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divinity at Montauban, the duties of vvliicli he dlfchargcd 
with great diligence and fidelity, and with diftinguiflied 
applaufe, until his deatli, which took place in 1650. 
He was moderator in the national fynod held at Charen- 
ton in the year 1645. The writings which he publiflied 
were partly theological and partly poetical. Of the 
former kind are a volume of fermons, entitled, La Voye 
de Salut, or The Way to Salvation ; feveral Thefes in 
the Latin language ; a treatife De Chrijlo Mediatore ■, De- 
creti Synodici Carcnloiiiaifcs, de Imputatione Peccati Ada, Ex- 
plicatio ct Defetifio, 1648, 8vo. ; and Explicatio Catechefeos 
Religionis Chrijliana, 8vo. The principal of his Latin 
poems was entitled, Adolphidos, Jive de Bello Gervianico, an 
epic poem, in twelve books, highly commended for its 
ikilful confirutfion and variety of images, interefting 
epifodes, noble fentiments, and elegant latinity. Garil-' 
foies alfo tvrote a Latin poem on the coronation of Chrif- 
tina, and another in praife of the four protefiant Swifs 
cantons. 
GARITE'NA, a town of European Turkey, in the 
Morea : thirtj'-two miles wefi: of Argos. 
GARIVAbi', a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Bulgaria, near the Danube : twenty-two miles 
ibuth-wefi of Drillra. 
GAR'IZIM. zMaa-. V.23. See Gerizim. 
GAR'LAND, /! {^garlande, guirlande, Fr. ] A wreath 
of branches or flowers : 
A reeling world will never frand upright, 
’Till Richard wear the garland, of the realm. 
—How ! wear the garlandl do’ll thou mean the crown? 
—Ay, my good lord. Skakefpeare. 
The top ; the principal ; the tiling molt prized : 
With every minute you do change a mind, 
And call him noble, that was now your hate, 
Him vile, that was your garland. Shakefpeart, 
[In a fliip.] A collar of rope wound about the head 
of a main-mall to keep the llirouds from galling. 
GAR'LIC, /i [gap. Sax. a lance j and leek, the leek 
that Ihoots up in blades. Skinner. In botany ; fee Al¬ 
lium, vol. 1 . p. 349.— Garlic has, of all our plants, the 
greatell llrength, alfords moll nourilhment, and fupplies 
moll fpirits to thole who eat little flelh. Temple. 
•Tis mortal fin an onion to devour ; 
Each clove of garlic is a facred pow’r : 
Religious nations fure, and blell abodes. 
Where ev’ry orchard is o’er-run with gods. Tale. 
GAR'LIC PEAR,y', in botany. See Cr.vteva. 
GAR'LIN, a town ol France, in tlie department of 
the Low'er Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dillricl of Pau : lixteen miles north of Pan. 
GAR'MENT, f. \_guarniment, old Fr. ] Any thing 
by which the body is covered ; clothes ; drefs.-—Our 
leaf, once fallen, Ipringeth no more j neither doth the 
fun or lummer adorn us again with the garments of nevv 
leaves and flowers. Raleigh. 
Fairell thing that Ihines below. 
Why in this robe doll thou appear ? 
W ould’ll thou a wdiile more perfeCl Ihow, 
Thou mull at all no garment vifi&r. Cowley. 
GARN, a town of Sweden, in the province of Up¬ 
land : twelve miles north-eafl: of Upfal. 
GARNA'CHE (La), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment ot the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, 
in the dillritl ol Chaikins; one league north-north-eall 
of Chaikins, and two fouth of Machecoul. 
GAR'NER, y. \_grenicr, I'r.] A place in which 
•threlhed grain is llored up.—Barns and garners Ihould 
be never empty. ShakeJ'peare. 
For fundry foes the rural realm furround ; 
The fieldmoufe builds lier garner under ground ; 
For gather’d grain the blind laborious mole, 
In winding mazes, works her hidden holc4 Dryden., 
Vol. VIII, No. 500. 
To GAR'NER, v. a. To (lore as in garners: 
There, where I have garner'd up my heart. 
Where either I mull live, or bear no life. Skakefpeare. 
GAR'NER, a rivei'of England, which joins the Gar- 
ran, and runs with it into the Wye, four miles fouth-w ell 
of Rofs, in Herefordfliire. 
GARNERA'NS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Sadne and Loire : tv. o leagues fouth of Mapon. 
GAR'NET, f \_garnaLo, Ital. granatus, low Lat. horn 
its refemblance in colour to the grain of the pomegra¬ 
nate.] A llone, which, when tranfparent and ot a fine 
colour, is reckoned among gems. Its colour is blueilli 
or yellowilh red ; its tranlparency often obfeure, unlefs 
it be held to a llrong light. The natural form of its 
cryllals is various, and feldom regular. Its texture is 
granular. The garnet is a very common llone, fre¬ 
quently embodied in the malfes of compound rocks. 
The Syrian garnet, which is of a fine red, inclining to 
purple, and very clear, though lefs brilliant than the 
oriental amethyll, is the moll elleemed. See the articles 
Gem', and Mineralogy. 
GAR'NET, f. [q. d. era-net, i. e. a little crane.] 
Tackle in a fliip, w’herewith goods are hoilled in or out. 
GARNI'ER (John), a learned French Jefuit, born 
at Paris in 1612. He entered on-his noviciate when he 
was lixteen years old, and difeovering a quick capacity, 
and an avidity for learning, he received thole advan¬ 
tages of inllruclion by which, through his fedulous ap¬ 
plication, he role to conliderable literary eminence 
among his contemporaries. After having for fome time 
taught the dailies and rhetoric with great fuccefs and 
applaufe, he filled the chair of philofophical profelfor 
at Paris for feven years, and was then appointed to the 
profeflbrlhip of theology, the duties of which he ably 
dilcharged for twenty-lix years. In 1681 he was de¬ 
puted to attend at Rome, on fome bulinefs of moment 
relating to his fociety ; but falling fick on his journey, 
he died at Bologna, in the feventieth year of his age. 
He was the author, or editor, of various works, which 
afibrd ample evidence of his learning and abilities : fiich 
as, 1. Organi Pkilofophiee Rudimenta, 1651, reprinted with 
enlargements in 1677. 2. Tkejes de Philofophia Morali, 
165!. 3. Regulce Fidei Catholica de Gratia Dei per Jfum 
Chrifum, 1655. 4. Juliani Eclanenfs Epifeopi Libellus mijjus 
ad Sedem Apofolicam, Notis illuf raius, 1668. 5. Marii Mer~ 
catoris Opera, Gr. & Lat. in two vols. folio, 1673, illuf- 
trated ivith learned notes, commentaries, dilfertations, 
&c. 6. Libcrati Diaconi Breviarium, cum Notis ct Dijfcrta. 
tionibus, 8vo. 7, Liber Diurnus, Romanorum Pontiji- 
cum, 1680, 4to. accompanied with hillorical notes and' 
very curious dilfertations ; and a fupplement to the 
works of Theodoret, publiflied after the author’s death, 
in 1684, and entitled, 8. AiiElnarium Theodoreti Cyrenfs 
Epifeopi, feu OperuniTomiis Quintus, In folio, with notes and 
critical dilfertations. Fie alfo publiflied, in 1678, 9. Syf- 
tema Bibliotkecee Collegii Parifenfs Societatis Jefii, in quarto, 
which is much commended for the excellence of its ar¬ 
rangement, by means of which it will be found ufeful 
to perfons engaged in placing large libraries in proper 
order. 
GARNI'ER (Julian), a learned Freneh benedidline 
monk, of the congregation of St. Maur, born at Con- 
nerai, in 1670. He took the vows when he was about 
twenty years of age, and acquired much applaufe by his 
proficiency in the difl'erent branches of academic learn¬ 
ing. His fuperiors called him to Paris in 1699, and two 
years afterwards confided to him the talk of preparing 
for publication a new edition of the works of St. Bafil. 
To this undertaking he applied with becoming dili¬ 
gence, and in 1721 produced the firll volume, in folio, 
with a new tranllation, numerous learned notes, and ^ 
very excellent preface, abounding in judicious criticifia 
and genuine information. The fecond volume made its 
appearance in 1723, when Garnier’s Hate of liealth re- 
3 U ceived 
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