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September, provided the feafon continue warm, other- 
wife they mud be removed into the Hove {boner. See 
jJ-T h RETIA • 
COR'DIAL, f. [from cor, Lat. the heart.] A medi¬ 
cine that increafes the force of the heart, or quickens tlie 
circulation. Any medicine that increafes ftrength. Any 
thing that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates : 
Then with fome cordials feek for to appeafe 
The inward languor of my wounded heart, 
And then my body fliall have fliortly cafe ; 
But fuch fvveet cordials pal's phylicians art. Spatjir. 
The word cordial is of a large extent, in medicine. 
Things of very oppofite natures may prove cordials, by 
relieving the lame fymptoms, when oppolite caufes pro¬ 
duce them. To underftand their operation On the body, 
it is neceffary to confider, that a languor or faintnefs muft 
be the confequence either of what oppreftes, or elfe of 
wliat exhaufts, the vital powers ; that which retards the 
progrefs of the vital principle in our frame, or is an im¬ 
pediment to its influence, produces the fame fenfation as 
a diminution of it does. In both thefe cafes, medicines 
of oppolite natures produce the fame eflebt, that is, they 
add force to the fibres; thus, under an oppreflion of fpi- 
rits from heat, when no extraordinary adtion, or indifpo- 
fition of body, hath exhaufted them, a glafs of cold water 
is a cordial, for it ftimulates the fibres, and roufes them 
to their wonted adlion; and when from violent exercife, 
or a tedious difeafe, a perfon faints, warm medicines, or 
aromatic and fpirituous liquors, are alfo cordial, by pro¬ 
ducing to us the fame efteft. But in general, by cordials, 
is underftood, thofe preparations, whofe warm and adtive 
parts immediately, on bting received into the ftomach, 
produce a cheerfulnefs in us, and are fuited to increafe 
the ftrength and vigour of the heart. Valcarengus fays, 
that a cordial is whatever deftroys, or at leaf! blunts, the 
force of the morbific caufe, reftores the loft tone of the 
folids, and gives due motion to the fluids, and by that 
means procures a juft equilibrium, which is the only 
and lafting principle of all the motions in our body. It 
Ihould be obferved, that weaknefs arifes from a .redun¬ 
dance, as well as a deficience, in the conftituents of 
health: whence, from this definition of cordials, oppo- 
fite means affume the fame charadter, for thus they both 
are cordials, by oppofing the caufe of languor. 
COR'DIAL, adj. Reviving; invigorating; reftora- 
tive.—He only took cordial waters, in which we infufed 
fometimes purgatives. Wifeman. —Sincere ; hearty ; pro¬ 
ceeding from the heart: without hypocrify : 
He, with looks of cordial love, 
Hung over her enamour’d. Milton. 
CORDIA'LITY,/'. Relation to the heart.—That the 
ancients had any fuch refpedts of cordiality , or reference 
unto the heart, w'ill much be doubted. Brown. —Since¬ 
rity ; freedom from hypocrify. 
COR'DIALLY, adv. Sincerely; heartily; without 
hypocrify.—Where a.ftrong inveterate love of fin has 
made any dodtrine or proportion wholly unfuitable to 
the heart, no argument, or demonftration, no nor miracle 
whatfoever, fliall be able to bring the heart cordially to 
clofc with, and receive it. South. 
COR DINE'MA, f. [from za?K, the head, and 
to move about. ] A head-ach attended with a fvvimming, 
caufing the perfon to imagine every thing about him 
turns round. 
COR'DINER,yi [cordomier, Fr.] A fiioemaker. It 
is fo ufed in divers of our ftatutes, 
COR'DON,/ in fortification, a row of ftones jutting 
out between the rampart and the bails of the parapet, 
like the tore of a column. The cordon ranges round the 
whole fortrefs, and ferves to join the rampart, which is 
aflope, and the parapet, which is perpendicular, more 
agreeably together. In fortifications railed of earth, this 
{pace is filled up with pointed Hakes, inftead of a cordon, 
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COR'DON, a frnall illand in the Pacific Ocean, near 
the weft coaft of Nicaragua, at the entrance of the Bay 
of Realejo. 
CORDO'VA, a province of Spain, and once an inde¬ 
pendent kingdom, a part of Andalufia ; bounded on the 
north by Eftramadura and the country of La Mancha, 
on the eaft by the country of Jaen and Granada, on the 
fouth by the province of Seville, and on the weft by Se¬ 
ville and Eftramadura. The country is partly covered 
with the mountains of Morena and vaft plains,.with here 
and there fliarp naked rocks, and deep vallies between. 
Fruits are abundant, as grapes, olives, figs, citrons, &c. 
Myrtles, lentifks, pines, wild olives, &c. grow without 
care. Game is abundant, with a great number of fheep 
and goats. The principal towns are Cordova, Lucena, 
and Montilla : the principal river is the Guadalquiver, 
which croffes it nearly in the center, from north-eaft to 
fouth-weft. 
CORDO'VA, an ancient and rich city of Spain, fitua- 
ted on the Guadalquivir, about a league from the Mo¬ 
rena mountains. Its ancient name was Cordiwa, and is 
faid by fome to have been built by Marcellas, though 
others fuppofe it to be more ancient. It was certainly 
a town of confideration under the Romans; the two Se¬ 
necas, and the poet Lucan, were born here. The bridge 
over the Guadalquivir was built by the Moors, and is 
fupported by lixteen arches. The ancient palace of the 
Moorifh kings is large and beautiful, but has lately been 
converted into {tables, in which one hundred Andalufian 
horfes are ufually kept. In the firft ages after its foun¬ 
dation, this city poffefted an univerfity, in which all the 
fciences were cultivated. The elder Seneca, who wrote 
the Art of Pcrfuafion; Seneca, preceptor to Nero ; Gallio, 
the orator; Lucan, author of the Pharfalia; Seneca, the 
tragedian; Seneca, the hiftorian; and many other emi¬ 
nent men, ftudied there. This univerfity flourifbed like- 
wife under the Moors. It is the fee of a hi {hop, and 
contains, befides the cathedral, lixteen parifli churches, 
thirty-fix convents, fixteen hofpitals, and two colleges,. 
The cathedral church was built by the Moors for a 
mofque, out of the ruins of an ancient Roman temple. 
The fauxbourgs are handfome, and large enough, to be 
taken for towns. It is feventy-five miles north-eaft of 
Seville. Lat. 37. 55. N. Ion. 11.57. E. Peak of Teneritte. 
CORDO'VA, a province of South America, in the 
government of Buenos Ayres, about one hundred leagues 
in length, and feventy in breadth, crofted by feveral chains 
of mountains, and watered by feveral rivers. The prin¬ 
cipal town is called by the fame name, 1 efides which 
there are fome villages. The inhabitants feed a great 
number of cattle and horfes, which form their principal 
trade. Serpents are numerous, fome of which are of 
an amazing lize, and exceedingly dangerous, others are 
harmlefs. This province is but little known. 
CORDO'VA, a town of South America, and capital 
of the above-mentioned province, to which it gives name, 
in the government of Buenos Ayres, founded in the year 
1550, by Nugnez Prado, and about twenty years after eredt- 
ed into a bilhopric. Lat. 32.10. S. Ion. 43. 30. W. Ferro. 
CORDO'VA (New). See Cumana. 
CORDO'VAN (Tower of), a light-houfe at the mouth 
of the river Gironde, on the coaft of France. 
CORDOVA'TO, on the river Lemene, in Maritime 
Auftria, is a caftle, the jurifdidtion of which extends over 
Meduno and twer.ty-two villages, which contain fix thou- 
fand nine hundred inhabitants ; it has likewife an epilco- 
pal palace, and a monaftery inhabited by Dominicans. 
COR'DUBA, anciently an illuftrious city of Bsnica, 
on the right or nortli) fide of the Ba;tis, built by Mar- 
cellus, according to Strabo ; but which Marcellus, is not 
certain. It was the firft colony lent into thole parts by 
the Romans ; and furnamed Patricia, becaufe at firft in¬ 
habited by principal men, both of the Romans and na¬ 
tives. It is mentioned by Sil. Italicus in the fecond Punic 
war; and hence it is probable the firft Marcellus was the 
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