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DEIN'SE, or Deynse, a town of Flanders, fitiiated 
on the Lys. In 1625, Philip IV. king of Spain, made 
it into a marquifite, in favour of Don Diego de Mexia 
de Gufman, lieutenant-general of the Spanifli forces 
in the Netherlands; but he being called to Spain, and 
created marquis de Leganez, fold the territory of De- 
infe to Florent de Merode, baron of Duffel, in 1632. 
It has been often fortified, particularly in 1695, when 
William III. king of England, placed in it a numerous 
garrifon, under the command of brigadier Francis Fer¬ 
gus d’Offarel, colonel of a Scotch regiment ; but on 
the firft approach of the French army, he furrendercd 
prifianer of war, the 30th of July, at the firfl fummons. 
The-.colonel was afterwards tried for his conduct, and 
broke with difgrace ; and the other officers who had con- 
fented to a furrender, were puniffied in proportion. Nine 
miles fouth-weft of Glient. Lat. 50. 59. N. Ion. 21. 5. 
E. Ferro. 
To DEIN'TEGR ATE, v. a. [from sfeand integro, Lat.] 
To take from the whole ; to fpoil ; to diminifh. 
DEIO'CES, or Dejoces, a fon of Phraortes, by whofe 
means the Medes delivered themfelves from the yoke of 
the' A (Tyrians. He prefided as judge among his country¬ 
men, and his great popularity and love of equity railed 
hint to the throne, and he made himfelf abfolute, feven 
hundred years before Chrift. I-Ie was fucceeded by his 
fon Phraortes, after a reign of fifty-three years. He 
built Ecbatana according to Herodotus, and furroundcd 
it with feven different walls, in the middle of which was 
the royal palace. Polyanus. 
DEIO'NEUS, or Dejoneus, a king of Phocis, who 
married Diomede, daughter of Xuthus, by whom he had 
Dia. He gave his daughter Dia in marriage to Ixion, 
who promifed to make a prefent to his father-in-law. 
Deioneus accordingly vifited the houfe of Ixion, and was 
thrown into a large hole filled with burning coals, by his 
fon-in-Iavv. Apollodorvs. 
DEIO'TARUS, or Dejotarus, a governor of Ga¬ 
latia, made king of that province by the Roman people. 
In the civil wars of Pompey and Caefar, Deiotarus follow¬ 
ed the interefl of the former. After the battle of Phar- 
falia, Cxfar feverely reprimanded Deiotarus for his at¬ 
tachment to Pompey, deprived him of part of his king¬ 
dom, and left him only the bare title of royalty. When 
he was accufed by his grandfon, of attempts upon Ctefar’s 
life, Cicero ably defended him in the Roman fenate. He 
joined Brutus with a large army, and faithfully fupported 
the republican caufe. His wife was barren ; but fearing 
that her hufband might die without iffue, fhe prefentecl 
him with a beautiful (lave, and tenderly educated, as her 
own, the children of this union. Deiotarus died in an 
advanced old age. Lucan. 
DEI'PAROUS, adj. [ dciparus , Lat.] That brings forth 
a god ; the epithet applied to the blelfed Virgin. 
DEIPH'OBUS, a fon of Priam and Hecuba, who, 
after the death of his brother Paris, married Helen. His 
wife unworthily betrayed him, and introduced into his 
chamber her old hufband Menelaus, to whom fhe wifhed 
to reconcile herfelf. He was fltamefully mutilated and 
killed by Menelaus. Homer .—A fon of Hippolytus, who 
purified Hercules after the murder of Iphitus. Apollodorus. 
DE'IPHON, a brother of Triptolemus, fon of Celeus 
and Metanira. When Ceres travelled over the world, 
ihe flopped at his father’s court, and undertook to nurfe 
him and bring him up. To reward the hofpitality of 
Celeus, the goddefs began to make his fon immortal ; 
and every evening ihe placed him on burning coals, to 
purify him from whatever mortal particles he fiill pof- 
jfelTed. The uncommon growth of Deiphon afloniihed 
Metanira, who wifhed to fee what Ceres did to make 
him f’o vigorous. She was frightened to fee her fon on 
burning coals, and the fhrieks that die uttered; diflurbed 
the myflerious operations of the goddefs, and Deiphon 
periihed in the flames. ApolLdorus ..—The hufband of Hyr- 
netho, daughter of Temenus, king of Argos. 
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DEIPNO'SOPHIST, f. [from Suttvov, a flipper, and 
crotpia, wifdorn, Gr.] One of an ancient fed of philofo- 
phcrs, famous for fage converfation at their meals. 
DE'IR ABUL'IFE, a town of Egypt: forty-five miles 
fouth-weft of Cairo. 
DEI'RA, [Deojia, of beop, Sax. a wild bead, fa 
called from the forefts and warrens, for which it was 
very remarkable.] The fouth part of Northumberland, 
lying between the rivers Humber and Tweed. Pope 
Gregory, while he was an archdeacon, feeing fome per- 
fons of the province of Deira to be fold as flaves in open 
market, and admiring the. comelinefs of their perfons, 
inquired what country they were of; and being anfwered. 
Angli, i.e. Englifh men, laid, And well may they be 
fo called, for they fcem as angeli, angels; and inquiring 
of what province, was anfwered Deira ; to which he an¬ 
fwered, De ira Dei J'unt deliberandi , They are to be deli¬ 
vered from the wrath of God ; and inquiring the name 
of their king, which was Alle , how fitly (faid he) may 
they ling Hallelujahs. And from that time ferioufly en¬ 
deavoured the converfion of the Englifh nation, which 
he effected by the diligence of Auguftine, the firfl arch- 
biffiop of Canterbury. 
DEIR'UT, a town of Egypt, on the weft fide of the 
Nile, oppofite Foua : fourteen miles fouth of Rofetta. 
DE'ISM, f. \_dcijmc , Fr.] The doCtrine or opinion of 
thofe that only acknowledge one God, without the re¬ 
ception of any revealed religion.— Dei/'m, or the princi¬ 
ples of natural worfhija, are only the faint remnants or 
dying flames of revealed religion in the poflerity of 
Noah. Dryden. 
DE'IST, f \_dcjle , Fr.] A man who profeffes to fol¬ 
low the principles of deil’m.—In the fecond epiflle of 
St. Peter, certain dcifis, as they feem to have been, 
laughed at the prophecy of the day of judgment. Burnet. 
Deifts are likewife known under the denomination of 
free-thinkers, w'hofe diflinguifiling character it is, not to 
profefs any particular form or fyflem of religion ; but 
only to acknowledge the exiftence of God, to deny the 
trinity, and to follow the light and law of nature, re¬ 
jecting revelation, and eppofing Chriflianity. The deifts 
hold, that, confidering the multiplicity of religions, the 
numerous pretences to revelation, and the precarious ar¬ 
guments generally advanced in proof thereof, the befl 
and furefl way is to return to the fimplicity of nature, 
and the belief of one God ; which is the only truth agreed 
to by all nations. They complain, that the freedom of 
thinking and reafoning is oppreffed under the yoke of 
religion ; and that the minds of men are fhackled by the 
neceflity impofed on them of believing inconceivable 
myfteries ; and contend that nothing fliould be required 
to be affented to or believed but what their reafon clearly 
conceives. 
The firfl deiflical writer of any note that appeared in 
this country, was Herbert baron of Cherbury. He lived 
and wrote in the feventeenth century. Fie was one of 
the firfl that formed deifm into a fyflem, and afferted the 
fufficiency, univerfality, and abfolute perfection, of natu¬ 
ral religion, under five fundamental articles: 1. That 
there is one fupreme God. 2. That lie is chiefly to be 
W'orfhipped. 3. That piety and virtue are the principal 
part of his worlhip. 4. That we mufl repent of our fins; 
and if we do fo, God will pardon them. 5. That there 
are rewards for good men, and punilhments for bad men, 
both here and hereafter. Our own age lias alfo produced 
a number of advocates in the fame caufe ; and however 
they may have differed among themfelves, they have been 
agreed in their attempts of invalidating the evidence and 
authority of divine revelation. But the friends of Clirif- 
tianity have no reafon to regret the free and unreferved 
difeuffion which their religion has undergone. Objections 
have been dated and urged in their full force, and as 
fully anfwered; argument and raillery have been repelled; 
and the controverfy between Chriftians and deifts has 
called forth a great number of excellent writers, who 
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