DIM 
eclebrated. by Dr. Moffman; and at Rheims, the water, 
which was extremely pure, was fo renowned for the cure of 
{crofula, that an hofpital, for the a ad of patients labour- 
ing under that 7 was ere€ted t 
nce of their dilpottion « is pafs off 
aa 
on 
io 
me 
fenfible by inflammation, 
of diluents taken in, with demulcent medicines, 
ecific effets of the latter, re this fuccefsful ope- 
ration is : be attributed. See Demutcenr. 
All aqueous liquors, that ts, all liquors confifting chiefly 
of water, eG the addition of other matters, that ma 
either diminifh the diluent qualities of it, or give it sara 
properties, are to be confidered as diluents operating in the 
way above defcribed, and poflefling ee es of pee e 
water. See Cull len, Materia Medica, vol, 
DI ,in mine Geography, a river a Spain, accord- 
y Pliny Iluro, and by Mela Eluro. 
aa, in dncient Geography, a town of 
Thrace. 
DIMACH AZ, from ras double, and paxw, TD fight, in Anti- 
; fe inftituted’ by £ ceases 
ing to Frolemy, 
oe could act ash fot e or ~ a as necete. required. 
D CHARUS, Aiwexaipos, from 2 = orxtangaey 
fword,a gladiator who fought with two {wo 
LUM, in Ancient Geography, a tow of Illyria, 
according to Polybius, called Dimallum 
DIMBACH,, in Geography, a town of Genny, in the 
archduchy of Auftria ; 4 miles N. of Grein. 
DIMCHURC INCHURCH, a village of England, 
in the county of Kent, fit uated by the fide of a {trong dyke, 
called «* Dimchurch wall,” between Romney and Hythe, to 
prevent the encroachments of the fea, with a carriage road 
on the fummit, wide enough in general for carriages to pafs 
each other; aa iles N.N.E. of New Romney, and 43 
S.S.W. of Hyt 
DIMENSION, the extenfion of a body, confidered as 
meafurable. 
ence, a8 we conceive a body extended, and sage ea in 
length, breadth, and de epth, we conceive a trine dim 
wiz. length, bread and faerie The firft called ; a che. 
the fecond a furface, the third a 
Dimension is particularly ated with regard to the powers 
f the roots, or values of the unknown quantities of equa- 
ticns, which are Sie the dimenfions of thofe roots. See 
FEguatTion an 
us ina nae Cami “the unknown quantity is only 
of one dimenfion, as « = b. In a quadratic equation it is 
of two — as x? == a? Ina cubic, of three, as 
x? = ai—B, 
DIMETER 
DIMETIENT, | in sy oem is fometimes ufed for dia- 
ge: 
Be 
KUR, in Geography, | : town of oe in the 
Pets ne Konigin ngratz 3 10 8 W. of Bie 
IMINISHED Hate ae in Mufic. See ce Teens. 
DiminisHEp /econd isa femitone ale leffened by a {em- 
tone minor. See Inrervatand Sec 
DiminisHED éhird, on very ley. defetive vied, is 
perly a third minor emitone 
among practical aaciane it commonly cone - teal 
DIM 
equal to two femitones alt And this they confound 
with the former; but there is a difference between thems 
equal to the difference aie a tone-major and minor, that 
is,acomma. The ee miecvonrd of thefe diminifhed thirds 
will be sel aac by 74 == 4: 25, and is equal to the tone- 
-m onic * die fis; tor 12 5 x Tee. woe 
Tecoma di diminihed third will be exprefied by £32 =< 
which is a comma lefs than the former. See the a in - 
article oe RVAL. 
DiminisuEp fourth. See the table in the article In- 
RVAL. ; 
ha diminifhed fourth often occurs in praCtice, as from 
§ deice nding ; ie fometimes, though more rately, 
from ac 4 toC afcen 
Pra&i 
femi- diapente, or falfe fifth, which is a comma lefs. 
INTERVAL 
Fea ise This interval, according i Ozanam, 
tones and three fem 
. 
ains two fitone a fourt 
and diminifhed third ; ora diminifhed fourth and third minor. 
Thus from C & A s a diminifhe 
But as Shere are two dim inifhe . third, fo there may be as 
many diminifhed fixths ; thefe b f 
former to the o€tave. One of thefe Sine fixths will be 
x £39, and this femitone major 
ea than pie ae iapente 3 ae other diminifhed fixth will 
e S75 = ich is noe minor lefs a WS 
flat fixth. foxaitonors ost efe two ; and, ia 
in temperate {cales they coincide, as do ee ther catenale 
differing only by a comma. e TEMPE 
DiminisHED foventh is ae two kinds, “difering by a 
comma. See the table in the article Inrurva 
hat dim inithed as ek which is the complcnient of the 
{upe rfluous fecond t ave, is the only onein ufe. It 
is a {emitone major more ree the fixth minor, as from C 4 to 
‘Diiniesen = is a femi-tone minor, lefs than the 
o¢tave, as from- eb. It occurs ea a in the baffes 
of inftrumental ned of mufic. See Int 
DIMINUE’, Fr. isa term ufed in ae for an extreme 
flat 7th, produced | by a pie to the lowe note, or a flat to 
the highefi; as G %° 
DIMINUITO, J/ea/. an ater in mufic not accurate in 
. ans that is, from being too flat, or too fharp, out of 
"DIMINUTION, in ArchiteGure, a contraCtion of the 
upper part of a-column, whereby its diameter is made lefs 
than that of the lower part. 
To attain eae two im ppl a a in archit oe 
aoe 
made t 
emi the bottom, 
vane The Gothic hasagele 
aba fies dimizution nor {we elling 5 their. 
perfectly cylindrical; for which reafon aed are 
erage 
called pillars, in contradifinGion to coluz 
e diminution generally commences hea one third of 
the Woh - the column, Some make it begin from the 
7 balis, tapering to the capital; b t ha 
t fo zoo re effeQ. Vitruvius would have the ears 
oF paneen ie oe ° their he: . and not acco 
ing to their diameter : fifteen feet high 
he diminifhes a fixth on oft its nace. ad another o a 
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