CAN 
?o introduce and multiply cant words, is the moil ruinous 
’corruption in any language. Swift. —Audlion.—Num¬ 
bers of thefe tenants, or their defeendants, are now offer¬ 
ing to fell their leafes by cant, even thofe which were for 
lives. Swift. 
To CANT, v. n. To talk in the jargon of particular 
profeflions; or in any kind of formal affefted language ; 
or with a peculiar and fttidied tone of voice.—Men cant 
about materia and forma ; hunt chimeras by rules and art ; 
or drefsup ignorance in wordsof bulk and found, which 
may flop up the mouth of enquiry. Glanville. 
Unfkill’d in fchemesby planets to forefhow, 
Like canting rafeals, how tiie wars will go. Dryden. 
CANT, /, \_kant, Dut. a corner. ] A niche.—The firft 
and principal perfon in the temple was Peace ; (lie was 
placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonfon, 
CANT, adj. Belonging to a corrupt dialed!, belonging 
to the language of any particular profellion. 
CAN'T A, a diftridt and jurifdidlion of South America, 
in Peru, fituated to the north-eaft: of Lima. 
CAN'TA-VIE'GA, a town of Spain, in Arragon. 
CAN'TABLE, adj. Proper tu be fling as a kind of 
chant. 
CANTA'BRIA, anciently a diftric! of Terraconenfis, 
on the Oceanus Cantabricus, or bay of Bifcay ; now BiJ- 
■cay. The inhabitants were famous for their warlike cha¬ 
racter. In conjunction with the Atturians, they carried 
on defperate wars with the Romans ; but were fubdued 
by them about twenty-five years before Chrift. Being 
impatient, however, of a foreign yoke, they foon re¬ 
volted. Mod of their youth had been taken prifonersby 
the Romans, and fold for fiaves to the neighbouring na¬ 
tions: but, having found means to break their chains, 
they cut the throats of their mafters ; and, returning 
into their native country, attacked the Roman garrifons 
with incredible fury. Agrippa marched again!! them 
w ith great expedition ; but, on his arrival, he met with 
ho vigorous a refinance, that it was with extreme diffi¬ 
culty he again brought them under fubiedtion. 
CANTAB'RICA,/. in botany. SeeC0Nv01.vu1.us. 
CANTACUZE'NUS (Johannes), one of the Byzantine 
liiltorians, and a celebrated (latefman and general, born 
at Confiantinople, of a very ancient and noble family. 
Me was bred to letters and to arms, and was admitted to 
thes highefl offices of the (fate. The emperor Andro- 
nicus loaded him with wealth and honour; made him 
generaliffimo of his forces ; and was defirous of uniting 
him in the government, but this he refilled, Androni- 
cus, dying in 1341, left to Cantacuzenus the care of the 
empire, till his fon John Paleologus, who was then but 
nine years of age, fhould be fit to take it upon himfelf. 
This truft he faithfully difeharged ; till the emprefs 
dowager and her fadtion, forminga party againft him, de¬ 
clared him a traitor. On this the principal nobility and 
army befought him to afeend the throne: and accord¬ 
ingly he was crowned on the 2if! of May, 1342. This 
was followed by a cruel war, which lafted five years; 
when he admitted John a co-adjutor with him in the em¬ 
pire, and their union was confirmed by his giving him his 
daughter in marriage. Sufpicions and enmities, how¬ 
ever, foon arifing, the war broke out again, and conti¬ 
nued till John Paleologus took Confiantinople in 1355. 
A few days after, Cantacuzenus, unwilling to continue 
the effufion of blood, and fenfible that he held the fove- 
reignty only in truft, abdicated his fhare of the empire, 
and, retiring to a monaftery, took- the habit of a monk, 
and the name of jfoafapiias. His wife alfo retired to a 
nunnery, and changed her name of Irene for that of Eugenia. 
In this retirement he lived till the year 1411, when.he 
was upwards of a hundred years of age. Here he wrote 
a hillory of his own times, a Latin tranflation of which, 
from the Greek manuferipr, was pnblilhed by Pontaniis 
At Ingolftadt, in 1603 ; and a fplendid edition was printed 
a; Paris in 164.5, ln three volumes folio, of the original 
Voi., Ill, No. X59. 
CAN _ 737 
Greek, and Pantanus’s Latin verfion. He alfo wrote an 
apology for the Chriftian religion againft that of Ma¬ 
homet, under the name of Chrif.odulus. 
CAN'TZE, the ancient inhabitants of the county of 
Rofs in Scotland. 
CAN'TAL, a large and lofty mountain of France, 993 
toifes higher than the level of the fea : it is always co¬ 
vered with fnow. It is'fituated in the centre of the de¬ 
partment to which it gives name, which was before the 
revolution a part of Auvergne : fixteen miles north-eaft 
of Aurillac, and fourteen weft-north-weft of St. Flour. 
CANTAL'IVER S. See Cantii.ivers. 
CAN'TAR, or Canta'ro, /. An eaftern weight, of 
different value in different places, equal in Turkey to 
603 pounds; at Tunis and Tripoli to 114 pounds. In 
Egypt it is denominated a quintal, and confifts of an hun¬ 
dred or of an hundred and fifty rotolos, according to Hie 
goods they are to weigh. At Naples it is equivalent to 
25 pounds; at Genoa to 150 pounds. At Leghorn there 
are three kinds of cantatas, one weighing 150 pounds, 
another 151, and a third 160 pounds. It is alfo a liquid 
meafure, in ufe at Alicant, containing three gallons. 
CANTA'RA, a river of Sicily, which runs into the 
fea five miles Couth from Agofta. 
CANTARIL'LA, a town of Spain in the province of 
Murcia, three leagues from Murcia. 
CANTARI'NI (Simon), a famous painter, called the 
Pefarefc, from his being born at Pefaro, was the difciple 
ot Guido; and copied the manner of his mailer fo hap¬ 
pily, that it is difficult to diftinguiffi between their works. 
He died at Verona in 164S. 
CANTA'RO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and Principato Citra : eight miles norch-north-eaft 
of Policaftro. 
CANTATA,/, in mufic, a fong or compofition, in¬ 
termixed with recitatives, airs, and different movements, 
chiefly intended for a Angle voice. 
CANTA'TION, /. [ canto , Lat.J The adt of fioging. 
CANTATA, a fmall illand in the Eaftern Indian fea, 
fituated in a gulf formed by the weft point of the illand 
of Java. 
CANTAZA'RO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Calabria Ultra: twenty-one 
miles fouth-weft of St. Severina, and nine north-eaft of 
Squillace. 
CANTEEN',/ A fmall veffel, ufually made of tinned 
plate or wood, in which foldiers, when on their march, 
or in the field, carry their liquor. 
CANTECROI'X, a town of Brabant: five miles Couth, 
eaft of Antwerp. 
CAN'TEL (Peter Jofeph), born in the territory of 
Caux in 1645, entered himfelf of the fociety of Jefus, 
and gained diftiiidlion in it. He died at Paris in 1679, at 
the age of 34; his ardent attachment to ftudy having 
lliortened his days. We have by him, 1. De Romate 
Republics, nmo. Utrecht, 1707, with plates. 2. Me- 
tropolitanarum Urbium Hiftorue civilis & ecclefiafticte, 
toimis primus. It was the only one that appeared. He 
edited the Juftin ad ufum Delphini, Paris, 1677, 4to. 
and the Valerius Maximus, 1679 ; both of which are 
much efteemed. 
CAN'TEfL, / [ cantellum, Lat.J This feems to flgnify 
the fame witii what we now call lump, as to buy by the 
lump : but, according to Blount, it is that which is added 
above meafure. Alfo a piece of any thing, as cant cl of 
bread, See . See Cantle. 
CANTELIEU', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrief of Rouen : one league weft of Rouen. 
CANTEM 1 R', (Demetrius), defeended from an illuf- 
trious family in 'I artary, born in 1673. His father, who 
was governor of the three cantons of Moldavia, became 
prince of that province in 1664. Demetrius, being Cent 
early to Confiantinople, flattered himfelf with the prof- 
pedl of lucceeding his father; but was fupplanted by a 
