DER 
aterm our Old Writers, is ufed for a-park, 
g. d.a field of dee 
EREGE, in Canaiy. an ifland of the Red fea: low 
covered with grafs; but round like a fhield, whence 
m t lies between the ports of Sibt and Djezan. 
M, East, or Market. Dereham, is a market 
town and parifh in the Ihindre of Midford in the county of 
Norfolk. It is 16 miles from Norwich, and 101 north-eaft 
from London. Ia the 
pavin g, &c. more pleafant. A nunnery is faid to 
have ‘been founded here ia a and deftroyed by the Danes 
in 974. The manor is called Dereham ele nz, and is in- 
velted in the crow Here are a weekl on Friday, 
and two annual on The parifh-church is an ancient build- 
: and contains fome curious relics. Pie. liam Cowper, 
Blomefield’s Hitlory of Norfolk. 
or DERaAIGn NMENT, in Law. The 
fubftantive dereinment is ; fometi times ufed in the fame fenfe 
with the French defrayer or defranger; that is, to difplace 
or fet out of order. Thus we find deraignment or departure 
out of religion, ann. 31 Hen. VIII. and ad 6 
Edw. 6. c. 13. us alfo we meet hi. dereinment or 
difcherge “of their ae 35 Henry VIII. cap. 29. which 
is faid of thofe r n who forfook their orders‘or 
The leffee enters into 
- verbo eee makes it fignify what we call 
waging ard makin 
DERELI CTs: res “de and relinguo, I leave, in the 
Civil Law, are fach goods as are wilfully thrown away, or 
ges ae by the owner. 
LicT is alfo applied to fuch lands, as the fea reced- 
ing fam, leaves dry, and fit for cultivation. 
If they are left 7 a gradual recefs of the Sea, they are ad- 
judged to belong to the — iy ag fo ned lands: but 
n-ifland is formed in arge quantity of 
new land appears, fuch derelit lands belong to the king, 
See on oe fubje& the article Arzu 
D SIDE, in Botany, a name a ‘which fome authors 
have calle 4 the tamarind-tree. Alpin Ezypt. p. 328. 
DEREMIST&, in Ancient eri tes , the name of a 
people who inhabited the interior of Illy 
DERE A, a town of Afia, in Mefopotam 
DERENBURG, in Geograph ye See OUR 
n ot seta in nae ayehauciy 
DERENPERG,a 
of Auftria; three miles ‘S. vot Ebenfur 
DEREON, in eat Geography, a fall ae of Thrace, 
upon the Euxine fea, at the € ity of Macron-Tychos. 
OeeetaNh a jose of Illyria oe . Piolemy in 
DEREVIANNOE in Geography, a town of Ruffia, 
the province of Ufting, on the Vitchegda; 76 miles E. 
Uk Sifolhk.—Alfo, a ee of Ruffiz, 
of Olonetz, on the W. coaft of lake Olonetz; x2 miles 
Ss. a adil, 
writ for recalling a -parliament, sey n 5 Edw. III. the 
carrie being fummoned, was r lled te fuch a =" be- 
ore it met. Vide Pryn’s pee on the 4 Inft. f. 4. 
a 
in the government 
DER 
DEREWNEA, in Geography, a. town of. a in 
the palatinate of Novogrodek ; 42 miles EN. E. of Nov 
gro oF 
DE REYN, 0 or DERAIGN, difrationare vel oo in’ 
our Old La the aét of prov 
aws, is generally ufed for 
we find dirationabit jus fuv res propinquior. 
a ii. cc. 6. , dirationavit terram illa 
a. lib i il. Cc. 20. 
fiicienten difratiocinationem et probationem, lib. iv. tract 6. 
c. Ee And fo he makes ufe of difrationare, hib.. iv. 
nee. nd we find to dereyn the — in Old ee 
Br, fol, ‘a To oe that right, : 
eftm il. When the a of any cere is 
diflurbed demand tiers in the next parifh, by a writ of 
indicavit, the patron fhall have a writ to demand the advow- 
fon of the tithes, being in demand ; and when it is deraiyned, 
then fhalli the plea pais in the court Chriftian, as far forth 
as it is deraigned in the king’s cou 
D » In Geography, a river of Trela 
the county of Donegal, and having pa 
the fame name, enters the pig tl aaae 
after a courfe oF a few miles, unites its waters to thofe of the 
Mourne. 
Derg, Lough, a lake of Ireland, in the fouthern part of. 
the county of Donegal, which contains feveral pea one 
of which is — for St. Patrick’s purgato 
ifland is but yards long b broad, and ‘ e 
which is ale the purgatory, is 16 feet and a half 
wide, and fo Jow that a tall man cannot ftand erect in ei 
Tt holds exa@ly nine celia, ; anda tenth ia not remain 
in it without great inconvenience. The floor is the natu-al 
rock, and the oar is covered with large re nes and fo ds. 
It was eee in the dark agee, that “* w 
and was armed wi i 
am 
22 
° A 
nd, which rifes in 
one diene a night and a day, fhould be purged from all his 
fins, and alfo during his abode there, fhould not only fee the 
pains of the damned, but the joys of the blefled.” There 
were alfo in the ifland a monattery for regular canons of St. 
.uftin, feven chapels, and fix churches dedicated to St. Pa- 
. The cell was demolifhed in 1497, by 
e Alexander hea and in 1630, the lords juitices 
ordered it to be broken open the ae wete driven away 3 
and it was left in ruins. “The aa however, ftill continues 
Lay ae and J 
Indian Bramins. 
varneya of the Puranas: cae was from the earlieft 
nen confidered as the abode of the Pitris (2. e. fathers or 
an A place where the pitris could be feen, is pofi- 
day. declared to be a narrow cave ina fmall iffand ina lake, - 
. waters of which were bitter. In it was the entrance of 
e Dirghe, or long paffage into he eel regions, which. 
is ee mentioned 11 in the Puranas, The name Dirghe, and 
the d-{cription of the cave, certainly much refemble that in 
Ireland, whilft the shacaee - pigs to penne is lefs diffi. 
cult than many ct urred in proper 
Still it feems increible that Ireland pepe have 
ndia Q way with 
a fables. apeaaeaae ‘maintain 
the Pagan origin of the ceremony, and Dr. Ledwich, who 
denies that fuch a perfon as St. Patrick ever exifted, fup- 
pofes the ftory of the cave to be “ a pagan tale of purgatory 
pa ate be with eve le aa that could work on 
the hopes and fears” of the Trifh, fo as to render them 
ieder iG papal nee: "Here then the learned door 
