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more ready to confefs, with a repenting manner of ag¬ 
gravating his own evil, where denial would but make the 
fault fouler. Sydney. —Refufal; the contrary to grant, 
allowance, or conceffion.—The denial of landing, and 
lutfty warning us away, troubled us much. Bacon. 
Here comes your father ; never make denial: 
I mu ft and will have Catherine to my wife. Shakefp. 
Abjuration ; contrary to acknowledgement of adherence. 
—We may deny God in all thofe abts that are capable of 
being morally good or evil ; thofe are the proper feenes, 
in which we a£t our confeftions or denials of him. South. 
DENI'ER, f. A contradictor; an opponent; one that 
holds the negative of a propofition.—By the word virtue 
the affirmer intends our whole duty to God and man, and 
the denier by the word virtue means only courage, or, at 
moft, our duty towards our neighbour, without including 
the idea of the duty which we owe to God. Watts. —A 
difowner; one that does not own or acknowledge.—If 
it was fo fearful when Chrift looked his denier into re¬ 
pentance, what will it be when he fhall look him into 
deftrudfion \ South. —A refufer; cine that refufes.—It 
may be I am efteemed by my denier fufficient of myfelf 
to difcliarge my duty to God as a prieft, though not to men 
as a prinee. King Charles. 
DENIER', J. [from denarius, Lat. It is pronounced 
as dencer, in two fyllables.] A fmall denomination of 
French money ; the twelfth part of a fous : 
You will not pay for the glades you have burft ? 
—.—No, not a denier. Shahcfpcare. 
To DE'NIGR ATE, v. a. [denigro, Lat.] To blacken; 
to make black.—Hartfliorn, and other white bodies, will 
be denigrated by heat; yet camphire would not at all 
Iofe its whitenefs. Boyle. 
DENIGRA'TION, f. [ denigratio , Lat.] A blacken¬ 
ing, or making black.—Thefe are the advenient and ar¬ 
tificial ways of denigration, anfwerably whereto may be 
the natural progrefs. Brown. 
DENIZA'TION, [ The adtof infranchifing, or mak¬ 
ing free.—That the mere Irilli were reputed aliens, ap¬ 
pears by the charters of denization, which in all ages were 
purchafed by them. Davies. 
DE'NIZEN, or Denison, f. [ irom.dinafddyn , a man 
of the city ; or dinefydd, free*of the city, Welfh. ] A free¬ 
man ; one infranchifed. See Alien.— Denizen Is a Britifh 
law term, which the Saxons and Angles found here, and 
retained. Davies. —A great many plants will hardly, with 
mirfing, be made to produce their feed out of their na¬ 
tive foil ; but corn, fo neceftary for all people, is fitted 
to grow and to feed as a free denijbn of the world. Grew. 
He fummons ftraight his denizens of air; 
The lucid fquadrons round the fails repair. Pope. 
To DE'NIZEN, v. a. To infrancHife ; to make free ; 
Pride, lull, covetize, being feveral 
To thefe three places, yet all are in all ; 
Mingled thus, their iifue is inceftuous; 
Falfehood is denizen’d, virtue is barbarous. Donne. 
DEN'MARK, a kingdom of Europe, formed by the 
union of a [part of the continent called Jutland, and fe¬ 
veral islands between the North Sea and the Baltic ; two 
of thefe iftands, Zealand and Funen, are large, the reft 
are fmall; their names are I.angleland, Laaland, Falfter, 
Mona, orMoen, Arroe, Samfoe, Bornholm, Amack, An- 
holt, Lefloe, or Leilaw, with many others of lefs confe- 
quence, all of which are deferibed under their proper 
heads. Jutland, or that part of Denmark which belongs 
to the continent, is bounded on all (ides by the fea, ex¬ 
cept towards the fouth, where it is bounded by Germany. 
Denmark is confidered one of the moft ancient monarchies 
in Europe, and was known to the Romans as part of 
Scandifltivia, and called Cimbrica Cherfonefus. How it ac¬ 
quired the name of Denmark is not certainly known; 
the moft generally received opinion is that of Saxo-Gram- 
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maticus, who derives it from Dan, the firft founder of 
the Danifh monarchy, and Mark, or Marc, country, i. e. 
the country of Dan. Such etymologies are, however, 
uncertain : but we find the people mentioned by the 
name of Danes in the fixth century, when we firft be¬ 
gin to acquire a faint idea of Scandinavia, from the hif- 
tory of Jornandes. Norway, anciently Norrik, or tIre 
kingdom of the Normans, has been long fubject to Den¬ 
mark; and both together conftitute a Angular expanfion 
of territory ; for from the river Elbe, in the fouth, to 
the northern extremity of Danifh Lapland, and the en¬ 
virons of the river Tana, may be computed, after ex¬ 
cluding the entrance of the Baltic, an extent of not lefs 
than 1400 Britifh miles in length, by a medial breadth ot 
only 150. Of this great length Denmark only occupies 
about 260 miles, while the remainderbelongs to Norway. 
This extent of coaft might be fuppofed to conftitute a 
formidable naval power ; but it happens that the havens 
are neither numerous nor important, and are better 
adapted for the piratical fleets of fmall veffels which for¬ 
merly ftruck Europe with difmay, than for the reception 
of large men of war, or the magnitude of modern navi¬ 
gation. The eaftern limits of Norway are chiefly indi¬ 
cated by a long chain of mountains, parting between that 
country and Sweden. The whole territory fubjeCt to the 
Danifh monarchy is divided by fome writers into fix grand 
diftribts or provinces : viz. 1. Denmark proper fo called, 
comprehending the iflands of Zealand, Funen, Langland, 
Laaland, Falftria, Mona, Samfoe, Arroe, Bornholm, 
Anhoult, Leftaw, and that part of the continent called 
North Jutland. 2. The duchy of Slcfwick, or South Jut¬ 
land. 3. The duchy of Flolftein. 4. The earldoms of 
Oldenburg and Delmenhorft. 5. The kingdom of Nor¬ 
way ; and, 6. Iceland, with the illands lying in the North¬ 
ern Seas. 
The original population of Denmark appears to have 
confided of Cimbri, or Northern Celts, the anceftors of 
our Welch ; and who in particular held the Cimbric 
Cherfonefe, or modern Jutland and Slefwick. On the 
progrefs of the Goths from the north and eaft, the Cim¬ 
bri were expelled ; and being joined by part of theTeu- 
tones, or more fouthern Germans, they were in queft of 
other pofleftions, when they were defeated by Marius. 
Yet the Cherfonefe continued to retain their name ; and 
Tacitus mentions that in his time there exifted a fmall 
date of the Cimbri, probably near the mouth of the 
Elbe, while the remainder of the Cherfonefe was pof- 
ferted by feven Gothic tribes among which he names the 
Angli, who afterwards gave appellation to England, and 
who appear to have refided in the eaftern part of Slef¬ 
wick, where there is ftill the province of Anglen. The 
original pofielTors of Norway, which, with Sweden, con- 
ftitutes the ancient Scandinavia, appear to have been the 
Fins and the Laps, who were driven to the northern ex¬ 
tremities by the Gothic invafion. The population lias 
fince continued pure and unmixed by foreign conquefts ; 
and the Norwegians ftill retain the mufcular frame, 
blooming countenance, and yellow hair, of the Normans, 
fo well known in France, Italy, and England. 
Almoft all that we know of the early period of the 
Danifh hiftory, is obtained from the elegant pen of Saxo- 
Grammaticus, a learned Dane, who lived in the twelfth 
and beginning of the thirteenth centuries. The internal 
ftate of Denmark during the early periods of its hiftory, 
furnifhes nothing interefting. In the eighth century the 
Danes became formidable to their neighbours by their 
piratical depredations on the coafts of England, Flanders, 
Normandy, and Germany ; which occafioned a bold and 
defultory warfare for more than two centuries; till at 
length their rude and favage manners being fomewhat 
meliorated, they became cultivators of their native foil, 
inftead of warriors and adventurers at fea. Other caufes 
likewife concurred to put an end to thefe outrages : that 
redundant population, which had been the means of 
pouring forth fuch fwarms of plunderers, no longer con- 
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