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DAM'ME, a town of the United Dutch States, in 
Groningen, iituated in the Ommelends, on the river 
Damder, the Capital of a country called Fiveliugo, which 
comprehends forty-five villages. Damme has a commu¬ 
nication with Groningen by means of a canal. It was 
anciently fortified before the troops of Charles V. took 
it by aflault in 1536, when under the dominion of the 
duke of Gueldres. It was difmantled in 1539, by order 
of George comte de Tautembourg. Although it be un¬ 
fortified, it enjoys the privileges of a city, and has .a 
voice among the dates in Groningen. It fullered much 
in the religious wars of the fixteenth century, ns well as 
by inundations fome years lincc: fourteen miles north-cad 
of Groningen, and two wed of Delfzyl. 
DAM'ME, a town of Flanders, fituated on the canal 
between Bruges and Sluys : takes its name from the 
ftrong dyke made here to prevent the incroachment of 
the fea, fometimes called Hondts-D amine, that is the Dog’s 
Dike, perhaps from the dog borne in the arms of the place. 
It was fird furrounded with walls in 123S, and has been 
lince regularly fortified with feven badions. It forms a 
citadel to the city of Bruges, and could at any time in¬ 
undate the country, if that city was bclieged. In 1213, 
a fquadron of French drips came to attack it as.a prelude 
to Ghent, but were defeated by the Englilh. In 13S4, 
it fudained a long fiege againd an army of eighty thoufand 
men, commanded by Charles VI. king of France, and 
furrendered only for want of frefh water. It is in the 
Franc of Bruges, and enjoys the fame privileges as Odend. 
It was taken by the duke of Marlborough in 1706, and 
ceded to the Dutch by the peace of Utrecht: three miles 
uorth-north-ead of Bruges, and fix fouth-fouth-wed of 
Sluys. » 
DAM'MER, a town of Silefia,«in the principality of 
Oels : four miles fouth-ead of Militfch. 
To DAMN, v. a. [ damno, Lat.] To doom to eternal 
torments in a future date.—It is mod necedary, that the 
church, by doftivu and decree, do damn and fend to hell 
for ever thofe fadts and opinions. Bacon. —To procure or 
caufe to be eternally condemned.'—That which he conti¬ 
nues ignorant of, having done the utmod lying in his 
power that he might not be ignorant of it, lhall not damn 
him. South. —To condemn : 
His own impartial thought 
Will damn , and confidence will record the fault. Dry den. 
To hoot or liifs-any public performance ; to explode: 
They damn themfelvcs, nor will my mufe defeend 
To clap with fuch who fools and knaves commend. 
Phoebus gives them full privilege alone 
To damn all others, and cry Up their own. Dry den. 
DAM'NA, a town of Arabia Deferta : eighty miles 
fouth of Damafcus. 
DAM'NABI.K, adj. Deferving damnation; judly 
doomed to never-ending punilhment.—It gives him oc- 
cafion of labouring with greater earnednefs elfewhere, to 
entangle unwary minds with the Inures of his damnable 
opinion. Hooker. 
He’s a creature unprepared, unmeet for death ; 
And to tranfpqrt him in the mind he is 
Were damnable. Shakcfpcare, 
It is fometimes indecently ufed in a low and ludicrous 
fenfe; odious; pernicious.—O thou damnable fellow! 
did not I pluck thee by the nofe for thy fpeeches ? Shakef. 
DAM'NA BLY, adv. In fuch a manner as to incur 
eternal punilhment; fo as to be excluded from mercy.— 
We will propofe the quedion, whether thole who hold 
the fundamentals of faith may deny Chrid damnably, in 
refpe&of thofe confequences that arife from them ? South. 
—It is indecently ufed in a ludicrous fenfe; odioufiy ; 
hatefully.—The more fweets they bedowed upon them, 
»he more damnably their conferves dunk . Dennis. —Jixcel- 
fively .—1 find I am damnably in lov.“. Congreve. 
DANJN’A'TION, / Exclufion from divine mercy; 
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condemnation to eternal punilhment.—He that hath been, 
affrighted with the fears of hell, or remembers how often 
he hath been fpared from an horribly damnation , will not 
be ready to drangle his brother for a trifle. Taylor. 
Now mince the fin, 
And mollify damnation with a phraferi 
Say you confented not to Sancho’s death, 
But barely not forbade it. Drydcn. 
DAM'NplTORY, adj. [from damnatorius, Lat.] Con¬ 
taining a fentence Of condemnation. 
DAM'NED, part. adj. Hateful; detedable ; abhorred j 
abominable: 
Not in the legions 
Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d 
In evils to top Macbeth, Shakcfpcare-. 
I.et not the royal bed of Denmark be 
A couch for luxury and damned inced. Hamlet. 
But, oh ! what damned minutes tells he o’er 
Who doats, yet doubts ; fufpedts, yet drongly loves. 
Shakcfpcare. 
DAMNI'FIC, adj. Procuring lofs ; mifehievous. 
To DAM'NIFY, v.a. [from damni^-, Lat.] To en¬ 
damage ; to injure ; to caufe lofs to any.—He, who lias 
inhered the damage, has a right to demand in his own 
name, and he alone can remit, fatisfadlion': the damnified 
perfon has the power of appropriating the goods or fer- 
vice of the offender, by right of felf-prefervation. Locke,. 
—To hurt; to impair : 
When now he faw himfelf fo frefiily rear, 
As if late fight had nought him damnified. 
He wasdifmay’d, and ’gan his fate to fear. Spenfer. 
DAM'NINGNESS, f. Tendency to procure damna¬ 
tion.—Fie may vow never to return to thofe fins which he 
hath had fuch experience of, for the emptinefsand damn, 
ingnefs of them, and fo think himfelf a complete peni¬ 
tent. Hammond. 
DAM'NUM ABS'QUE INJURIA,/ inlaw; where 
if one man keeps a fcliool in fuch a place, another may 
do fo likewife in the fame place, though he draw away 
the fcholars from the other fcliool; and this is damnum 
abfquc injuria, a lofs without an injury ; but he mud not 
do any thing to didurb the other fcliool. 3 Salk. 10. 
DA'MO, daughter of Pythagoras' the philofoplicr, 
flourifhed about five hundred years before Chrid. She 
appears to have polfclfed extraordinary abilities, and to 
have been one of her father’s favourite difciples;. for (lie 
was initiated by him into the fecrets of liis philofophy, 
and entruded with all his writings when he found death 
approaching. Thatdepolit, however, was accompanied 
with an exprefs injunction that they fhoulu never be made 
public. In the courfe of her aftfer life, Damo fell into 
didreflbd circumdances, when a conliderable fum was 
od'ered to her if die would part with them ; but ilie reli- 
gioully obferved her father’s command, choofing rather 
to druggie with the evils of poverty, than to flievv her- 
felf unworthy of the confidence he had placed in her. 
It is mod probable that they were afterwards dedroyed 
by her, lince we have no fatisfaCtory evidence that any 
of the pieces which have been attributed to Pythagoras 
were his genuine productions. Damo is alfo reported to 
have led a fingle life, in obedience to her father’s will, 
and to have taken under her indruCtions a number of 
young women, who made vows of celibacy. 
DA'MOCLES, one of the flatterers of Dionyfius the 
elder, of Sicily. He admired the tyrant’s wealth, and 
pronounced him the happied man on earth. Dionyfius 
prevailed upon him to undertake for a while the charge 
of royalty, to know precifely the kind of happinefs a 
fovereign enjoyed. Damocles afeended the throne, and 
while he gazed upon the wealth and fplendor that fur- 
rounded him, he perceived a fvvord hanging over his head 
by a horfe-hair. This lo terrified him that all his imagi¬ 
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