrle hou rs

1II1'~tlter,

with fueh liviltnds tltat

)OU

"In–

OOt fve their

f~ees;

tltcy are gll·. l luvcro of o",lir: in

lheir 'OI1Oafleri,s they I',,;[ef,

~I'(

h"m,J,, :: :'ud r"ver–

t)', ,"d wh,n vilit,:.! OI"ke

d,fJ.",~l iun

of " ',(onl ;

tlt,y Grfl u.inó their

~lldls

eolre·;

e1,i"l,

allJ

¡f

lite

D E S

IVays hal'e beendi"y, they wafh their feet aod(aodals.

The Kadri, with a peculiar fllperflitioo, emaeiatetheir

uodics; they go quite naked, exeept their thighs, and

often join hands ami danec, fometimes a \Vhole day,

repcating ",ith sreat vehemeote,

hu! hu! hu!

(one

of the names of God) tiJl, like madmen, they faJl

on the gruunJ, foaming at the mouth, and runoing

down with (lVeat : the prime vizir Kupruli Aehmed

l'afha, thinking this (célunueeoOlingthe Mahommedan.

religion, ordcrcd it to ue fupprefTed ; uut, after his

dcath, it revil ed, and is at prefeot more numerous

thao el'er, ei'peeially at Conflaotinople. The Seyah

are waoderers, aod though they have mooafleries, yet

they often fpend their whole life io travelliog; \Vhen

they are fem out, their fuperiors impofe upoo them

(ueh a quamity of mooey or provi(ioos, forbiddiog

themtOcome baek till they have proeured it, and fenl

it to the lIlonaflcry; wherefore when a Seyah comes

, into a towo, he eries aloud in lhe market-place,

r«

al/ahjmdfll,

&e.

Cad! giv,

pral, jive fhau–

jand crO""'II,

a th,ufantl 'Majuru

rice.

Ma–

ny of thefe dervifes !ravel over the ",hole

~!ahum

medan lVorld, eotertaioiog the people " here-el'er they

come, with agreeable reldtion! of aJl the euriofitÍes

they have Olel \Vith. There . re denlf. s in Egypt,

who live ",ith their families, and eXNeirethei r trades,

of whieh kind are the daocing dervifes at D.mafeus.

They are aJl diflioguifhed amoog themfell'CS by the

dif!'ereot forms and eolours o( thei r hauits; thofe of

l'erfid wear blue; the folitaries and wanderers wear

ooly rags of dif!'erent eolonrs; others

wry

their

heads a plnllle made of the feathers of a eoek; and

thofe of Eg)'pt wear an o.'lagonal badge of a green·

ilh white

al.ba(

ler al their girdles, .nd a high IIdF

" p, without any thiog round il.

DEKWENT, a river, which, taking its rife in the

oOrlh riding of Yorkfhire, runs fouth, and falls ioto

the Oufe.

DERWEN T-WATER, a river of C;umberland, whieh falls

ioto the IriOI fea bdolV Coekermolllh.

DESART, a large eXleot o( eonot ry eotirely barreo,

aod produeiog nothing. In this (cofe fome are falldy

defms, as thore of Lop, X, mo, Arabia, and leveral

olhe.s in AGa; in Arriea, thofé of Lybia aod Zara:

others are (Ion

as the defart of l'hatan io Arabia

Petrea.

rh,

D ~SART,

ahfolutely fo ealled, is that part of Ara–

bía, fOUlh of thc Holy Land, where the ehildren of

lfrael lV. ndcred forty yem.

DESCANT, in mulie, the

art

of eompoGng in (everal

P"IIS. See Mus .e.

D ES~'E

DENTS, in Seots law. The ifTne of a eom-

1111111

I'Jrlot

ill illfíllifll",

are called his delecndcots.

IWSCENSION, in allroooOl)', is either right or ou–

ti'lnt.

Jli¡:hf

¡SCr.NS.ON

is an ar,eh of the c9uiooélial, in–

ter<:ep. cd LClw,cn the ",'Xt

cq nin,,~li,,1

puint and

th~

imc'!Illion uf the OIcridi:II1, p.llli ng .hrllugh the Ceo.

tre uf the

ohj"q,

al ils fellin¡:, in, right I',here.

{¡bliqll(

Ihsl., ¡.oN, ..o areh uf lhe " I"illo<'1i.I, in.

trrecptcd