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quence was his expulfion from the convent at Antoor/kow, 

 aiid his retirement to another at Wiborg. As he here pro- 

 pagated his doftrine, he was iniprifoned by the prior ; but 

 by this aft of feverity he was emboldened to proceed, and 

 preached to tlie populace from a window. Being liberated 

 in 1 526, he was in the fame year appointed chaplain to the 

 king, and permitted to preach openly at Wiborg. He foon 

 acquired a number of followers, who went to church armed, 

 in order to protect him from the violence of the Papills. In 

 1529 he was invited to officiate in the church of St. Nicho- 

 las, at Copenhagen ; and in the following year he attended, 

 as direftor, at a conference which took place in that city be- 

 tween the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics. On the 

 death ©f Frederic I. he was baniflied fromZealand, but being 

 after a few days invited to return, he was appointed clergy- 

 man and lefturer in theology at Roichkild. In 1542 he was 

 advanced to the epifcopal chair of Ribe, and died in the 

 year 1561. Taufen, befides an improved Dani(h tranflation 

 of the Pfalms, printed in 1544, and at Copenhagen in 1557, 

 was the author of feveral works, confifting of Danilh 

 hymns, and treatifes on the doftrine of Luther. A full 

 account of his meritorious fervices may be found in Profeflbr 

 Munter's Hiftory of the Reformation in Denmark, &c. 

 Gen. Biog. 



TAUSS, or DoMAznTZ, in Geography, a town of Bo- 

 hemia, in the circle of Pilfen ; 26 miles S.S.W. of Pilfen. 

 N. lat. 49° 25'. E. long. 12° 52'. 



TAUSTE, a town ot Spain, in Aragon ; 25 miles N-W. 

 of Sai-agofla. 



TAUTENBURG, a town and citadel of Saxony, in 

 Tliuringia ; 3 miles S. of Camburg. 



'i^UTICA, in jinclent Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Media. 



TAUTOLOGICAL Echoes, are fuch echoes as re- 

 peat the fame found or fyllable many times. See Echo. 



TAUTOLOGY, in Grammar, a needlefs repetition of 

 the fame fenfe in different words ; or, a reprefentation of 

 any thing as the caufe, condition, or Lor.fequence of itfelf. 

 •Of the firft kind is that of Virgil : 



" Si fata virum fervant, fi vefcitur aura 



jEtherea, neque adhuc crudelibua oc:ubat umbris." 



Such alfo is this of Addifon : 



" The dawn is overcaft : — the morning lours ; 



And heavily in clouds brings on the day." Cato. 



Here the fame thought is repeated thrice in different 

 words. 



It is alfo confidered as of the nature of tautology, to 

 lengthen a fentence by coupling words altogether or nearly 

 fynonimous, whether they be fubflantives or adjeftives, 

 verbs or adverbs. This is a very common fault, and to be 

 found even in our beft writers. It fhould ever be remem- 

 bered, as an invariable maxim, that words which add nothing 

 to the fenfe or to the clearnefs, muft diminifh the force of the 

 expreffion. There are two occaiions, however, on which 

 fynonimous words may be properly ufed. One is, when an 

 obfcurer term, which we cannot avoid employing, on ac- 

 count of fome conneiflion with what either precedes or fol- 

 lows, needs to be explained by one that is clearer : the other 

 is, when the language of the paffions is exhibited. Paflioa 

 dwells on its objeft ; the impallioned fpeaker always at- 

 tempts to rife in expreffion ; but when that is imprafticable, 

 he recurs to repetition and fynonymy, and thus produces in 

 a degree the fame eJeft. An adjeflive and its fubftantive 

 vill fomctimes include a tautology.. Moreover, in fome 

 fingle words, there is h much the appearance of tauto- 



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logy, that they ought, in profe at leaft, to be avoided ; futh 

 are worfer for worlc, lefTcr for left, chiefcft for chief, ix- 

 tremeft for extreme ; Moft Higheft, as in the liturgy, for 

 Mod High. Campbell's Philofophy of Rhetoric, vol. ii. 



TAUVES, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Puy de D6me ; 15 miles W. of Beffe. 



TAUVO, a fmall ifland on the E. fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia. N. lat. 64" 50'. E. long. 24° 31'. 



TAVY, a river of England, which rife8,in Dcvonfhire, 

 paffi;s by Taviftock, &c. and joins the Xa»ar, two miles 

 below Saltafli. 



TAUZIM. SeeTEUsiNG. 



TAW, a river of England, which rifes about three miles 

 S.E. from Oakhampton, and runs into the Briftol channel 

 below Appledore, forming a large bay at its mouth, called 

 Barnftaple bay. 



Taw, a town of Pruffia ; 23 miles W.S.W. of Tilfit. 



TAWALLY, one of the Molucca iflands, 25 miles 

 long from north to fouth, and from 5 to 9 broad. S. lat. 

 0° 21'. E. long. 127° 14'. 



TAWANDEE Creek, a river of Pennfylvania, which 

 runs into the E. branch of the Sufquchanna, N. lat. 41° 45'. 

 W. long. 76° -^d. 



TAWARRAN, a town on the N.W. coaft of the 

 i/l.-md of Borneo. N. lat. 6° 9'. E. long. 116- 15'. 



TAWAS, Indians in the Ohio, on the river Miami of 

 the Lake. 



TAWEE-TAWEE, an ifland in the Sooloo Archipe- 

 lago, 30 miles long, and from 3 to 10 broad. N. lat. 

 5° 15'. E. long. 120°. 



TAWING, Skinning, the art or manner of preparing 

 or dreffing fkins in white, to fit them for ufc in divers 

 manufaflures, particularly for gloves, &c. 



All kinds of flvins may be tawed ; but it is chiefly thofe 

 of (hcep, lambs, kids, and goats, that are ufed to be drefled 

 this way, as being thole fitteil for gloves. 



Method of taTfing or drejfin^ Sliiis in IFh'tle. — The wool 

 or hair being well got off the ilcins by means of lime, &c. 

 (as defcribed under the article Shammv,) they are laid in 

 a large vat of wood or ftone, fet in the ground, full cf 

 water, in which quick-lime has been flaked ; in this they 

 continue a month or fix weeks, as the weather is more or 

 lefs hot, or as the llcins are required to be more or lefs fqft 

 and phant. 



While in the vat, the water and lime are changed twice, 

 and they are taken out and put in again every day. When 

 taken out for the lall time, they are laid all night to foak 

 in a running water, to get out the greateil part of the lime; 

 and in the morning they are laid fix together on the woode-i 

 leg, to get off the flerti by fcraping them ftoutly, one after 

 another, on the fleffi-fide with a cutting two-handed in- 

 ilrument, called a knife ; and while this is in hand, they 

 cut off the legs, and other fujKrlluous parts about the 

 extremes. 



This done, they are laid in a vat or pit with a little water ; 

 where, being well fulled with wooden peftles for a quarter 

 of an hour, the vat is filled up with water, and the lk!-,s 

 are rinfed in it. They are next thrown on a clean pavement 

 to drain ; which done, they are caft into a frelh pit cf 

 water, where being well rinfed they are taken out, and laid 

 on the wooden leg fix at once, with the hair-fide outcrmoil, 

 over which they rub a kind of whetftone very brifltly, to 

 foftcn and fit them to receive four or five more prepar-iticns 

 given them on the leg, both on the flefti-fide and the hair- 

 fide, with the knife, after the manner above-mentioned. 



They are then put into a pit with '.vatcr and iwheat -bran, 

 and ilirrcd about in it with wooden poleg, till the bran is 



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