D JE M 
when he fays, At fuperfunt loca in Libris N. T. ades per- 
Jpicua, ubi ‘ Corpora liter ’ tit vocant, a Jpiritu malig- 
7to obfejji necejfario J'unt intelligendi. “ But there are fe¬ 
deral paffages in the Books of the New Teftament thus 
perfpicuous, in which perfons muft of neceffity be under¬ 
stood as befet by a malignant fpirit ‘Bodily’ as they 
term it.” 
This opinion of Kypke’s is confirmed by a writer, who 
was diftinguiflied by the freedom with which he difeufi'ed 
all fubjfedts. We will conclude this article with two 
extracts from his. valuable works. Dr. Jortin, in the 
filth volume of his Sermons, p. 236, ed. 1772, is dif- 
courfing on the woman of Canaan, who cried and faid, 
“ Have mercy on me, O Lord; my daughter is griev- 
onfly vexed with a devil.” Having opened the fubjedt, 
he proceeds thus : “ The woman was an afflicted mother, 
perhaps a widow ; and her daughter, perhaps her only 
child, was grievoufly tormented by a devil; whether it 
were a devil, or whether it were only a difeafe, the cafe 
was equally deplorable, and the cure equally miraculous. 
The Jews ufed to aferibe all extraordinary difeafes, fuch 
as lunacy, palfies, and epileptic fits, to evil fpirits; they 
even called fuch difeafes devils: the neighbouring na¬ 
tions had the fame notion ; and this was the common 
language of the times. It is pofiible, therefore, that 
the lacred writers may have fometimes imitated them, 
and complied with cuftom. But then there are fome 
particular hifiories and faffs related in the Gofpels and 
in the Acts of the Apoftles, which cannot be underltood 
of any thing but real polfellions, unlefs we offer much 
violence to the narration. If on the one hand we muff: 
not multiply the operations of evil fpirits beyond ablo- 
lute neceffity, we muff take care on the other hand not 
to extenuate them to the prejudice of the Evangelifts, 
and of the glory of thrift. I think it is obvious and eafy 
to find a reafon why in the days of Chrift and his Apoftles 
evil fpirits had more influence and power over the bo¬ 
dies of men than before or fince. When God fent his 
Son into the world, it was to deftroy the empire of Sin 
and Satan. Evil fpirits, therefore, were permitted to 
break loofe and range at large, and do their vvorft, that 
the glory of the Son of God might be made manifeft in 
expelling them, in rebuking them, in putting them to 
open fhame, and compelling them to proclaim the dig¬ 
nity of Chrift, and to be a fort of unwilling preachers 
and witneffes of the Gofpel. Thus men beheld at the 
fame time the vile nature and the terrible force of thofe 
apoflate fpirits, and the fuperior power and great good- 
nets ot the Saviour of the world, who delivered mifera- 
ble men from fuch dreadful enemies.” 
Dr. Jorcin’s Remarks on Ecclesiastical History 
were defignedly written to explode errors. For this.-pur- 
pofe he weighed well what was, and what was not found¬ 
ed in fadt. The refult of his deliberation on daemoniacs, 
was in his Remarks what it had been in his Difcourfes ; 
and indeed feems to claim our aflent, without farther 
hefitation : “ Ainongft the miracles recorded in the Acts 
of the Apoftles, is the calling out of evil fpirits. In the 
New Teftament, where any circumftances are added con¬ 
cerning the daemoniacs, they are generally fuch as ftiew 
that there was fomething preternatural in the diftemper; 
for thefe difordered perfons agreed in one ftory, and paid 
homage to Chrift and to his Apoftles, which is not to be 
expected from madmen, of whom fome would have wor- 
fhipped, and others would have reviled Chrift, accord¬ 
ing to the various humour and behaviour obfervable in 
inch perions. One reafon for which the Divine Provi¬ 
dence fhould fuffer evil fpirits to exert their malignant 
powers fo much at that time, might be to give a check 
to Sadduceifm amongft the Jews, and to Epicurean Athe- 
ilm amongft the Gentiles, and to remove in fome meafure 
thefe two great impediments to the reception of the Gof¬ 
pel.” Jortin’s Remarks on Ecclefiaftical Hiltory, vol. i. 
p. 14. ed. 1741. 
f Worfliip of-daemons.—All thefe 
BAG 
forts, both of damonifm , polytheifm, atheifm, and theifm, 
may be mixed. Shaftejbury . 
D/£ , MONIST,y'. A worfiiipper of daemons.'—Perfedt 
damonifls undoubtedly there are in religibn. Shaftejbury. 
DiEMONOM A'NI A, J'. [from a daemon, and 
poena., madnefs.] That fpecies of melancholy where the 
patient fuppofes himfelf to be poffeifed of devils. 
DA'FAR, Do'far, orDoL'FAR, a fea-port town of 
Arabia, in the country of Hadramaut, on the weft coaft 
of a bay in the Arabian Sea, to which it gives name, 
governed by a fcheick, who is a fovereign prince. The 
chief export is olibanum. It is 160 miles eaft-north-eaft 
of Cape Fartach. 
DA'FAR, a town of Arabia, near the coaft of the 
Red Sea, in the country of Yemen: 130 miles fouth of 
Mecca. 
To DAFFE, v. a. See To Daft. 
DAF'FODII.,DAFFODILLY,OrDAFFODOWNDILLY,y: 
[fuppofed by Skinner to be corrupted from ajphodelus.'] 
The fhort narciffus, and fair daffodil, 
Pancies to pleafe the fight, and caffia fweet to fmell. Dryd. 
Bid amaranthus all his beauty Hied, 
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, 
To ftrew the laureat herfe where Lycid lies. Milton. 
Strew me the green ground with daffodoiondillies. 
And cowfiips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenfer. 
DAF'FODIL. See Narcissus and P ncratium. 
DAF'NE, a river of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, 
which runs into the Urana, between Marcenopoli and 
Varna. 
To DAFT, v. a. [contradted from do aft ; that is, to 
to throw back, to throw off . ] To tofs afide ; to put away 
with contempt ; to throw away (lightly. Not in ufc. 
The nimble-footed mad-cap prince of Wales, 
And his comrades, that daft the world afide, 
And bid it pafs. Shahefpeare. 
Mafon fays that this verb is to dajfe, and that Johnfon hat 
turned it into daft, by attending only to the paffages 
w'here the preterite occurs, and overlooking thofe where 
the prefent tenfe is. ufed. Neither does it only mean to 
throw off, but alfo to put off' evalively.—Canft thou fo 
dajfe me. Mijch Ado. 
DAG, f \_dague, Fr. ] A dagger; a handgun; a pif- 
tol ; fo called from ferving the purpofes of a dagger, be¬ 
ing carried fecretly, and doing mifehief fuddenly. It 
is in neither fenfe now ufed. 
To DAG, v. a. [from dag, Sax. to fprinkle.] To dag. 
gle ; to bemire ; to let fall in the water : a low word. 
DA'GELET, an ifland on the coaft of Corea, difeo- 
vered by Peroufe in 1787. It is little more than three 
leagues in circumference, very deep, and covered with 
trees from the fea-lhore to the fummit. A rampart of 
bare rock, like a wall, encircles the whole outline of it, 
with the exception of feven little fandy creeks, where it 
is poffible to land. Lat. 37.23. N. Ion. 129. 2. E. Paris. 
DA'GER-ORT, a towrn of Ruffia, in the ifiand of 
Dago : eighty-four miles weft-fouth-weft of Revel. 
DAGESTA'N, a province of Alia, on the weft coaft 
of the Cafpian Sea, between Circalfia and the province 
of Schirvan, inhabited by Tartars, fubjedt to Ruffia, 
and included in the government of Caucafus. 
DAG'GER, f. [ dague, Fr.] A fhort fword ; a poniard. 
—He ftrikes himfelf with his dagger-, but, being inter¬ 
rupted by one of his friends, he (tabs him, and breaks the 
dagger on one of his ribs.. Addifon .—[In fencing fchools. ] 
A blunt blade of iron with a balket hilt, ufed for de¬ 
fence. [With printers. ] The obelus; a mark of refer¬ 
ence in form of a dagger; as [ f ]. 
To DAG'GER, v. a. To wound with a dagger: 
How many gallants have drank healths to me 
Out of their, dagger’d arms ? Dckker. 
D AG'GERSDRAW.ING, /. The adt of drawing dag. 
