DED 
From the circumftance of i injury of one fide of the brain ge- 
nerally producing paralyfis of the oppofite fide of the body, 
forne have inferrec at all the nerves decuffate ; fo that the 
right fi odv, according to thts opinion, has 1%6 
nerves fon a ‘eft fide of the brain, and vice verfé. TI 
arguments from direét ae ae invefligation would 
czrtaialy be completely againft fuch an op! as we dil. 
cover nothing like a ecuflat tion of noe fort. We are fo 
totally ignorant . the manner, in which ave mind is affeéted, 
and of every thing that relates to the chain of connexion 
d the fenfitive facult ty, that we 
ticu! ar phenomena in this 
nel no more reafon to infer that p 
ould affe@ the fame fide of the bit than that it 
fhoald paralyte the oppofite parts; and any inveftigation of 
the reafon why the latter event fhould a place, ate pro- 
in h 
bably avail us no more tha attempts to explai it 
is that we fee obj-Cs upright, when they are painted on we 
retina in an inverted flate, in confequence of the decuflation 
of the rays of oe in their paffage through | the cry ftalline 
Jens. See S. oo —- set ig iffert. 
ree Nervorun Optico Mog 1796. 
DECUSSIS, a Roman coin, weigh na ee values. 
At fir it was ina ten as, under [’abius fixteen, and under 
Anguftus twelve. 
DECUSSORIUM, a furgeon’s inftrument, wherewith 
the dura mater 1s preffled rnila in trepanning, to fecure it 
from damage in the operatio 
Zi, or Der} in Gearaply, a town of Tranfylvania, 
on the river Samos; 7 miles N.W. of Samofvivar. 
DEDARD, a town a Tranfylvania; 8 miles W. of 
Kereiztier. 
DEDDINGTON, a market town in the hundred of 
Wootton, Oxfordihi oe sie . is feventeen miles diftant 
— Oxford, _ a e N.W. from London. It is an 
neient tow ed. and fen t members to par- 
fanene in ie reigns 3 of epee ies and Edward IIL. It 
has long loft that coe and is at prefent governed by a 
bailiff. Dr. Plot, in his el oF the County, informs us, 
tnat Deddington had once a caiftle, which the earl of 
e famous “ond ny ees ee of 
“Edw I., Piers eres under a ftron ard; where 
he was furprifed by the earl of Warwick, er ‘hurried 
away to Black-low hill for ex cution. 1 is tole- 
rably well built ; and the chur 
Sir Th 
a very neat tower. Sir as Pope, who was born here, 
D. 1507, and died in 1558, ae a ea called 
Jefus fchool; before he gave the manor to Chrift church 
college r ) xfo 
o the Staffordfhire col- 
T he pia ce is 
of Drunken Deddin ngto on as a 
market weekly on ae and three annual fairs. Ac- 
the late a@, the number of 
an 
t fulphuris, mixed v r fulphuric 
neutral falts ; a its waters produce fimilar el effe&ts in 
ferophulous cafes, to thofe of. Harrowgate Spaw in York- 
ire. 
Vou. XI. 
DED 
DEDELER, a town of A fiatic ae in the province 
of Caramana ; 21 mies N.V 
a grt a large villaze of Eley i in England, was 
form arket town of fome ape and famous for its . 
clothing rade, a as early as the reign Richard LI]. cere 
is a free grammar 7c thool, which was end wed Wiliam 
Littlebury, peed year 1570, the educstion, 
of twenty {cho The ‘donation was “confirm ed, and the 
dated 
and 1537 inhabitants. 
E. from Colchefter, and 
oe 
s N.E. by» 
rae fr om 
53 miles N.E. 
De a pot-town of America, and the ca pital . 
No folk conn nty, in the ftate of Maflachufetts, - by 
aE es Tiot, a od by the firft fettlers Clap 
Thi ip was incorporated in ‘one 7 "is feve 
aes long and fix broad, and contains 1973 inhabitants. 
Its public buildings are, three congregacional churches, aa 
ch, a court t-houfe, an 
il 
a fulling-mille, 3 p 
s a wire-manufa€tory, which fupplics the Ae ane aad card 
ie ure of Bofton. 
DE in jee imports a warranty given to the 
feoffee and his hei See Warranty. 
DEDICATION, the a&t of confecrating a temple, Na 
tue, place, to nine honour of fome deity. See Tr 
LTAR ; &C. 
fe of de ccm is se | ancient, both among the 
ers of the true God, and among the heathens: the 
Hebrews call it R59, Abenuchah, initiation; which the 
Greek tranflators render eyxaima, and eyxaimopos, renews 
In the Scripture we ae with dedications of the taber- 
nacle, of altars, 
of the firft and fecond temple, and even of 
the houfes of gee perfons. (Numb. vil. 10, 11. 84. 88. 
Deut. xx. 5. x Kings, viii, 63. 2 Chron. vii. §. 9. 
Ezra, vi. 16,17. 1 Efd. vii. 7. mM, XXX. T eb. ix. 
18.) ‘There are alfo dedications of veflels and garment of 
the ae and Levites, and evan of the men theinfcl ves 
r the Chriftian difpenfation, we call the hke ceremo- 
nies Sotaa ec. benediétions, ordinations, Kc. and not dedi- 
cations, which term is only applied to places, asto a church 5 
and is properly the confecration thereof performed by a 
iithop, = a — of ceremonies preferibed by the church. 
ee ATI 
The Chriftians, finding themfelves at liberty under Con- 
ftantine, in lieu of their ruinous churches, built new ones in 
every place; and dedicated them with a great ae : 
i edication was ufually. perform 
a number of bihops, to 
ave the defcription of thofe 
the churches at Jerufalem and Tyre, in Eufebius, and ae 
The Fe ait of the 
faint or patron of a church, ell 
catio, was celebrated not only by the inhabitants of the pia ces 
but by thofe of all the neighbouring villazes, who ufually 
reforted thither ; and fuch affemblies were authorifed by the 
Kk kin 
