REM 



crofa, a rfovL- defcending, dipping its beak into a vial Iield 

 in a hand, all proper." 



REMICH, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 departmcin of the Forefls, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the diitrift of Luxembourg, feated on the Mofclle ; iz 

 miles E. of Luxembourg. The place contains 1480, and 

 the caston 10,885 inhabitants, on a territory of 230 kilio- 

 metres, in ij communes. 



REMIGES, in Ornithology, denote the primary and 

 fecondary win ^-feathers. 



REMIGIO, FlORKNTiKO, in Biography, a man of letters 

 in Ttaly, was a native of Flon.-iicc. He entered at an early 

 period into the Dominican order, and was called to Rome 

 by pope Pius V. to fuperintend an edition of the works 

 of St. Tliomas. He was himfelf a confuierable author, and 

 publiflied " A Commentary on the whole Scriptures ;" 

 trandations of " Ammianus Marcelliiuis ;" " Cornelius 

 Nepos ;" and " Fazello's Hiftory of Sicily ;" « Rellec- 

 tious on Guicciardini's Hillory ;" " Italian Poems;" and 

 " A Tranflation in Verfe of Ovid's Heroic Epiftles," 

 of which an elegant edition was printed at Paris in 1762. 

 He died at Florence in 1580, about the age of 62. 

 Morcri. 



REMIGIUS. See Remi. 



Remikiis of Auxerre, a learned French Benediftine 

 monk in the ninth centui-y, derived his furname from the 

 abbey of St. Germain, at Auxerre, where he embraced the 

 religious profeffion. He diftinguiilied himfelf by his pro- 

 ficiency in profane and facred literature, at a dark and bar- 

 barous period, and was placed at the head of the fchools 

 belonging to his monaltery. About the year 882, he was 

 called to Rheims by Foulque;, the fuccefTor of Hincmar in 

 that fee, who gave him the direftion of the literary femi- 

 nary whicli he had founded in his metropolitan city. Here 

 he taught with great reputation for feverai years, after 

 which he went to Paris, where he opened the firft 

 public fchool in that city, after the decline of learning 

 which followed the ravages of the Normans. In the 

 life of pope Formofus, by Platina, the name of Remi- 

 gius of Auxerre is the only one that occurs of a perfon 

 eminent for learning under that pontificate. He was 

 author of " Commentarius in omnes Davidis Pfalmos," 

 which was publifhed at Cologne in 1536. It confifts very 

 much of the collefted opinions and explications of St. Am- 

 brofe, St. Auguftine, and Cafliodorus, reduced into one 

 mafs. — Another work of this author was entitled " Enar- 

 ratio in pofteriorcs XI. minores Prophetas," publilhed at 

 Antwerp in the year 1545, with the " Commentaries" of 

 Oecumenius upon the AAs of the ApolUes, and their 

 Epiftles, and thofe of Arethas upon the book of Revelation ; 

 and " Expofitio Mifls," deduced from the fentiments and 

 authority of the fathers. Some critics have given, among 

 the produftions of Remigius, the " Commentary upon the 

 Epiftles of St. Paul," which by others has been afcrlbed 

 to St. Remi, or Remigius, but which in truth are fuppofed 

 to belong to Haymo, a German bifhop, who flouriftied in 

 the ninth century, and who was author of a long lift of 

 theological works. Such at leaft is the opinion of Du 

 Pin, in oppofition, indeed, to the authority of Mofheim. 

 Moreri. 



Remigius left behind him " A Commentary on the Mu- 

 llcal Treatiie of Martianus Capella," which is ibll fubfifting 

 among the MSS. in the king of France's library, N° 5304. 

 He acquired his fcience from Heric. Heric was the dif- 

 ciple of Rabanus, and Hayman of Halberllidt, who had 

 converfed with the Roman fingers fciit into France by pope 

 Adrian. 



REM 



REMILLY, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Ardennes ; 7 miles W. of Charlcville. 



REMINISCENCE, Rkminisclntia, is that power of 

 the human luiud, by which it rccoUeas itfelf, or calls 

 again to its remembrance fiicli ideal or notions as it had 

 really forgot : in which it differs from memory, which is a 

 treafuring up of things in the mind, and keeping them there, 

 without forgetting them. 



Hence memory may be confidcred as a continual remem- 

 brance ; and rcminifccHce as an interrupted memory. 



How near akin focvcr the two faculties may feem, yet 

 ihcy are generally found feparatcd ; fo that they who excel 

 in the one, are grnerally defcClive in the other. 



The ancient Plalonifts were of opinion, that all learning 

 and knowledge coniiftej in the reminifcence or rccolleftion 

 ot notices which hud been in the foul before its union with 

 the body. 



REMINISCERE, the fccond Sunday in Lent; an- 

 ciently thus called from the firft word of the introit of 

 the mals faid for that day, " Reminifcerc miferationum 

 tuarum." 



REMIREA, in Bol.my, Aubl. Guian. 44. t. 16. Brown 

 Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 236. (See MittiiA.) We are 

 unacquainted with Mr. Brown's reafoi.s for preferring the 

 above name, whofe origm does not appear, and which the 

 claffical Schrcber rtjeftcd as barbarous. 



REMIREMONT, m Geography, a town 0/ France,' 

 and principal place of a diftridl, in the department of the 

 Vofgcs ; 10 mites S.S.E. of Epinal. The town contains 

 3250, and the canton 14,916 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 235 kiliometrcs, in 15 communes. N. lat. 48° 1'. E. 

 long. 6° 40'. 



REMISIT. — Re8o quando dominus Rciiiifit. See 

 Recto. 



REMISSAM, in Geography. See Remsa. 

 REMISSION, in Laiu, b'f. denotes the paidon of a 

 crime, or the giving up the punifhment due to it. 



Remission, in Medicine, is when a dillcmper abates, 

 but doe's not go quite off, before it returns again : as is 

 common in fevers which do not quite intermit. See Re- 

 mittent. 



Remission, Remi/fw, in Phy/ics, the abatement of the 

 power or efficacy of any quality. In oppofition to the 

 increafe of the fame, which is called its intenjion. 



In all quahties capable of intenfion and remiflion, the 

 intenfion decreafes as the fquares of the diftance from the 

 centre of the radiating quality increafe. 



Remission, RemUfto, avss-i,-, in the Ancient Muftc, was ufed 

 to fignify the pafiage of the voice from acute to grave, 

 being oppofite to intenfion. 



REMIT, in Commerce. To remit a fum of money, bill, 

 or the like, is to fend a fum of money, &c. 



To remit is alfo ufed among bankers for what is accaf- 

 tomed to be given a banker, or, as it were, difcounted with 

 him, for his giving a bill of exchange. 



To remit is alfo to give up part of one's due to a debtor ; 

 as, I would remit you a fourth of what you owe on con- 

 dition of paying me the reft in hand. 



REMITTANCE, in Commerce, the traffic or return of 

 money from one place to another, by biUs of exchange, 

 orders, or the like. 



A remittance is properly a bill of exchange, or the like, 

 fent to a correfpondent, and the content of it to be received 

 by him, or Ibme other perfon, on whor.i it is drawn. B> 

 means of thefe remittances, large funis of money are re- 

 turned from one city to another, without danger, witho'^t. 

 carriage, &c. 



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