NUN 
particularly rey to fignify the report which the augur made 
ai ae een. 
s he did to the chief rape = and the 
giftra are communicated the fame people, and fo dif. 
miffed the affembly, which was called sbeunciak tion. 
NUNCIO, or Nuntro, an ambafflador from the pope 
to fome Catholic prince or ftate; 0 erfon who attends, 
on the ee s behalf} at a coe or an aflembly of feveral 
ambafladors. 
word nuncio has the fame import with ambaffador ; 
but is reftrained, in its ufe, to the ambafladors of popes 
alone; as tha t of internuncio is to their envoys extra- 
or Lal 
The nuncio has a jurifdi€tion, and may delegate judges, 
in all the {tates where he refides, except in France, ake ere he 
has no authority, but that ef a fimple ambaflador. 
ATIVE, in the Schools, a term ufed to éx- 
prefs fomething that is only nominal, or has no exiftence but 
in name 
Felix - of Urgel maintained, that Jefus Chrift, as _™man, 
torianifm, to diftinguifh two fons of God in 
the one natural, the — fo ald ; and two Gods, the one 
real, the other nuncupat 
NuncupativeE Will ieee a “ will or teltanent only 
made verbally, or viva eer and not put in writing. Se 
Wit and TEsTAMEN 
NUNDA AVERAM, in Geography, a town of Hindoof- 
tan, in the Carnatic; 8 miles i E, of Udegher 
NUNDINAL, Nun name which the Romans 
gave is ha eight firtt ere of ue alphabet, ufed in their 
calen 
This ees of eight letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, 
: Ser and repeated fucceflively from the firft to the laft 
pan ie e year: one of thefe always expreffed the market- 
ave e aflemblies Sgn os quafi novendina, be- 
caufe they arene ever 
The country people, ne Working eight days fucceflively, 
came to town the ninth, to fell ri commodities, 
and to inform themfelves of what related to religion and go- 
vernment. 
th days 
ery great refemblance to 
letters, ie return every eight days, as the nundinals did 
every nin 
NUNDUNGOTCHY, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 
10 miles E.S.E. of Boulea 
NUNDU R, a town of Hindooftan, in ae 
25 1 miles E. N. ¥. of Durbungah. N. lat. 26°12’. E. lon 
° gai. 
NUNDYDROOG, a town and fortrefs of Hindooftan, 
in a the capital of a confiderable diftri, built on the 
fummit of a mountain, 1700 feet high, and in rant parts of 
it inacceffble which w - befieged and taken by the Britifh 
troops in.1792; 65 miles N. of Seringapatam 
ON, a sal oi and parifh i in A therftone 
divifion of the hundred of Hemlingford, county of War- 
wick, ap ere is fituated on the river Anker, at the dif- 
tance of g miles N.N.E. from Coventry, and 10 
by W. from London. The river divides the town into two 
his place was originally 
FEatop, fignifying the town on the rivulet, agd feems to have 
NUN 
been a reali ae village previous to the Norman era. 
The addition Nun was derived from the monaftery for 
Benediétine ne, founded here in the reign of king Stephen 
by Robert “ie earl of Leicefter, whofe countele Amicia, 
mies the veil in it, and at her death was buried in the 
oat Conftable. 
Nuneaton is a town of confiderable extent, and has been 
on the increafe ever fince the opening of the canal. Ac- 
cording to the population returns of 1811, it contained 
1101 houfes, and 4947 inhabitants. The market was oe 
cared d here in the 7th year 
8 empo owered 
y 
commodities 
coming thither by the {pace of fi d 
pence of paving”’ the t The market is held on Satur- 
day weekly, and there are three fairs during the year. A 
very confiderable ribbon manufaGory is carried on here. 
A free-fchool, founded by the inhabitants in the time of 
dward VI., is ftill fupported. The church is dedicated 
to St. Nicholas, and isa very ancie ructure, wit 
end, but.is not remarkable for its 
tains, however, feveral curious monu- 
ments, and, among others, that of fir Marmaduke Conftable, 
whofe death happened in April 1560. 
About two miles from Nuneaton the Cel a 
croffes the northern divifion of the county, and forms, for 
fome miles, the boundary between it and Leicefterihire, 
On this part of its courfe was the ftation Manduefledum, 
now called Mancefler, where many Roman coins of brafs 
and filver have been dug up. The church belonging to this 
village ftands on an eminence, fuppofed by Stukely to have 
been the fcite of an ancient camp, as one fide of it is deeply 
entrenched ; and to the left of the church are the remains of 
an ancient fortrels, or encampment, called ury. 
Sudley, in Ge reign of Henr 
the order of St. Auguttine. 
fhire, &c. by Sir William Dugdale, 1 
edit. a Camden’s Britannia, by Gough, vol. i. 
NUNEGAN, a {mall ifland in the Frozen ocean. N. 
E. long. 193° 40’. 
Z, ALonzo DE CasTRO, in Biography, chronicler 
to Philip IV. of Spain, a writer who lived in 
of Spanifh literature, and who continued the ¢< Con Go- 
tica y Auftriaca,’’ which Diego de Saavedra Faxardo began, 
and wrote feveral other works. Gen. Biog. 
unez, Duarte pe Liam, or Lao, a Portuguefe 
orian, 
lat. 67° 4o!. 
NUNEZ 
