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©Etrrwt'bCAS'ONtCAL, The Books of Tobit', 'Judith, 
Ecc'refr.ifticiis, Baruch, are faid by fome to have been 
received into a fecond canon by the Jews, at the time 
when Eleazar fent the feventy-two interpreters to Pto¬ 
lemy. But this fuppofition is not confirmed by any 
written or traditional account among the Jews. 
It mud not be omitted, that fome have prefumed to 
enumerate as paffages of this deuterocanonical kind, the 
lad chapter of St. Mark ; fome part of St. Luke xxvii. 
and fome of St, John viii. But probability, criticifm, 
univerfality of opinion, and manufcripts of firft autho¬ 
rity, are decidedly in favour o.f the palfages as original 
and authentic. 
DEUTERO'GAMY, f. [^yrepo;, fecond, and yu^oc, 
Gr. marriage.] A fecond marriage, 
DEU'TERONOMY, f. , fecond, and io/j.oc,Gr. 
law.] The fecond book of the law; the fifth book of 
Mofes. Deuteronomy was written in the fortieth year 
after the delivery from Egypt, in the country of the Mo¬ 
abites beyond Jordan; Mofes being then in the 120th 
year of his age. It contains in Hebrew, eleven paraches, 
though only ten in the edition of the rabbins at Venice; 
twenty chapte'rs, and 955 verfes. In the Greek, Latin, 
and other verfions, it contains thirty-four chapters. The 
lad is not of Mofes. Some fay it was added by Joflma 
immediately after Mdfes’s death ; which is the mod pro¬ 
bable opinion. Others fuppofe it was added by Efdras. 
DEUTERO'PATHY, / [from hvrepoc, fecond ; and 
7 ra6og, Gr. a differing.] In medicine, an affection or dif¬ 
fering by confent, where a fecond part differs from con- 
fent with the part originally affedled; as, where the fto- 
mach is didurbed through a wound in the head. 
DEUTEROPOT;'Ml, f. in Grecian antiquity, a de- 
dgnation given to Inch of the Athenians as had been 
thought dead, and, after the celebration of the funeral 
rites, unexpectedly recovered. It was unlawful for the 
deuteropotmi to enter into the temple of the Eumenides, 
or to be admitted to the holy rites, till after they were 
purified, by being let through the lap of a woman’s gown, 
that they might feem to be new born. 
DEUTEROS'COPY,/. fecond, and cry.cjrtu, 
Gr. to behold.] The fecond intention ; the meaning be¬ 
yond the literal or primary fenfe : not in ufe. —Not attain¬ 
ing the dcutcrofcopy , or fecond intention of the words, they 
are fain to omit their conlequences, coherences, figures, 
or tropologies. Brown. 
DEUTERO'SIS, /. The Greek name by which the 
Jews called their Mifchnah, or fecond law. 
DEUT'Zl A, f. In botany, a genus of the clafs decan- 
t’fria, order trigynia. The generic characters are—Ca¬ 
lyx : perianthium one-leafed, fomewhat bell-form, one- 
third of tlie length of the corolla, tomentole, five-cleft, 
feldom fix-cleft; divifions ovate, obtufe, ere£t. Corol¬ 
la : five-petalled, feldom fix-petalled ; petals inferted on 
the outlide of the edge of the germ, oblong, obtufe, en¬ 
tire, white. Stamina : filaments ten, placed without the 
edge of the germ, linear, filiform at the tip, below the 
tip emarginate, trifid, white, the length of the corolla, 
alternately fomewhat fhorter; antheras globular, twin. 
Piftillum: germ fuperior, like a wreath, concave in the 
middle ; ftyles three, feldom four, filiform, a little longer 
than the corolla ; ffigmas iimple, club-fhaped. Pericar- 
pium : caplule globular, truncate, perforated, fomewhat 
three-cornered, callous, fcabrous, three-awned with the 
permanent bafes of the piftils, three-valved, three-celled, 
feldom four-celled, the lize of a pepper-corn, afh-colour- 
ed, gaping at the bafe. Seeds: leveral in each cell.— 
F.jfcntial CkaraEler. Calyx, one-leafed; capfule, three- 
celled ; filaments, three-cufped. 
Deutzia icabra, or rough deutzia, is a tree about the 
height of a man, and very much branched ; branches al¬ 
ternate, round, even, purplifh ; branchlets villofe, fca- 
bi'ous, fpreading; leaves oppofite, petioled, ovate, acu¬ 
minate, ferrate, veined and wrinkled, fcabrous with hairs 
in liars, fpreading, an inch or more in length; flowers 
D E \Y 
on the outer branchlets in compound panicles, on a her- 
nate pedicels ; peduncles and pedicels, angular, tomen- 
tofe, and fcabrous. It flowers in May and June. Native 
of Japan, vVhere the leaves are ufed by joiners in finooth- 
ing- and polifhing. 
DEUX-PONTS (Duchy of), a principality of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of the Upper Rhine. It is compofed 
of the ancient county of the fame name and the county 
of Veldentz, and is bounded on one fide by what was- 
formerly Alface and Lorraine, and on the other by the 
eleftorate of Treves and the Lower Palatinate, and much 
interfered by the pofleffions of divers princes. In 1385, 
it was annexed to the palatinate. The defeendants of 
the princes palatine obtained the throne of Sweden, and 
gave three princes to that kingdom, Charles X. XI. and 
XII. From this branch it defeended to the lioufe of 
Birkenfield, who are in polfeflion of it now. The foil is 
mountainous, with fome paftures and corn-fields, which 
afford a fufficiency to fiipply the wants of the inhabi¬ 
tants; the Odes of the GLen are vineyards, and in the 
mountains are mines of quickfilver, iron, copper, and 
coals. The principality pays for the Roman month 240 
florins, and to the imperial chamber 172 rix-dollars and 
thirty-fix kruitzers. The revenues are effimated at 
•500,000 florins. 
DEUX-PONTS, in German Zzucy bracken, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Upper Rhine, and capital of 
a duchy to which it gives name, on the Erlbach ; the 
feat of juflice for the principality, with churches for Ro¬ 
man catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinifts: forty-fix miles 
weft of Manheint, fifty-eight eaft of Mentz, and forty- 
five north of Strafburg. On the firft of February, 1793, 
this town was taken by the French republican army, and 
the duke with difficulty efcaped. It was afterwards eva¬ 
cuated, and again taken by the fame enemy, in Decem¬ 
ber, 1795. Lat. 49. 16. N. Ion.-25. E. Ferro. 
DEW,/ [beape, S .ix. dauzv, Dut. than, Ger. Cafau- 
bon derives -it of hvew, Gr. to water or make wet.] A 
thin light ntift, afeending with a flow motion, and fall, 
ir.g while the fun is below the horizon. It differs from 
rain, as lefs from lbore. Its origin and matter are doubt, 
lefs from the vapours and exhalations that rife from the 
earth and water. Some define it a vapour liquefied, and 
let fall in drops. M. Huet, in one of his letters, fliews 
that dew does not fall, but rifes; and others have adopted 
the lame opinion. M. du Fay made leveral experiments, 
firft with gla(Tes, then with pieces of cloth ftretched ho¬ 
rizontally at different heights; and he found that the 
lower bodies, with their under furfaces, were wetted be¬ 
fore thole that were placed higher, or their upper fur- 
faces. And Du Fay and Mufchenbroek both found that 
different fubftances, and even different colours, receive 
the dew differently, and fome little or not at all. 
Devvs are more copious in the fpring, than in the other 
feafons of the year; there being then a greater flock of 
vapour in readinefs than at other times, by reafon of the 
fmall expence of it in the winter’s cold and froft. Hence 
it is, too, that Egypt, and fome other hot countries, 
abound with dews throughout all the heats of fummer; 
for the air there being too hot to conftipate the vapours 
in the day-time, they never gather into clouds ; and 
hence they have no rain : but in climates that are ex- 
ceflively hot, the nights are remarkably cold ; fo that 
the vapours railed after fun-fet are readily Condenfed in, 
to dews. 
Dr. Hales made fome experiments, to determine the 
quantity of dew that falls in the night. For this pur- 
pofe, on the 15th of Auguft, at {’even in the evening, he 
filled two glazed earthen pans with moil! earth ; tile 
dimenfions of the pans being three inches deep, and 
twelve inches diameter : and he oblerves, that the 
moifter the earth, the more dew falls on it in a night; and 
that more than a double quantity of dew falls on a fur- 
face of water, than on an equal furface of moift earth. 
Thefe pans increafed in weight by the night’s dew, 180 
grains 
