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towns and a few villages : it contains al r o feveral lakes. 
It is afiTelled two horfes and twenty foot, or too florins for 
a Ropian month; and pays each chamber term 121 rix- 
dollars, fixty-fix kreutzers. 
BERC'KEL, a town of Holland : five miles E. Delft. 
Berckel, a river of Germany, which rifes in the bi- 
fhopric of Munfter, and runs into the Ilfel, at Zutphen. 
B ERCK'SENBROECK, a town of Holland : fix miles 
north of Rotterdam. 
BERD, a river of Siberia, which runs into the Oby, 
near Berfkoi. . . 
BERD A'A, a town of Afia, in Armenia, 160 miles eaft 
of Erivan. 
BER'D ANIEH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro- 
vince of Caramania : thirty-two miles north of Alameh. 
BERDAS'C-HIR, a town of Perfia. See Barsir. 
BER'DASH, f. A name formerly ufed in England tor 
a certain kind of neck-drefs; and hence a perfon who made 
or fold fuch neck-cloths was called a berdafher, from which 
is derived our word kabtrdajher. 
BERDIC'ZOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Volhynia : 148 miles eaft-foulh-eaft of Lucho, and 32+ 
fouth-weft of Warfaw. 
BERDO'A, a defert country of Africa, between Egypt 
and Sahara. 
To BERE'AVE, v.n. prefer. I bereaved, ox bereft-, part. 
bereft-, [hereofan, Sax.] To drip of; to deprive of. It has 
generally the particle of before the thing taken away : 
Madam, you have bereft me of all words. 
Only my blood fpeaks to you in my veins. Shakefp. 
Sometimes it is ufed without of: 
Bereave me not, 
Whereon I live 1 thy gentle looks, thy aid, 
Thy counfel in this uttermoft diftrefs. Milton. 
To take away from : 
All your intereft in thofe territories 
Is utterly bereft you, all is loft. Shakefpeare. 
BEREA'VEMENT,/. Deprivation. 
BERECYN'THIA, a name of Cybele, becaufe (lie 
had a temple on mount Berecyntlms in Phrygia. 
BEREFT', part. pajf. of bereave: 
The chief of either fide bereft of life, 
Of yielded to the foe, concludes the ftrife. Dryden. 
BEREG'SZAZ, a town of Hungary : twenty-four 
miles north of Zatmar. 
BEREIL'LY, a town of Hindoftan, in the Rohilcund 
Circar: 120 miles north-north-weft of Lucknow, and 112 
eaft of Delhi. Lat. 28. 20. N. Ion. 79. 45. E. Greenwich. 
BERE'LOS, a lake of Egypt, between Damietta and 
Rofetta : thirty-two miles long, and ten wide in the mid¬ 
dle, but gradually narrowing towards each end ; it has 
feveral iflands in it. 
Berelos, a town of Egypt, 30 miles weft of Damietta. 
BE'REN, or Bieron, a town of Silefia, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Ratibor : thirty-four miles eaft of Ratibor. 
BERENGA'RIANISM,/. A name given by the ec- 
clefiaftical writers to the opinion of thofe who deny the re¬ 
ality of the body and blood of Chrift in the eucharift. The 
denomination took its rife from Berenger, archdeacon and 
fcholaft’ic of the church of St. Mary at Anjou about the 
year 1035, who politively denied tranfubftantiation in the 
facrament. He was oppofed by Lanfranc, Guitmond, 
Adeimannus, Albericus, &c. Divers fynods were held, 
wherein he was condemned, at Rome, Verfailles, Florence, 
Tours, See. He died in 1088. 
* BERENGA'RIUS (Jacob), an eminent fnrgeon and 
anatomift of Carpo, famous for being the firft that cured 
the lues venerea with a mercurial ointment, which carried 
it entirely off by a falivation ; by which difeovery he gain¬ 
ed both riches and reputation. He flourilhed about 1520. 
BE'RENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes king of 
Tgypt, fucceeded her father before his death. This ba- 
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nifhed prince implored the affiftance of the Romans, and 
Pompey reftored him. Berenice, to fupport lierfelf on the 
throne, allured a prince, whole name was Seleucus, ,de- 
feended from tlie kings of Syria, and admitted him to her 
nuptial bed and to her feeptre. She was foon weary of 
him, and put him to death. She next call her eye on 
Archelaus, who married her, and put himfelf at the head 
of her troops to repulfe the Romans. He was killed in a 
battle. Ptolemy returned to Alexandria, and put his re¬ 
bellious daughter to death. 
Berenice, wife of Ptolemy Evergetes king of Egypt, 
cut off her hair in purfuance of a vow, and confecrated it 
in the temple of Venus. Thisdepofit being afterwards loft, 
Conon the mathematician, in compliment to her, declared 
that the queen’s locks had been conveyed to heaven, and 
oompofed thofe feven ftars near the tail of the bull, called 
coma Berenices. 
Berenice, daughter of Coftobarus and Salome filler 
to Herod the Great, was married firft to Ariftobulus, 
fon of the fame Herod and Marianuie. He, having a bro¬ 
ther who married the daughter of Archelaus king of Cap¬ 
padocia, often upbraided Berence that he demeaned him- 
i’elf in wedding her. Berenice related thefe dilcourfes to 
her mother, and exafperated her fo furioufly, that Salome, 
who had much power over Herod’s mind, made him fuf- 
pedt Ariftobulus, and was the principal caufe that urged 
this cruel father to get him dil’patched. She married again; 
and, having loft her fecond hulband, went to Rome, ami 
was taken into favour by Augulhts. 
Berenice, grand-daugliterof the preceding, and daugh¬ 
ter of Agrigpa 1 . king of Judea, was betrothed to Mar¬ 
cus, but he died before the marriage. Soon after, Ike 
married his uncle Herod, who at the defire of Agrippa, 
both his brother and father-in-law, was. created king of 
Cholcis by the emperor Claudius. She loft her hulband 
in the eighth year of the emperor Claudius ; and in her 
widowhood (he committed incelt with her brother Agrippa. 
To put a flop to this report, fhe offered herfelf in marriage 
to Polemon king of Cilicia, provided lie would change 
his religion. He accepted her offer, was circnmcifed, and 
married her. Berenice foon left him to follow her own 
inclination ; and he abandoned Judaifm to return to his 
former religion. She drew Titus into her fnares; but, the 
murmurs of the Roman people hindering her from becom¬ 
ing his wife, there remained nothing for her but the title 
of concubine of the emperor. The French ftage, in the 17th 
century, refounded with the amours of Titus and Berenice. 
Berenice, the name of feveral ancient cities, particu¬ 
larly of a celebrated port-town on the Sinus Arabicus; 
now Suez. 
BERE'NICIUS, a man utterly unknown, who appear¬ 
ed in Holland in the year 1670. He was thought to be a 
Jefuit, ora renegado from fome other religious fraternity. 
He got his bread by fweepingchimnies and grinding knives. 
He died in a bog, fuffocated in a fit of drunkennefs. His 
talents, if the hiftorians that mention him are to be cre¬ 
dited, were extraordinary. He verfified with fo much 
eafe, that he could recite extempore, and in tolerably good 
poetry, whatever was faid to him in profe. He has been 
feen to tranflate the Flemifh gazettes from that language 
into Greek or Latin verfe, (landing on one foot. The dead 
languages, the living languages, Greek, Latin, French, 
and Italian, were as familiar to him as his mother tongue. 
He could repeat by heart Horace, Virgil, Homer,’ Ai ifto- 
phanes, and feveral pieces of Cicero, of the one and the 
other Pliny ; and, after reciting long palfages from them, 
point out the book and the chapter from whence they 
were taken. It is fuppofed that the Georgarchoniomachia 
is by him. 
BE'RENTZ, a town and caftle of Hungary : twenty 
miles north-north-eaft of Prefburg. 
BE'RE RE'GIS, a fmall town in the county of Dorfety 
near which is Woodbury Hill, celebrated for its annual 
fair. It has a weekly market on Wednefc&ys ; nine miles 
from Blandford, and 113 weft of London. 
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