DES 
ut se cones a himfelf 
by the fenate and people tn his human 
charaGer, and wilely left to -_ faeceffo r the ‘care of his 
public deification. A regu iflom was introduced, that 
mber of the gods; and the ceremonies 
of his apotheofis were blended with thofe of his funeral. 
' 
This loyal, and, as it oes si injudicious alae tia 
f 
y the aly nature of a 3 ie it was receiv- 
cae re 
charaGers 0 ie r or Avgultus were Taperior to thofe 
of the popular deities, it was the misfortune of the 
. ; : 
vol. i. 
DEI GGITSCH, in Geography, a river of Germany, 
which runs into the Kainach, about a mile fouth-eaft from 
oit : 
DEI Tup ICIUM, in Antiquity, a name given’ to the 
old oe trial al ordeal ; becaufe they thonght it an ap- 
peal to God, for the juttice of a caufe, and verily believed 
that the decifion was mess to the will and pleafure of 
divine providence. See 
DEINCLINERS, or De ae dials, are fuch as 
both eS and incline or recline, at the fame time. 
» for inftance, a plane to cut the prime vertical 
circle a an angle of 30 degrees, and the horizontal plane un- 
der an angle of 24 degrees, the elevation of the being 
2 oS a dial, drawn on this plane, is called a deincliner. 
‘DEINER, in Gengraphy, a town Kes European Turkey, 
in the see of Moldavi - s welt of Birlct. 
DE E 
Abr. When one vutlide ority 
derived Gn another, or if a defendant juftifies by authori- 
ty at common law, as aconftable by arreft for breach of 
the peace; or if he juftifies by a&t of parliament, &c.3 the 
plaintiff may reply that he did it of Ais own wrong, en 
any fuch ae as the ines has alleged. Cro. Eliz. 53 
2 Salk. PASS. 
DEINSBURG, in Cana: a town of Germany in 
the duchy of Carinthia ; 5 miles north of Ebernftein. 
DEINSE, Deinze, or Deynss, a {mall town of hues 
n the department of the Efcaut, chief place of a canton 
the diftriG of Gand, with a a dee of 2958 individuals 
nine miles agents of Gand, and 1§ north-eaft of Cour 
ray anton has an extent of 85 kiliometres, Io 
communes, and 17, 158 inhabitants, 
DEJOCES, in Biography, the firft king of the Medes, 
raifed to that honour from the rank of citizen, on account 
of his zeal in the ara ee of juftice and equity among 
his countrymen. influence as a private man was fo 
great, that when he ea to at, anarchy and confufion 
feemed always and immediately to prevail: he was, in confe- 
DEI! 
quence of this, chofen fovereign about the year B.C. 709. 
e foon obtained ail the 
is p by 
but thofe of his came houfeh« He tranfaéted all his 
bufinefs through the medi ium of fervants and minifters. By 
thefe means, and by em oye a multitude of fpics tn ail 
parts of his dominions, he eflablithed a perfect on ia 
which he adminiftered ue ju’gment, and with fome de- 
pree of feverity. He reizned 53 years; and at his death 
was fucceeded by his fon eee Univer, Hilt, 
OTARUS, fir difinguifhed as tetrarch of G: ala- 
tia, and on account of the eminent fervices which he per- 
Gaa in that flation, and of the figure which he made in 
the Mithridatic war, was afterwards sieiea to the throne 
of the Leffer Armenia by Pompey, which appointment was 
confirmed by the fenate. He was high!y refpeéted by moft 
orious Cefar. 
> ber. ae his forfeited territories. 
o have joined Brutus, but the commander to w 
ie trufted his troops went over to Antony, which was fo 
far fortunate for him, that on the defeat of Brutus he was 
permitted to eae his een He arrived to an advanced 
age, and, to s the clofe of life, wa’s exceflively devoted 
o the iperitions of the age and coudtry in which in 
as governed almolt entirely by omens and a 
AyLE, who has given a very elzborate ae 
learned article of this princes 
ARA, O:dloxoc, See Motuer of G 
DEIRA, in Ancient Geography, one of ie a o king- 
doms, into which the 7t ingdom of the heptnrch, or 
Northumberland, was divided ; age the co 
between the Humber an the yne, whofe oat was 
r The other of thefe two kivedoms was Bernicia, or 
the country between the ‘Lyne and the For th, whofe capical 
Thefe ne kingdoms were united by Of- 
he ath century, into the king- 
dom of Northumberland. 
DEIR-ABULISE, in aL a town of Esypt ;. 
os alle fouth-weft of Cai 
EIRGEART oa: , often called Leugh Derg, 
Ireland, into which the river 
is abou miies long, and from two to fix in breadth, 
and contains fome, though not many, iflands. 
_DEIROUT, or Deiritr, a large and handfome town 
of Egypt, fituated on the weftern bank of the Nile, almoft 
Sept to Foueh, and about 16 miles fouth-caft of Ro- 
fetta. 
DEIS, or Da'cus, the chief table in a monaftery. ‘ So- 
lus in iar ee prandebit f{upremus habens va aftellum, priore 
prandente ad magnam menfam quam deis vulgariter appella- 
us 
Iti is thus called from a cloth called dais, with which the 
tables of kings were covere 
EISM, the doGrine or belief of the Deitts. 
Deifin, ‘Theifm, from @eos, God, may properly be ufed to 
this fenfe it is fo far from being oppofite to Chriftianity, 
that it is one great defign of the Gofpel to uaueerien 
enforce 
