CUD 
To beat in general.— Cudgel thy brains no more about it; 
for your dull afs will not mend his pace with beating. 
Skake/peare. 
CUD'GEL-PROOF, adj. Able to refift a flick : 
His doublet was of fturdy buff. 
And though not fword, yet cudgel-proof. Hudibras. 
CU'DLE,/ A fmall fea-fiflt.—Of round fifli there are 
britt, fprat, cud/es, eels. Carew. 
CUD'REFIN, a town and bailiwick of Swifferland, 
in the canton of Berne, on the fouth-eaft borders of 
Neufchatel: this town was taken by affault, in 1475, by 
the Swifs cantons, who allotted it to the cantons of Berne 
and Friburg, - who reftored it to the duke of Savoy. In 
1536, the inhabitants furrendered to the Bernois without 
reliftance, under which canton it remains. It is five miles 
fouth-eaft of Neufchatel, and twenty-one weft of Berne. 
CUDUPARl'TI, f. in botany. See Gossypium. 
CUD'WEED, f. in botany. See Athanasia, Fr- 
LAGo, and Gnaphalium. 
CUD'WORTH (Ralph), a learned Englilh divine and 
philofopher, born at Aller, in Somerfetfiiire, in 1617, of 
which place his father was reftor. I-Ie was early admit¬ 
ted a penfioner of Emanuel-college, Cambridge, in which 
univerfity he was matriculated in 1632. Of his diligence 
in application to academic ftudies, and the great improve¬ 
ment which he made in folid learning and ufeful know¬ 
ledge, his fubfequent works afford abundant teftimony. 
In 1639 he took the degree of mafter of arts," and being 
elected fellow of his college, he was prefented to the 
redtory of North Cadbury, in Somerfetfiiire. In 1642, 
he publilhed A Difcourfe concerning the true Nature of 
the Lord’s Supper. About the year 1644, Mr. Cudworth 
took the degree of bachelor in divinity ; and was chofen 
mafter of Clare-hall, in the room of Dr. Pafke, who had 
been ejected by the parliamentary vifitors. In the fol¬ 
lowing year he was unanimoufly nominated regius pro- 
feffor of Hebrew, for which office his great knowledge of 
the oriental languages eminently qualified him ; and from 
that time applied himfelf almoft entirely to his academi¬ 
cal employments and ftudies. In 1654, he was chofen 
mafter of Chrift’s-college, Cambridge. In that place he 
fpent the remainder of his days. In 1656-7 he was one 
of the divines appointed by the grand committee for reli¬ 
gion, to confult about a new Englifli tranflation of the 
Bible, whofe labours were terminated by the diffolution 
of the parliament. After the reftoration of Charles II. 
in 1662, he was prefented.by Dr. Sheldon, biffiop of Lon¬ 
don, to the vicarage of Afiiwell, in the county of Here¬ 
ford; and, in 1678, was inftalled prebendary of Glou- 
cefter. He now publilhed his grand work, entitled The 
true intellectual Syftem of the Univerfe, the Firft Part; 
wherein all the Reafon and Philofophy of Atheifm is con¬ 
futed, and its Impoflibility demonftrated ; folio. This 
work is an immenfe ftorehoufe of ancient literature, and 
has defervedly given to the author an high rank among 
the moft learned and candid divines and philofophers of 
his country. The author’s attachment to the principles 
of the Platonic philofophy, particularly as they were 
taught in the Alexandrian fchool, has led him to advance 
fome fanciful metaphyfical opinions, which wear too 
much of the appearance ofmyllicifm and incomprehenfi- 
bility. In his phyfics he has adopted the corpufcular 
fyftem, adding to the doctrine of atoms that of a certain 
middle fubftance between matter and fpirit, to which he 
gave the appellation of plaltic nature, which he fuppofed 
to be the immediate inftrument of the divine operation. 
This hypothefis afterwards gave rife to a famous contelt 
between Bayle and Le Clerc ; the former of whom main¬ 
tained that Dr. Cudworth, by his doCtrine of a plaftic 
nature, gave great advantage to the atheifts. Befides 
the articles already mentioned, Dr. Cudworth publilhed, 
in 1664, a fernton preached at Lincoln’s-inn, and a trea- 
tife intitled Dcus JuJlificatus, or the Divine Goodnefs vin¬ 
dicated and cleared, againft the Affertors of abfolute and 
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inconditionate Reprobation. He alfo left feveral books 
in manufcript, of which one only has been printed fince 
his death, intitled, A Treatife concerning eternal and 
immutable Morality, witli a preface by Dr. Chandler, 
bifiiop of Durham. The titles of his other unpublifficd 
writings, which are now lodged in the Britilh Mufeum, 
are, 1. A Treatife concerning Moral Good and Evil, 
containing near a thoufand folio pages. 2. A Treatife 
of Liberty and Necellity, wherein tire Foundations of the 
Philofophy of Atheifm are deftroyed, the Certainty cf 
Morality eftablilhed, and the Nature of it explained ; of 
an equal bulk with the former. 3. A Commentary on 
the Seventy Weeks mentioned by the Prophet Daniel, 
wherein the feveral Explications of them by the Jews, 
and fome Chriftian Writers, are examined and confuted; 
two volumes folio. 4. A Treatife of the Creation of the 
World, and the Immortality of the Soul; a volume in 
odtavo. 5. Of the Learning of,the Hebrews; and, 6. An 
Explanation of Hobbes’s Notions concerning the Nature 
of God, and the Extenfion of Spirits. He has alfo men¬ 
tioned, in fome of his works, A Treatife of the Truth 
of the Chriftian Religion againft the Jews; which has 
not been found among his remaining manufcripts. On 
the whole, Dr. Cudworth was not only diftinguiffied by 
very extenfive learning, and profound metaphyfical and 
philofophical knowledge, but by exemplary piety, and 
great moderation and prudence, which rendered him an 
honour to the inftitutions where he was educated, and in 
which he prefided, “ to the whole univerfity of Cam¬ 
bridge which he adorned, and to the church and age ia 
which he lived,” He died at Cambridge in 1688, in the 
feventy-firft year of his age. 
CUE,/, [queue, a tail, Fr.] The tail or end of any 
thing ; as, the long tie of a wig. The laft words of a 
fpeech, which the player, who is to anfwer, catches, and 
regards as intimation to begin.—Pyramus, you begin ; 
when you have fpoken your fpeech, enter into that brake; 
and fo every one according to his cue. Shake/peare,—A 
hint; an intimation; a fliort diredtion ; 
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 
That he lhould weep for her ? What would he do. 
Had he the motive and the cue for paffion 
That I have ? He would drown the ftage with tears. Skakef. 
The part which any man is to play in his turn : 
Were it my cue to fight, I lhould have known it 
Without a prompter. Shakcfpearc. 
Humour ; temper of mind : a low word. 
CUE, a town of Perlia, in the province of Adirbeitzan:, 
100 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tauris. 
CUEN'^A, a jurifdidtion of South America, in the 
country of Terra Firma, and audience of Quito, contain¬ 
ing fourteen parifiies, and a town of the fame name. 
CUEN't^A, a town of South America, inTerra Firma, 
and capital of a jurildidtion to which it gives name, in the 
audience of Quito, containing between twenty-four and 
thirty thoufand inhabitants: 150 miles fouth of Quito. 
CUEN'tj A, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, anciently 
called Confa, the fee of a biffiop, fuffragan of Toledo, fitu- 
ated between two lofty mountains and two fmall ftreams, 
which form the Xucar: it was taken by the earl of Peter¬ 
borough in 1 706; but foon after retaken by the duke of 
Berwick. It is feventy-five miles eaft of Madrid, and 
one hundred weft-north-weft of Valencia. Lat. 40.10. N. 
Ion. 14. 35. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
CUE'RA, or -Zuera, a town of Spain, in Arragon, 
on the Gallego : ten miles north of Saragoffa. 
CUE'RENHERT (Theodore Van), a very extraordi¬ 
nary perfon, native of Amfterdam, born in *52?. Early 
in life he travelled into Spain and Portugal; but the mo¬ 
tives of his journey are not afcertained. He was a man 
of fcience, and a good poet. The lifter arts at ■firft he 
confidered as an amufement only; but in the end he was 
obliged to have recourfe to engraving for his fupport. 
