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(lie liift words he was able to utter. A ctirioiis relation 
of his cafe may be feen in the Hiflory of the Devils of 
Loudun, firrt pnbiiflied at Amfterdam in 1693, and fre¬ 
quently reprinted. 1 he only compofition of liis which 
has been publilhed is, A Funeral Oration for Scajvola 
de St. Martha, vvliich is highly commended for the 
flrokes. of eloquence with which it is interfperfed, and 
is printed among the works of that author. 
GRANDIF'IC, \_graridis diVid facio, Lat.] Mak¬ 
ing great. 
GRANDIL'OQUENCE,/. [from the Lat. grandis, 
great, and loqiwr, to fpeak.] A lofty ftyle ; a luperb 
manner of expreHion. Scott. Not much ujed. 
GRANDILOQUENT, aa)'. Ufing lofty ftyle ; fpeak- 
ing in a fiiperb manner. Cole. 
GRANDIL'OQUOUS, adj. Ufing a lofty ftyle; 
fpeaking in a fuperb manner. Cole. 
GR ANDIL'OQUY, f. A lofty ftyle ; a fuperb man¬ 
ner of fpeaking. Cole. 
GRAN'DIN (Martin), a learned French theological 
profeftbr, born at St. Quintin in 1604. He was in- 
ftrinffed in grammar learning at Noyon and Amiens, and 
when he was feventeen years old was fent to Paris, 
where he ftudied theology under father Le Mairat, a 
Jefuit. Afterwards he became a member of the college 
of Cardinal Le Moine, where for fome time he filled the 
chair of philofophical profeftbr. He was next received 
into the fociety of the Sorbonne, and having taken or¬ 
ders, devoted I'everal years to the exercife of the paf- 
toral fundtions. His learning and talents occafioned the 
laft-mentioned faculty to recal him into their body in 
1638, and to appoint him to the poft of profeftbr of di¬ 
vinity. The duties of this office he difeharged for 
more than fifty years with great reputation, and died in 
1691, when about eighty-feven years of age. He had 
been admitted by the Serbonne to the degree of dodlor. 
He left behind him a fyftem of divinity, wliich was pub- 
lilhed after his death by M. du Pleffis d’Argentre, in 
1710 and 1712, under the title of, Opera Theologka, &c. 
in 6 vols. 4to. which met with a favourable reception 
from the public. 
GRAN'DINOUS, adj. \_grando, Lat.] Full of hail; 
confifting of hail. 
GRANDI'SCNOUS, {^grandifonus,TL.^.t.'\ Making 
a great found. 
GRAN'DITY, f. [from grandis, Lat.] Greatnefs ; 
grandeur ; magnificence. An old word. —Our poets ex¬ 
cel in grandity and gravity, fmoothnefs and property, 
in quicknefs and briefnefs. Camden. 
GRANDLUCE', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sarte, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Chateau-du-Lois : fourteen miles Ibuth-eaft 
of Le Mans. 
GRANDMO'NT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Vienne : near which was a cele¬ 
brated abbey, fupprefled in 1769, after the death of the 
then profelfed members ; five leagues north-eaft of Li¬ 
moges. 
GRANDMOTHER, /. The father’s or mother’s 
mother.—Thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eu¬ 
nice. I Tim. i. 5. 
GRANDO'LA, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Eftremadura ; nine leagues fouth-eaft of Setuval. 
GRANDPRE', a town of France, and principal 
place of a diftriCf, in the department of the Ardennes; 
eleven leagues eaft of Reims, and nine fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Mezieres. Here the French army commanded by 
general Dumourier, on the 14th of September 1794, 
was attacked by the duke of Brunfwick, and compelled 
to retreat to St. Menehould. Lat. 49. 20. N. Ion. 
22. 32. E. Ferro. 
GRANDRIEU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lozere, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Langogne : three leagues and a half 
north-weft of Langogne, and five eaft of St. Chely, 
VoL, VIII. No, 544» 
G R A 
GR AND'SIRE, y; Grandfather : 
Think'll thou, that I will leave my kingly throne, ' 
Wherein my grandjire and my father fat ? Shakefpeare. 
Any anceftor, poeticall}- : 
Why ftiould a man w'hofe blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandjire cut in al.ibafter ? Shakefpeare, 
So mimic ancient wits at beft. 
As apes our grandjires in their doublets dreft. Pope, 
GP..AND'SON, y. The fon of a fon or daughter : 
Almighty Jove augment your wealthy ftore. 
Give much to you, and to his grandfons more. Dryden, 
GRAND'VILLE (La), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftridl of Longwy : one league fouth-weft of 
Longwy, and one and a half north-north-ealiof Longuion. 
GRAND'VILLE, or Gxanvillii, a feapori: town of 
France, in the department of the Channel, and chief 
place ol a canton, in the diftridt of Avranches. The 
harbour is only capable of receiving about fixty fmalf 
veftels. The town is fituated on a lharp rock, forming, 
a peninfulaot an,oval form, and furrounded with walls : 
it has two gates, two fauxbonrgs, and about two thou- 
fand five hundred inhabitants; near it is an oyfter fi/h- 
ery, and on the land fide are quarries of ftone of a very 
large ftze, and remaikable hardnefs : four leagues north- 
weft ot'Avranches, and four and a half fouth-fouth-weft 
of Coutances. Lat.48. 50. N. Ion. 16. 3. E. Ferro. 
GR ANDVILLIEiR', a town of France, and prineipal 
place of a diftridt, in the department of the Oife : four¬ 
teen miles north-north-weft of Beauvais, and fourteen 
weft of Breteuil. Lat. 49. 39. N. Ion. 19. 3S. E. Ferro. 
GRA'NEN, a town of Spain, in the province of Ara¬ 
gon : thirteen miles fouth of Huefca. 
GRANE'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Catalonia : ten miles fouth of Lerida. 
GRANEVSKA'IA, a fortrefs of Ruffia, on the VoL 
ga, in the government of Saratov : ninety-two miles 
fouth-eaft of Tzaritzin. 
GRANGE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridl 
of Bruyeres; five miles fouth-eaft of Bruyeres. 
grange, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Dal ecarlia ; thirty miles fouth of Fahlun. 
GRANGE Cape La, or Cape Mon te Christi, on 
the north lld>e of the iftand of St. Domingo. 1 1 is a high 
hill in the form of a tent, and may be feen by the naked 
eye at Cape Francois, from which it is fourteen leagues 
eaft by north. A ftrip of land joins it to the territory of 
Monte Chrifti; fo that at a diftance it feems to be an 
iftand. The cruifers from Jamaica often lie off here. 
This cape lies in lat. 19, 54.30.N. and Ion. 74. 9^. 30- 
W. from Paris; and with Point de Dunes forms the 
mouth of the bay of Monte Chrifti. 
GRANGE (Jofeph de Chancel de la), born in 1676 
of an ancient family at Antoniat in Perigord. When 
at tlie Jefuits’ fchool at Bourdeaux, at the age of only 
nine years, he compofed' a comedy in three aits, which 
was reprefented by the fcholars. His tragedy of Ju- 
gurtha was reprefented in the capital when he was but 
fixteen, and W'as confidered as an extraordinary effort 
for one fo young. He continued to write pieces for the 
ftage, which augmented his reputation; but the pro¬ 
duction which rendered him moft famous, at the fame 
time that it expofed him to much fuft'ering, was his 
Philippiques, a fatire in verfe againft Philip the regent- 
duke of Orleans. This appeared about 1718, and, 
though anonymous, was univerfally attributed to him. 
Its literary merit confifted in fome very vigorous ftanzas 
amidft many profaic and carelefs lines. Its matter was 
fo atrocioufty libellous, charging the duke even with 
the crime of poiloning feveral of the royal family, that 
the author could not be expedfed to remain fecuve. He 
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