DIG 
never too much informed of the word he wanted; and he is 
not obliged to read that part of the explication which does 
not concern him 
A diffafive ye is proper for difcourfes in the demonttra- 
tive kind, 1ofthenes is clofe, and concife; Cicero, on 
the contrary, is “diffulive. 
Dirruse, in Botanical es is applied to the loofely 
{preading panicie of Oat raffles, and . 
London Pride Saxifraga oe as well as of various other 
Tei is alfo ufed to characterize the ftems of various 
madiyt 9 and as fuch ftems being ge ile oo 
their origin, and afcending towards the - 
 DIFFUS N, from diffundo, I pour o “T "Gilat te, the 
a&t whereby a body is {pread, or ftretched ae fo asto take 
up more f 
The {choolmen make three kinds of diffufion: the firft, 
that whereby a pure quality is diffufed ; as cold, force, &c. 
This they diftinguith into equal, whereby equal portions, or 
degrees, of the quality are diftributed upon equal parts of 
the medium ; thus, when a direét motion is impreffed on a 
moveable, all the parts of the moveable receive an equal 
impetus; and unequal, when unequal degrees of the quality 
are diftributed on different parts of the fubje€t; thus it is, 
that force is impreflkd on a lever, and cold propagated 
through a medi: 
The fecond kind of diffufion is that performed by the 
motion of bodies: fuch is the diffufion of light, found, eli, 
magnetic, eleftric virtues, &c. 
The third is per formed partly by the motion of corpufcles, 
and partly by the diffufion ofa quality; and thus they hold 
fire to be diffufed. 
But the modern philofophers rejeé the notion ag au 
and their diffution. According to them, there is no other 
diffufion, but that of corporeal fubftance, called in m 
re) 
diffuting body is th 
1as its Chee of Sere or ean, within oe ht 
ticles, or corpufcles, torn from it, and flying away, gee a 
fenfible effedt ; as we fee in odorous, fonorous, &c. bodies. 
See Quauity ; ; where the phylical law of the diffufion of 
qual:ties 18 laid down. 
e par- 
G, in Agriculture, aterm which is fometimes provin- i 
cially applied to a mattock, and which likewife fignifies the 
breaking up the ground by a fpade or other fimilar tool. 
Die, in Geography, atown of oe in the country 
of Mowat; 63 miles foun of Delhi 
DIGAM A e F. 
GAMY, the ine with bigamy. See Bic 
DI I 
DIGASTRICUS, in Asatomy, one of the mu cies sof the b 
lower jaw, called alfo by the name of biventer mony infe. 
rioris. It is defcribed in the article eae LUT 
D1 , in ae: Geography, a town of Alia, fituated 
onthe bank of the Ti gris. “Pliny coe it in Babylonia, 
and Ptolemy in Mcfopeeemi 
DIGBY, Sir Kenewm, in Bae, was the fon of fir 
Everard Digby, who was executed tor the fhare which he 
hhad in the guapowder- -plot. Kenelm was but three years 
old when he loft his father. Great care was taken to initi- 
ate him in the Proteftant religion, and at a proper age he 
was fent to Oxford to complete his ftudies. He then made 
the tour of Europe,.and on his return was prefented to the 
king, who not only gave him a gracious a Sra but ¢con- 
DIG 
ferred on him the honour of knighthood. This was in 
1623. He par tila lo with f{plendour at the court 
of Charles I., b was greatly efteemed. ‘This 
prince made him ps ee a his bed-chamber, firft com- 
miffioner of the navy, and a governor of the Trinitv-houfe. 
He likewife granted him letters of reprifal againft the Vene- 
tians, and with a {mail fleet fitted out at his own expence, 
he obtained fome bvilliant fuccefles. 
e Ze, p 
affailed by one ecclefiaitics, was reclaimed to the religion of 
hi 
is soa and in 1636 reconciled himfelf to aoa — of 
Rom e foon difplayed the zeal of a new by 
eentcls defending the faith ba a adopted, in ae ai ‘hing 
nt mmencen of the troubles Scote- 
contribution, in f{upport of the expedition againft the Scots: 
for this he was alterwards imprifoned by the parliaments.. 
but during his confinement, which was probably not very 
ila he a ted himfelf with aes {pecula- 
He wrote obfervations on the ‘* Religio Medici”’ of 
fir Thomas Browne, which have been nitty efteemed, a3 
ell on account of the politenefs ae anguage, as the 
acutenefs with which he confutes fom the notions of the 
uthor. He oe alfo a — taite for allegor: en in- 
terpretations, by an elaborate commentary on a ft 
the ninth canto of the fecond a ok of the Fairy Genin in 
which Spencer has introduced fome of the myftcries relative 
to numbers. He was at length liberated, and went to- 
France, where he was well received; and at this period he 
became acquainted with Des Cartes. Thefe a 
hed many long and learned converfations on the natu 
the foul, and on other interelling topics, upon fom 
which they could not agree; but they parted fuil of aul 
efteem for each other. t Paris he publifhed, a” 1044, his 
own philofophical pee in two a entitled: © A.Tr 
Bodies,”? an 
O re of Man’s So 
the facie of reafonable Souls is evinced.’ 
the caufe of Charles was hopelefs, fir Kenelm came over to 
England, to make compofition for his eitate, but he was not 
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greater part of the yea 
wife employed in conciliating the Catholic party to the pro 
teétor’ s adminiftration, upon the condition of a free ee 
a meafure to which no means-averfe, 
a parade of: his phi- 
lofophical knowledge. He mena refided in Germany 
or two years; but on the reftoration he came again to-his 
native country, where he met with a polite reception at. 
court, but was not brought forward into active life. Hence. 
forward he {pent his time in a learned retreat, at gelial 3 
the meetings of the Royal Society, of which he was a mem 
ber, and receiving the vifits of men of {cience, és ae own 
houfe in He fuffe red very much from re- 
put an en 
” sei life lord Claren= 
a very extraordinary 
eae eye men upon 
im, which were more fixed 7 a pec graceful beha- 
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m as a man 
perfon and prefence, which dre 
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