GEN 
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hor n the 
the kin "BS s houfhold. 
merly m 
iaced sith filver, decdine to “the king’s ea eee aN ‘tittle 
while béfore the revolution, it was only laced on the cuff. 
The waiftcoat was of buff- leather, and the bandouleer o 
the fame, filver-laced ; ‘the hat was edged with broad filver 
van ig rfe-cloths and holfter-caps were red, and the 
captain were embroidered on the corners 
of the faddle-cloths, and on the front of the holiters. 
1762, a confiderable body of men was raifed by order of 
Louis X and the foldiers that compofed it were called 
nd in 1792, their fee onfifting of 
» was augmented, and both were denominated 
horfe and foo 
indieriinatey gens but 
o deep b 
to exhibit a eerine: of fix or ae eae fervice, 
DER, Genus, in Metaphyfics. See 
tiiecae, in Grammar, denotes a divifion or dioneien of 
ee according to the different fexes of the 
ane een 
- It has ee ie ht proper, in order to render difcourfe 
more exprefs and diltinét, as alfo to embellifh it by a variety 
of ice me to contrive certain diverfities in adj jectives, 
nodated to the fubftantives they 
ar 3) t 
tinguifhed into mafculine and feminine es and the nouns ad- 
jectives alfo varied to correfpond therewith. 
Mr. Harri ris, obfer ves, that in the difte ibution of gende 
have: been confidered as eae 
y eres oo 
other wife ; the ann on en ee were. fuch as were 
con{picuous for the attributes either of receiving, of c 
taining, or of producing and bringing forth ; or which ‘had 
opreting g 
Q r 
fuch fubftances is as natural and rational a diftinction as 
either of the others. 
It fhould here, however, be obfery ved that this inftitution 
of genders was not made with defign and deliberation by the 
GEN 
names S of oo. when fpoken Ae ae and ig 3 and, 
fame regulation was extended to other 
marians have only noted and allowed what 
ufage had: ef ablifned. 
ne Te& the ufe of Be en 
aah Greeks, &c generally sent themfelves 
to pear the diferent genders oe erent Basta ieee 
as bonus a bon pate le 
But a eee we fen go aie and e 
ee the oe of fex by different words; as 
id ow 3 boy, girl; buck, does bull, cows cock, hen; dog, i 
Ve have only about twenty-four feminines, diftinguifhed 
an the males, by the variation of the termination of the 
male into fs of which number are abbot, abbefs 3 count,. 
$3 ator, alirefs; heir, heirefs ; prince, princefs, &c. 
— is all that our language knows of any thing like gen- 
“The eaftern languages, as well as the vulgar languages ot 
the weft, have three the ma{culine, feminine, 
ve likewife the 
— 
der one fingle gender, aA termination, Grelnues both | the 
kin : 
he Englifh a Saat with fingular propriety, following 
ature alone, applies f mafculine and fe- 
and confequently become either 
this gives the Englifh an saceaee We moft other lan-. 
guages in the poetical and rhetorical ftyle ; for when nouns. 
naturally neuter are converted into mafculine or feminine, the 
perfonification is more diftin@ly and forcibly marked. 
inet ry p44: Od. 1772. 
sik in slg — metrical _— are ed 
nithed into gen or ¢ lailes, orders, 2 
en ra 
- cording to he ate “of the Ses ioes of ce equation that 
exprefies the relation between their ordinates, and the 
iffas. 
GENDER, in age See GENUS. 
GENDER, in Mufic, - See GENER 
GENDIE, in Eceraply, a town of Bayes on the left 
bank of the Nile; 4 miles N. of Abu-Gir 
See ciel E, Gitpert-CHARLES LE; ie Bio graphy, mar- 
quis de bin, was a counfellor in the eee of 
Paris,’ and Cae maiter of requefts. He is known by 
two works of confiderable reputation, ‘thefe are ; « 
raité 
de | ‘Opinion, ou Memoires pour oe rvir a P Hittoire de |’ Efprit 
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rs 
“S 
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v 
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hidorical examples to elucidate the power i 
{ciences, accom ipan nied with reflections ; 3 the Teer is a worls 
of deep and curious s refearch _concerning the origin of the 
regal ie fo) 
: E, Was rate ‘of an obfcure family at 
Rouen in 1659. "Cheon gh the favour and great kind doses 
of M. de Harlai, then archbifhop of Rouen, -afterwards of 
Paris, he received an excellent education, and was in 1690 
asada with a canonry in the cathedral of Paris. His firft 
eflays as an author were two eulogies and a life of his patron, 
the ftyle a which has been much approved by able — 
In 
