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inents for the Good and the Bad ; That God inuft be ho- nour'd ; and his Will, fo far as we can learn it, pertorm'd ; but that each Perfon is to do this after his own Manner, and as his own Confcience fuggefts.

The Number ofDeifts is daily incrcafing. In Eng- land, a great Part of the Men of Speculation, and Let- ters, are pretended to incline that Way. And the like is obferv'd in fame of our Neighbour Nations, where Free- dom of Speaking, Writing, and Thinking are indulged. See Revelation.

DEITY, a common Appellation given by the Poets to the Heathen Gods, and Goddefles. See Gob.

DEIV1R1LE, a Term in the School-Theology, figni- fying Ibmething divine and human at the fame Time.

The Eutychians held, that the fame Jefus Chrift, and the fame Son, produces both divine and human Opera- tions at once, by one fingle Thcandric, or Deivirile Ope- ration: So that all the'Diftinction depends on our man- ner of Underftanding. See Theaneric, SSc.

The Word is a Compound of 'Metis, God, and Vi- rilis, of Vir, Man.. It was firft invented by the Mo- nophyjites, to exprefs their Error by : For as they taught^ that there were not two diftincl Natures in Je- fus 'thrift, but that the human and the divine Nature were, by the Hypoftatical Union, confounded together, and render'd one Nature, which was neither the one nor the other, but a Compound of both; It follow'd, that the Operations of this third Nature, i. e. of Jefus Chrift, were neither purely divine, nor purely human ; and that there were not two Sorts, the one divine, and the other human, but that they were all of one Sort, viz. Theandric, or jDeivirile.

DELEGATES, a Number of Commiffioners, dele- gated, or appointed by the King's Commiffion, under the great Seal, to fit upon an Appeal to the King, in the Court of Chancery, in three Cafes : Firft, Upon a Sen- tence given in any Ecclefiaftical Caufe, by the Arch- Bifhop, or hisOfficial. Secondly, Upon aSentence given in an Ecclefiaftical Caufe in Places exempt. Thirdly, Up- on a Sentence given in the Admiral Court in Suits Civil and Matine, by Order ottbe Civil Law.

Court of Delecates ; This is the higheft Court for Civil Affairs, concerning the Church ; For the Jurifdic- tion whereof it was provided 25 //. 8. That it ftiall be lawful for the Suhject, in Cafe of Deleft of Jufticc in the Ecclefiaftical Courts, to appeal to the Sovereign in his Courts of Chancery, whence a Commiffion is direfied un- der the great Seal to particular Perfons therein mentioned, for Redrefs of Judgment ; fo that from the higheft Eccle- fiaftical Court there lies no Appeal, but to the Court of Delegates, and beyond this to no other, except to the Houfe of Lords. But the King, of his Free-will, may grant a Commiffion of Review under the great Seal. The Cita- tions run all under the King's Name.

DELEGATION, a Commiffion extraordinary, given a Judge to take Cognizance of, and determine fome taufe which' ordinarily did not come before him. See Dele- gates.

Sovereign Courts have frerjuently Inferior Judges to fit in Judgment on certain Affairs.

In the Civil Law, "Delegation is alfo a Sort of Sur- render, whereby a Perfon fubftitutes another Debtor in his Place. See Ulpian. In. ff. Ae Novationibus, S» De- legationibus.

•Delegation differs from Transferring, or Tranjlation, in that three Perfons intervene in a Delegation ; viz. the Creditor, the Debtor, and a third, who himfelf is in- debted to the Debtor, and on whom the Debtor trans- fers the Obligation he was under to pay the Creditor, de- legating him, as it were, for that Putpofe. But in a fim- pl"e Transfer, 'tis enough the Transferrer and the Trans ■ ierree be prefent.

DELETERIOUS, probably from JW.», noceo, to hurt, a Term fometimes us'd among Naturalifts for fuch Things as are of a pernicious, and poifonous Nature. See Poison.

DEI.F, is a Quarry, or Mine, where Stone, or Coal is digged : from the Saxon Word Delivan, to delf, or dig ; Del/ of Coal, is Coal lying in Veins under-ground, before it is dug up ; and a 'Delve of Coals is a cettain Quanti- ty dug out of the Mine, or Pit. See Coal.

Delf, is alfo us'd in Heraldry for one of the Abate- ments of Honour; being aSquare in the Middle of theEf- cutcheon. See Abatement.

A2)e//Tenne is due to him that revokes from his own Challenge, or any way recedes from his Parole, or Word. If there be two, or moreDelfs in anEfcutcheon, it is then no longer an Abatement : So alio, if it be of Metal, or char- ged upon it, then becomes it a Charge of perfect bearing.

DELIA, in Antiquity, Feafts celebrated by the Athe- nians, in Honour of Apollo, whom they furnamed Delius.

The principal Ceremony in this Feaft, was an Embaf- fy, or rather a Pilgrimage to Apollo of Delos, pcrform'd every five Year, by a certain Number of Citizens depu- ted for that Purpofe, and call'd Deliaftt, AhamW, or 'Theory, 0ss>{«;, q-d. the Seers ; and the firft Perfon of the Embaffy, or Deputation, Architheorus, Af>,8ia- p 0! . To him were added four more of the Family of the Ceryci Priefts, defcended from Mercury, who rcfided all the Year at Delos, to affift in the Temple. The whole Deputation fet out on five VefTels, carrying with them every Thing neceffary for the Feaft, and the Sacrifices.

The Veflel that carried the Deliafls, or Theores, was call'd a»a).«, Delias ; the four others were the 'Pa- rale, Antigonid, 'Ptolomaid, and Amraonid. Tho' this is a Circumftance there is fome Difpute about.

The Deliafs, who went a-board, were crown'd with Laurel. At their Arrival, they immediately offer'd a Sa- crifice to Apollo : And after the Sacrifice, a Number of young Maids danced round the Altar, a Dance call'd in Greek rtparei' ; wherein, by their various Motions, and Di- rections, they reprefented the Turnings and Windings of a Labyrinth. When theDeliafts returned to Athens, t'hePeo- ple went out tomeet them, and received them with all the Joy and Acclamation imaginable. They never laid a-fide their Crown till their Commiffion was fully completed ; and then they confecrated it to fome God in his Temple.

The whole Time of their going and returning, with all the Ceremonies thereof, was call'd the De- lia ; during which Time no Criminal might be exe- cuted ; which was a peculiar Privilege of this Feaft, not allowed to any other, not even thofe of Jupiter. Thus, 'Plutarch obferves, it was a Day confecrated to Jupiter when Phocian was made to take the Foifon he was condomn'd to ; whereas they waited thirty Days to give it to Socrates, by Reafon of the Delia.

According to 'Thucidides, the Delia were firft inftitu- ted in the nth Year of the fehptmefian War, after the Athenians had expiated the Iile of Delos, removed all the Tombs out of it, and ordain'd, that no body (hould either be born, or die in it; but that all their fick Peo- ple ftiould be removed into a little Illand, caWdRhenia. Tho' the lonians, and the neighbouring Iflanders of Io- nia, had long before that Time held a Sort of 'Delia, that is, Feafts, and Games, like thofe the Athenians celebra- ted afterwards.

DEL1AC, or Deliacm, among the Ancients, was a Poulterer, or a Merchant who Ibid Fowls, fatted Ca- pons, ££c.

The Traders in this Way were call'd Deliaci, by rea- fon it was the People of the Me of Delos who firft bethought themfelves thereof. They alfo fold Eggs ; as appears from Cicero in his Academic Queftions, Lib. IV. Pliny l.ib.X. C. ,c. and Columella, Lib. VIII. C.8. likewife mention the Deliaci.

DELIACAL Problem, 'Problema Deliacmn, a fa- mous Problem among the Ancients, about the Duplica- tion of the Cube. See Duplication.

DELIBERATIVE, is applied to that Kind of Rheto- ric employ'd in proving a Thing ; or convincing an AfTcm- bly thereof; in order to oblige them to put it in Execution. See Rhetoric.

The Deliberative Kind was much in Vogue among the Greeks and Romans, when the Orators harangued the People. To have deliberative Voice in an Aflem- bly, is when a Perfon has a Right to give his Advice, and his Vote therein. In Councils, the Bifhops have deliberative Voices ; Thofe beneath them have only con- fultative Voices.

DELINEATING. See Designing.

DELINQUENT, a Perfon who has committed fome Fault. It is the Bufinefs of a Magiftrate to be feverc in punilbing Delinquents.

DELIQUIUM, in Medicine, or Deliquium Animi, a fwooning, or fainting away; call'd alfo Syncope, Li-

POTHYMIA, LlPOpSYCHlA, EcTHLIPSIS, and As-

phyxea, which fee.

Deliquium, inChymiftry, is aDiffolution, or melting of a Salt, or Calx, by fufpending it in a moift Cellar. Thus Salt of Tartar, or any fix'd Alcali, in a Cellar, or other cool moift Place, and an open Veffcl, refolves, or runs into a Kind of Water, call'd by the Chymifts, Oil of Tartar per Deliqtiium.

Deliqjiium, is alfo ufed in fome Authots for a Di- ftillation by Force of Fire. See Distillation.

DELIRIUM, Doating, in Medicine, a Symptom, fre- quently befalling in Fevers, cauled by internal Inflam- mations, Wounds, iSc. whereby the Mind is diforder'd to a Degree of Folly, or Phrenzy.

Deliriums alfo frequently arife from immoderate L01- fes of Blood, wheteby the Brain is too much weaken'd ;

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