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fubje£l of ancient diplomas; and publifhed feveral 
treatifes during the years 1703, 1706, and 1707, written 
in elegant Latin, and forming together three volumes, 
i2mo. He alfo engaged in the controverfy concerning 
grace ; and was the author of a theological treatife 
On the Hundred-and-one Propofitions of Quefnel con¬ 
demned by the Bull Unigenitus, in 2 vols. 4to. This 
work was adopted by the cardinal de Biffy, who pub- 
liflied it in his own name. 
GERMO'NIO (Analtafio), an em’inent canonill, born 
at Sala in Piedmont, in 1551. He engaged in tiie ftudy 
of law, firfl: at Turin, and then at Padua. At the for- 
iner of thefe univeruties he received his degree from 
tile hand of his tutor, the celebrated Pancirolus, who 
expreffed great aftonifitment at his proficiency. He ob¬ 
tained a chair of canon-law at Turin, which he conti¬ 
nued to occupy after he had been'raifed to the polls of 
apoflolical-protonotary and metropolitan archdeacon. 
Wlien his arclibifliop was created a cardinal, he accom¬ 
panied him to Rome, and acquired the eflcem of 
Sixt'.is V. and the fucceeding pontiffs. Clement VTII. 
joined him to the congregation formed for compiling 
the feventh book of decretals, in w'hich were to be in- 
ferted the decrees of the cotincil of Trent, with proper 
explanations ; but after the work w’as finillied and fent 
to the prefs, political reafons caitafed the court of Rome 
to fufpend the publication. He refufed two bifliopricS^' 
but was at length induced to accept the archbilhopric 
of Tarantafia in Savoy. The duke Charles-Emanuel 
fent him as his ambaffador at the court of Madrid, 
where he died in 1627. Of his works, befides his Notes 
on the Decretals, and Paratitles on the Digefl and Code, 
are : Dc Sacrorum immunitatibus Lib. tres ; ncc-non de indulth 
Apojiolicis TraElatus, printed at the Vatican, 1591, folio: 
Pomendianie S^^ones in quibus Latina Lingua dignitas de- 
Jenditur,&c. 1580, 4to. All his works, revifed by him- 
felf, were printed at Rome, 1623, fol.o. 
GERMS, a town of Germany, in tlie archduchy of 
Aultria : four miles well of Zwetl, and fixty-two wefl- 
north-w'ell of Vienna. Lat.48.32.N. Ion. 32. 43. E. 
Ferro. 
GERN, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Tula : 
twenty-eight miles well-louth-well of Tula. 
GERN, a town of Germany, in Lower Bavaria : thir¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-eafl of Dingelfingen, and fifteen 
well-north-well of Braunau. 
To GERN, v.n. [from gipnan. Sax. ofeitare.'] To 
yawn.—And gaped like a gulf,when he AMgerne. Spenfer. 
GER'NOI, a fortrefs of Ruffian Siberia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch : two hundred and 
four miles foiith-well of Kolivan. Lat. 51. 44. N. 
Ion. 96. E. Ferro. 
GERNOI AR'SKOI, a fortrefs of Ruffian Siberia, in 
the government of Kolivan, on the Irtifch: one h.un- 
dred and ninety-fix miles weft-fouth-well of Kolivan. 
Lat. 52. 45. N. Ion. 93. E. Ferro. 
GER'NON, [gepne. Sax. lludious.] A proper name. 
GERNORIETZ'KOI, a fortrels of Ruffian Siberia, 
in the govern'ment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch : one hun¬ 
dred and -eighty miles well-fouth-well of Kolivan. 
Lat. 52. 45. N. Ion. 95. E. Ferro. 
GERN'RODE, an abbey of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, founded in 960, and richly endowed 
for ladies, by Gero margraviate of Lufatia ; but fecu- 
larifed in the feventeenth century, in favour of the 
houfe of Anhalt, by the treaty of Weltphalia : and 
gives to that houfe a feat and voice among the prelates 
of the Rhine. The airelTment is thirty-fix florins for a 
Roman month : twenty-two miles well of Bernburg, 
and thirty v.'e(l of DelTau. 
GERN'SHEIM, or Ger'rensheim, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of tlie Lower Rhine, and eledlorate 
■of Mentz, fituated on the Rhine : twenty-feven miles 
iiorth-nortli-well of Heidelberg, and eighteen foiuh- 
ioutli-eaft of Mentz. 
G E R 
GERNYOSZEG', a town of Tranfilvania, fituated on 
the river of Maros : ten miles fouth-well of Kerefztur. 
GERO'DA, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and territory of Eichsfeld, with a rich 
Benedidline abbey, whofe jurifdi( 5 lion extends over five 
villages: eight miles north-eall of Duderfladt. 
GERODO'I, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridt of 
Troyes : three leagues eall of Troyes. 
GEROLD'SECk HO’HEN, a callle of Germany, in 
the circle of Swabia, v/hich gives name to a fmall 
county fituated on the left fide of the Kinzig; the afi. 
feflinent for tlie Roman month is lixteen florins, and to 
the chamber of Wetzlar eight rixdollars nine kruitzers; 
three miles fouth-foiuh-eall of Gengenbach. 
GER'OLDSGRUN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Franconia, and principality of Bayreuth, with a 
mineral fpring ; four miles fouth-well of Lichtenberg. 
GER'OLDSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and county of Katzenelnbogen; 
feven miles fouth of Nallede. 
GEP.'OLSTEIN, or Geroldstein, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Wellphalia, belonging to the 
county of Blankenheim,'fituated on the Kill : twenty- 
four miles north of Treves. Lat. 50. 19. N. Ion. 24. 5, 
E. Ferro. 
GER'OLTZHOFEN, R town of Germany, in the 
circle of Francopia, and bilhopric of Wurzburg : nine 
miles foLith-eall of Schweinfiirt, and twenty north-eall 
of Wurlburg. 
GE'RON POINT, a cape of Ireland, in the county 
cf Antrim : fifteen miles north-north-eall from Antrim, 
and thirty-tw'o north from Belfall. Lat. 55. 3. N. Ion. 
5. 50. W. Greenwich. 
GERO'NA, or Girona, a town of Spain, and capi¬ 
tal of a viguery, in the province of Catalonia, the lee 
of a billiop, fuffragan of Tarragona. In 1694, it was 
taken by the French, and rellored at the peace of Ryf- 
wick. In 1705, it was taken by the troops of the arch¬ 
duke Charles; and in 1711 it was taken by the,French 
under the command of the duke of Noailles : forty-four 
miles fouth of Perpignan, and forty-feven north-eall of 
Barcelona. Lat.42.10. N. Ion. 19. 21. E. Peak of Te- 
nerift'e. 
GERON'TES, y. in Grecian antiquity, a fenate of 
judges, inllituted by Lycurgus : their number, accord¬ 
ing to fome, was twenty-eight; and, according to others, 
thirty-two. They governed in conjundlion with the 
king, whofe authority they were intended to balance, 
and to watch over the rights of the people. Polybius 
defines their office in few words, when he fays, per ipfos, 
& cu7n ipjis, omnia adminijlrari. None were to be admit¬ 
ted under lixty years of age, and they held their office 
for life. 
GERON'THR^E, in ancient geography, a town of 
Laconia, where a yearly fellival, called geronthraa, was 
obferved in honour of Mars. The god had there a 
temple, with a grove, into which no woman was per¬ 
mitted to enter during the time of the folemnity. Lucan. 
G ERONTOCO'MIUM, y. [yrpwr, an old man, and 
v.oiA.iu, Gr. to take care of.] An hofpital or alms-houfe 
for old people. 
GERONTOC'OMY, f. A part of phyfic, which 
ftews the way of living for ola men, in order to pre- 
ferve their healtli. 
GEROPO'GON, y. [Greek; from an old man, 
and <7rayay, a beard ; from the whitenefs of the leed- 
crown.] In botany, a genus of the dais fyngenefia, or¬ 
der polygamia,. asoualis, nat ural order compofita: femi- 
flofcuiolie, or conipcund liowcrs, itli femifiorets or 
ligulate florets oi.ly, (cichoraceat, JuJf.) The generic 
charaflers are—Calyx : common limple, many-leaved ; 
leaflets lanceolate-fubulate, keeled, upright, longer 
than the corolla. Corolla: compound fubimbricate, 
uniform ; corollules hermaphrodite; outer as many as 
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