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them both in the hearers and in the fpeaker. Laftly, the 

 afFeaation of fpcaking fentences leads a perfoii to trifling 

 and impertinent ones, inllances of which we have an abun- 

 dance in Seneca's tragedies. Petronius recommends it to 

 authors to difguife their fentences, that they may not Hand 

 glaring above the thread or ground of the difcourfe. 



SENTER Harbour, in Geography, a cove in the N.W. 

 part of lake Winnipifcogec. 



SENTHENHEIM, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Upper Rhine ; lo miles N.E. of Befort. 



SENTICA, in Jncienl Geography, a town of Spain, in 

 the Tarragoneniis, afligned by Ptolemy to the Vaccseans. 



SENTICE, a country of Macedonia, according to Livy. 



SENTII, a people of the Maritime Alps, S.E. of the 

 Bodiantici, mentioned by Ptolemy, who affigns to them 

 the town of Dinia. 



SENTIMENTS, in Poetry, and particularly dramatic, 

 are the thoughts which the feveral perfons exprefs, whether 

 they relate to matters of opinion, paflion, bufmefs, or the 

 like. 



The manners form the tragic aftion, and the fentiments 

 explain it, difcovering its caufes, motives, &c. The fenti- 

 ments are to the manners, what thefe are to the fable. In 

 the fentiments, regard is to be had to nature and pro- 

 bability ; a madman, for inftance, mull fpeak as a madman ; 

 a lover, as a lover ; a hero, as a hero. The fentiments, in 

 great meafure, are to fultain the charafter. The word fen- 

 timent, in its true and old Englifh fenfe, fignifies a formed 

 Opinion, notion, or principle; but of late years it has been 

 much ufed by fome writers to denote an internal impulfe of 

 paflion, afleftion, fancy, or intelleft, which is to be con- 

 sidered rather as the caufe or occafion of our forming an 

 opinion, than as the real opinion itfelf. 



SENTINEL, Great, in Geography, an ifland in the 

 Ealt Indian fea, about lo miles in circumference ; 20 miles 

 S.W. from tlie Greater Andaman. N. lat. 11° 36'. E. 

 long. 92° 40'. 



Sentinel, Little, a fmall ifland in the Ealt Indian fea, 

 about 8 miles from the Little Andaman. N. lat. io° 59'. 

 E. long. 92° 23'. 



Sentinel, Cenlry, or Sentry, in War, a private foldier 

 placed in fome poft to watch any approach of the enemy, 

 to prevent furprifes, and to (lop fuch as would pafs without 

 orders, or without difcovering who they are. They are 

 placed before the arms of all guards, at the tents and doors 

 of general officers, colonels of regiments, &c. 



The word is modern ; it is not long fince they faid. To 

 be on the fcout, in the fame fenfe as we now fay. To Jiand 

 fentry, ^c. Menage derives the word a fentiendo, from 

 pcrceivin-r. 



Sentinel perdue, is a fentinel placed at fome very advanced 

 and dangerous poll, whence it is odds that he never returns. 

 See Perdue. 



The fentiiiel's word, when he challenges, is. Who is there? 

 Qui vive, or Q^ui va la ! Stand! Demure la ! 



SENTINUM, i;i Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, in 

 Umbria, according to Strabo and Ptolemy. — Alfo, a town 

 of Italy, belonging to the Senones, S.W. of Suafa. 



SENTINUS, a river of Italy, in Picenum. 



SENTO, in Geography, a river uf Naples, which runs 

 into the Adriatic j 3 miles S.E. of Lanciano. 



SENTOU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Se-tchuen, on the river Kincha ; 22 miles N.E. of Pei. 



SENTUR, a town of Egypt; 9 miles N.W. of 

 Fayoum. 



SENURIS, a town of Egypt, near the Birket il Kerun ; 

 9 miles N.W. of Fayoum. 



SEP 



SENUS, in /Indent Geography, a river of Hibernia, ac. 

 cording to Ptolemy, who places its mouth on the weftem 

 coaft, between the mouths of the Aufoba and of the Dur. — 

 Alfo, a river of India, in the country of the Sines, according 

 to Ptolemy, who fays, that it was connected with the 

 Cotiaria, at a great dittance from its mouth. 



SENZA, an Italian prepohtion, implying, in Mufic, 

 without : as in Handel's organ concertos, when palfages 

 are to be wholly left to the violins, fen%a organo implies, 

 without the organ ; fen'z.a viola, without the tenor ; fenz^ 

 baffh, without the bafe, &c. 



SENZARSKAIA, in Geography, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in 

 the government of ToboUk ; 80 miles S. of Yalutorovfli. 



SEODA, a fea-port of Japan, on the S. coaft of the 

 ifland of Niphon ; 105 miles E. of Meaco. N. lat. 37° 20'. 

 E. long. 139^ 10'. 



SEGN, in Ancient Geography, a town of Paleftine, in the 

 tribe of Iflachar, according lo Jofliua. Eufebius fays, 

 that in his time there was a place of this name at the foot 

 of mount Tabor. 



Seon St. Henry, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Mouths, of the Rhone ; 4 miles N. of 

 Marfeilles. 



SEOUJI KiAMEN, a poft of Chinefe Tartary, in the 

 country of the Monguls ; 23 miles S.W. of Kara Hotun. 



SEPARABLE Modes. See Mode. 



SEPARATE Affection. See Affection. 



Separate, Penultimate of the. See Penultimate. 



Separate IJland, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the 

 Chinefe fea. N. lat. f 6'. E. long. 107° 4J'. 



SEPARATED Flowers, in Botany, are fo called when 

 the ftamens and pillils are fituated in different flowers of the 

 fame fpecies. Hence it appears that feparated flowers are 

 confined to fuch plants as are either monoecious, dioecious, 

 or polygamous. They are termed by Liniiasus, Diclines. 



SEPARATERS, among Horfes, the teeth ufually caDed 

 incifors, by which the animal feparates or bites off^ a portion 

 of his food for chewing. See Teeth. 



SEPARATION, in Navigation, the fame with what 

 we more ufuaUy call departure. 



Separation of Man and Wife. See Ditorce. 



Separ.\tion, Waters of. See Water. 



Separation Bay, in Geography, a bay in the Straits of 

 Magellan, on the coaft of Terra del Fuego ; 10 miles S.E. 

 of Cape Pillar. 



SEPARATISTS, in Eccleftajlicai Hiftory, a religious 

 feft in England, fo denominated from their fetting up a 

 feparate church, different from that eftabliflied by law. 

 See Dissenters, &c. 



At prefent, Separatifts is rather the name of a colIeAion 

 of fefts than of any particular one ; but nearer their original, 

 there was that agreement among them, that one name fcrved 

 them all. 



Their divifion into Preftjyterians, Anabaptifts, Inde- 

 pendents, &c. is a more modern thing. 



The Separatifts, Hornius tells us, Hift. Eccl. are fuch as 

 under Edward VI. Ehzabeth, and James I. refufed to con- 

 form to the church of England, and who were firft called 

 Puritans, then Separatifts, and laftly, Nonconformifts. 



The firft leader of the Separatifts was Bolton, who, upon 

 quitting the party he had formed, was fucceeded by Robert 

 Brown, from whom the Separatifts were called Brownids. 



SEPARATORIUM, the name of a furgical inftrument 

 ufed for feparating the pericranium from the flcuU. 



SEPARATRIX, in Arithmetic, denotes the point, or 

 comma, which fepaiates and diftinguifhes decimals from in- 

 tegers ; thus, 465,32 or 465.32. 



SEPARI, 



