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Mii/lown that pain is well repaid, 
"By gcn'rov^ wines beneath a fiiade. Swift. 
GEN'EROUSLY, adv. [front] Not meanly 
with regard to birth. Magnanimoufiy 5 nobly; 
When all the gods our ruin have foretold, 
Yet generoujly he does liis arms withhold. Dryden, 
Liberally; munificently. 
GEN'EROUSNESS, f. [from ] The quality 
of being generous.—Is it poflible to conceive that th.e 
•overflowing generoufnefs of tlie divine nature would create 
immortal beings with mean or envious principles ? Collier. 
GENESAN', a town of Afialic Turkey, in the Ara¬ 
bian Irak : ninety miles fouth of Bagdad. 
GEN'ESIS,/! [from •yivojiaai, to bring forth, or ymsca, 
Gr. to beget. ] Generation; ilie firft book of Mofes, which 
treats of the production of the world.—See the article 
Bible, vol. iii. p. 8. 
GEN'ESIS, in geometry, denotes much the fame as 
generation, being llie formation of a line, furface, or folid, 
by the motion or flux of a point, line, or furface; as of 
a globe by tlie rotation of a femi-cirde about its dia¬ 
meter, &-C. —In the genefis of figures, tiie line or furface 
which moves, is called the deferibent ; and the line round 
which, or according to which, tJie revolution or other 
motion is made, the dirigent. 
GENESSEE', a townihip of the American States, in 
Ontario county, New-York, having 217 eleCfors. 
GENESSEE', a large trafl of land in the ftate of 
Nev/-York, bounded north and north-weif by lake On¬ 
tario, fouth by Pcnnfylvania, end by the weftern part 
-of tile military townliiips, inOnond.igo county, and weft 
by lake Erie and Niagara river. It is a rich tradt of coun- 
tiy, and well watered by lakes and rivers; one of the 
latter, Genellee river, gives name to tliis diftridt. It is 
generally flat,^t]'.e river lluggifli, the foil moift, and the 
lal'.es numerous. 
GENESSEE RIVER. Sec Ghf.ne.sse, 
GE'NEST (Charles Claude), a French poet and phi- 
lofopher, was born at Paris in 1636. In his youth he 
refolved to go to the Indies to feek his fortune ; but the 
Iliip in wl;ich he failed being taken by the Englifh, he 
was brought to London, where he fubfifted hirnfelf for 
lome time by teaching French. On his return to his 
own country he obtained the poll of preceptor to made- 
inoifeile de Blois, afterwards duchefs of Orleans. He 
afterwards became almoner to tlie duchefs, fecretary to 
the duke of Maine, and was prefented to the abbacy of 
St. Vilmer, in the diocefe of Boulogne. He' entered 
the French academy in i6g8, and died at Paris in 1719. 
The abbe Gcneft, though a courtier, was fincere and 
fimple in his manners, and eftimable in his chamfter. 
He derived a tafte for natural pliilofophy from the lec¬ 
tures of Rohault, the difciple of Defcartes, and for me- 
taphyfics from the converfation of Boftiiet. A love for 
poetry and polite literature was natural to him. He 
compofed various works, ofwhicli feme of the principal 
are: Principcs dc Pkilofopkie, 1716, 8vo. an elaborate per¬ 
formance in verfe, in which the Cartefian fyftem is ex- 
plained, and proofs are adduced of the exiftence of a 
God, and- tlr.' immortality of the foul : its verfification 
is more praifed than its poetical fpirit : Occafional Pieces 
ot Poetry : Dilfertation upon Paftoral, in Profe : fe- 
vei'al tragedies ; of tiiefe, tlie only one which has kept 
poifeilion of the ftage is Penelope : the fentiments of this 
tragedy are fo moral, that the rigid Bofluet did not feru- 
pie to declare that he ihoiild give his approbation to 
public fpeftaclcs, were the pieces reprefented always 
equally pure. 
GEN'ET, yC [Frencli. The word originally figni- 
fied a horfemaii; and perliaps a gentleman or knight.] 
A fmail-fized well-proportioned Spanifli horfe.—You’ll 
have your nephews neigli to you; you’ll liave coiirfers for 
coiifins, and genets for germancs. Shakefpeare.~-li is no 
VoL. Vlli, No. 505. 
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ftfoYe likely that: frogs fliould be engendered in the 
clouds, than Spanifli be begotten by the wind. Pay. 
He fliews his ftatue too, ivhere plac’d on high, 
mho genet underneath him feems to fly. Dryden. 
GEN'ET (Francis), a French prelate and efteemed 
cafuift, vvas born at Avignon in the year <640. He pur- 
fued his ftudies in his native place, and, after going 
through his claftical' coui fe, entered on that of philofo- 
phy, in which for a time he was a difciple of Scotus, 
but afterwards relinquiflied bis fyftem, and became zea- 
loufly attached to the phi!6fop!iy and thsology of Aqui¬ 
nas. He alfo applied to the ftudy of the canon law, and 
was admitted to the degree of dodlor in civil and canon 
law at Avignon, in 1670; on wh.ich occafion heacquired 
much reputation by the thefes which he maintained 
againft fimony. The abilities wdiich he difeovered re^ 
commended him to the notice of cardinal Grimaldi, 
archbifliop of Aix, wlio for fome time’ made ufe of his 
talents in the management of the ecclefiaftical concerns 
of liis metropolitan diftridf. Afterwards lie was em¬ 
ployed by M. le Camus, bifliop of Grenoble, in a cele¬ 
brated vifttation which that prelate appoimed to take 
place through his diocefe, in which M. Genet’s, pro¬ 
vince was to refolve the cafes of confcience which fliould 
be propofed. The manner in whicli he conduifed hirnfelf 
in this bufinefs, induced M. le C'amii.s to engage him on 
the compolicion of a fyftem of moral theology. To this 
work'M. Genet devoted much time and labour, and 
produced it, at different peiiods, in fix volumes, i2mo. 
under the title of Morale de Grenoble. It has undergone 
various imprefuons, of which tlie beft was publifiied in 
the year 1715, in eight volumes, 12100. A Latin tranfla- 
tion of it was publiflicd in the year 1702, by tlie abbe 
Genet, tlie author’s brother, and hirnfelf the author of 
Cafes of Confcience, relative to the Sacraments. The 
Morale de Grenoble has been condemned by the more re¬ 
laxed caluifts, as much too ftriif and fevere ; but it met, 
neverthelefs, with a very favourable reception in France, 
where it was read with great .approbation, as well as in 
Italy and other catholic countries. Soon after its pub¬ 
lication pope Innocent XI. created the author canon 
and pi'ebe.nd of the cathedral church at Avignon; and 
in the year 1685 appointed him bifiiop of Vaifon. His 
epifcopal fuiKilions he difeharged wi th exemplary watcli- 
lulnefs and diligence until they were interrupted in the 
■year 1688, in confequence of his having ventured to re¬ 
ceive into his diocefe the religious belonging to a new 
convent at Touloufe, wliicli Louis XIV. had fupprelf- 
ed. This a< 5 t expofed him to the refentment of the king, 
by whofe order he was arrefted, and confined prifoner 
for fif teen months in the ifle of Rhe ; v/hence he was re¬ 
leafed at the particular requeft of the pope. He was 
accidentally drowned in 1702, when he had juft com¬ 
pleted his fixty-fecoiid year. 
GENETE'IL, a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayiie and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in 
tlie diftribt of Bauge : two leagues and a quarter north 
ef Bauge, and one and three quarters fouth-wefl of le 
Lude. 
GENETHLI'ACAL, adf ['J's»eSAi«ko?, of ysn=6A»}, Gi;. 
nativity. ] Pertaining to nativities as calculated by aftron- 
omers ; fhewing the configurations of the liars at any 
birth.—The night immediately before he was flighting 
the art of thofe loolifli aftrologers, and genethliacal ephe- 
merifts, that ufe to pry into the liorofcope of nativities. 
HowePs Vocal Forejl. 
GENETFiLI'ACI, y. in aftrology, are perfons who 
ercCl horofeopes, or pretend to foretell wliat fliall befall 
a perfon, by means of the ftars which prefidedat his na¬ 
tivity. The ancients called them dialdad, and by the 
general name matlianatici: accordingly, the feveral 
civil and canon laws which we find made againft the'ma¬ 
thematicians, only refpefl the Genethliaci, or aftrolo,^ 
