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ranti. According to the abbe Lenglet du Frefnoy, this 
bifliop was alfo the author of Apologia pro Henrico II. con¬ 
tra Ctefarianos, See. and Apologia altera pro rege Ckrjlianifmo, 
&c. both printed at Paris in 1552, together with French 
tranfluti ns of them. 
DA'NET (Peter), a writer more ufeful than brilliant, 
was long one of the redtors of Paris, and in 1674 was 
prefented to the abbacy of St. Nicolas in Verdun. He 
is known by his Dictionary Latin and French, and French 
and Latin, for the ufe of the dauphin. Of this, as has been 
the cafe with other lexicons, the Latin is more pure and 
exact than the vernacular tongue. Fie alfo compiled a 
French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 
1698, 4to. This has been tranflated into Englifh. He 
was one of the perfons feleCted to give the Delphin edi¬ 
tions of the claflics, and Phasdrus fell to his (hare ; but 
his commentary on that author is not highly efteemed. 
He died in 1709. 
DA'NEWORT,yi in botany. See Sambucus. 
DAN'GALA, or Dangola, a town of Africa, in 
the country of Nubia, on the Nile: 150 miles north of 
Sennar. 
RANGE', a town of France, in the department of the 
Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Cha- 
tellerault: two miles and a half north of Chatellerault. 
DANGEAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Chateaudun: three leagues north-north-weft 
of Chateaudun. 
DANGEAU' (Louis de Courcillon de), abbot of Fon- 
taine-Daniel and Clermont, an eftimable man of letters, 
fon of the marquis de Dangeau, born at Paris in 1643. 
He was maternally defeended from Du Plefiis Mornay, 
one of the oracles of Calvinifm, and he was educated in 
the fame religion, which he quitted for the catholic, at 
the perfuafion of the great converter Bolfuet. He tra¬ 
velled when young, and went to Poland, in 1667, in the 
character of envoy-extraordinary. On his return he de¬ 
voted himfelf to literature ; and was nominated, in 1671, 
reader to the king, which office he held till 1685. In 
this fituationhe was of fervice to the caufe of letters by 
pointing out to the king thofe men of merit who de¬ 
served his protection; and he honourably took the part 
of fuch as were calumniated by the party fycophants 
who conftantly environ a court. The French academy 
received him among its members in 16S2, and it had not 
a more zealous and ufeful adbeiate. The branch of ftudy 
to which he paid a peculiar attention was that of gram¬ 
mar ; on which fubjeCt he compofed feveral treatifes, 
upon clear and precife principles, characterising the phy- 
lofophical grammarian. He alfo penetrated deeply into 
the theory of the conjugation of verbs, efpecially the ir¬ 
regular ones. In this bufinefs he was almoft an entlui- 
ftaft ; and once, upon being told fome interefting politi¬ 
cal news, he replied, between jeft and earneft, “ Happen 
what will, I have in iny port folio two thoufand French 
verbs well conjugated.” Flis knowledge of feveral mo¬ 
dern languages greatly affifted him in his enquiries into 
the principles of French grammar, and he is allowed to 
have been an excellent anatomift of his native tongue. 
His grammatical eftays were collected and publilhed by 
the abbe d’Olivet in his “ Opufcules fur la Langue Fran- 
foi/e.” The abbe de Dangeau did not negleCt the (Indies 
of his proper profeffion : and the fir ft, and part of the 
fecond, of the Dialogues on the Immortality of the Soul, 
ufually attributed to the abbe de Choify, are of his com- 
pofition. His regard for literature induced him to form 
a weekly aftembiy at his houfe of diftinguiflied writers 
and other men of merit, from which all party and pri¬ 
vate enmity was excluded, and in which perfect liberty 
(took place. Flis ideas of literary equality led him to op- 
pole an ariftocratical fcheme of forming in the academy 
n clafs of honorary members, who (hould be excufed 
from all the duties of the fociety, and (hould be chofen 
©n account of their rank or high ftations. Happily for 
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the inftitution, this defign proved abortive. The abbe 
was diftinguilhed by nothing more, than by a ftrong at¬ 
tachment to truth, the interefts of which he fometimes 
defended with a pertinacity which looked like obftinacy. 
Yet he was on the whole eafy to live with, polite, in¬ 
dulgent, well verfed in the manners of the world, hu¬ 
mane, and liberal to the indigent, with a very moderate 
income. In the pofl'eflion of general refpeCt, he died on 
January 1, 1723. 
DAN'GER, f. [danger , Fr. of uncertain derivation. 
Skinner derives it from damnum , Menage from angoria , 
Minfhew from Haven;, death, with which Junius feems to 
acquiefce.] Rifque; hazard; peril.—They that fail on 
the lea, tell of the danger. Eccluf. xliii. 24. 
More danger now from man alone we find, 
Than from the rocks, the billows, and the wind. IVallcr. 
To DAN'GER, v. a. To put in hazard ; to endanger ? 
Pompey’s fon (lands up 
For the main foldier; whofe quality going on, 
The fides o’ th’ world may danger. Skakefpcare. 
DA'NGER (Iflands of), in the fouthern Pacific Ocean, 
feen by commodore Byron, in June, 1765, and appeared 
to be well peopled. Lat. 10. 15. S. Ion. 169. 28. W. 
Greenwich. 
DA'NGER (Point), a cape on the eaftcoaftofNew 
Holland. Lat. 28. S. S. Ion. 153. 30. E. Greenwich. 
DAN'GERLESS, adj. Without hazard; without 
rifque ; exempt from danger.—He (hewed no lefs mag¬ 
nanimity in dangerlfs defpiling, than others in dangerous 
affeding,.the multiplying of kingdoms. Sidney. 
DAN'GEROUS, adj. Flazardous; perilous; full of 
danger.—A man of an ill-tongue is dangerous in his city. 
Eccluf. ix. 
Already we have conquered half the war, 
And the lefs dangerous part is left behind. Drydcn. 
DAN'GEROUSLY, adv. Hazardoufly ; periloufly ; 
with danger.—It is juft with God to permit thofe, which 
think they (land Co furely, to fall moft dangerovfy. Hamm. 
If it were fo, which but to think were pride, 
My conftant love would dang^roufy be try’d. Drydcn. 
DAN'GEROUSNESS,y. Danger; hazard; peril.— 
I (hall not need to mind you of judging of the dangercuf- 
nef of difeafes, by the noblenefs of the part afire died. Boyle. 
To DAN'GI.E, v. n. [from hang , according to Skin¬ 
ner: as , hang, bangle, dangle. To hang looie and qui¬ 
vering : 
Fle’d rather on a gibbet dangle , 
Than mils his dear delight to wrangle. Hudibras. 
To hang upon any one ; to be an humble, tifelefs, harm- 
lefs, follower.—The prelbyterians, and other fanatics 
that dangle after them, are well inclined to pulldown 
the prefent eftablifhment. Swift. 
DAN'GI.ER,yi A man that hangs about women only 
to wafte time.—A dangler is of neither fex. Ralph. 
DANGOI.ISZ'KI, a town of Lithuania : thirty-fix 
miles fouth-fouth-vveft of Braflaw. 
DAN'GU, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure : one league fouth-weft of Gifors. 
DAN'HAWER (John Conrad), a Lutheran divine of 
eminence, born in the Brifgaw, in 1603. In 1629, he was 
appointed profelfor of eloquence at Strafburg ; and af¬ 
terwards filled many honourable offices in that city un¬ 
til his death, which happened in 1666, at which time he 
was preacher in the cathedral church, and dean of the 
chapter. He was a zealous defender of the dodlrines of the 
confeftion of Augfburg, and not very liberal in the treat¬ 
ment which lie (hewed towards thofe who difputed their 
orthodoxy. To the meafures which fome well-wilhers :q. 
the proteftant caufe were delirous of adopting, for Fling¬ 
ing about an union between the Lutherans and Calvinifts, 
he was a decided and bitter opponent. He left.behind 
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