‘DES 
y keepin gt ea 
hey facrifice part of countpy, 
an ele medns 
have found their account in putting the Tartars, the Mol- 
davians, the Wallachians, and, formerly, the Tranfylvanians, 
between themfelves and thei re 
-DESPOUILLE, Fr. in Day. is the whole cafe, 
fin, or flough, of a beaft, with the head, feet, tail, and all 
apoeteanees fo that, being filled, or tluffed, it looks like 
the entire creature. 
DESPREAUX, in Biography. See Botrz 
DESPUMATION, of de, priv. and /pum ma, frot oth, the 
clarification of mh _— by throwing up its foulnefs in a 
— and taking th 
ESQUAMA TION, from de, and /guamo, eh CX 
fer the flaking or fealing of carious bones. See Exro- 
LIATION, 
ESS, in Aviles, a term applied to any fquare por- 
tion “e cut odder ; thus, adefs of hay fignifies a cut o 
hay, & 
Duss -up, fignifies to - up any fort of cattle fodder, &c. 
manner, 
in a neat m 
DES 
refidence of the prince 
minions, a 
iftance from the tow 
runs into the Flbe. ” ‘The palace is a fine building ; die 
ftreets of the new part of the town are fpacious and elegant. 
There are two Calvinift churches and one Lutheran, a gram 
mar-{chool, feveral charitable foundations, and fome ee ee 
tures ‘of woollen cloth, ftockings, and hats But Dcffau has 
more particularly acquired fome vasabe within the laft 30 
ieee rom two inftitutions , one for the educa- 
tion boys of Eee eee on a prinipe nearly allied to 
thofe imeeke ed by J. J..Rou This i 
sepow,) who, for feveral years, 
udted it with the greateft fuccefs, and whofe elementary 
erie ea the career in ~*~ ampe, oe Saltz. 
mann, an erman hterati, have fo eminently diftin« 
guifhed deaths The fecond infitution, aay favourable 
to the diffufio wledge, was a paens prefs and 
Iibrary, for the printing and publifhing of works on account 
ithout the interference a bookfeiler ; 
the beneficial pouleauenée of which w at the German 
publifhers offered better prices for the anieaal writings 
of men of known celebrity, and that young authors might 
feel the pulfe of the public eae A publifhing their pro- 
duétions on their own account. Both thefe eftablithments 
were warmly patronized e EcHie who is ftill at the 
head of the nrinci pality of Anhalt Deffa 
ear Deffau are two fummer palaces, Louifium and 
Worlitz, which fee, 
DES 
DESSENIU6, Beawann, in Biography, born at Amfterdam 
in 1510, was fent to Louvain, where he foon diftinguifhed 
himfelf by his sequirement in claffical literature. Declaring 
at length for the praGtice of medicine, he went to Bolo ogna, 
eae which he taught with reputation for nin e years. 
m » invited by Echtius, iad in medicine 
ere, he went to Cologne, where approved himfelf fo. 
well, as to a admitted snl of the eles of phyficians, 
ee 
Lee 8 
and to receive a confiderable penfion from the governmes 
This he nen d to the time of his death, which happened 
in 1574. He was author of feveral pie orks. His 
55> — 
pr Syne on the for. 
ufled : e, Commentaiu pre- 
fervatio, et curatio,’? Col. re to. ¢ {peaks of a 
Jeathern jacket, which had paffed into the hands of 25 per. 
fons, who had received the infeCtion from it, and been de- 
{troyed, before the caufe wa He wrote alfo 
in defence of the ancient medicine, and againft the praétice 
introduced An Paracelfus. Haller. Bib. Med. Praét. 
Tl, or Desarr, Fr. the laft fee bronghe Cit, 
the tables sf people of qual ty, when. the meats areal tak 
: . The deflert confilts of fruits, paftry-works, confections, 
« DESSICATIVE, or Desiccative, from deficco; I dry 
up, in Medicine, a remedy that has the virtue of drying up 
fuperfluous moitfture ; jolly — flkin over old fores, &c. We 
ay, a deficcative ungue 
al is held eae. deficcative, and vulnerary.. 
eme 
DESSOUB RE, in Geography, a river of France, whick 
runs into the Dons, at St. Hypolite 
DESTAKT E,a i faae village of Siberia; 4S 
miles S.W. of Ya 
DESTIL LATION, or DistitLation, in Chemiftrye. 
See DistTiLLari 
DESTI INIES, | ia Mythology. See P 
DESTINY, from deflino, [ order, is mene difpofition, 
or chain of fecond caufes appointed by Prov ide ence; and 
importing, or carrying with it, a of event. 
According to many of = eae philofophers, deftiny 
was a fecret and invifible power, or virtue, which, with ine 
comprehenfible wifdom, esas ged what to us appears 
7 a and fortuitous. This amounts to what we call 
Go 
The Stoics, by defliny, underftood a certain concatena- 
tion of things. which from all eternity follow each other of 
abfolute neceffity, there being no power able to interrupt 
their connexion. This anfwers, in a great degree, to the 
mea Seda by fome of Provid denc 
= 
att 
I being 
The heathen philofophers, who had framed a notion t 
ied ag it to exift, w mete k i 
nt by it. But men 
ace as 
ey imagined, ee 3 and on the other fide not be- 
mg 
