DER 
and ae alee enews (general: Vallancey) ate not 
the former admit the oriental origin 
of ait hath conde as a reli& of paganifm. e moft 
of what confequence is it, whether the purgatory were an 
eaftern or weftern fable ; whether it a with a real 
St. Patrick, or was a fiétion of a lat age. Ledwiche’s 
Antiquities of Ireland, Vallancey’s Prolpettas of a Dic- 
tionary of the Irifh Langua age. 
AS, a town of shee in the province of 
Segeftan; 120 miles E. S.E. of Zar 
DERGUY, Leg, a town of ance in the department 
ee the Aveiron, and diftri&t of Rodez; 5 leagues F 
od 
DERHAM, WitiiaMm, in. Gh cea a aa 
divine of the church of England, was born at Sto 
near Worcelter, in the year 1657. The elem 
year 
fhire, and in 168 
a atch a ; h 
gone through many editions. In the years 1711 an 1712, 
€ was appointed preacher at M Bee hag tie and in 
the following hale he ee d , the fermo 
D 
his works of Creat ion? “This as followed by a ae 
having the fame ban in see entitled « Aftro- Theology, 
e Bei eing and Attributes of God, 
the Heavens.” Thefe volumes are too 
young ia with greater’advantage. 
M m 
of Geo s r. Derham was 
an a foon after appointed o f the canons 
Windfor. In the year 1730, the degree of doGtor of divi- 
end to virtue and scligi on. 
1S contemporaries, a 
plau 
highly refpec 
He d 
has obtained for h 
his man 
but his life and Jabours were mended highly Seay to 
the intereft of religion and sea piety. Biog 
DER sin Ancient Geography 
in Lycaonia, which had been ecifecadl under the metropolis 
of Iconium. 
ATIO, in Rhetoric, is a figure in which hilt 
that are derived from fe € root come together in the 
je featence The fi fo low wing 
ure is repeated 
o ae a wniferable life.”? 
Jd in 
‘He wifhed "rather to die a prefent death, than. 
3 
DE R- 
DERIVATION, from de, and rivus, a frream, in Gram- 
affinity one Ly as with anothcr, by having been | 
orizivally formed 
DERIVATION, in Phyfley the aane of a humour from 
one part of the bod other. It lee by the 
p the 
ancients that difeafes me from hoanan: flowing into and 
arioufl j 
This they attempted, in various i e 
as the applica tion of blifters to neighbouring parts, &c. The 
referred to the 
ews of the animal economy entertained 
by modern i ea bale banifhed all thofe oie 
notions, which are to be rega 
and totally unfupported ay either facts or reafoning. The 
been entirely overthrown, and the 
cate together, the removal of 
- powerful operation in emptying the other 
t this influence is much more 
See the article 
ong 
Gq 
as the iy a local see letting depends on it. 
ftriQly local only in affe€tions of the fkin ; in all other in-— 
ftances the blood is drawn from veffels conne&ted with thofe 
by the way of se Niage Thu 
temporal artery acts ection 
ca de the head or hee in one of the brain, &c. 
RIVATION. See 
DERIV AT IVE, in Crm a word which takes its, 
origin from another word, called its primitive 
Such is the word derivative itfelf, which takes its origin 
oo the primitive rivus, a rivulet, or channel, out of which 
leffer ftreams are drawn; and ee ae deity, lanoyers 
&c. are derived from oe deus, 
de fea. Ce 
DERIVATIVE “ager or pee in Geology, according 
.) are ser , being for 
to the eatis; or true 
A, in Maes, a name given 
See Inte EGU-= 
fkin. = is derived from dkew, I excoriate. 
" MENT 
t ‘Ea. v. 2, 
arded as mere flights of fancy, . 
e and brain; 
