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death, in 1642. He publiflied, 1. A Commentary upon 
the four Evangelifls, in 1631. 2. Notes upon the APIs 
of the ApoftLes, and upon the Apocalypfe of St. John, 
which" lie printed in Hebrew and Syriac, with a Latin 
verfion. He alfo wrote, 3. A Commentary upon the 
Epilfle to the Romans. 4. A Colle&ion of Obfcrvations 
on th.e other Epiftles of the Apoflles. 5. A Commen¬ 
tary upon the Old Teftament; which, after his death, 
were publilhed at Amfterdam, together with the article 
lad-mentioned, in 1693, under the title of Critica Sacra, 
in folio. Profefibr de Dieu publiflied, likewife, 6. Hif- 
toria Ckrijli, Pcrficc confcripta , a Patre Hieronymo Xavier La- 
tine reddita, with learned notes, 1639, 4 t0 - 7 - The Hif- 
tory of St. Peter, tranflated alfo from the Perfian, with 
notes. He likewife wrote, 8. Grammatica Linguarum ori- 
entalium , which appeared after his death, in 16S3, 4to. 
A treatife, 9. De Avaritia. Another intitled, 10. Rheto- 
rica facra. And, 11. Aphorifmi Theologici, which were alfo 
pofthumous, and edited under the care of M. Leydecker. 
DIEU (Ifle de), an ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
coait of France, about feven miles long, and two wide : 
fifteen miles fouth-fouth-wed of Noirmoutier. This illand 
was taken by the Englifh, adided by the French royalifts, 
in OPtober 1795. Lat. 46. 42. N. Ion. 15. 17. E. Ferro. 
DIEU ET MON DROIT,/. God and my right, the 
motto of the royal arms of England, fird aflumed by Ri¬ 
chard I. to intimate that he did not hold his empire in 
valfalage of any mortal. It was afterwards taken up by 
Edward III. and was continued without interruption to 
the time of king William, who ufed the motto Je main- 
tiendray, though the former was dill retained upon the 
great leal. After him queen Anne ufed the motto, Sem¬ 
per eadem, which had been before ufed by queen Eliza¬ 
beth ; but ever fince queen Anne, Dieu et mon droit has 
continued to be the royal motto. 
DIEU-LE-FIT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in the didriPl 
of Montelimart: four leagues and a half eaft of Mon- 
telimart. 
DIEU SON ACT,/, [the apt or vifitation of God.] 
In law, it is a rule or maxim, that what arifes from the 
vifitation of God, or from any inevitable accident, fhall 
prejudice no man. Therefore, if a houle be blown down 
by temped, thunder, or lightning, the leflee, or tenant 
for life or years, (hall be excufed in wade : likewife he 
hath, by the law, a fpecial intered 4 o take timber, to 
build the houfe again for his habitation. 4 Rep. 63. So, 
when the condition of a bond conflds of two parts in the 
disjunPtive, and both are podible at the time of tire obli¬ 
gation made, and afterwards one of them becomes im- 
polilble by the apt of God, the obligor is not bound to 
perform the other part. 5 Rep. 22. And where a perfo'n 
is bound to appear in court, at a certain day, if before 
the day he dieth, the obligation is faved, See. 
DIEUE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meule, and chief place of a canton, in the didriPt of Ver¬ 
dun, on the Meule : fix miles fouth of Verdun. 
DIEUL'ISH, a river of England, which runs into the 
Stour, near Stournrinder, in Dorfetihire. 
DIEULOU'ARD, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte, on the Mofelle, and chief place of 
a canton, in the didricl of Pont-a-moulfon : three leagues 
r.orth-north-wed of Nancy. 
DIEU'SE, a town of France, and principal place of a 
didriPt, in the department of the Meurte, celebrated for 
its falt-works : twenty-two miles north-ead of Nancy, 
and twenty-feven fouth-ead of Metz. 
DIEXAHE'DRIA,/. in natural hiltory, a genus of 
fpars compofed of two pyramids joined at the bale. 
DIEZEUG'MENON, f. [bia.i'ivyf/.Eiov, Gr. ] A dgure 
in ihetoric, in which feveral claules of a fentence have 
relation to one verb. 
DIFF,/. an indrument of mu lie among the Arabs, 
ferving to beat time to the long or dance ; it is a hoop, 
with pieces of brafs fixed to it to make a jingling, over 
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which a piece of parchment is didended. It is beat with 
the fingers, and is the tympanum of the ancients, and tam- 
bourin of the prefent day. 
DIFFARREA'TION,/ among the ancient Romans, 
a ceremony whereby the divorce of their prieds was fo- 
lernnized. 
To DIF'FER, v. n. \_dffero, Lat.] To be didinguiflied 
from ; to have properties and qualities not the fame with 
thofe of another perfon or thing.—If the pipe be a little 
wet on the infide, it will make a differing found from the 
fame pipe dry. Bacon. 
Thy prejudices, Syphax, won’t difeern 
What virtues grow from ignorance and choice, 
Nor how the hero differs from the brute. Addifoit, 
To contend; to be at variance.—A man of judgment 
dtall fometimes hear ignorant men differ , and know well 
within himfelf that thofe which fo differ mean one thing, 
and yet they themfelves never agree. Bacon. 
Here uncontroll’d you may in judgment fit; 
We’ll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe. 
To be of a contrary opinion.—There are certain mea- 
fures to be kept, which may leave a tendency rather to 
gain than to irritate thofe who differ with you in their 
lentiments. Addifon. 
DIF'FERENCE,/ [ differentia , Lat.] State of being 
didinPt from fomething; contrariety to identity.—Where 
the faith of the holy church is one, a difference between 
cuftoms of the church doth no harm. Hooker. —The qua¬ 
lity by which one differs from another.—This nobility, 
or difference from the vulgar, was not in the beginning 
given to the fuccefiion of blood, but to the fucceffion of 
virtue. Raleigh. 
Thus, born alike, from virtue fird began 
The dff’rence that didinguidt’d man from man : 
He claim’d no title from defeent of blood ; 
But that, which made him noble, made him good. Dryd 
The difproportion between one thing and another, caufed 
by the qualities of each.—Here might be feen a great dif¬ 
ference between men praPtifed to fight, and men accuf- 
tomed only to fpoil, Hayward. —Dilpute ; debate ; quar¬ 
rel ; controverfy.—Nothing could have fallen out more 
unluckily than that there lliould be fuch differences among 
men, about that which they pretend to be the only means 
of ending differences. Ti’Iotfon. —DiftinPIion.—Our condi- 
tution does not only make a dffcrence between the guilty 
and the innocent, but, even among the guilty, between 
fuch as are more or lefs criminal. Addifon. —Point in 
quedion ; ground of controverfy : 
Are you acquainted with the difference 
That holds this prefent quedion in the court ? Shakefp. 
A logical didinPtion.—Some are never without a diffe¬ 
rence-, and commonly, by amufing men with a fubtilty, 
blanch the matter. Bacon. —Evidences of didinpfion ; dif¬ 
ferential marks.—Henry had the title of fovereign, yet 
did not put thofe things in execution which are the true 
marks and differences of fuvereignty. Davies. —DidinPt 
kind.—This is notorioully known in fome differences of 
brake or fern. Brown. 
To DIF'FERENCE, v. a. To caufe a difference ; to 
make one thing not the fame as another.—Grafs dffe- 
renceth a civil and well-cultivated region from a barren 
and defolate wildernefs. Ray. —We fee nothing that dif¬ 
ferences the courage of Mnedheus from that of Sergeit- 
hus. Pope. 
DIF'FEREN-T, adj. DidinPt; not the fame.—There 
are covered galleries that lead from the palace to five- 
different churches. Addifon. —-Of contrary qualities: 
The Britons change 
Sweet native home for unaccudom’d air, 
And other climes, where dff’rent food and foil 
Portend didempers. philips. 
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