DEV 
-DETTEZ, a town of France, in the department-of the 
Baore and Loire, and diftri& of Autun; 8 miles W.S.W 
of Montcéuis. 
DETTINGEN, a village of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, belonging at that time to the ele@or of 
Mentz, is famous for the viGtory which the allied troops of 
Aultria and England, led on by king George II. of Great 
Britain, gained in its vicinity over the Peaca on the 16th of 
June 1743. It is fituated on the le in ie diftriG of 
Seligenttadt, between that town oS oS 
DETTOR, a river 
Tivy, ia the county of Cardigan. 
UNDA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Spain, in 
Bases ih Se tothe Turduli. Ptolemy. 
own _ Balen Felix. Ptolemy. 
Dura a river 0 t Britain, which is evidently the 
ae! i in Galloway. ane falls into the fea at Kirkcud- 
brigl 
Deva, called alfo Deuna, or Deonna,a place in the as 
route of sera A s Itinerary, between Condate and Bovi 
e Co ora, ie aaah nie wher 
of great c 
urge 
ee runs into the 
t 
country a nadir time before the final departure of the 
ans. It is mo probable that it was recalled about the 
end of the fourth, or ares of the fifth century, when 
ces of the empire began to be much 
VA, in Geography, afmall town of Spats, 4a i 
i ieee It is fituate 
i ms a harbour in the ba 
pales in 
he 
iver of 
N. ma 43° be 
ee a iowa of Tranfylvania; 10 miles W, of Millen- 
ach. 
OA EVAN NA Texatorum, in Ancient Geography, a place 
of Britain, in the country of the aean near the eftuary of 
the river Diva or Dee, now Old Aber 
Paci givehaa rep in Phyfics, is a ae ufed by way 
of contraft to evaporation, which h fee. As heat feems to be 
the monn pal caufe of evaporation, as : well as of ieee, and 
ef fluidity in general, the privation : ae may be efteeme 
the principal _ of oe ough the air m 
attractio means ick the eleétricity 
thefe folutions. 
i) ne 
When the barometer finks, whatever m 
um 
circumftances, relating to the devaporation of water. 
the deduction of a {mall quantity of heat from a cloud or 
expanie of vapour, compared with the quantity of heat 
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DEV 
which -~was — to raife that vapour from water, will 
bole. This circ cumflance is irene in the 
panfion cold is produced, (that is, its eae of receiving 
hae is increafed, } and the en pee rated, Somethirg 
milar to this is often feen at the commencement of thunder- 
the confequence than iG caufe of this {udden ard ge- 
ne feral deeper tion. A fecond curious circumftance of aerial 
. devaporation is, that when fie particles of aqueous vapour 
begin to approach each other by the diminution of their heat, 
they do not generate water exactly in proportion to fuch 
diminution of heat; but = condenfation proceeds further, 
ntity of water is produced, but 
r owing 
us particles towards 
each other at the beginning of their aie ea which 
carries them ftill nearer each other: e {mali 
molecule at firft formed, poflefling a greater ae power 
over the uncondenfed vapourin their vicinity, and thus preffing 
a more of the latent or combined heat. On this ae 
fee Dr. Darwin’s paper in Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixxxvit iil, 
DEVASTAVIT, 
dec eafed, or soneeed them to their ow 
pellable to pay fuch debts by fpecialty out of die own 
oods, to the value of what they fo paid illegally. (Dyer. 
232.) But if an executor pays debts upon fimple coe 
before he hath any notice of Lars it is no devaltavit ¢ 
male nor of acadee ment sea his teftator ; becaufe he 
"ig not iD to a&s deus either by or againit him, 1 Mod. 
1 
fe ot rr. 
Paecon eeping the goods of the deceafed in their 
hands, and not paying the teftator’s debts; or felling them, 
aying off debts, &c., or not o obferving the law 
which direéts them in the management thereof; or doing 
any thing by negligence or fraud, whereby the eltate of the 
deceafed is mifemployed, are guilty of a devaftavit, or wafte ; 
and they fhall be charged for fo much de bonis i ial as if 
for their own . t. Rep. 133.) But the traud o 
ligence of one executor is not chargeable on the rett, eae 
there are fever executors. 1 Rol. Abr, .929. See Dear 
and Execu 
EVA ‘UX, Joux, in Biography, a native of Paris, born 
educated t 
fhip, of furgeons, at 
the time of his death, which ee in an Seca 1695, 
whe 
