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BOHE'MIAN BOLE. See Bole. 
BOHE'MIAN BRETHREN, a fed of Chriftian re- 
formers which fprung up in Bohemia in the year 1467. 
They treated the pope and cardinals as antichrift, and the 
church of Rome as the whore fpoken of in the Revelation. 
They rejected the facramcnts of the Romilh church, and 
chofe laymen for their minifters. They held the Scrip¬ 
tures to be the only rule of faith, and rejected the popilh 
ceremonies in the celebration of the mafs, nor did they 
make ufe of any other prayer than the Lord’s Prayer. 
They confecrated leavened bread. They allowed no ado¬ 
ration but of Jefus Chrift, in the communion. They re¬ 
baptized all fuel) as joined themfelves to their congrega¬ 
tion. They abhorred the worfhip of faints and images, 
prayers for the dead, celibacy, vows, and farts; and kept 
none of the feftivals but Chriftmas, Earter, and Whitfun- 
tide. In 1504, they were accufed by the Catholics to king 
Ladiflaus II. who publilhed an edidf againft them, for bid¬ 
ding them to hold any meetings either privately or pub¬ 
licly. When Luther declared himfelf againft the church 
of Rome, the Bohemian brethren endeavoured to join 
his party. At firft that reformer ftiewed a great averfion 
to them ; but, the Bohemians fending their deputies to 
him in 1513 with a full account of their dodlrines, he ac¬ 
knowledged that they were a fociety of Chriftians whofe 
doctrine came neareft to the purity of the gofpel. This 
fedt publilhed another confertion of faith in 1535, in which 
they renounced anabaptifm, which they at firlt pradtiled : 
upon which a union was concluded with the Lutherans, 
and afterwards with the Zuinglians. whofe opinions from 
thenceforth they continued to follow. 
BOH'ME, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Aller, four miles fouth-eaft of Bethem, in the principality 
of Luneburg Zell. 
BOHMISCHKRUTT', a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Auftria : five miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Feldlburg. 
BO'HOL, one of the Philippine iftands, lying to the 
northward of Mindanoa. 
BOHONIZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Be- 
chin : two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tein. 
BOH'RAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Breflau : ftxteen miles fouth of Breflau, and fifteen fouth- 
eaft of Canth. 
BOHR'LITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn: 
nine miles welt-north-weft of Aufpitz. 
BOHUSLAW'JZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Konigingratz : ten miles north-eaft of Konigingratz. 
BOIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and the county of Molife, the fee a biftiop, fuffra- 
gan of Benevento, who refides at Campobalfo: nine 
miles fouth of Molife. 
BOl APv'DO (Matteo Maria of Ferrara), count of Scan- 
diano, celebrated for his Italian poems, lived in the 15th 
century. His principal work is Orlando inamorato. His La¬ 
tin eclogues and fonnets are alfo much admired. 
BOIAR'Kl, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiov: thirty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bialacei kievv. 
BOI'ARS,y. in Mufcovy, certain great lords of the 
czar’s court, who adminifter juftice, try caufes, and are 
the minifters of ftate. 
BOIE'MUM, apart of Germany, furrounded with the 
Montes Sudeti, now called Bohemia. It took its name 
from the Boii, a people of Gaul, who removed thither 
before Csefar’s expedition into that country. Cccfar. The 
Boii were afterwards driven out by the Marcomanii, and 
fettled in the weft of Vindelicia, which was afterwards 
called Bayern, and hence the name Bavaria. 
BOl'I, a people of Celtica, extending from the Ligeris 
to the Elaver, whence came the Boii of Gallia Cifalpina, 
whofe migration is related by Livy. 
BOII. See Bohemia. 
To BOIL, v. n. [bouillir , Fr. bullio, Lat.] To be agi¬ 
tated by heat; to flufhiate with heat.—Suppofe the earth 
removed, and placed nearer to the fun, in the orbit of 
B O I 
Ivfercury, there the whole ocean would boilmth extremity 
of heat. Bentley. —To be hot; to be fervent, or effervefeent: 
That ftrength with which my boiling youth was fraught, 
When in the vale of Balafor I fought. Dryden. 
To move with an agitation like that of boiling water : 
Then headlong Ihoots beneath the dafhing tide, 
The trembling fins the boiling waves divide. Gay. 
To be in hot liquor, in order to be made tender by the 
heat. To cook by boiling.—If you live in a rich family, 
roafting and boiling are below the dignity of your office, and 
which it becomes you to be ignorant of. Swift. 
To Boil over. To run over the veftel with heat.—A 
few foft words and a kifs, and the good man melts ; fee 
how nature works and boils over in him. Congreve. 
To BOIL, v. a. To heat, by putting into boiling water; 
to leeth.—To try whether feeds be old or new, the fenfe 
cannot inform; but, if you boil them, in water, the new 
feeds will fprout fooner. Bacon. 
BOIL, or Furnace. See Medicine and Surgery. 
BOIL'ARY,y. A place in the falt-works where the fait 
is boiled. 
BOILEAU' (Giles), member of the French academy, 
and elder brother of the celebrated Boileau Defpreaux, 
wrote a tranflation of Epictetus, two diflertations againft 
Menage and Caftor, and fome other works. He died in 
1669, aged thirty-eight; 
BOILEAU' (James), brother of the former, and a 
learned doftor of the Sorbonne, was born at Paris the 6th 
of March, 1635. After having been dean and grand vicar 
of Sens under M. de Goudrin, he returned to Paris in 
1694, and was made canon of the holy chapel. He died 
when dean of the faculty of divinity, the ift of Auguft, 
1716. He publilhed a great number of curious works, 
the principal of which are, r. The Decretal fuper Spe¬ 
cula de Magiftris. 2. De Antiquo jure Prefbytcrorum 
in Regimine Ecclefialtico. 3. De Antiquis et Majoribus 
Epifcoparum Caufis, 4to. 4. Hiftory of Auricular Con- 
feftion. 
BOILEAU' (John James), canon of the church of St. 
Honore at Paris, was of the diocefe of Agen, in which he 
enjoyed a curacy. The delicacy of his conftitution hav¬ 
ing obliged him to quit it, he repaired to Paris. The car¬ 
dinal de Noailles afforded him many marks of his efteem. 
He died the 10th of March, 1735, aged eighty-fix. There 
are by him, 1. Letters on Morality and Devotion, 2Vols. 
121110. 2. The Life of the Duchels of Liancourt, and of 
Madame Combe, fuperiorof the houfe of the Bon Pafteur. 
His works evince a fund of fenfe and good fentiments. 
BOILEAU' DESPREAUX' (Nicholas), a celebrated 
French poet, born at Paris, November 1, 1636. His mo¬ 
ther died when he was in his infancy, and he loft his fa¬ 
ther before he was feventeen. After he had finifhed his 
philofophical ftudies, he was perfuaded to apply himfelf 
to the law ; in which he made a confiderable proficiency, 
and was admitted advocate on the 4th of December, 1656. 
Bur, though he had all the qualifications neceftary to form 
a great lawyer, yet the profeffion, dealing fo much in the 
indiferiminate fupport of right or wrong, did not fuit the 
candour and fincerity of his difpofition. For this reafon 
he quitted the bar ; and has exprefted his averfion to the 
law in his fifth epiftle. He now refolved to ftudy divinity, 
and accordingly went to the Sorbonne ; but in a little time 
he contra died a ftrongaverfion to this purfuit; for he found, 
to his aftonifhment, the moft important points of falvation 
reduced to empty fpeculation, wrapt up in terms of obfcit- 
rity, and thereby giving rife to endlefs difputes. He 
therefore left the Sorbonne, and applied himfelf to the 
more polite ftudies, efpecially to poetry, for which his ge¬ 
nius was particularly formed ; and he foon carried the 
palm from every poet in France. The fuccefs which his 
firft works met with, is humoroufly deferibed in his epif¬ 
tle to his book. 
He wrote fatires, wherein he expofed the bad tafte of 
the 
