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have illudrafed both the doftrines and evidence of Clirif- 
tianity in a manner that will ever reflect honour on their 
names, and be ot lulling fervice to the caufe of genuine 
religion, and the bed intereds of mankind. 
DETS'TIC, or Deistical, adj. Belonging to the he- 
rely of the deifts.—Weaknefs does not fall only to the 
(hare of Chrillian writers, but to fome who have taken 
the pen in hand to fupport the deijlical or antichriftian 
fcheme of our days. IVat.ts. 
DE'ITY, f. [ date, Fr. from deitas, Lat.] Divinity; 
the nature and elfence of God.—Some things he doth as 
God, bceaufe his deity alone is the fpring from which 
they flow ; Come things as man, becaufe they ifrue from 
his mere human nature ; fome things jointly as both God 
and man, becaufe both natures concur as principles there¬ 
unto. Hooker. 
With what arms 
We mean to hold what anciently we claim 
Of deity, or empire. Milton. 
A fabulous god ; a term applied to the heathen gods and 
goddeffes.—Give the gods a thankful facrifice, when it 
pleafeth their deities to take the wife of a man from him. 
Shakcfpcarc. —The fuppofed divinity of a heathen god ; 
divine qualities.—By what reafon could the fame deity 
be denied unto Laurentia and Flora, which was given to 
Venus f Raleigh. 
Heard you not what an humble fuppliant 
Lord Haftings was to her for his delivery ? 
>—Who humbly complaining to her deity, 
Got my lord chamberlain his liberty. Shakefpearc. 
DJSiyI'RILE, adj. [from the Lat. Deus, God ; and 
vir, a man.] In the fchool divinity, having the proper¬ 
ties botli of the divine 3 nd human nature. 
DEjUG A'TION, J. [from the Lat. de, from; and 
jngum, a yoke.] The aft of loofing from the yoke. 
DEIZABA'D, a town of Perfla, in the province of 
Irak : ninety miles north-eaft of Ifpahan. 
DEL CREDE'RE, f. A commiflion del credere is an 
undertaking by an infurance-broker, for an additional 
premium, to infure his principal againd the contingency 
of the failure of the under-writer, i Term Rep. 112. 
DEL ACER A'TION, f. [from delacero, Lat.] A tear¬ 
ing in pieces. 
DELACRYMA'TION, f. [from ddacrymatio, Lat.] 
A falling down of the humours; the wateriilmefs of the 
eyes, or a weeping much. 
DELA'CRYM ATI VES, f. [from de and lacryma, 
Lat. a tear.] Medicines which dry the eyes by fird purg¬ 
ing them of tears. 
DELACTA'TION, f [delattatio, Lat.] A weaning 
from the bread. 
DELAGO'A, a bay on the eadern coad of Africa, 
firfl deferibed by Mr. White, in his voyage from Madras, 
publifhed in 1800. This bay is frequently vilited by 
vedels employed in the fouthern whale filhery. One of 
the chief rivers which enters the bay is the Mafumo: 
and the natives on the northern and fouthern banks fol¬ 
low didinft cufloms, the men on the former wearing 
lingular helmets of draw'. On the fouthern fide are four¬ 
teen chiefs, fubjeft to a king called Capelleh, whofe do¬ 
minions extend about two hundred miles inland, and 
about one hundred on the fea-fliore, computed by the 
natives in days’ journies of twenty miles each. Cattle 
and poultry, are abundant, and may be purchafed for 
a trifle; the favourite articles being blue linens, old 
Clothes, brafs rings, copper wire, large glafs beads, to¬ 
bacco, pipes, &c. The fifli are numerous, and excellent; 
and turtle is taken on Deer-ifland. The foil is a rich 
black mould, fown with rice or maize in December or 
January ; the dry feafon lading from April til). Oftober. 
There are many fruit-trees and ufeful plants, particularly 
the fugar-cane ; but no horfes, affes, nor buffaloes. The 
wild animals are the tiger, rhinoceros, antelope, hare, 
rabbit, V.ild hog 5 with Guinea hens, partridges, quails, 
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wild geefe, ducks, and fome fmall finging-birds. The 
natives are a fpecies of Caffers, of a bright black colour, 
tall and dout, go nearly naked, and are tatooed. They 
are good-humoured and harmlefs, and fond of cxcurdons 
on the river, there being what is called a Icing of the 
water, yielding only in power to Capelleh. Like the reft 
of Africa, the country is not populous; and Mr.White 
fuppofes that the inhabitants around this large bay may 
be from fix to ten thoufand. 
DELAMET' (Adrian-Auguftin de Buffy), a French 
prieft of confiderabie learning and merit, defended from 
an illuftrious family in Picardy, and born in that pro¬ 
vince in 1621. He was educated with great attention and 
care, and diltinguiflied himfelf by the progrefs which he 
made in clafiical literature, philofophy, and theology. 
In 1646 he became a member of the Sorbonne, of which 
he was chofen prior in 1648, and admitted to a doftor’s 
degree in 1650. By his literary acquirements, by the 
character which he had eftabliflied for integrity and pru¬ 
dence, and by the amiablenefs of his manners, he conci¬ 
liated the efteem and affection of the cardinal De Rctz, 
whom he accompanied in his travels through England, 
Holland, and Italy. He afterwards returned to Paris, 
and fettled in the college of the Sorbonne, where he 
died in the year 1691. The work for which lie is chiefly 
celebrated is, A Refolution of numerous Cafes of Con- 
fcicnce, relative to Morality and Church Difcipline. In 
1732 the materials were thrown into a more lyftematic 
order by M. Treuve, who publifhed them in the form of 
A Dictionary of Cafes of Confcience, in two volumes 
folio, which are now ufually connefted with the cele¬ 
brated work of M. Pontas, in three volumes folio, un¬ 
der the fame title. 
DELA'NY (Patrick), a divine of the edablifhed church 
of Ireland, of confiderabie celebrity, born in that king¬ 
dom in 1686. His father had lived in the family of fir 
John Rennel, an Irifli judge. He placed his fon in Tri¬ 
nity-college, Dublin, where he applied to his ftudies 
with very commendable diligence,.and diftinguidied him¬ 
felf by his learning, virtue, diferetion, and good fenle. 
He afterwards became a fenior fellow of the college,. 
During this time he formed a drift friendfhip with Dr. 
Swift, and w'as one of his chief favourites, joining him 
and Dr. Sheridan in writing and anfwering riddles, and 
compofing other poetic effufions, for the lake of a tem¬ 
porary amufement. In 1727, when lord Carteret was a 
fecond time appointed to the vice-royalty of Ireland, Dr. 
Delany was recommended bydean Swift to the notice of that 
nobleman, which proved extremely advantageous to him. 
He was foon after prefented, by the univerfity of Dublin, 
to a (mall living; and, about the fame time, was pro¬ 
moted by lord Carteret to the chancellorlhip of Chrift- 
church ; and a few years afterwards his loidfhip gave 
him a prebend in St. Patrick’s cathedral. 1111729, Dr. 
Delany commenced the publication of a periodical paper, 
called The Tribune, w hich is faid to have been a work 
of merit: he had alio before communicated bis afftdance 
to a work of the fame kind, intitled Hibernicus’s Letters, 
which appeared in.the years 1725, 1726, and 1727. In 
1731 he came to London, with a letter of recommenda¬ 
tion from archbilhop Boulter to Dr. Gibfon, bilhop of 
London, to fubmit to his lordlhip’s approbation a theolo¬ 
gical work, intitled Revelation examined with Candour ; 
or, a fair Enquiry into the Senfe and Ufe of the feveral 
Revelations found in the Bible, &c. The fird volume of 
this work was publiflied in 1732, and a fecond in 1734. 
They were confidercd at the time when they were pub- 
lifiied, as well adapted to render ufeful fervice to the 
caufe of revealed religion. In 1738 he publifhed one of 
the mod curious of his produftions, intitled Reflections 
upon Polygamy, and the Encouragement given to that 
Praftice in the Scriptures of the Old Tedament. This 
work is written with much ability and erudition, and 
contains nnanfwerable reprefentations of the diforders 
and mifehiefs which the praftice of polygamy mud intro¬ 
duce 
