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in the nth age, and wrote Annals, or an Abridged Hif- 
tory, from the Beginning of the World to the Reign of 
Ifaac Comnenus emperor of Conftantinople, who fueceed- 
cd Michael IV. in 1057. This work is no more than an 
ex-trail: from feveral hiftorians. There is an edition of it, 
printed at Paris in 1647, with the Latin verfion of Xylan- 
der, and the notes of father Goar, a Dominican. 
CE'DRINB, adj. [ccdrinus, Lat. ] Of, or belonging to, 
the cedar-tree. 
CE'DRp,yi in botany. See Cedrela. 
CEDRONEL'LA,yi in botany. SeeDRACOCEPHALUM. 
CEDRO'TA,yi in botany, a genus of the clafs otftan- 
dria, order monogynia. The generic characters are— 
Calyx : perianthium one-leaved, fix-parted; parts ovate, 
obtnfe, concave. Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments 
eight, fliort ; antherae roundilh. Piftillum : germ fupe- 
rior, roundilh, furrounded by a gland; flyle fhort; ftigma 
obtufe.— EJJ'ential CkaraElcr. Calyx fix-parted ; corolla 
none ; germ fnperior, furrounded by a gland ; flyle fhort. 
There is but one fpecies, called cedrota guianenlis. It is 
a- tree forty feet in height,' and two feet in diameter, with 
a thick, unequal, wrinkled, bark, full of clefts, and a 
yellow, heavy, aromatic, wood, which however becomes 
light when dry. It has a great number of large branches 
at top, fome ftraight, other's inclined, and fpreading every 
way. Thefe are loaded with twigs, having leaves either 
oppofite, or in whorls of three or five together: they are 
fmooth, thin, entire, oblong, oval, acuminate, on a fhort 
petiole channelled above. Flowers very frnall, loofely 
racemed, on a long, weak, axillary, peduncle. It grows 
in the great forefls of Guiana, flowering in May. The 
inhabitants call it bois de cedre, and ufe it for making their 
pirogues-, they fay that it is alfo fit for malls. 
CE'DRUS,/] in botany. See Cedrela, Cliffortia, 
Juniperus, Pinus, and Swietenia. 
CEES'TER, a.town of Germany, in-the duchy of Hol- 
flein : eleven miles weft of Pinnenberg. 
CEES'TER MU'HE, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holftein : thirteen miles weft of Pinnenberg. 
CEFALU', a fea-port of Sicily, in the valley of De- 
mona, on the north coaft of the ifland, the fee of a bilhop, 
fuffragan of Meflina. The harbour will not contain above 
thirty or forty veffiels. The number of inhabitants is about 
5000 : fourteen miles eaft of Termini. Lat. 38. 5. N. Ion. 
31.51. E. Ferro. 
CEGI'NUS, the name of a fixed ftar of the third mag¬ 
nitude, in the Left fhoulder of Bootes ; marked y by Bayer. 
CE'GLIA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Bari: five miles fonth-fouth-eaft of Bari. 
CEI'BAjyi in botany. See Bombax. 
To CEIL, v.a. \_calo , Lat.] To overlay, or cover, the 
inner roof of a building,—And the greater houfe he ceiled 
with fir-tree, which lie overlaid with fine gold. 2 Chron. 
CEIL'ING,yi The inner roof of a building : 
And now the thicken’d Iky 
Like a dark ceiling flood ; down rufh’d the rain 
Impetuous. * Milton. 
For the conftru&ion of ceilings, fee Architecture, 
vol. ii. p. io8- and the article Plastering. 
CEIME'LI A,yi [from Gr. to be laid up.] Choice 
or precious furniture or ornaments, referved for extraor¬ 
dinary ufes j in which fenfe, facred garments, veftels, &c. 
are the ceimelia of a church. Medals, antiques, manu- 
feripts, records, &c. are the ceimelia of men of letters. 
CEIMELIAR'CHUM, J. The repofitory or place 
where ceimelia are preferved. 
CEIMELIO'PHYLAX, [from xeipvihiov, and Ov^arloj, 
Gr. to keep.] The keeper or curator of a collection of 
ceimelia ; fometimes denominated ceime/iarcha. The cei- 
Sneliarcha, or ceimeliophylax, was an officer in the ancient 
churches or monafteries, anfwering to what was otlierw'ife 
denominated chartophylax, and cujlos axchivorum. 
CEl'RA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Beira ; 
one league fouth-eaft of Coimbra*. 
CEE JrjT; 
CEl'RA, a river of Portugal, which runs into the 
Mondego, about a league fouth-eaft of Coimbra. 
CEL/E'NAI, in the ancient geography, a city of Phry¬ 
gia, of which it was once the capital. Cyrus the younger 
had a palace there, with a park filled with wild beads, 
where he exercifed himfelf in hunting. The Maeander 
arofe in this park. Xerxes built a famous citadel there 
after his defeat in Greece. The inhabitants of Celtente 
were carried by Antioclms Soter to people Apamea when 
newly founded. Strabo. 
CE'LANDINE, J. in botany. See Chei.odinum. 
CELA'NO, a town ot Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Abruzzo Ultra, near a lake of the fame 
name: fixteen miles weft of Solmona. 
CELA'NO, a river of Italy, which runs into the Gulf of 
Tarento, three miles from Roifano. 
CE'LARENT, f. among logicians, a mode of fyllogifm 
wherein the major and concluiion are univerfal negative 
propofitions, and the minor an univerfal affirmative • e. g. 
cE None whofe underftanding is limited can be omni:- 
feient. 
IA Every man’s underftanding is limited. 
rEnt Therefore no man is ommfcient. 
CELAS'TRUS, f. [from r-riha., a dart or pole, which 
it reprefents. Blanchard derives it from y.r^ac, a week, 
becatife it is flow in bringing its fruit to maturity.] The 
Staff-tree; in botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria,. 
order monogynia, natural order dumolte. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : perianthium one-leaved, half five- 
cleft, flat, frnall; divifions obtufe, unequal. Corolla: 
petals five, ovate, fpreading, fellile, equal, reflected.at the 
borders. Stamina: filaments five, Tubulate, length of the 
corolla; anthers very fmali. Piftillum: germ very frnall,. 
immerfed in a large flat receptacle, which is marked with 
ten (Leaks; flyle Tubulate, ftiorter than theftamens; ftig- 
ma obtufe, trifid. Perianthium: capfule coloured, ovate, 
obtufelytriangular,gibbous, tri locular,tri valvular. Seeds: 
few, ovate, coloured, fmooth, half involved in an unequal 
coloured aurillus, with a four-cleft mouth .—Ejfential Cha- 
raider. Corolla five-petalled,- fpreading j.. capfule trian¬ 
gular, trilocular; feeds calyptrated. 
Species. 1. Celaftrus bullatus : unarmed; leaves ovate, 
quite entire. It rifes to the height of eight or ten' feet; 
but in England there are few of thefe ftirubs much mors 
than half that height. It generally puts out two or three 
ftems from the Toot, which divide upwards into feveral 
branches, covered with a brown bark, garnifhed with 
leaves near three inches long, and two broad, placed alter¬ 
nately on the branches; the flowers come out in looie 
fpikes at the ends of the branches, and are white; the 
capfule is of a fcarlet colour, fet full of frnall protube¬ 
rances; it opens into three cells, each containing a hard 
oval feed, covered with a thin red pulp. This fltrub 
flowers in July, but rarely produces good feeds in Eng¬ 
land. Grows naturally in many parts of North America. 
2. Celaflrus feandens, or climbing ftafF-tree: unarmed ; 
ftem twining. This fort fends out feveral woody ftaiks, 
which are flexible, and twift themfelves round trees and 
flmibs, or round each other, to the height of twelve or 
fourteen feet, or more, girding trees fo clofely as in a few 
years todeftroy them. The leaves are about three inches 
long, and nearly two broad, ferrate, alternate, of a lively 
green above, but paler on the under fide, having feveral 
tranfverfe nerves. The flowers are produced in fmali. 
bunches towards the ends of the branches ; they are of an 
heibaceotis colour, and are fucceeded by roundilh three- 
cornered capfules, which are red when ripe, and fpread 
open their three cells, difclofing their lleds in the lame 
manner as our common fpindle-tree. It flowers in the be¬ 
ginning of June, and the feeds ripen in autumn. Native 
of North America and Japan. 
3. Celaftrus myrtifolius, or myrtle-leaved ftaft-tree; 
unarmed ; leaves ovate, finely ferrate.; flowers racemed;. 
flem ereCt, Native of North America. 
4, Celaftrus* 
