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termination, both from natural caules, as epee them al- 
ready determined by nature to a there needs no 
other external determination from God to one feveral aGtions ; 
and from free caufes, as fuppofiag fuch a predetermination: 
contrary to our aaa liberty. See Desire, Morive, 
VOLITION, an 
A determination . be pee afed lise certain forms, or ideas, 
an ingenious author cal:s an internal fenfe ; and a determi- 
nation to be pleafed with virtuous a ions, ees, man- 
us c.a moral fenfe. See S 
ERMINATION of Wil, in Law. See Esvate at Will 
DETERM ae Proposition, in Logic. See 
Comprex Bs 
DETERN, in Cay, a {mall town of Holland, in 
the principality of Ealt Friefland, which, till the peace of 
Tilft in July 1897, belonged to the king of Proffia. This 
place has lately become fafhionable on account of its mineral 
waters 
DE TERRATION, from de and terra, is ufed to fignify 
a removal of the earth, fands, &c. from the mountains and 
higher grounds, down into the valleys and lower parts. 
This is occafioned by rains, which wafh the earthy matter 
down by degrees 3 but this cannot be very confiderable, or 
much raife the aceen of the earth, as fome have imagined, 
becaufe a good part of it is funk into the clefts and caverns 
of the rocks and mountains, a great quantity is borne down 
into rivers, and thence into the fe ea, and the richer and finer 
ftrata of the earth, according to fome theories of geology, 
had their origin 
DETERSIVE, in Surgery, the fame with Detergent, 
which fee. 
DETERSOR, from detergo, F clear away, in Antiquity, 
a fervant whofe bufinefs it was to attend at dinner, and wipe 
the table. Pitife 
DETERSORIUM, in Antiquity, a name given to the 
3 bean-meal, called /omentum, or the 
this laft they called 
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jie ba a ay of cule called lapines : 
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fone The ancients, when they bathed, ufed various wafhes for 
cleanfing the fkin ; but safrum, and this thin froth, called in 
reek epbroniron were moft common. 
ETHARDING, Georce, in Biography, was born at 
Stetin, about ie middle of the 17th century. His father 
was an apothecary, and well verfed in chemiftry, to the 
knowledge of which, having initiated his fon, he fent him to 
Louvain, where he took his degree of doctor in medicine ; 
he was thence invited to Stralfund, and having pratifed 
eedicne there ten years, he was in the year 1680 appointed 
firft sa heegeee to the duke of Mecklenburg. This obliged 
him o more to change his habitation, and to go and 
refide at Chee. He appears to have been living at 
Guftrow as late as the year 1696, when he publithed his 
i Several of his oe 
Memoirs Academ. Nat. C 
A ftill greater number of his effays, or differtations, were 
publifhed by his fon after bis death. The titles of a few 
thefe follow; the remainder will be found in Haller’s Bib. 
Med. and in Eloy’ s Di&. Hiftor.; viz. «* De modo fubveniendi 
fubmerfis in Aqua, per Laryngotomiam,” Roftoch, 1714, 
4to.. The practice has not been much followed, ‘but in 
extreme cafes fhould not be omitted; the operation neither 
requiring much {kill in the performance, nor being attended 
with danger. De Variolarum Inoculatione,’? 1723, 4to. 
He was one of the few writers on the continent, who at that 
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early eae recommended the practice. “ De neceffitate 
infpeCtionis vuleerum in ylang Acer 1726, gto. Eloy 
gives de i of twenty different eflay 
DETINET, in Law. See Debet a Detinet. 
DETINUE, a writ which lies againf{ a man who, having 
goods, or. chattels, delivered to keep, refufes to re-deliver 
em 
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Teams an{wers, in great meafure, to the a&io depofitt of 
the civilians 
n this afibe of detinue it is neceffary to afcertain the 
thing detained, in fuch manner-as that it may be fpecifically 
known and recovered... Therefore, it cannot be brought a 
money, corn, or the like; for that cannot be known from 
or corn; oaks it be in a bag or fack, for ck 
it may be diftingnifhably marked. In order, theres to 
ground an action of detinue, which is only for the abla 
thefe points are neceflary (Co. Litt. 286.); 1. That the 
efendant came lawfully into poffeffion of the He as either 
by delivery to him, or finding them; 2. That the ibs 
ave a property ; 3. That the goods themfelves be of fo 
value; and, 4. That they be afcertained in point of reece 
Upon this the jury, if they find for the piaintiff, affefs the 
ie values of the feveral parcels detained, and alfo da» 
mages for the detention. And the judgment is conditional, 
that the plaintiff recover the {aid. goods, or (if they cannot 
be had) their refpective values, and alfo the damages for 
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DeETinvE of Gharters, Aman an ae of deeds 
and fas concerning land :. but if they concern the free- 
hold, it muft be in C. B. and no other court. Aion of 
detinue lies for charters which make the title of lands :- and 
the heir may have a detinue of charters,.although he hath 
not the land. If my father be diffeifed, and dieth, I fhall- 
have detinue for the Gaia, notwithftanding I ieee not the 
land: but the executors fhall not have the action for them. 
New Nat. Br. 308. 
Derinue of F goods in frank marriage; is ona divorce bes 
twixt a man and his wife; after which the wife fhall have 
this writ of detinue for the goods given with her in marriage.. 
Mich. 35 Eliz. 1. New abe 08. 
DETMOLD, or Der Sore anciently.’ TAzetmal;. in 
he She CIN an sneonfiderable | but very old town of Germany,. 
in the county of Lippe,-in the circle of Weftphalia, which is 
now in the cotinine of the new kingdom of balan 
It is fituated on the river Werre, three miles S. of Lemgow,. 
.of Paderborn,.and has a caftle, which is the ufual refis 
Cluverius and others fappofe 
actually the ancient Teutenburg, in the vicin‘ty of which the. 
Roman general Quintilius Varus met with a fevere defeat. 
ONATION, in Chemifiry,.is fudden _combuttion,. 
attended with a loud and inftantaneous noife. It is fynony- 
mous with fulmination 
DET ER, Frei in Mufic, to fing or play out of timey. 
or in he intervals, that are equally offenfive in a fingle party. 
as in harmony.. DETOUR: 
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