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DI'bilN, a river of Ireland, which runs into the More, 
in the county of Kilkenny. 
DI'NING-ROOM,/. The room where entertainments 
are made.—He went out from the dining-room before he 
had fallen into error by the intemperance of his meat, or 
the deluge of drink. Taylor. 
DIN'KELSBUHL, or Dunkelspuhl, an imperial 
town of Germany, in the circle of Swabia, fituated on 
three hills, near the Wernitz. The inhabitants are partly 
proteftants and partly Roman catholics; and the magi- 
ftracy is compofed of one-half each. In 928, it was fur- 
rounded with a wall, and in 1126 by another. It is alfelled 
to the empire and the circle at ninety-fix florins, and to 
the chamber of Wetzlar at 148 rixdollars 71 kruitzers : 
fixteen miles fouth-weft of Anfpach. Lat.49.N- Ion. 
28. E. Ferro. 
DINKI'RA, or Dinkf.era, a country of Africa, a 
little inland of the Gold Coaft. 
DIN'NER, /. [diner, Fr.] The chief meal of the day. 
■—Let me not ftay a jot for dinner. Shakefpeare. 
The jolly crew, unmindful of the part, 
The quarry fhare, their plenteous dinner hade. Drydenr 
DIN'NER-TIME, f. The time of dining : 
Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, 
Happy to catch me juft at dinner-time. Pope. 
The hour of dining has at length reached beyond that 
which our anceftors made the laft meal. In the time of 
Henry VIII. ten in the morning was the ufual time of 
dining. Montaigne, who wrote about the year 1585, 
confelfes himfelf fond of l&te hours : “ Where I may com-, 
mand,” fays he, “ I neither dine before eleven, nor fup 
till after fix.” 
Dl'NO, a famous Italian jurift, native of Mugello, in 
the Florentine territory, and the foil of James de Roftbni. 
He ftudied law at Bologna, and in 1279 was invited to 
take the chair in that faculty at Piftoia. After a conti¬ 
nuance of five years, he was made profeffor at Bologna, 
and was the firft to whom a public ftipend was granted. 
He refufed an invitation to Naples, in 1296, by king 
Charles II. but in the next year he removed to Rome, 
where pope Boniface VIII. employed him in Compiling 
the (ixth book of decretals, publifhed in 1298. Dino 
was in hopes of being recompenfed for his labour with 
the cardinalate, and for that purpofc feparated from his 
wife, who entered into a convent, and enrolled himfelf 
in the clerical order; but his expectations were fruf- 
trated, and he was obliged to refume his profefibrfhip. 
Thus he continued till his death, in 1303. His commen¬ 
tary on the rules of law, according to Alciatus, deferves 
to be got by heart. He alfo wrote treatifes on the Pan- 
deCts, and De AElionibus. 
DINO'CRATES, or Dixochares, a celebrated Gre¬ 
cian architect of Macedon, and contemporary with Alex¬ 
ander the Great. It is related of him, that finding his 
recommendations to the court of that king little attended 
to, he refolved to be his own introducer. For this pur- 
pofe he equipped himfelf in the coftume of Hercules, 
with his pioplar garland, lion’s flein, and club, and pre- 
fenting himfelf before Alexander, who was fitting on the 
throne of juftice, attracted his notice. Being atked who 
he was, he replied that he was the Macedonian architect 
Dinocrates, who had brought him defigns worthy of his 
greatnefs. One of thefe was the gigantic plan of cutting 
mount Athos into a ftatue, holding a city in the left 
hand, and a refervoir of all its fireams in the right. 
Alexander prudently rejected this defign; but carried 
the artift with him into Egypt, where he employed him 
in planning the city of Alexandria. To this, according 
to Pliny, he gave the figure of a Macedonian cloak, with 
a wavy border, running out to the right and -left in an 
angular projection. He is alfo faid to have finithed the 
rebuilding of the famous temple of Ephefus, after it had 
been confirmed by fire. The fame author relates, that 
this architect was employed by Ptolemy Philadelphus in 
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building a temple to the memory of his wife Arfinoe; 
and that he had intended to conftruct the dome with 
magnet, in order to fufpend an iron ftatue of the queen 
in the air; ayale, like fo many others, which diferedit 
the hiftory of ancient art recorded by Pliny. 
DI'NOS, f. [from S’mea, to turn round.] With phyfi- 
cians, a vertigo, or giddinefs. 
DINOS'TRATES, an ancient mathematician, who, 
according to Proclus, flourifhed inthe time of Plato, or 
about 360 years before Chrilt. He frequented the fchooi 
of that philofopher; but appears to have been more de¬ 
voted to mathematical than to philofophical purfuits, 
and was one of his difciples who contributed to the im¬ 
provement of geometrical fcience. He was the inventor 
of the quadratrix, or curve called by his name, by which 
the quadrature of the circle is effected, not geometrically, 
but only mechanically. 
DINOUA'RT ( Anthony-Jofeph-Touflaint), a French 
ecclefiaftic and periodical writer in the eighteenth cen¬ 
tury, born at Amiens in 1715. After having been ad¬ 
mitted into orders, he officiated as a prieft in his native 
city, and then removed to Paris, for the purpofe of de¬ 
voting his time to literary purfuits. In that city he ob¬ 
tained t-he patronage of M. Joly de Fleury, advocate-ge¬ 
neral, through whole means he obtained a Canonry of the 
chapter of St. Benedi6t at Paris. He was alfo a member 
of the Arcadian academy at Rome. The firft periodical 
work in which he engaged was the Journal Chretien, con¬ 
duced by the abbe Joannet. But a periodical work of 
greater utility, was commenced by him in the year 1760, 
under the title of Journal Ecclefiajlique, ou Bibliotkeque des 
Sciences Ecclefiajliques, and was continued until his death, 
at Paris, in 1786. He was alfo the author of 1. Embryologia 
Sacra, 12100. 2. The Manual for Pallors, in three %'ols, 
121110. and, 3. The Rhetoric of a Preacher, or a Treatife 
on the Eloquence of the Body, 121110. 
DIN'SLAKEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and duchy of Cleves ; twenty-three miles 
fouth-eaft of Cleves. 
DINT, yi [bynt, Sax.] A blow ; a ftroke : 
Neither vainly hope 
To be invulnerable in thefe bright arms, 
Though temper’d heav’nly ; for that mortal dint. 
Save he who reigns above, none can refill. Milton . 
The mark made by a blow; the cavity remaining after 
a violent preflure : 
He embrac’d her naked body o’er ; 
And, draining hard the ftatue, was afraid 
His hands had made a dint, and hurt the maid. Dryden » 
Violence; force; power.—We are to wreft the whole 
Spanifli monarchy out of the hands of the enemy ; and, 
in order to it, to work our way into the heart of his 
country by dint of arms. Addifon. 
The dewlapt bull now chafes along the plain, 
While burning love ferments in ev’ry vein; 
His well-arm’d front again!! his rival aims, 
And by the dint of war his miftrefs claims. Gay. 
To DINT, v. a. To mark with a cavity by a blow, or 
violent impreffion: 
With greedy force each other both aflail. 
And (trikes fo fiercely, that they do imprefs 
Deep-dinted furrows in the batter’d mail. Spenfcr. 
To DINU'MERATE, v. a. [dinumerare, Lat.] To ac¬ 
count or number. 
DINUMERA'TION, f. [dinumeratio, Lat.] The aT 
of numbering out fingly. 
DINWID'DIE, a county of the American States, in 
Virginia, fouth of Appamattox river, which divides it 
from Chefterfield. It is about thirty miles long, and 
twenty broad, and its chief town is Peterlburg. 
DI'O, a celebrated philofopher and orator of anti¬ 
quity, furnamed Chryfojiom, or Golden Mouth, on account 
of his extraordinary eloquence. He was born at Prufa 
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