DIG 
has a fub-prefet, a court of ea a repifter sa a reve- 
nue infpector, andar. anger. he fee of a 
The diftriG of Digne is ee ‘of e ight cantons, and 
has a population of 46,807 individuals, a ea extent of 
2489 kilometres, and $8 communes. The foil produces corn 
and an abundance of excellent fruits, which are fent | to dif- 
rds. he manufac- 
cutlery, = Fart, 
The diftri& contains likewife a m co 
per, in which gold and filver are frequently (oun : ne is near 
Verdéc In the neighbourhood of Mouttiers a very fine 
clay is dug, of which they ie excellent potter’s ware. 
(Herbin ape de la Fran 
DIGNI 
» in the Canon La 
bove mere priefis and can 
dean and archdeacon, though the vidas is now abufively ap- 
plied to a mere prebe adary or cano 
entious or exterior jurifdiétion, a ig a 
fimple parfonage, ey only gives pre-eminence. See 
FICE; ParsonaGE, 
Of dignities, including prebends, Camden reckons in Eng- 
land bas in num 
| paneer a ae that aes aman (dignus) worthy. 
NITY ufual a eptation, fignities honour 
and avon. ie oor seae wack ; 
into fuperior and inferi 
earl, cu enon, Rc. are the highelt n gnity 3 
and, -after io paeracl the firtt perfonal ae is a kni: ght 
re) the garter; next after certain official dignities, as privy 
counfellors, the etnies llors of the exchequer and duchy of 
Lancafter, the chief juftice of the king’s-bench, the mafter 
of the rolls, and the other eae judges, follow a knight 
banneret, oo knights of the bath, and knights bache- 
lors. e, fays fir Edward oe a Inf 667.) are all 
the names a dignity in this kingdom, efquires and gentlemen 
ee only names of worfhip. “But before thefe laft the he- 
ralds rank all colonels, Kean at law, and dodtors in the 
three eared profeffions. Sze PrecEDENCE. 
obility only can ee fo high a name of dignity as to 
fupply the want of a furname in legal. proceedings ; and a 
the omiffion of a name of dignity may be pleaded in ae 
ment of a writ, &c. fo it may. be where a peer who has more 
than one name of dignity is not named by the mofl nobie. 
2 Hawk. P.C. 185. o temporal dignity of any fo- 
reign nation can give a man a higher title hae that of ef- 
2 Inft: 60%. 
NITY, in Oratory, that part of ina ae “ 
conkits | in the nght ufe of tropes and figures. t fuf- 
3 
language muft be fuited to ‘the nature and i importance of the 
fubjet. As elegance gives rules for the firft of thefe, and 
compofitioa for the fecond, dignity does the fame for the 
lafiofthem. Thisn neceflry variety of expreflion aie, ina 
great ae from tropes and figures, which not only en- 
liven and beautify a cede but likewife give it force and 
grandeur ; for which reafon this part of os feems to 
have been called dignity. See Ficure and Tro 
I Or reece in reader fmall t town of 
France, in the dep of Sad ane ire, chief place 
of a canton, in ae recs of Chevelles 3 12 miles W. of 
" agreeably to the ee ord, 
DITI 
a — a population of 2233 individuals. The 
mmunes, with 5352 inhabitants, upon a 
sae) ae “of go kihometres. 
VILLE, a {mail town of eerie in the depart. 
ment of La Manche; 3 miles E. of - 
DIGR ESSION, in Oratory, is defined by See 
of the going o 
upon a pee ee thing, 
from the are 
hi Inft. Or. lib, iv. 
which, however, ite abs of fervice to it. 
. Dig efion is not a neceflary part ofa difcourfe, aac it 
may Gn etimes be convenient on feveral accounts; as where 
afubje& is of itfelf flat and dry, and requires age atten. 
ion; inthis cafe, it is of vfe to relieve the mind 
ntertaining. But as it fhonid n 
ut fufficient reafon, it fhould never be 
too frequent, nor ae long. Di rreflions in hiftory, when 
rightly managed, afford the reader both delight and profit, 
oe ee fhould neither be too long nor too frequent’; 
yet now then to introduce a bea: tiful defcription or 
fome remarkable incideat, which may give light to ‘the 
dr 
entirely” 
cf no ee eeu a tribe, the pan liferous tea ee 
thefe laft do not occupy the e artificial order, the 
Claffes Teafuncei ia and ee ae the ftyles, if more en. one, 
and ran a ten, are very unce o that it is 
foun i € feveral hea 
orders’ as one, the eing, moreover, very {ma Some 
plants are called digynous, in Linnean la anguage, a others 
trigynous, though their ftyle is imple, thofe terms applyin 
to their two or three ftigmas, as in 
‘analogy a n fen ew to be of a moment as 
to genetical or * olafica 1 dittinction. 
DIHELIOS, from da, sir oa aud mAs sos, fun, in ie 
Elliptical Aflronomy, a name Kepler gives i that 
ordinate of the eilipfis, which ne through the focus 
whetin the fun is fuppofed to be placed. 
I, in Acie ee a oo of Thrace, placed 
Pl Phucyae ovince 
drip, in digits, a: cal of. deities of lower 
rik aud See Ludiget 
Diu yimel were, ee the Greeks, the fame with the 
alexicaci, or apopo 
ans. 
Dit Confentes, gods of the firft a aad order. See 
ConsENTES. 
Dui Indigetes. See Inviczres. 
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