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Grace in 1627,. When he was twenty years of age lie 
embraced the ecclefiadical life, whicli lie adorned by his 
piety and virtues, at the fame time that he acquired the 
refpeft pf his fraternity by his literary proficiency. He 
died at the abbey of Jumieges, in 1694, when about fixty- 
feven years of age. To his labours are we indebted for 
the hiofi; valuable edition of the worksof “ Cafliodoriis,” 
in two volumes folio, publilhed at Rouen in 1679, with 
learned and judicious notes. It was printed under the 
infpection of Father le Nourri, to whom fome authors 
have, improperly, attributed the preface, and the tables 
which accompany it. This edition of the works of 
Cafliodorus is preceded by a curious differtation on the 
monadic life of that celebrated Roman fenator. 
GARFE'TE, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Alentejo ; four leagues wed of Crato. 
GARGA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Capitanata ; feven miles north 
of Mount St. Angelo. 
GARGANVILLA'RD, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Landes, feven miles north-wed of Ri¬ 
viere F'erdun. 
GARGA'NUS, in ancient geography, now Si. Angelo, 
a lofty mountain of Apulia, which advances in the form 
of a promontory into the Adriatic Sea. Lucan. 
GARGA'PHIA, a valley near Plattca, with a foun¬ 
tain of the lame name, where Aiineon was torn to pieces 
by his dogs. Ovid. 
GAR'GARA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in tlie pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : twenty miles wed of Adraraiti. 
GARGA'REON, [Greek ; from nr'v, g^rgar, Arab, 
or mjnj, gargara’i, Heb. ] Tlie uvula, or glandulous body 
which hangs down into the throat. 
GAR'GARIS, a king of the Curetes, who fir.d found 
the manner of coilefcing honey. He had a fon by his 
daughter, whom he attempted in vain to dedroy. He 
made him liis fucccflbr. JuJIin. 
GAR'GARISM,y. Of, Gr. gargarifme, Fr. ] 
A liquid form of medicine to walh tlie mouth with.— 
Apophlegniatifms and gargarij'ms draw the rheum down 
by the palate. Bacon. 
To GAR'GARIZE, v.a. Gr. gargarijer, 
Pr.] do wadi the mouth with medicated liquors.— 
Vinegar, put to the nodrils, or gargarifed, dotli eale the 
hiccough; for tliat is aftringent, and inhibiteth the mo¬ 
tion of the fpirit. Bacon. —1 his being relaxed, may make 
a lhaking of the larynx ; as when we gargarize. Holder. 
GAR'GARUS, a town and mountain of Troas, near 
mount Ida, famous for its fertility. Strabo. 
GAR'GET, f. A didemper in cattle.—The garget 
appears in the head, maw, or in the hinder parts. Mor.. 
timer. 
GARGET'TUS, a town of Attica, the birth-place of 
Epicurus. Cicero. 
GAR'GIL,/. a didemper in geefe, which by dopping 
the head frequently proves mortal. Three or four cloves 
of garlic, beaten in a mortar with butter, and made into 
little balls, and given fading, are the ordinary cure. 
GARGILLES'SFl, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Indre, and chief place of a, canton, in the 
didriff of Argenton : three leagues north-ead of St. Be- 
noid du Sault, and" one and three quarters foutii-ead of 
Argenton. 
To GAR'GLE, v. a. [^gargouiller, Fr. gargogliare, Ital, 
gurgel, Gerrii. the throat. ] 1 o wa^lh the throat with fome 
liquor not fuffered immediately to defeend.—The exci- 
fion made, the bleeding will foon be dopt by gargling 
with oxycrate. IVifeman. 
They comb, and then they order ev’ry hair; 
Next gargle well their throats. Dryden, 
To warble ; to play in the throat. An improper ufe ; 
^hofe which only warble long. 
And gargle in their throats a fong. Waller. 
GAR 
So charm’d you were, you ceas’d a while to dont 
On nor.fenfe gargled in an eunuch’s throat. Fenton. 
GA-R'GLE, J. A liquor with which the t.hroat js 
waflied.—His throat was wadied with one of the gar<^l(s 
fet down in tlie method of cure. IVJimdn. 
GA-R'GLION, f. An exfudation -of nervous juice 
from a bruife, or the like, which Indurates into a hard 
immoveable tumour. Oiiincy. 
GARGNA NO, a town of Italy, in the Bredan j 
twenty-one miles north-ead of Brefcia. It contains 3400 
inhabitants. 
GAR'GOL,yi A didemper in hogs.—The figns of 
the gargol in hogs are, hanging dov/n of the head, moid 
eyes, daggering, and lofs of appetite. Mortimer. 
GAR'HA, a river of I-Jindcodan, which, runs into the 
Clmmbul, about three miles north-eaii: from Suilfopour, 
in the country of Agimere. 
GA'Rl A, a bay on the fouth coad of Newfoundland : 
twenty-two miles ead of Cape Ray. 
GARIDEL'LA, f. [fo named by Tournefort in ho¬ 
nour of Pierre Garidcl, M. D. phylician at Aix in Pro¬ 
vence. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order 
trigynia, natural order rnultifiliqurc, (ranunculaceas, 
JuJJ.) Thegeneric charjfters are—Calyx: pcriantliium 
five-ieaved, fmall; leaflets ovate, acute, deciduous. 
Corolla: petals none, ainlefs the calyx be' taken for 
them; nedtarics five, long, equal, two-lip]ied; outer 
lip bifid, flat; divifions long, linear, blunt; inner li]( 
fliorter, limple. Stamina : filaments ufually ten, fubu- 
late, dioi ter than the corolla ; antherre uprigiit, blunt. 
Pidillnm : germs three, ovate,'uprigiit, acuminate, co:i- 
neCted ; dyles fcarcely any; iHgmas (imple. Pericar- 
pitini: capfules three, fuperior, connefted, oblong, acu¬ 
minate, compred'ed, oiie-celled, two-valved ; the inner 
luture more convex. Seeds: feveral, fliort, about 
twelve in each cell, ovate-acuminate, wrinkled, black 
or brown.— EJfential CharaElir. Calyx five-leaved, like 
petals; nectary five, two-lipped, bifid; capfulc three, 
connected., containing many feeds. 
Garidella nigellaltrum, or fennel-leaved garidella, is 
the only fpecies known : an annual plant, ivhich rifes 
with an upright dalk a foot high, dividing into feveral 
flender branches, having very fine-cut leaves, like thofe 
of fennel, at their joints; the ftalks are terminated by 
one fuiall flower, of a pale herbaceous colour. Native 
of the fouth of France, where it w'as fird difeovered by 
Monf. Garidcl in 1692. It is found alfo in Italy, it 
flowers in June and July, and the feeds ripen in Sep¬ 
tember. 1 his plant is propagated by I’eeds fown in au¬ 
tumn on a border of light frelh earth : when the plants 
come up, weed and thin them to the didance of four or 
five inches; or if the I'eeds be permitted to fcatter, the 
plants will come up without farther care. They do 
not well bear tranfphmting. 
G.VRIEVIT'ZA, or Mount Ci-.'tUDius, a moun¬ 
tain of Sclavonia : fixtecn miles north of Kraliovavelika. 
GARIGLl A'NO, a river of 1 taly, in the kingdo.m of 
Naples, which runs into the Mediterranean : eight miles 
eait of Gacta. 
GA'RISH. See G.MRistt. 
GARISSO'LES (Au.thony), an eminer.’ French pro. 
ted:mt minider, and piofed'or of divinity, born at Mon- 
taubanin 15S7. He poll'cfl’ed excellent natural abilities, 
and an early inclination for learning, tvhich being duly 
fodered, he made a rapid improvement in the dudy of 
the belles-lettres and philolbphy, and particularly of 
the Latin langu;tge, which iie wrote and Ipoke with ele¬ 
gance, and with the fame facility as he did his native 
tongue. Afterwards he applied himfelf to tiieological 
literature, with great reputation; and when he was 
twenty-four years of age was admitted into the minide¬ 
rial function, and appointed one of the padors of the 
church at Puylaurens. In 1627, the national fynod held 
at Cadres nominated him to the office of profellbr of 
divinity 
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