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A word of civility or irony.—Now, genth-coman, you are 
confelling your enormities; I know it by that liypocri- 
tieal dowii-caft look. Dryden. 
GENT'LESSE,/. Courtefy : 
The falvage man, that never til! tliis houre ' 
Did tafle of pittie, neither knew, 
Seeing his fliarp afTault, and cruel lloure, 
Was mucli emmoved at his peril’s vew. Spenfer. 
GENT'LIN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Magdeburg: thirty miles 
north-eafl- of Magdeburg. 
GENT'LY, adv. Softly ; meekly ; tenderly ; inoffen- 
fiveiy 5 kindly.—The mifchiefs that come by inadvert¬ 
ency, or ignorance, are but very gently to be taken no¬ 
tice of. Locke. —Softly; without violence.—A fort of 
great bat, as men lay afleep with their legs naked, will 
fuck their blood at a wound fo gently made as not to 
awake them. Crew. 
Fortune’s blows, 
When molt llruck home, hting gently warded, craves 
A noble cunning. Shakefptare. 
GENTOO'S, a name given to the profedbrs of the 
religion of the bramins. See the article Hindoostan. 
GEN'TRY,/. \_gcntlery, gentry, itoxn gentle.'] Birth; 
condition ; rank derived from inheritance ; 
You are certainly a gentleman. 
Clerk-like experienc’d, which no lefs adorns 
Ocw gentry than our parent’s noble name, 
In whole fuccefs we are gentle. Shakcfpeare, 
Clafs of people above the vulgar; thofe between the 
vulgar and the nobility.—Let Hates, that aim at great- 
nefs, take heed how tlieir nobility and gentry multiply 
too fall. Bacon, 
Kow cheerfully the hawkers cry 
A latyr, and the gentry buy. Swift. 
A term of civility, real or ironical: 
The many-coloured gentry there above. 
By turns are rul’d by tumult and by love. Prior. 
Civility; complaifance. Obfoletc: < 
Shew us fo much gentry and good-will, 
As to extend your time with us awhile. Shakefpcare. 
GE'NUjyi [from yovv, Gr. <7ra.^a, lo yriv vsveiv, be- 
caufe by it the body is bent towards the earth.] The 
knee. 
GEN'UA, in ancient geography, a famous city of 
Liguria, deftroyed by Hannibal, and rebuilt by the 
Romans : now Genoa. 
GEN'UBATH, [Heb. llgnifying theft.] The name of 
a man. 
GENUFLEX'ION,y. ^genifle 6 lion,¥i'. genu, knee, and 
JleBo, Lat. to bend. ] The adi: of bending the knee ; ado¬ 
ration expreifed by bending the knee.—Here ufe all the 
rites of adoration, genuflexions, wax-candles, incenfe, obla¬ 
tions, prayers only excepted. Stilling fleet. 
The jefuit Rofweyd, in his Onomafticon, Ihows, that 
genuflexion, or kneeling, has been a very ancient'rite in 
the church, and even under the Old Teflaraent dilpen- 
fation; and that this prafctice was obferved throughout 
all the year, excepting on Sundays, and during the time 
.from Eaftcr to Whitfuntide, when kneeling was forbid 
by the council of Nice. Others have jfhown, that the 
cuftom of not kneeling on Sundays had obtained from 
the time of the apollles, as appears from St. Irenfeus, 
and Tertullian; and the Ethiopic church, fcrupuloufly 
attached to the ancient ceremonies, Hill retains that of 
not kneeling at divine fervice. The Ruflians deem it an 
indecent pohure to worlhip God on the knees. The Jews 
alfo ufually pray Handing. Rofweyd gives the reafons 
of the prohibition of genuflexion on Sundays, &c. Irom ■ 
St. Bafil, Anallafius, St.JuHin, &c. Baronins is how¬ 
ever of opinion, that genufi»exion was not eltablilhed in 
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the year of Chrlfl: 58, from that palTage in Aits xx. 3^, 
where St. Paul is exprefsly mentioned to kneel down at 
prayer; but Saurin ihows, that nothing can be tb&nce 
iatisfaitorily concluded. The fame author remarks, alfo, 
that tlve primitive Chriitians carried the pradtice of ge¬ 
nuflexion fo fur, that fome of them had worn cavities in 
tlie floor w'here they prayed : and St. Jerome I'elates of 
St. James, that he had contradled a hardnefs on his knees 
equal to that of camels. 
GENU'GRA,y. [from yom, the knee, and a-y^a, Gr. 
a feizure.] The dileafe commonly called the gout in 
the knee. 
GEN'UINE, \_gemiinvs, L.^!.] Not fptirious; not 
counterfeit; real ; natural ; true.—The belief and re¬ 
membrance, and love and fear, of God, have fo great 
influence to make men religious, that where any of thefe 
is, the reft, together with the true and genuine eft'edts of 
them, are fuppofed to be. Tillotfon. 
A fudden darknefs covers all; 
'll xtxe genuine night: night added to the groves. Dryden. 
GEN'UINELY, adv. Without adulteration, without 
foreign admixtures ; naturally.—There is another agent 
able to analize compound bodies lefs violently, mere 
genuinely, and more iiniverfally, than the fire, Boyle. 
GEN'UINENESS, f. Freedom from any thing coun- 
terleit; freedom from adulteration ; purity ; natural 
ftate,—It is not eftential to the genuinenefs of colours to 
be durable. Boyle. 
GE'NUS, y. [Latin.] Kindred, flock, or lineage. 
Manner, fort, fafliion. With grammarians, it fignifies the 
kind of noun, mafciiline, feminine, or neuter. Among 
logicians, it is the firft of the iiniverfal ideas; and is 
..when the idea is fb common, that it extends to other 
ideas, which are alfo univerlai; as, tlie quadrilater is 
getiiis with refpe6l to the parallelogram and trapezia ; 
lubftance is genus with relpedl to body and mind'. So 
genusfummum is lliat which holds, the uppermoft clafs in 
in its predicament ; or it is that which may be divided 
into feveral Ipecies, each whereof is a genus in refpecl 
to other fpecies placed below. Genus fubaltem, is that, 
which being a medium between the higheft genus and 
the loweft fpecics, is fometimes confidered as a genus 
and fometimes as a fpecies. Genus remotum, is where there 
is another genus between it and its Ipecies. In logic, 
genuspfoximum is the next or neareft genus where the fpe¬ 
cies is immediately under it; as man under animal. In 
botany, and natural hiftcry, a fyllem or aOembiage of 
plants, or animals, or minerals, agreeing in forae one 
common character, in refpeft to the ftrutture of .certain 
parts, whereby they are diftinguiflied from all other 
ciafles. In nuific, a certain manner of fub-dlviding the 
principles of melody, i. e. tlie confonant intervals into 
their concinnous parts. With rhetoricians, getius is dif- 
tributed into demonftrative, deliberative, and judiciary. 
Algebra, by the ancients, was diftributed into two ge¬ 
nera, iogiftic and fpecioiis. With anatbmifts, an af- 
fembiage or fyllem of fimilar part§, diftributed through¬ 
out the body ; as, the genus nervofum, the nerves fo con¬ 
fidered. 
GENU'SUS, in ancient geography, a river of Mace¬ 
donia, falling into the Adriatic, above Apoilonia; now 
the Semno. 
GENZA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Bafilicata: twelve miles eaft- 
fouth-eall of Venofa. 
GEOCEN'TRIC, adj. [of the earth, and Ks^Tgof, 
Gr. a centre.] In aftronoiny, is faid of a planet or its 
orbit, to denote its Jiaving the earth for its centre'. The 
moon alone is properly geocentric. And yet the mo¬ 
tions of all the planets may be confidered in refpebt of 
the earth, or as they appear from the earth, and thence 
called thexx geocentric motions. Hence the geocentric place of 
a planet, is the place where it appears to us, from the 
earth; or it is a point in the ecliptic, to which a planet, 
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