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nate, fmooth on the upper fnrface, rough with hairs and 
tvhitifli on the lower. Native of Madeira, in woods, 
where it was found by MalTon; flowers in July and 
Auguft. 
10. Digitalis orientalis, or oriental fox-glove: calycine 
leaflets acute; leaves ovate-lanceolate, nerved. Root- 
leaves many, fmooth ; among thefe arifes the ftalk about 
a foot high ; the leaves on it are fmooth, from four to five 
inches long, and one inch and a half broad in the middle, 
half-ftem-clafping. It flowers in May, and the feeds 
ripen in autumn. It grows naturally in Tartary, whence 
the feeds were fent to the imperial garden at Peterf- 
burgh, and thence to Mr. Miller, who cultivated them 
31 1759. 
11. Digitalis Cochin-chinenfis, or Cochin-china fox¬ 
glove: leaves lanceolate, rough; flowers folitary, axil¬ 
lary; calyxes acute; corollas obtufe, emarginate at the 
top. Stem herbaceous, a foot and a half high, almoft 
upright. Native of Cochin-china. 
12. Digitalis Sinenfis, or Chinefe fox-glove: leaves 
ovate, hairy on both fides; flowers folitary, axillary; 
fegments of the calyx awl-lliaped; corollas obtufe, en¬ 
tire at the top. Stem cefpitofe, ereft, a foot high, round, 
fmooth. Native of China. 
Propagation and Culture. If the feeds of the firft fort 
are permitted to fcatter, the plants will come up in-the 
fpring, and require only to be weeded out where they are 
too numerous. The feeds of this, and of the other forts, 
Ihould be fown in autumn, for thofe which are fown in 
the fpring feldom fucceed, or at leaft lie a year in the 
ground before they grow. 
8. This plant begins to flower in May, and there is 
generally a fucceflion of flowers on the' fame plant, till 
the winter puts a flop to them, which renders the plant 
more valuable. It is propagated by feeds, which Ihould 
be fown in pots filled with light earth, in the autumn, 
foon after the feeds are ripe ; thefe pots Ihould be plunged 
into an old bed of tanners’ bark, whole heat is gone, and 
in mild weather the glafles fliould be drawm off to admit 
the air ; but in hard rains and froft they mu ft be kept on, 
to protect the feeds from both, which frequently deftroy 
them here when they are expofed ; in the fpring the 
plants will come up, when they fliould enjoy the free air 
in mild weather, but ffluft be protected from the cold. 
When thefe are large enough to tranfplant, they fliould 
be each planted into a feparate fmall pot filled with light 
earth, and placed under the frame till they have taken 
new root, then they fliould be gradually inured to the 
open air. During the fummer feafon the plants Ihould 
remain abroad in a flieltered fituation, but in the winter 
they mud be placed in a green-houfe, for they will not 
live abroad in England ; they muft not be kept too warm 
and clofe in the lioufe, for they only want protection 
from the frofl; therefore, in mild weather, they fliould 
have free air conftaiitly admitted to them, and they re¬ 
quire frequent waterings, but they fliould not have it in 
too .great plenty in winter. The ninth muft have the 
fame treatment. See Chelone, Dracocephalum, Ge- 
rardia, Mimuius, and Sesamum. 
DIGITA'RI A, J'. in botany. See Panicum. 
DIGITA'TION,/. The form of the fingers; the aft 
of pointing with the fingers. Scott. 
DI'GITATED, adj. [from digitus, Lat.] Branched 
out into divifions like fingers ; it has a digitated leaf, in 
botany, is a leaf compofed of'many fmall leaves.—For 
animals multifidous, or fuch as are digitated, or have fe- 
veral divifions in their feet, there are but two that are 
uniparous; that is, men and elephants. Brown. 
DIGI'TIUM, /. [from digitus, a finger.] A contrac¬ 
tion and fixture of the finger-joint. A whitlow, or other 
fore upon the finger. 
DIGLA'DIATION, f. [digladiatio, Lat.] A combat 
with fwords ; any quarrel or conteft.—Ariftotle feems 
purpofely to intend the cherifliing of controverfial digla- 
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diations, by his own affedion of an intricate obfeurity. 
Glanvillc. 1 
DIG L 1 PH, f. in architecture, a kind of imperfeCb 
triglyph, a member with two channels or gravings. 
DIG'NAC, a town ot France, in the department of 
the Charente : feven miles fouth of Angoulefme. 
DIGNA'NO, a diftriCt of the province of Iftria, in 
Maritime Auftria; it is very fruitful, but has not fuf- 
ficient frefh water. T he inhabitants amount to 4600, 
who poflefs an abundance of corn, wine, wood, game, 
fifti, nut-galls, marble, ftones, mortar, and gum. 
DIGNA'NO, in Venetian Iftria, three miles from the 
fea, is a confiderable borough, feated on a hill, with 
a collegiate mid feveral other churches, and two mo- 
nafteries. The collegiate church contains fine paintings 
by Veronefe, Palma, and Tintoretto. Lat. 45. 10. N. 
Ion. 31.40. E. Ferro. 
DIG'NE, a town of France, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment ot the Lower Alps, fituated on a fmall river, at the 
foot of fome mountains, containing about 3000 fouls, 
with fome celebrated mineral waters, ufed both exter¬ 
nally and internally : twenty-eight miles fouth of Apt, 
Lat. 41.5. N. Ion. 23.54. E. Ferro. 
D 1 GN A'TION, J'. A vouchfafing. 
DIG'NIFIED, adj. Inverted with fome dignity: it is 
ufed chiefly of the clergy.—Abbots are Ailed dignified 
clerks, as having fome dignity in the church. Ayliffe. 
DIGNIFICA'TION, f. Exaltation. — I grant that 
where a noble and ancient defeent and merit meet in any 
man, it is a double dignifcation of that perfon. Walton . 
To DIG'NIFY, v. a. [f'rom dignus anff facio, Lat.] To 
advance ; to prefer ; to exalt. Ufed chiefly of the clergy. To 
honour; to adorn ; to give luftreto; to improve by fome 
adventitious excellence, or honourable dittindtion; 
Such a day, 
So fought, fo follow’d, and fo fairly won, 
Came not till now to dignify the times 
Since Caefar’s fortunes! Shakefpcare, 
DIG'NITARY, f. [from dignus, Lat.] A clergyman 
advanced to fome dignity, as that of bifliop, dean, arch¬ 
deacon, prebendary, &c. But there are Ample preben¬ 
daries, without cure or jurifdidtion, which are not digni¬ 
taries. 3 Infl. 155. 
DIG'NITIES, f. among aftrologers, the advantages 
a planet has on account of its being in a particular 
place of the zodiac, or in fuch a ftation with other 
planets, &c. 
DIG'NITY,/ - . \_dignitas, Lat.] Rank of elevation.— 
Angels are not any where fpoken fo highly of as our 
Lord and Saviour jefus Chrift, and are not in dignity 
equal to him. Hooker. —Grandeur of mien ; elevation of 
afpedt.—Some men have a native dignity, which will pro¬ 
cure them more regard by a look, than others can ob¬ 
tain by the moll: imperious commands. Clarijfa. —Ad¬ 
vancement : preferment; high place : 
Farter than fpring-time fliow’rs comes thought on thought. 
And not a thought but thinks on dignity. Shakefpeare. 
Maxims; general principles : xigiat —The fciences 
concluding from dignities , and principles known by thern- 
felves, receive not fatisfaclion from probable reafons, 
much left from bare affeverations. Brown.— [In aftro- 
logy.] A planet is laid to be in dignity when it is in its 
own proper fign. 
DIG'NITY, f. in law, is divided into fuperior, and 
inferior: as the titles of duke, earl, baron, See. are the 
highefl: names of dignity ; and thofe of baronet, knight, 
ferjeant at law, See. the loweft. Nobility only can give 
lo high a name of dignity, as to fupply the want of a 
furname in legal proceedings : and as the omiflion of a 
name of dignity may be pleaded in abatement of a writ, 
&c. fo it may be where a peer, who has more than one 
name of dignity, is not named by the molt noble. No 
temporal 
