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archdeaconry of Giiadalajar, which is one of the dig¬ 
nities belonging to the churcli of that city. In 1585, 
Pliilip II. king of Spain, fent for him to court, where he 
jnade h m his almoner, and mafler of tlie royal chapel; 
ioon after which he confided to his care the education 
c t his fon Philip, infant of Spain. When, in 1596, car- 
din.al Albert ot Auftria went to afuime the government 
ct the Low-countries, he appointed Giron his vicar-ge- 
r.era! over his archbifhopric of Toledo; and upon the 
fubfeqaent marriage of the cardinal, the king preferred 
his almoner to that valuable fee. He had but a fhort 
enjoyment, hov/ever, of his new dignity; for he died in 
-599> 'vrthin five or fix months after his advancement. 
He was the author of a valuable colledlion of Spanifli 
Councils, publiflied in 1594, in folio, under the title of 
ColleElio Conciliorun Hifpanice, cum Notis & Emendatibnibus. 
GIRON'DE, a department ofTrance, bounded on'the 
north-eaff by the department of the Lower Charente, on 
the eaft by the departments of the Dordogne and Lot 
and Garonne, on the louth by the department of the 
Landes, and on the weft by the fea. It takes its name 
from the river Gironde. Bourdeaux is the capital. 
GIRON'DE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridl 
oi La Reblle : one league and a half weft of La Reoile, 
and three north of Bazas. 
GIRON'DE, a river of France, formed by the union 
of the Garonne and Dordogne, four leagues north from 
Bourdeaux, which runs into the Atlantic after a courfe 
about nine leagues north-north-weft. 
GIRONEL'LA, a town of Spain, in tlie province of 
Catalonia : feven miles eaft-north-eaft of Solfano. 
GIRONNE', adj. Having the field divided into girons. 
GIRO'ST, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man ; 125 miles fouth of Sirgian. 
GIROU'ST pames), a French Jefuit, born at Beau¬ 
fort in Anjou, in 1624. He entered on his noviciate in 
1641, and, after palling through the ufual academic 
comics, made pulpit eloquence the principal fubjebl of 
his attention. In this line he rofe to high reputation in 
his native province, and afterwnirds in the caprital. When 
he was at the height of his popularity, he was incapa¬ 
citated tor further public fervices by a paralytic attack ; 
but, as he retained his faculties, he was for Ibme years 
much retorted to as a learned and judicious adviler on 
tUfncult points on cafuiftry. He died in 1689, at lixty- 
five years of age. After his death, father Bretonneau 
publithed a colledtion of his Sermons, in 1704, in five 
vols. izmo. 
GIRR'OCK,y'. \_acvs major.'] A kind of fifti. 
GIRT, part. pajf. [f fom To gird. ] 
To GIRT, V. a. To gird ; to encompafs; to encircle. 
Not proper: 
In the dread ocean, undulating wide 
Beneath the radiant line that the globe. Thomfon. 
GIRT, f. A band by w'hich the fuddle or burthen is 
fixed upon the horfe: 
Here lies old Hobfon, death hath broke his j/r/; 
And here, alas ! hath laid him in tiie dirt. Milton. 
x\ circular bandage.—The moft common way of band¬ 
age is by that of the gtrl, which girt hath a bolder in 
the middle, and the ends are tacked firmly together. 
Wifeman. —[In timber-meafuring.] The circumference 
of a tree. Some ufe this word tor the quarter or fourth 
part of the circumference only, on account of the great 
ufe that is made of it; for the i'quare of this fourth part 
is tiled as equal to the area of the feiSlion of the tree; 
which fquare therefore multiplied by the length of the 
tree, is accounted the folid content. This content how¬ 
ever is always about one-fourth, part kj's than the true 
quantity ; being nearly equal to what this will be after 
the tree is hewed fquare in the ufual way: fo that it 
feems intended to make an allowance for the fquaring of 
the tree. 
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GIRT-LINE, /. A fea term; a rope paffing through 
a block on the head of the lower maft to hoift up the 
rigging.—[With carpenters-.] A line on the commorr 
Hiding rule, employed in the cafting up the contents of 
trees by means of their girt. 
GIRTH, f. A band by which the faddle is fixed" 
upon the horfe : 
Or the faddle turn’d round, or \.\\e girths brake ; 
For low on the ground, woe for his fake. 
The law is found. Btn Jonfon. 
The compafs meafured by the girdle, or enclofing ban¬ 
dage.—He’s a lufty jolly fellow' that lives well, at leaft 
■ three yards in the girth. Addifon. 
To GIRTH, V. a. To bind with a girth. 
GIRTH-WEB,yi The web of which girths are made. 
GIR'TYS, an Indian town in the north-weft territory 
of the United States, near the head of the navigable water 
or landing on St. Mary’s river, where the 1 ndians entered 
into the treaty of Greenville with the United States. 
GIRU', a town of Perfia, in the province of Mezan^ 
deran : fifty miles eaft of IVIezanderan. 
GIR'V AN, a town of Scotland, in the county of Ayr, 
fituated at the mouth of the river Girvan : the princi¬ 
pal trades carried on are tanning of leather and making 
of fitoes: fourteen miles fouth-foutli-weft of Ayr, and 
twenty-feven north-north-weft of Wigton. 
GIR'V AN, a river of Scotland, which rifes in the 
north-eaft part of the county of Ayr, and runs into the 
fea, a-little below Girvan town. 
GIR'VIl, [from ^yja. Sax. a fen.] The ancient in¬ 
habitants of Lincolnlliire, and fome neighbouring coun¬ 
ties ; the inhabitants of the fen country. 
Gl'SARM, y. An ancient military weapon, fuppofed. 
to be a pike with two points. 
GIS'BERT (John), a learned French Jefuit, born at 
Cahors, in 1639. During feven years he prefided over 
the claftjeal and rhetorical forms at Tours; and after¬ 
wards taught philofophy for four years, and theology 
during an equal period, in that city. His next appoint¬ 
ment was to the theological chair in the univerfity of 
Touloufe, which he filled for eighteen years with emi¬ 
nent I'uccefs and reputation. After he was releafed from 
the duties of his profeftbrfhip, he was appointed princi¬ 
pal of the Jefuits college at Touloufe ; and in 1703 was 
chofen provincial of the order in Languedoc. He died 
at Touloufe in 1710, in the feventy-;firft year of his age. 
His principal works were, i. In Sunmam SanBi Thomce 
Quajliones juris 13 FaBi theologica in Collegio Tolofano Socie- 
tatis Jrfi propugnata, 1670, folio. 2. Dijfertationes Acade. 
miccE SeleBa, &c. 1688, 8vo. Sekntia RdigionisUniverfa, 
Jive Chrijliana Thcologia, Hijloriis EccUJiaJlicie nova Method* 
Jdciata, Quejliones Juris 13 FaBi compleBens, 1689, in 2 vols. 
8vo. 4. Antiprobabilifmus, jive TraBatus Theologicus Jidekm 
totius Probabiljmi Staterem continens, in quo ex Rationibus di~ 
vinis accurate examinalur five Veritas feu Fajitas cujufeunque 
Probabiljmi in Materia morali, 1703, 4to. a work which 
Dupin has analyled and recommended as a performance 
of great merit. 
GIS'BERT (Blaife), a French Jefuit, and, like the 
preceding, a native of Cahors, born in 1567, and entered 
into the order in 1672. For fome years he filled the 
polls of claflical and rhetorical tutor; but afterwards 
was felected for the fervice of the pulpit, in which he 
is faid to have been much admired. The laft years ot 
his life he fpent in the college belonging to the lociety 
at Montpellier, .where lie died in 1731. He was the au¬ 
thor of The Art of Educating a Prince, 1687, 4to. re¬ 
printed in the following year in 2 vols. 121110,. under the 
title of The Art of forming the Mind and Heart ot a 
Prince : and Philofophy for a Prince ; or, a true Idea 
of the Modern and of the Ancient Philofophy, 1689, 
8vo. But the work which does him moft honour, is his 
Chriftian Eloquence, in Theory and Praiticc, 1714, 4to. 
which was I'epublilhed in 1728 at AmIcerdam, in-a21110. 
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