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present, for that time, whosoever is patron 

 of them ; tnd in the other case the patron 

 may present; but bv dispensation of re- 

 tainder, a bishop may retain some or all 

 the preferments he was entitled to, be- 

 fore he was made bishop. 



CBSTRUM, in botany, English bastard 

 jasmine, a genus of the Pentandna Mono- 

 gynia class and order. Natural order of 

 Luridae. Solaneae, Jussieu. Essential cha- 

 racter : corolla funnel-form ; stamens 

 emitting a toothlet from their middle ; 

 berry unilocular. There are nine species, 

 of which C. nocturnum, night smelling 

 cestrum, is about seven feet high, covered 

 with a grejish bark, and divides upward 

 into many slender brandies, which gene- 

 rally incline to one side ; they are gar- 

 nished with leaves placed alternately, 

 nearly four inches long, and one and a 

 half broad ; the flowers are produced at 

 the wings of the leaves, in small clusters, 

 standing upon short peduncles, each 

 sustaining four or five flowers, of an her- 

 baceous colour. They appear in August, 

 but are not succeeded by berries in this 

 country : those which come from Ame- 

 rica are small, and are of a dark brown 

 colour. It is a native of the island of Cuba. 

 CESTUI, a French word, signifying 

 he or him, frequently used in our law- 

 writings. Thus " cestui qui trust," a per- 

 son who has lands, See. committed to him 

 for the benefit of another ; and if such 

 person does not perform his trust, he is 

 compellable to it in Chancery, " Cestui 

 qui vie," one for whose life any lands, 

 &c. are granted. " Cestui qui use," a 

 person to whose use any one is enfeoff'ed 

 of lands or tenements. Formerly the 

 feoffees to uses were deemed owners of 

 the land, but now the possession is ad- 

 judged in cestui qui use. 



CETE, in natural history, the seventh 

 order of Mammalia, in the Linnaean sys- 

 tem of animals, including the four gene- 

 ra ; Monodon, or narval ; Balaena, whale ; 

 Pityseter, cachalot ; and Delphinus, dol- 

 phin. The cetaceous tribe has one or 

 more spiracles placed on the fore part of 

 the skull ; no feet ; pectoral fins without 

 nails, and tail horizontal. The cetaceous 

 order of animals has nothing peculiar to 

 fish, except living in the same element, 

 and being endowed with the same powers 

 of progressive motion, as those fishes 

 which are intended to move with consi- 

 derable velocity. The popular idea of 

 cetaceous animals being fishes is so strong- 

 ly impressed on the public mind, that it 

 can never, perhaps, be entirely removed; 

 for the critical observations of naturalists 



appear (oo abstruse to be generally ex- 

 amined, and ef consequence to be com- 

 monly understood. The cetaceous tribes 

 live in the same element as fishes, and, 

 partaking somewhat of their external 

 figure, will ever be considered as apper- 

 taining to that class of animals by the less 

 informed portion of mankind. 



Cetaceous animals, or, as Dr. Shaw ex- 

 presses them, " fish formed mammalia," 

 have lungs, intestines, and other internal 

 organs, formed on the same principle as 

 in quadrupeds ; and, indeed, on strict 

 comparison, the principal differences that 

 exist between them will not be found 

 very considerable ; one of the most ma- 

 terial seems to consist in their want of 

 posterior legs, the peculiar structure of 

 the (ail supplying that defect, this being 

 extremely strong and tendinous, and di- 

 vided into two horizontal lobes, but which 

 has no internal bones. Like quadrupeds, 

 they have a heart furnished with two auri- 

 cles, and two ventricles, and their blood 

 is warm and red : they breathe by their 

 lungs, and not by means of gills, as in 

 true fishes. In their amours they agree 

 with quadrupeds; the female produces 

 her young alive, which rarely happens 

 among- fishes, and she suckles them with 

 her teats, as in the true mammalia. The 

 structure of their brain, their sexual or- 

 gans, stomach, and liver, resemble those 

 of mammiferous animals. Their skin is 

 smooth, or not covered with scales ; and 

 their tail is placed in a position the very 

 reverse of fishes, in being always fiat 

 and horizontal, instead of vertical. The 

 cetaceous animals, the cachalot and dol- 

 phin genera, have the mouth armed with 

 conic teeth ; the whales with horny laminae 

 in the upper jaw ; and the narval with 

 teeth, or tusks of enormous length. They 

 are neither sanguinary nor ferocious. 

 Theirstomachs are large, arid divided into 

 chambers to the number of five, as in the 

 whale and porpoise, or even seven, as in 

 the narval. In the last particular they 

 seem to constitute an intermediate link 

 between carnivorous and herbivorous ani- 

 mals, approaching nearly to ruminating 

 quadrupeds ; but differ, in subsisting on 

 animal food, as they live chiefly on acti- 

 niae, medusae, and other zoophytes, on 

 crustaceous animals, and on small fish. 

 See MONODOJT, BAL^STA, PHYSKTER, and 

 DELPHI NUS. 



CEYLANITE, in mineralogy, a species 

 of the flint genus, of a dark indigo-blue, 

 which passes into a bluish or greenish 

 black. It recurs sometimes in rolled pieces, 

 and angular pieces, and sometimes 



